Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-10-15
E. COwIos & Co, Publishers.
lFrom the London Herald, Derbyiiel
EnEland's Neglected Opperfupl,v

No one can fail to recognise oonsiderabl,
estuteness in the suggestions Of the En-,
Perioro Russia. They can give no ofTense
The South is not in q position 10 take apv
And the North will certainly not take Ms
adVioe about stopping the lighting amiss
IN IFS delight at his moral support of tbe
Union Between 81. Petersburgb and
Washington, there has ALWAYS been q snsaL- :
ing kindness. Extremes meet. and No
can conceive plenty Of reasons, which We
DO not care TO state, why the Czar should
prefer the Union intact, 10 two equal con-
Researches But We confess to feeling Of
envy Why has 1t been left to the Gar TO
oe the only European Sovereign to make
hnoWn his feelings for the Americans p
nhat Is he to the President or the Presi-
aent 70 him The United States are mot
even his rivals Their commerce and tbeir
shipping may sweep the worlds ports and
never interfere with him. They NAV ex-
Pand northWard ard southward, eastward
and westward, and il must be years before 1
they can raise boundary question. Asto |
commercial ties between the two Powers
there are positively none. Bombard New
York tomorrow, or burn all the cotton de-
pots IN the Confederate States ST. Peters.
burgh viii not feel the ruin. Raise the
slave and destroy the cotton plant and
Russia may still say-"Let the CALLED iade
Vince, my Withers are unWrunR.n The case
Is very different with us. Fe feel epsry
6sat Of the AmerieaH pulse. The ruin Of the
trade Of the State psralyzes our manufao-
turing industry, puts our mills upon half
time, and depresses every commercial in
terest in the United Kingdom. Let the
great cities Of the North gain the upper.
hand over the affrighted authorities. he 90
will be poverty and distress in tbopsao5s
u English homes. Let great Nortbey
sweep down the Mississippi. s1-
'ryEhere proclaiming freedom 10 tbo
lsves, and destroying the cotton ere n and !
7e have to meet famine ten tims,s more !
errlole than that which swept from Irish :
oil 15O0OOO souls. And What. has basn :
one oy our Government to prevent sueb .
Simply netbine. We are
rifting on into the cotton fsmine as vs
rifted into the Russian var. and some ~ h
he same statesmen at the helm. We stsnd a
y and told our arms, While the great Oame q
being played out without an effort III ar- q,
sstthe tide Of war or to avert its calamit- K
Us consequences. =,
Il may be too late to interfere NV III.
me had passed even before M Ssvo-J q
" our statesmen such a glorious oppor. re
lnlty Ior holding their tongues. But m
rely II IS no great feat for our foreign g.
secretary to boast Of, that in the long in he
rVal between the secession of South Car Al
ina and the first collision in the field he ma
mpiy waited on events, contenting him il
III with the pious but somewhat selfish ar
aver that Providence would keep us out
tne quarrel. We are bound 10 the A7lsr- GA
ms 6y the closest Of ties. The aapice thgt Fri
gag hGUs come from Us lOOuId5 perhaps, haze oh
sn intrusive from any other poper. Yet so bv
7 as we know, there is not on record q hi.
lgle otter on Earl RusselFs part Of friend. an
ofhces. The attempt might have failed.
opably It would have done SO. But At
isti the Government would have done its In
~ Ii would have listed its hand da
ainst the folly and crime of q fratricidal "a,
r. II i0outd hare Sh0aOn the AmeTieqns nei
lcheVer side a1as daafiaa17- -.
as hgoul3 AaUe saUsd as from the shdrge res
Gpdthetic selfshness, sOhieh is so freely Sp
7ed against Us 6y The american people. Co
ID now Russia has taken the initiative &c
lich ought to have been ours, with not Co
Q 1.-THE Of our interests at stake or one tee
If Of our incentives to action. When the Di
itorV of the American tvar comes to Be writ- on
J, 4 iyW rebound 10 the credit of the Minis Sil
= Of the time that the Gar could asstme a Oh
lDonsibiIity lrhieh lDas not permitted to the ha
lgJish Sovereign; dz6 that free and eNlight- fie
ed England l0atchsG asd made no sign, a0hite
spotie and bar6grous Russia spoke 'cords Of El
aeiIiation and peace. in