The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-11-09


temporaries are perfectly welcome to use our
special foreign dispatches, only that we think
il would be little courteous 10 give us credit
for them. We are quite willing also 10 recipro-
cate. The quarrel between the lrtjuae and
the Wortd, therefore, is entirely unnecessary
and ridiculous-very small very small indeed.
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american Alliance with Russia ana Ger-
The present crisis in European history is
rife with transformations, in watch American
craftsmanship is called to take a profound
interest. Without abating in the least our
good wishes for the salvation OF our old ally,
France, from her present calamities, the politi-
GAL genius Of the American people forbids us
to ignore the current Of events and the shit
Ing fortunes which transfer power and empire
from one to the other nation and now assign
TO Russia, Germany and America foremost
place among the controlling nations of the nni-
verse. Theorists will no doubt busy them
selves for generations to como Ia defining the
drift Of these new transformations, but the
statesman is bound to deal with facts alone,
and these attest that of all the nations of the
world America, Russia and Germany are those
which are least effete and mos! overflow with
vigor and energy, beyond either England or
France or the smaller Powers of the European
Continent.
Nor Is it one Of the least remarkable symp-
toms Of this extraordinary juncture in human
affairs that international sympathies are not
altogether controlled by similarity OF politi-
cal institutions. Thus Germany, notwith-
standing the preponderance of her royalty,
claims affinity with America in her educational
aud mental achievements, and excites admira-
ton by the thoroughgong honesty and skill Of
her civil and military organization. Russia
admires American life more sincerely than any
other European nation, has emancipated her
hondsmen as we liberated our slaves aud en-
deayors to emulatSour progress in science and
literature. Moreover, Russia and America
iuxuriate in what may be called sense Of
space, both nations controlling vast and still
unsettled territories and endeavoring to make
the progress Of industry commensurate with
that OF expansion. Strange as it may seem.
slams meet, mutual sympathy marks the in
tercourse and imparts prestige Of reality to
the intimate alliance which exists between the
two nations. Americans and Germans also
associate with nothing Of that dubious feeling
which exists between Eaglishmen aud Ameri-
cans, and with nothing to mar the cordially
of relations which in reality spring from
reciprocal appreciation of their respective
civilizations.
Both Russia and Germany sided with the
United States against Pamersonism aud
Napoleonism in the anti-slavery war and the
Invasion Of Mexico; and Russian and German
Statesmen have not little contributed to
strengthen the Union cause and place the coun-
tries to that extent in papabe autagonism to
Great Britain and imperial France. The whole
diplomatic history during our civil war shows
that, however much we may esclew inter-
national entanglenents, a great nation like
ours cannot isolate herself in these days OF
rapid intercourse. While we do not desire to
intermeddle with the domestic affairs of the
Old World, and while we deprecate their inhu-
ence in this hemisphere, our interests point
directly to u friendly union with Germany and
Russia.
Our statesmen, if such exist, have not yet
awakened to the great responsibilities which
devolve upon them through the contingencies
of this stirring period. America cannot be
isolated like China from the other preponder
aling Powers Of the world, and the mission of
oar statesmen should be to accept the present
European crisis as one designed to assert the
force of those great principles OF progress
which, in common with young nations like
Russia and Germany, we hold.
SPECIAL LETTERS FROM EURoPE.-Our
special correspondents in Europe supply the
interesting budget of Old World news re-