, 1868-12-04
Ru..Ian EncroaeAnen.. Upon China.

A correspondent (W. P) makes the fol-
lowing remarks in private letter, which is
worth attention:
There appears to be tendency in mauy
quarters, especially in radical ones to consid.
er Russia as the natural ally of the United
States. Is this opinion we'll fOundedl Ought
We not rather to look upon her as our natural
rival, and that in not a remote future That
most ambitious of all the powers of the Old
World, not content with her Pau Slavic
propagandism in the heart of Europe, is
steadily advancing upon Asia 10 three diff
ferent directions BY way Of Oonstautinople
and Armenia, by way Of Bokhara against In
dia, and, what is most important to us. BY
way Of the Amoor river against China. The
United States, on the other hand, are rapidly
peopliDg the Pacific States of North America,
and when the railroad to California is COM
pleted, as it will be in a few months, that
process will advance with accelerated veloc-
ity. We are Pacific power as we'll as an
Atlantic one it is our essential interest,
both military, political and commercial, to
prevent China, now 10 all appearances falling
to pieces, from being absorbed by any great
military empire, especially by one so ambi,
tious, and so inimical to reppblicanism, or, in
fact, to any form of liberty, as Muscovy.
The possession Of India is not dangerous
to the other nations, for India is iudolent,
tenatious of its old ways, childish, invincibly
ignorant, and incapable of rapid improvement
aud development. China, on the contrary,
| hac roRnlo ! r
India, population remarkably active and
industrious, and capable when their resources
shall be developed by European science, of
furnishing their conquerors with as great
public revenue as 400, 100000 of Europeans
could. Truly magnificent prize for Musco.
vite ambition; prize that throws into the
shade the attractions of the 3O,O0O,0O0 of
slaves in Central and Southern Europe, whom
she is so desirous to bring under her sway
The taxes Of 00,000,00O of keen, intelligent
and enterprising Chinese, to support vast
armies and powerful navies upon the Pacific
opposite California and Oregon, armies and
navies to be flied and manned, not by Chs
nese, but by bold and hardy Russians 1t
will be race between the Celto.G Gothic stock
(as l call the American,) and the Slaves
Tartar Muscovite, which shall colOnize the
magnificent wilds of the great Amoor Basin
and the contiguous unoccupied countries 10
Chinese Tartary and Eastern iberia Russia
has the advantage of being in possession.
wItnin the last few years she has usurped
the better part of all Mautchooria. There
she is. established in the basin of the Amoor.
after waiting more than l50 years for the
favorable moment of the decline of the Man
choo dynasty, within few hundred miles Of
Pekin, and the wealthy, densely peopled
provinces of the north of China, each of
which numbers its population by tens of
millions. The rich Chinese trade, the lbe-
ration of the serfs in Russia herself, (who
are thereby enabled to emgrate to any part
OF the empire without asking leave of a mas
ter,) and the policy of the Car, will surely
tend to people this important and long-cov-
eted frontier, and that rapidly, with colonies
of old Muscovite descent. The Telegraph,
and ultimately the railroad, will connect them
with St. Petersburg in perhaps less than a
quarter of century. If petty tribe, few
| hundred thousand Mantchoos, ignorant of
discipline and military science, wretchedly
armed with the matchbox or the bow and
arrow, have suficed to conquer China and
hold it now for more than two centuries,
what is likely to be their fate from Russian
population living almost within sight of Chi
mas great wall The basin of the Amoor
is very valuable for purposes Of colonization,
aud is of great extsnt 1t affords room for
two great empires, each as extensive, popu-
lous and powerful as France or Germany.
Can any rejecting mind doubt that the Rus
sian or other white colonists of the Amoor
will ultimately be masters of the almost fab
ulous resources of China, and consequently
rulers of the Pacific ocean What destiny
for the Anglo-Saxon. or rather Ceto-Gothic
race And Russia by her recent seizure Of
the Amoor country, is the power that fore
stalls us, that has prevented, and if she re-
tains her hold, will forever prevent the Tartar
coast of the Pacific from being peoped BY
one race and the blood of Western Europe
and Germany the power that will turn the
boundless resources of China against Us in
the future Viewed in this light, L think
rejecting men must come to the conclusion
that Russia is not our natural ally, but, on
the contrary, our natural rival. Let US not
be deceived by her interested caresses, nor
permit ourselves for merely temporary objects,
to be made the instruments of the aggran-
dizement of that colossal, ambitious, willy
despotism which, l repeat, is our natural
rival and not our natural friend.-M T.
World.
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