, 1863-07-17
Z he Rival Eagles of The East
!: md West.


Z he Rival Eagles of The East
!: md West.
For the Chicago T.ibune. ~
It is q new idea in American politics that
Russia should have anything to do with them;
that the affairs Of this country, which ne had
iIuoccntly imagined we're pretty exclusively
our own, should be Is much the concern of
Russia as Of ourselves, aud that every thing
do, is more or less, IN one shape or anoth-
er, dictated BY her councils, or Influenced bY
her eagacity.
And yet this rather humiliating state Of
,hiDgs is not without warrant in the proofs
which are offered to sustain it. Russla has
long been distinguished for her diplomatic
superiority over al The cabinets Of the civil
lied world. She makes dip1omacya study,
and those whom ehe employs al agents are
instructed In her school, and. must preyo
their efficiency before they are trusted with
any commission Of state. For more than fafty
years 1t has been the opprob1ium Of Europe
TINT she has no where amongst her courts
and princes, any Who are other than foils,
which this MI ghty and semi ba1baric power
1lees to her own pleasures and purposes, and
the blue books Of England, and the state pa
Denmark, Italy, and the rest Of the crowned
heads of that continent, abundautly prove
that the approbtium is fully Justified.
England, chiefly through the instrumental.
ty OF Lord Pa1MeIstou, has, during the period
specified above, been literally the Gnrth OF
her ecrvility had been; engraved upon tho
brass collar Of her rampant lion. So that, at
all tvents, we are not a1one in our hcTitch-
ment, whether we like our company or not.
IL has long been known to us that Russia was
no friend TO the United States, and that che
with an apprehension and terror which
could exist only In the mind Of great, rival
Power, who felt That her very life hung upon
its issuts; TINT If this prosperity continued,
if the granaries Of the West were to feed the
populations Of Europe, she would be driven
for her produce-and the colossal dream
Of empire, which from the time
of Peter the Great ebe has been struggling BIZ
the force Of her intellect and arms to convert
into the realities of history, would drop down
into = sndden ruin and darkness. Upon
nearly erery other producing country Of tho
nightmare. and paralyzing Its commercial
activity. When Turkey threatened to beat
her ont Of the market, BY the prices and qual.
lty Of the grain which she sent to England; !;
when 1t was evident that Knssla, from the
immense distance of her black soil country
frtm the seaboard, and the cost Of travel from
thence 10 England, could no longer compete
With Turkey, and especially after the Sultan
had offered, In 1886, to abolish Ill monopo-
Its and prohibitions to expectation, aud fix
the duties at per cent; on exports and i'm
| ports, she caused her p'iable agent Lord Pal
merbton to reject the offer; aud he did So,
wien it was most important that the food Of
| the people should be reduced to its
lowest market value. Such power had
| Russia at that time in tho incorrnptible
corruption the prond will Of the proud rulers
| Of England to her wishes and necessities
I And WHEN the same project Was brought for
ward In the same country, In the reign Of
| King William the 1Vlh, and was approved By
| him, the same faeilc minister, In obedience to
his instructions from Russia, managed to de-
fer the signatures of the treaty until after the
| old Kings death-and when it was published
it was found that the figures had been altered
to suit the plans Of Russia-and that
| 5 per cent was imposed upon imports, aud
II per cent. On exports, which as prices are
estimated at Cons1antinople, amounted in
lutely probibitive! The Eng..and the Turk
ish authorities had Of course accepted the
original trcaty-how then, came they to sign
this which Palmereton had drawn up: The
noble lord forced them to Sign 1t, bF threat
eDipg, them if they did not, iha: he
%,ort of England agninst bfahomo: All
This Is The way that Russia disposes Of oh.
etncles III the pathway of her comme1cia-
progress; aud this also, is the way that1
eLe employs the ministers II foreign cabinets
TO do her will. There is certainly nothing
more wonderful that she should find means
/ Nd In inf
mcnts, to foment civil discord amongst us,
than that she should be able to influence tho
| Britieh Cabinet By bribing the Foreign Min-
listers! The astounding thing In both cases
ls, that she should be able to influence them
at all! But this Is her history; the secret Of
and now 1t seems over America
What she has done with Turkey, she Is rea.
| dy and willing to do with America. These
| great Western States nre really the ouIy terri.
bic foe which she las to dread. For her con-
tnucd supremacy as the grain supplier Of Eu-
rope viii, as we said, destroy. her as com
me1cia1 nation. She knows this we'll enough,
and will continue to put forth all her intriga-
ing power to dismembcr the republic. There Is
nothing else left for her to do, since she can-
rot, Gu the one hind, maintain, In this coun-
t1y, q prohibitsye tariff against our own
exports, nor on the other, can she maintain
either In ENGLAND or France, q discFiminative
II.
Eo far back Us 1861, We exported to England
alone, ,507, 7G4 quarters OF wheat; ,7:53, 3334
quarters Of 1ndian corn; and 3,794,6G5 cwts.
Of flour; being about six times as much IS
was received from Russia In the eame year
Here, then, we have the character Of Russia
before us; and We zee her ubiquitous agents In
every country, and the shadow Of her my5te-
1ious intellect in every court and in every cab
met. Weknow her tor willy, INSCRIPTIONS
power, seeking her own agg,randizement on
every soil, wherever there is d producer Of
the raw matt rial Of commerce, whether grain,
CT oliyes, or tnllow, or flax, or hides. We see
also the very sufficient motire for her special
interference in our 3t1airs, and in another ar
ticle We will show how this interference has
affected, and how It is likely to affect hereaf.
ter, The grcat scheme for q ship canal from
Lake Huron, to the Ottawa, Us.
Andrew jackson on Secession.