Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-10-25
From The London Herald. Derbyite.
EngIand's Neglected Opportunity.


No one can fail to recognize considerable
astuteness in the suggestions Of the Empe-
rior of Russia. They can give no offense.-
The South is not in position to take any.
And the North will certainly not take his
advice about stopping the fighting amiss, in
its delight at his moral support of the I'm
ion. Between ST. Petersburgh and Wash
ington, there has always been a sneaking
kindness. Extremes meet; and we can con-
ceive plenty of reasons, which we do not
care to state, why the Gar should prefer
the Union intact, to two equal confederacies.
But we confess to a feeling of envy. Why
has it been left to the Gar to be the only
European Sovereign to make known bis
feelings TO the Americans? What is he to
the President, or the President to him p
The United States are not even his rivals.
Their commerce and their shipping may
sweep the worlds ports and never interfere
with him. They may expand northward
and southwark, eastward and westward, and
it must be years before they can raise a
boundry question. AS to commercial ties
between the two Powers, there are positive
ly rome. Bombard New York tomorrow,
or burn all the cotton depots in the Confed-
crate States: st. Petersburgh will not feel
the ruin. Raise the slave and destroy the
cotton plant, and Russia may still say
''Let the CALLED jade vince, my withers arc
unwrung." The case is very different witt
us. We feel every beat Of the Americar
pulse. The ruin of the trade of the State
paralyzes our manufacturing industry, puts
our mills upon half time, and depresse'
every commercial interest in the. United
Kingdom. Let the great cities Of the NORTH
gain the upper hand over the affrighted au
thorities, there will be poverty and distress
in thousands of English homes. Let grea
Northern armaments sweep down the Mis-
sissippi, everywhere proclaiming freedom
to the slaves, and destroying the cotton crop
and we have to meet famine ten time
more terrible than that which swept from
Irish soil 100000 souls. And wha
has been done by our Government to pre-
vent such catastrophesl Simply nothing
We are drifting on into the cotton famin
as we drifted into the Russian war, and som
Of the same statesmen at the helm. w
=, stand by, and fold our arms, while the gres
game is being played out, without an effol
!, to arrest the tide of war or to avert its CT
lamitous consequences.
1t may be too late to interfere now.-
The time had passed even before Mr. Sew
ard gave our statesmen such glorious o.
portunity for holding their tongues. Br
surely it is no great feat for our foreig
Secretary to boast of, that in the long inte
val between the secession of South Carolin
and the first collision in the field he simpl
waited on events, contenting himself wit
the pious but somewhat selfish prayer tha
Providence would keep us out of the quar-
rel. We are bound to americans By tn
closest cfties. The ddvice that might hav
come from as 1Could, perhaps, have been u
trusiue from any other porcer Yet, SO ia
as we know, there is not on record siugl
offer on Earl Russels part of friendly of
ces. The attempt might have failed
Probably it would have done so. But, 1
> least, the Government would have done j
t duty. Itwould have listed its hand again:
the folly and crime of fratricidal war
1t soould haze sko,0n the Americans, aOhicl
ever side was destined to triumph, that u
= !, had some teHo,O feeling Nth them IN thei
trials. 1t Dould haze saved as from II
charge of apathstic se!fshneSs, which IS ,
freely urged against US By the America
|, people And now Russia has taken I'll
initiative which ought to have been our
with not one 1.-THE of our interests at stal
or one half of our incentives to action
80 When the history Of the american wc
comes to be Oritten, IL aOiR rebound to d
credit of the Ministry of the time that d
4 Gear could assume responsibility s0hi
aOas not permitted to the English SoVereig
and that free and enlightened Englal
aOatehed and made no sign, tphile despoi
r and barbarous Russia spoke 0ords of co
eiLiation and peace. ~