The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-02-27
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fsr.,sa Powers and Abe Uatssd A,atss.

y ii ks Jay - - Ff* Tx. " 1854
fsrstsa Powers and Abe Uausd Atatss,
The N6rthers journals hoast of warm con
gratulations received from the governments
of Russia aud l'aty upon the pa tic settlement
ef the Trent affair and earnest apveals for the
preservation of the Union.
l. seems slngular that two such powers, one
which a,pires 10 be considered free govern
ment and tie other protested dee potisa,, and
who We're, besides, not long sgo, q; open war.
should be 40 ;erven, in their united solicitations
for the welfare Of the United States The mys
terry, however, is nos inexphcab.e. The moral
iuaaeuce Of powerful Republic Is valuable
to the Young and, as yet, feeble Government
OF Sardinia, which. besides having no trade
commerce. has no interests TO sufier by disco
luton. The policy of Russia, however, is evi.
dent. and. though il gives aid and comfort 10
our enemies we cannot deny tha, she ia wiser
in her generation than even England or
France, If they permit the golden opportunity
Of Americas disruption 10 escape withc,,
skeir iniarv en,ion.
Strange ss 1t seems uPon the surface, there
has ALWAYS been more sympathy between the
United States and Russia than between the
United States and those countries more nearly
resembling itself in their principles Of gov.
eminent The old SAW tive of trade never
agree applies 10 nations As well as indi
vidusis. II matters not whether the two be
Icing to the same political party and so to the
came church, competition In business Is too
strong for any earthly tie of fraternity, and
either of them prefers a third party who is
opposed TO them in every principle of religion
and government, 10 one who shares their
faith, but div des their profits That liil.e piece
OF human nature is one of the explanations OF
the partially the United States has iibited 10
the Russian despotism over the free and kin1ed
Brtieh nation. The old fcud with England
and the fact that Russia has always been
friendly and never interned,,!cd with Amer.
can institutions, have had their influence ro
doubt on public sentiment but England aud
the United States are commerciai and manu-
featuring rivals. whilst Russl.. never has apd
never eau come in collision with American
interests. This is the true Key To American
friendship for that empire, which, both IN the
itself during the Crimean war. On the other
baud, Russia, which is slowly hu: steadi!y
preparing for the absorption Of Turkey, aud
lie only retarded in her fixed purpose by the
English and French alliance, is anxious to
secure tor herself, in the young Rep1blis Of
,ne W est, All ally whose colossal proportions,
if re united, will one dsk equal their own, aud
enable her to crush the W esteFn Powers of
Europe between the upper and neither mil
etoue.
1t is evident that some of the statesmen Of
England and France perceive the dritt of these
tendencies, and know that III order 10 preserve
the universal balance OF power the discovered
American Union should Iot be permitted to
~ unite. Indeed, it NAV we'll he doubted
whether tho slavery agitation which has re-
suited in the present rapture has not been
steadily fomen;ed by foreign Influences for
the purpose Of bringing abont the dissolution
Yet, with a stupidity beyond all example in
tho annals OF nations, they have retrained
from interfering with "a blockade which has
been proved To be inefficient, and thereby de-
pTlve1 us of all that we have ever needed to
make good our independence abundant
supply of arms and material Of war They
are permitting commerce to suffer, their
operatives to starve, the perpetuty of thei.
principles and forms of government, and of
the dyaasties which now hold power, 10 be
endangered, and the ultimate absorption Of all
Europe by Russia to become inevitable, by
stupidity abs!alning from bold policy, which
~,
place beyond the reach of future hazard ali
their commerce ial and political interests
But that is their look out, AMI perhaps they
are competent to calculate the chances-
The interests Of England on the eide of peace
with the United States amount to some six
hundred millions, but it is lot difficult to cal
enlate whether, if che lest the whole by war
she would not re mburse herself by California
by independence Of the United States for her
cotton supply, by monopolizing the whole for
eign and cossiing trade, based upon Southern
staples, and by forever putting out Of the way
her only commercial aud manufacturing rival
on the fnes of the earth. 1t is useless for her
to imagine that, by refusing to recognize
Southern independence, and by preserving a
rigid neutrality, she will secure the friendship
aud confidence of the United States in the
event Of the obstruction of the Union
bhs would have neither the cotton nor the
confidence the first will be burned up by the
planters rather than permit it to fall into the
hands Of their enemies and never be cultivated
more, except as al independent people AS
for The confidence, neither section would ex-
ercise it III a government whose neutrality
seems TO haveconsisted in giving equal offence
10 both. Ii there were no other cause than
the fair Of the Trent, the North would never
forgive the humiliation of being compelled to
surrender Mason and Slideil TIL the end OF
time. The South, falling from the effects Of a
blockade which, under the rules Of interna.
tional law, might have been legally opened by
England, and whose copmissi ouers to that gov
eminent have been openly and indecentIy in
suited BY the leading journal of the kingdom,
would sooner symrathize with Russia, which
has never, 1T any period Of her history, inter
fersd with Southern institutions, than with a
government which has urged on the aboli
ton crueade that is eliminating in this war.
and then coIdly left us to meet it as we could.
seward and Mcclellan.
We take 1t for granted that an interesting
question will arise between Seward and