Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1861-10-17
Foreign Sympathy.


field. AS long as the owner relied on neigh
bors or friends or relatives to reap the grain,
the lark felt safe, bat so soon as ne told his
boys that they would rise at daybreak the
next morning and cut the crop themselves,
the lark made arrangements for NOV ng.
We have been altogether too much con-
cerned about foreign sympathy, and we are
beginning to learn the fesson-everything is
in the Bible and Esop's Fables-"put not
your trust in princes" ''Against the insid
ious wiles of foreign influence" says that
which is next to the Bible, WasAington's
Farewell Address, (''I conjure you to be-
lieve me, fellow cltizens) the jealousy of a
free people ought to be constantly awake. :"
We have let down our watch, since these
words Of Washington were uttered. So clear
was our course to us, so full of kindness tow
ard all mankind were our own feelings, that
we could not believe that the right, the
truth, liberty, government itself would all
be as nothing to the old aristocracies and
despotisms of Europe in presence of their
self interest. Their travellers, their literau
ture, their society had laughed at our jeal-
ousy of Europe, our simple attachment to
republican institutions, and our inherited
feeling as to the corruption and selfishness
of foreign courts. We had come at last al.
most to feel that these opinions in which we
were reared were mere prejudices, and that
Western Euorpe would judge of us in ac-
cordance with the truth and righteousness
of the case that if we deserved sympathy.
we should have it, and that in a great war
in which every right principle is on one side,
and every wrong one on the other, we should
at least be cheered by warm words of en-
couragement from all civilized nations.
That it is far otherwise is now but too
apparent. The words of England have
struck cold to the very heapt of America,
and never has there been, at any moment in
this country, SO deep sense of her invetert
ate dislike and fear os u.s. We were taugh-
as school boys that the British were our
natural enemies. We have all been trying
to unlearn it. We have persuaded ourselves
that our early prejudices were unworthy Of
US, and that England wes the home of ev-
erything elevated and excellent. We shall
have to make second change, and come
back where we stscd when We read Weem' s
Life OF Washington, and the Exploits of
Marion EnnIo,,H l.
Washington says again. Constantly keep
in view, that it is folly in one nation to look
for disinterested favors. from another that
it must pay with portion of its independ-
ence for whatever it may accept under that
character.
We have read with pain the letters writ
ten probably by member of the sate Of
Prince Jerome Bonaparte, but no doubt with
his appreciation. They lean strongly to the
South, or rather against the power and unity
of the nation. As long as they speak of
traits common to our whole people, they are
acute and somewhat philosophic. But when
they come to the question as between the
North and South the object becomes appar-
ent, it is to weaken the Union by lauding its
enemies.
The enmity of Spain can scarcely be kept
within civil bounds. Less cunning than
England and France, they show their pro-
clivities SO plainly that the Secretary of
State has been obliged to inquire into the
matter, that we may see whether the case
does not require something more than
words.
Meanwhile we have an allied European
feet-English, French and Spanish-taklng
advantage of our circumstances to bully
Mexico and effect some kind of advantage
for themselves in that quarter. 1t reminds
US with painful sividness that Washington
and Monroe were far seeing men, looking
into the future from the watchtower of the
past.
The truth IS this, and our fellow citizens
of America must learn to lay it to heart =
The aoish achrch lies at the heart of Eng
land, France and Spain, is the diviSion Of
onr Repe6lic. 1t is the old principle Dt-
uide and conquer. They care nothing about
the South, per Sc. The Secesslonis are val
liable to them only as tools, but they fear
the greatness Of this nation. and the secret
wish OF them all is our weakness. They
would, if they could, break US up into petty
sovereignties like those Of Germany, that
thev may be undisturbed in their career of
conquest, and that they may by intrigue
dictate such tariffs and laws of commercial
intercourse as would work to their own
profit. They cannot for a moment be trust
ed.
The letter of the Emperor of Russia, has
far more significance than has yet been at
tributed to it. Russia is the natural dlly
of America. 1t does not seek empire in the
Western Hemisphere. It's field is Europe
and Asia. Moreover, it desires to hold in
check the western powers of Europe, and
for this, America is the fitting ally. 1t does
not fear our strength, for that strength
weakens not Russia, but its enemies.
We must'prepare ourselves to fight out
this fight single handed, and to allow no in
reference. No! not by hairs breadth
must foreigners be allowed to dictate or in
terfere. We cannot be too jealous of them.
Let them say what they please, and let us
mind it far less thau we have ever done -
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