New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-01
EALar, PARALLELS.

r4GtS. PAhAHLGbS.
A modern philosopher tells us that grace be-
fore meat was invented in an age when joints
were rare. AID belIyful was godsend
The age was a material one, aud he suggests
that so excellent a usage might apply in these
more spiritual times to feast Oh Milton, or
an hours communion with Addison and
Scott. Were our instructor speaking to-day,
he would probably ask us to extend the Gus
tom to the delightful task of opening our En-
glish flies. Certainly if we measure the de-
gree of interest ia our affairs shown by foreign
Journals without respect to Its frlendness or en-
Iichtenment, there is imposed on us sPecial
call for gratitude. Let the latest intelligence
from England bear witness
In former days, The London O5serrer was q
PRIVILEGED medium for conveying official
information to the public. 1t may possibly
retain its character to the present hour
although the recent stock ,jObbing operations OF
The Post and The Times have destroyed much
faith in English organship generally. The
economy of truth observable in the disposition
made of Mr Stewards pacific dispatch to the
American Minister suggests a cautious accept
ance even of that which purPoIts to
be most oracular in the London press. But
us the courtly OJseTrr stands as yet uncon-
yicted of the malpractice Of its cotemporaIies,
We may hear in brief what it has 10 say.
The sum of the story, then, is this, that in
asmuch as the pacicaton OF Greece was'ei
fected by the joint mediation Of France, Rue
sia. aud England, similar turn may be served
for this country by similar tri-partite ALL
ance. barring only the tragic operations at
Nayarino We shall not attempt to discuss
the principle involved in this proposition, nor
shall We attempt to estimate the authority under
which it is offered for popular digestion. But we
may say word on the precedent given as
warrant for the proposal.
The battle of Nayarno, which led TO the
Specification" of Greece, was fought nearly
fifty years after a concerted movement among
the intelligent and thinking men of the country,
primarily for the revival of Grecian literature,
and "a an ultimate end for the resurrection of
national feeling, and the achievement of national
Independence. That same decisive battle, more
over was fought after seven years OF a deter
mined civil war, in which the brave men OF
Greece were struggling, not for the manten
ance of negro Slavery, but for the release of
community of Christian men and women from
the tyranny of the most odious despoism OF
modern times. Turkey could not boast of hold
ipg four millions of Africans in condition of
enforced seryitude; but it could boast that the
white slaves of the Peninsula alone numbered
over q million, with eight times as many more
in the rest of the Empire. Nor does the
parallel improve on further pursuit. The regolted
subjects of the Sultan had been the founders of
Western civilization; their taskmasters were the
representatives Of oriental barbarism; the Pc
ninsular rebels were Christians; their oppressors,
religious sensualsts; the former had glorious
history aud literature; the latter, false aud dim
traditions. The cause Of the Greeks appealed
to the sympathy OF the civilized world; that OF
their rulers. was the execration and adherence
of every Christian community When the YES
sells of tho allied Powers entered the harbor OF
Nayarino on the Doth of October, 1877, they
carried with them the best wishes of Western
Europe ard America. When the Turco-
Egyptian feet was finally destroyed, the ac,
was universally held to be most righteous--no'
because it was done in the interest OF Com
merce. or on the side of the weaker power,
but because it was done for that which III
itself was absolutely right. 1t was, in short,
blow to Slavery, struck not an hour toe
soon, and the moral sense Of the world ap
proved it.
Surely better parallels than these might have
been found to justify European alliance i"i
The pacifcaton of this country by JOINT rec
oguition of the rebel States. The sagaciou'
journalist, it is true, dspenses with tho pat1Ie
Of Nayarino. He reaches bis ideal OF Poetlca
iustiee without either fleets or warllke arma-
ments of any sort. But leaving out OF account
the value which may attach to his Official IN
SEPARATION, most people would naturally inquire
in what manner or to what degree Russia should
be held to be interested in such scheme o
mediationf IsNGere any parallel in her posi-
lion to-day with that Of tho Navarlnt