The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-24
The Russian Telegraph and the Russian
Alliance.


Alliance.
From the Herald.
We are glad to perceive that the House reso-
luton Introduced by Mr. Banks instructing the
Secretary OF the Navy to detail steam vessel to
assist in the construction of the Russo American
telegraph by way OF Behring's Strait has been
adopted by the Senate. 1t is of material interest
10 this country that we should have telegraphic
communication with Europe, and inasmuch as
the Russian scheme of Mr.. Collins is the most
likely to be Immediately carried out, it Is mani
testly,due to the Russian Government, which has
soliberally sustained It, that the United States
should afford every facility for its accomplish.
ment. There exists also sc ong political rea-
son why Russia should have our cooperation in
this project.
Russia. of all nations in Europe, is the most
CONSISTENT friend OF this country; we may say the
only one that in our hour of trial stood firm and
steadast, the most honest observer of inter
national law without permitting kinks or quib-
bles to interfere with ITS fair Interpretation. We
gave material aid to the Atlantic telegraph enter
prise by sending the Niagara to assist in laying
the first cable, which was designed to connect
this country with England-a nation which we
have no reason to regard as over friendly to us
during our late war; In this view we do not see
but that 1t is vastly more to our advantage to
have a telegraphic connection established
through Russia than through either England or
France
. Ine ldJe u6IuOubJTdJlOu Ill MOSCOW, WUeTe JnG
American Minister and Secretary Of Legation
were entertained at great banquet by the
Corporation OF Merchants, was but an incidental
expression OF real sentiments entertained by the
Russian people towards this country; and the
language used on that occasion is all the more
significant because it comes from the representa-
tives OF the commercial element of the central
mercantile city of the Russian empire.
| Mutual commercial interests, as well as the
! political analogy which in a measure exists
between the two countries, ARE the links that
| bind them together, and have created q SEEM
| ing1y anomalous union between q republic and
| an autocracy, at which the London Tunes sneers
| as a curious evidence of extremes meeting, but
| which one of the speakers at the Moscow ban
! quet very aptly explains by the truism that the
love OF the strong for the strong is both natural
! and profitable; a sentiment which our Minister,
| Mr.. Clay, adopts when he says of Russia and
America 'that both OF us have nothing to be
ashamed OF in the past, and nothing to fear in
| the Iuture.n
A variety of circumstances have drawn the
| great Russian empire very closely into alliance
| with our people, and the establl' hment OF tee-
! graphic communication VIII tend greatly to
! strengthen the connection. The Gear should
not loose an opportunity OF still more firmly
| cementing this spontaneous alliance by the eXer-
| else OF better Judgment IN selecting the repre-
| sentatives OF his Government i'll this country.
! He has beer unfortunate heretofore in the class
! OF men who have represented Russian interests
| here. II is not because Russia has TO bear the
| Evolutionary reputation OF barbarism that she
| should be represented abroad by barbarians.
! Society, which recognizes the force of such SEN
J siments as we find embraced in some OF the
! toasts at the Moscow banquet--such as THE
| progress of education and enlightenment in
| our commercial classes" and ''The Improve.
ment of the moral and intellectual condition of
| the mill handsn--cannot be regarded as one of
the elements of a barbarous nation.