New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-11-04
Historical pnraMeI---How the Slavery
Question Is Affecting the North.
From the New York world.l

In one respect there Is q perfect analogy be-
tween the advance of the Federal army into the
revoted States and that Of Bonaparte into Russia
we mean the terrible servle alliance in each
case offered. Says Hazlett, in his Life of Napo-
leou:" "0ne great fear of the Russians was that
their slaves would rise up and throw OIL their
bondage and it was, therefore, an object to pre-
vent their having any communication with the
French. They made use of the most improbable
and disgusting fables to excite their terror and
hatred, and Of their ignorance and degradation to
perpetuate that ignorance and degradation.A
Those serfs,' monthoon says, who iuhab
tied the little towns, were well disposed to head
an instruction against the slobleSSe. This was the
reason why the Russians resolved to set fire to all
the towns on the route Of the army
Such is the perfectly analogous situation in the
two cases. We believe that our true policy is pre-
cisely that which commended itself to the greatest
practical puhlicist of his age. Bonaparte re-
fused to avail himself of the disposition of the serfs
to rise against their masters, And why =? For pre-
cisely the identical reasons that force themselves
upon US. "The serfs,'' said he, care unfit to be
trusted with the liberty they desire. II encour-
age the subjects of the Czar to rise against him,
cannot hope that he will ever again become my
friend.' He subsequently made use OF this Ian
guage in the Senate of France: ''By procaiming
the emancipation of the slaves, could have armed
the greater portion Of the population Of Russia
against himself. In several villages this entran-
chisement was demanded of me. But the war l
made upon Russia was political and, besides, the
brutality of this class of the Russian peo-
families to the most horrid barbaritles.'' 81. b
Well, we are engaged in Just sucha political war,
in spite of our own will, against an adversary that
has been, and whom it is of great consequences
should again be, our g ffiendn In neither case
was subjugation the purpose, but simply the
restoration of affairs to the status quo a1te betn
That being the object of .Bonaparle, as he himself
declared he did not doubt that his true policy was
to prevent his " political war; from being the oc
cason of a social and seryile war. He held to his
policy to the last, even up to the time he left
Moscow. AS is said by Sir Robert Wilson, al
English writer who was present during the most o
/. the campaign: " There is no question that civil
war could have been fomented in Russia !; and il
was Bonaparte who rejected the offers of insurrec
! lion which were made to him during the time he
was in Moscow"
4 Now, if Bonaparte was impelled by the import
ance of not permanently alternating the Czar, and
also by considerations of humanity to avoid all in
citement to servile war, the sane policy is most
assuredly incumbent upon us. The recovered
friendship of the Gar was necessary to him
simply that an external ally might be won but
4 the reganed friendship of the Southern people is
necessary to us that our internal oneness may be
saved TIE humane Inducements in his case re-
ferred only to distant foreigners of alien blood
strange religion, and barbarous lHnguage; III oul
case they refer to our own kith and kin. speakers
of the same mother tongue, worshppers at the
same altar, and feow-cittzens under the same free
rule. The reasons which pressed so powerfully
upon the great French Emperor press with, far
more force upon us. .... T. -...,. ..-. ~,