New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-08

Prince Corchskoff's words on the settlement
Of the Trent difficulty deserve to be remem
bered. They have broader significance every
hour that the rebellion lasts. 81 beg of you"
said the Russian Minister, addressing the En-.
bassador at Washington, Ito express to the
"Federal Government the assurance of salts
t" faction it would give His Imperial Majesty
"to sec the American Union strengthened by
"concilatory measures of . nature to regu-
"late the present without bequeathing
germs of discord for the future, and to see
1T restored to that condition of strength and
prosperity which we desire for it, not only
"on account of the cordial sympathy which
"uuites the two countries, but because also
"he maintenance Of its po,cer IS OF the highest
"importanee to the general political equilibrium"
We shall gain little by hiding from ourselves
the fact that the influence Of this country,
which. before the civil war commenced, aided
10 materially in determining the balance OF
mower. must be in q great measure set aside
for the time, if the Republic on our southern
boundary is to be parceed out for the
benefit of the Western Powers Of Europe,
or handed over as play.thiDg for an Austrian
Prince The power which the Government pos
sessed must have departed, at least Temporarily,
if it comes to such issue, and We can no
longer boast of the ability to arrest or even
partially discOncert the projects OF ayarice or
ambition which lie at the basis OF the armed
Intervention on this continent. 1t is. besides,
impossible to escape the conviction that every
step of indirect hostility TO the Government OF
the United States abroad whether in the shape
of protection to the praticsl vessels OF the
Rebels, or the furious arming of the Provinces
on our northern frontier, has been prompted
mainly with a view TO the dreaded Influence
of this country 10 the settlement Of natlona
affairs, and that the immediate commercial
interests affected by the rebellion are altogether
of subordinate account in the recAonings O
England, France, and the subordinate Power
which they have taken into temporary partner
ship.
We can hardly assign to Prince Gorcha
koffTs words the merit OF prescience, although
they point in measure to the future whici
the Western Powers of Europe are eager Il
see msted out for the Government and the
people of these United States The Imperial
Minister must have seen as clearly as we see
here, that the game of the Allies was one that
looking to the political character with which II
was from the first invested, would only have
been attempted under circumstances like the
present He must have perceived that the
bravery of the allied attack was as conspicu
Gus in view of the rebellion in this country, al
in the odds at which the neighboring Repub'
lie stood in point of resources and defensive
ornaments. And with the position so vel
defined before him, we can hardly wonder that
the only first-class Power which really sympa,
thizes with this country should see reason Il
leok forward with earnestness to the speed!
suppression of the rebellion as the best guar
antee the world can have for " the mainte
"nance of the general political equilibrium"