The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-06-20
Ths aassian .Czarso tbs Anaexicsn Pre-.
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ssAt the dinher giyen 20 ex.S Governor
Curtsn, in Ph iAdeip phiA on Sathrd lay, 1riof
to hzB departuSe for sussia, Count Bodi-
scoS Charge A'AGaites gof the Russian
Legation, said shat the sympathies of
his Government during our late rebellion
| wero with the Federal Government, and
read d letter FROM the Gzar expressing
| his qualification at the success of the
Union arms, and the election of Gen.
Grant to tho Presidency"
+ .PhereAwas O.. tiae. when the United
States did not possess the sympathies of
any despotic power on the face; ofiSthe
globe, and did not, care to, possess them.
There was time, when her very name
was distasteful to such governments, and
hergmere existence was regarded as a
threat. Bat then her people were free,
and there was not within her borders one
man dissatisfied with the form Of govern
ment. We had no rebellion to crush
out, no subject provinces to grind down
to the earth. we had no Poland or IRE
land OF our own; no penal colony for
political -offenders;. no tyrants, conse-
point of resemblance between US and
were different; our symbol of govern
ment was the ballot-box, hers the knout;
her method Of extension was by subju-
cation, ours by annexation. Now, we
are not SO far apart; we have narrowed
the distance considerably, and neigh
borly feeling has sprung up between us,
as was natural. She sympathized with
us in our efforts to destroy republican
ism, by striking OF its cornerstone, the
consent Of the governed. She admired
our precocious maturity in oppression,
the ease with which we took up her role,
and the mastery manner in which we
played it,, Her sympathies were with u.s.
Why not? She decided controversies by
the sword: so did we. ''There's sympa-
thy" She ruled the conquered with a
rod of iron: SO did we. ''More sympa-
thy" She established "order'' in Po-
land: we Reconstruction" in the South.
Could there be better grounds for SYM
pathy? OF course, she sympathized with
us, We were making Imperialism epos-
sible, we were breaking ground for it on
every battlefield, from Bull Run to Ap-
pomattox.
OF, course, Russia is gratifed at the
election Of General Grant, for the pre-
ponderance of the military element is
ever dangerous to liberty and republi-
canism. Neither can exist under the
odaoOW VI InS 6uSlLeT OI Jp6 D0yOu6C.
And at the present moment the bayonet
is supreme in this ''land of light and
law, as Whittier calls it, for ten States
are wholly ruled by it, and law is silent.
Whoever would see the apothegsis of
force has but to look Southwark, and he
will behold it perfect in every detail.
Well may our ally, the Gear, be graft
fed !! Well may every lover of despot-
ism in the old world or the new chuckle
at the spectacle we present! Treason to
the country openly preached under the
name of imperialism! And the principal
organ of the party that made such a
thing possible can see no remedy for the
disease, no way Of ,averting the evil, but
by assassination. Certainly, if Cesar,
why then Brutus, too. But why a
Brutus? Our list of worthless requires
no Brutus to make it perfect, and the
revolutionary fathers left no opening for
Brutus, for they left no opportunity
for Cesar. That's the only safe plan I;
that's the plan we advocate; that's the
plan the Democracy of this country will
see carried out, though in the prosecu-
tion of it they do not expect the Sym
pathies'' of Russia, or any other despot-
ism. -lKetropolitan Record.
TIE News FROM CUBA.-The advices
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