The mountain Democrat., 1864-01-02
Poland, ireland and America.

blood for the liberation of the degraded
black, sits down to hO6-hGS 1silI/ 6t4LHtIie
Russia, that pursues, hogs. and murders
the enlightened Pole. A few months ago
Mr.. Seward politely declined to join in the
European note addressed TO the Govern
ment of the Car in behalf Of Catholic 2O-
land. Perhaps his conduct was excuSable.
America, In the thrOes Of civil War, cannot
we'll afford to step outside her own quar-
rel. and mix in another that does not i'm
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be just before She iS'gener0aR Crippled
by q civil war, it was her duty above all
things to avoid making . new enemy, and
thereby add to that inexplcable coalition
Of opinion which . misconceptiOn Of her
struggle arrays against her. But there
was no 70 ce to compel America to invite
the feet of ferociOus barbnrism into the
port OF her chief city, or tempt her public
men to disgrace themselves by exchany-
ing friendly sentiments with its officers.
Of course it is understood that the affair
was got up to make political capital for
Washington, and demonstrate TO France
and England how practicable . Russo
American alliance may become in the
event Of a war with Europe. But no one
believes q war with America probable,
except frightened stockholders, and the
tag.rag and bobtail Of British credulity.
Mr.. Seward may think otherwise. and it
is no slur on ourselves to say that he has
the vantage Of superior information
He may flatter himself that he has made
a coup that he has shown England and
France how dangerous is the ground upon
which they tread. Perhaps he will next
consider the cost at which such paltry IF
feet has been produced. This expedent
may be deemed mastery, but it places a
moral stigma on the government OF which
he is 3 member, and the policy he repre-
sents. Who will believe that the men
who approve by the completely Of
silence, but by pronounced and bruIted
appreciation, the hangingS, ,6oggings, burn.
ings, brandings. deportatiOnS Of white men
and women in Poland, are sincere in the
demand that the slavery of the African
negro shall be abolished? Who can feel
otherwise than disgusted with the cant
that dcnOunces the serfdom Of the black
abominab'e in the sight of God, calcuat
to invoke his repr baton, and then turns
with complimentary phrases to the Rus
slams, who roclaim as loudly that Catho-
lie Poland must be destroyed, even if the
Scrptre Of the Gar were to rule over no.
thing but corpses and ashes? Mr.. Seward
has succeeded in investing the whole mo
tive Of the war with the air OF brazen
and gigantic hypocracy. New York has
obeyed him too well ; and the inevitable
result over Europe will be the creation of
a new partzanShip favorsble to the cause
Of the South.
God help Poland, will be the prayer of
honest men who see her deserted in her
day Of need; first, by Europe, and lastly
BY free America. This is the unkindest
cut Of all-the approval Of her hutchery
by the free citizens of liberty. loving New
York. In the hour of peril and agony
she knows but one human friend the
great Pontltf, himself deSpoiled, afflicted,
suff; ring who piays for her at Rome. -
Such is the latest expression Of the long
inconsistency Of civilization. Does it bear
no lesson for ireland-dOeS it reprouCh
none of the dcluSi0nS to which We have
clung 50 long and de>pairingly2 Poland,
when plunging into the desperate strug
gle, still so ob>tinatelv maintained, had
reason to b. lieyv that Europe would not
stand by and see her stranglcd with an
air of passive cyniri>m. And Poland is
bitterly and frarfu!ly rebukcd for her
large hearted trust. 1t is hurled back in
her teeth by England, the genus of pro-
gress;" bv France, the champion of ma
tipnultirs;" )" by America, the founder of
the most Wonderful Democracy that ever
took root on earth. And we, too have
our dreams that emancipation is to be the
issue of external force. There are so!idIy
sensible lrishmen who look to France for
deliverance, who pine fer an invasion that
does not seem the nearer for accomplish
mcnt because three centuries have elapsed
since 1t was first thought of. Can any
thoughtful patriot, looking at the present
aspect OF Europe, believe those dreams
and longngs to be rational? Who is it
that will strike for uSr Not Austria, not
Spain, not Holland, not Russia, and to all
certainty not America. Will France as
sumo the task, and sweep the Englishry
from the face of the island? Those who
expect that such feat forms part of the
secret programme of the Emperor, cannot
have studied his ways-cannot have seen
how the political Utopiani>m with which
he started has been exchanged for policy
that concerns itself with cheap bread, ex
tended commerce, with contented popula.
tions, and the elimination from the French
mind Of ever hankering after change and
revolution. He has OF er work than ina
turing plans for the deliverance OF Ireland.
We may honestly bid him goodby, con-
signing him with half regret to that limbo
whom Ireland has too creduously relied
Where, then, shall the Irish struggle be
made? We cahnot speak for the future,
but present conditions answer for them
selves. 1t is to be fought at the hearths
of our labOrers, artisans, Students-it is to
be fought in our schools, our galleries, our
institutions. Every man who sows the
seed Of noble ;hOught-whO breaches
the doctrine Of self-respect-who will con-
vince another that brag means riiicule,
that reading, thinking, all the resources of
education. pave the road to liberty and
greatness, fights land fights we'll in the
Irish stI uggle,- London Universal News.
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A YOUNG lawyer who had long paid his
court to lady without much advancing
his suit, accused her one day of being in
sensible to the power Of love.
1T does not follow she archly replied,
that am so because am not to be won
by the power of attorney
Forgive me- replied the Suitor, but
you should remember that all volaries of
Cupid are solicitors
WAR asked the schOOlmaSter &c tho