Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-13
I,ucOIn and RUSSIA against England.

Lincoln and Russia against England.
Among the phenomena which the war for in
dependence has brought forth to the eyes Of the
world very prominent, says the New Orleans
Picd7ns is the political reactiOnism against Ameri-
can principles and policy, which has been so rapid
" and signslIy developed in the States of the
Nerth. We do not speak now of their internal af-
fairs and their conduct in the prosecution
of the war, wherever they have shown them
selves TO be staunch followers Of laWless
despotism for the destruction Of the liberty Of
others. 1t is the total change in foreign con-
pections and foreign policy generally, which ties
tifes to the radical change to which they have
subjected the character of their own Government
If there were two principles more than any other
emphaticaly settled as the rule for administration
in the United States when 1t was republican gov
ernment they were these: That the sympathies OF
America are always due to the liberal governments
abroad. and especially to those which have, or are
STRUGGLING for, constitutional forms, ard that the
system here is so distinct from any which exists in
Europe. that whatever ourf sympathies may be, we
coud never enter into political alliances or engage
ments which would make US component parts OF
an European system, or entsngle US with the rela
tons of European States towards each other 1t was
the fixed American purpose that we should De
rebublic to ourselves moving in our own orbit, an
dor the attractive form of the harmonious parts OF
our own system of republics, not to be made to re-
volve in eccentric paths under the constraning
force of huge bodies which need us as compensa-
TORS in the effort to maintain constantly disturb
ed equilibrium among themselves.
This has been the traditional policy of American
Rennb,icsnism so long that it had come to be held
law of its nature. 1t seems to be so, in fact
for with the sudden abandonment at the North OF
the essential doctrines Of republican freedom these
maxims of foreign policy were instantly repudlated
as obsolete. The Government OF Llncolnsed
Union finds itself at conflict with every Govern
ment in Europe, which has made3any progress, or
possesses an eleuent of progress, IN constitutions
government. and is found to be craving petitioner
for alliance with the most unmitigated of despOt
isms and purchasing its support by the sacrifice Of
consistency, principle and self-respect.
Within six months after the proclamation of war
n, the principle of self>government in the South
the Government at Washington fnds itself on the
point of being embroied with the government ol
England, approaching crisis with the Government
of France &C. At the same time, 1t Is devoting II
self to the propitatng of Russia as its man relI'
ance for support in Europe, and laying down at the
feet of an absolute military autoerst the most cher
ished maxims of the founders and all the trusted
statesmen of the American Republic Not to en-
large on the craven abandonment, in the exgencisa
of an unnatural war, of the American doctrine OF
the right of privateering as the cheap defence Of
commercial nations. the most fIgrant of the expo
snres of the foreign reactiOnary pulse Of
the North, is its aubser7ient acceptance OF Inc
place assigned to it, by the Emperor Of Rus