Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-22

Russian Autocrat stretches his hand of friend
ship to America, the widest field in the world
whereon the people find room to act. He
sees us striving to shake off our slave sys-
TEN as he has his "serfdom," and his heart
is glad. The missionaries of England and
Spain and France look askance at the Great
Republic, but the imperial Cesar of the
North smiles as he sees continent lifting it.
self inch by inch above the whelming waters
of slavery. Russia and the United States
will divide the world, the one leavening Eu-
rope, the other America, and both working
together against the aristocratic element, and
for the elevation of the people. The Polish
rebellion has been infamed and nourished by
England, Spain, and, up to the present time.
by France also, aristocracy for ristocracy.
| The southern rebellion has developed the
| hostility of these same nations towards us,
and their friendly feeling for the slave mas
tiers, and again we see that it is aristocracy
for aristocracy. These insults rankle in the
hearts of republic and empire, and the cloud
of war hangs threateningly over the future
of the aristocracies of Europe, swelling up
from the melting SHOWS of Russia as well as
from the rivers and sea-boarls of the United
States. Both great powers recognize the
same enemies, and both can marshall va st
energies to cope with them.
American enterprise has always been ready
to help forward Russian civilization. Ameri-
cans have built the czar's railroads and plan
ned his ships, and Of them Todleben learned
to construct his earthworks for the magnit-
cent defence of Sebastopol. The two coun-
tries keep pace with each other in progress,
| one moving eastward, the other westward
| The slave system OF both has gone Blythe
board. Russia stretches her line of telegraph
across Siberia, and we ours toward the Paci-
fc Our western grain fields are one of the
worlds store houses for bread, and Russia Is
the other. Russia can call million of men
into the field, as can no other nation but our
selves. And SO the ''two young giants" are
growing together and the limit Of their power
who shall determine? Aristocracies are
doomed, and in the centuries to come the
Peoples OF the world are to play their part;
History shall record the life of the masses,
and not the actions of same one individually
and the curtain has already risen on the first
act of that magnificent drama.
The moral power Of Russia is bri nging Eu-
rope under its influence, and its physical
power OF mighty armies has its counterpart in
the growing strength OF its navies. The seed
of Russian naval strength, gathered by Peter
the Great in the dock yards OF Sardam, and
planted by him so carefully and diligently on
Russian beaches, has fourished and borne
fruit an hundred told for the harvest of to-day.
Russia has powerful fleets on the. White and
| Black seas, on the Caspian and the Baltic, on
Aral Lake and on the river AMOR; she counts
a hundred and fifty heavily med vessels of
war, and a fleet Of iron cladS has just been
built tor her III British ship yards, and these
together carry seven hundred guns-no mean
power, whether for offence or defence. Eng
land watches with jealousy this growing
power; she saw with JOY the breaking out of
our rebellion, hoping it would cripple US, but
it has developed our strength; and when the
time comes for the downfall of the old rotten
aristocracies, Russia and the United States
will be the instruments In Gods hands for
their abolition, and their united power shall
| prepare the way Tor the uprising people, and
be devoted to a civilization and enlightenment,
of which as yet the world has not even
| dreamed.