The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-11-19

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Inc ships o. war haze just come In,
And landed royal Charlie.
| The Prince has come. The Russian squad
ron which brings him to our shores is at
Sandy Hook. On the land and the water
everything Is in readiness for his reception,
with right royal parade and a cordial vel
come, and ION the tip-toe of expectation" the
city awaits his appearance. The spectacle
tomorrow, from the Hook to the Battery, OF
the grand aquatic procession of ships-of-war,
pleasure steamers, yachts, pilot boats and
steam and sailing craft of all descriptions, will
be beautiful and imposing, and in the march
mp Broadway of our National Guard we ex-
pect an unusually fine display of the handsome
holiday soldiers Of our peace establishment.
The city is absorbed in the new sensation.
The Chicago fire has passed into history our
| late election excitements have died out we
have become familiar with the operate cho-
ruses of Nilsson; Tweed and the frauds of
the Ring have become an old story, and we
are ready for the nuptials Of the Russian Bear
and the American Eagle.
The young Prince comes as a traveller to
our shores to see something OF our country,
its government, its people and its institutions;
but he comes, also, as q special ambassador
of peace and good will from his august
master, the Emperor of all the Russias, to
the President and the sovereign people Of the
United States and in this capacity. through
the length and breadth of the land, he will
meet with hearty welcome. His visit may
| be called pleasure excursion, and yet as a
familiar diplomatic mission it may form an
| important landmark in the history of the
! future relations between the two countries.
From the very organization of our general
| government down to this day, the ''happy
accord" which has existed, and which prom
Uses long to be cherished between Russia and
the United States, is most remarkable and
extraordinary. 1t is most remarkable in this,
that the absolute despotism of Russia, of all
the governments of the earth, is, perhaps, the
farthest removed from our system resting on
the sovereignty of the people. Our supreme
law is a written constitution and the will Of
the people. The supreme law of Russia is the
will of the Emperor. And yet through the
relations maintained without interruption be-
tween Russia and the United States have
fallen but little short of an established defen-
sive and offensive alliance.
This il surely most remarkable and excep-
tional case Of international harmony. And
yet it is open to the simplest explanation.
There have been and there are no clashing
interests or designs between Russia and the
United States. Non-intervention as the rule
on our part in European affairs, and our
Monroe doctrine of European non-intervention
in American affairs, have been and are exactly
adapted to the position, the conditions and the
designs Of Russia. Her ambition is confined
| to the Old World; ours is limited to the New.
We have nothing to do with her peculiar local
institutions, and she is 80 remote and isolate
that she fears no danger from ours. More
over, the reigning Gar, one of the most
liberal and enlightened statesmen of the age,
is fast putting Russia upon the high road
ness of his people, and here he has our
| warmest sympathies. But again, upon the
common domain of the high seas, looking to
the dangers from European complications of .
war with England and France, or either of
them, Russia has never forgotten the lmpor
lance of the United States as friendly Power.
In this view of her amicable dispositions to-
wards US they have grown with our growth
and strengthened with our strength, and
doubtless in view Of the possibilities and ad-
vantages Of naval alliance at some future
day on some question Of neutral or belligerent
rights.
In the war OF the Crimea the sympathies Of
the United States rather inclined towards Rus
STA than towards England and France, not
withstanding the Cars designs upon the
estates of ''the sick man" Of Turkey. In the
war of our Southern rebellion England be-
came, as far as her quibbling pre-
fences OF neutrality would permit an
ally of JEFF Davis, as did also Louis Napoleon,
in his flank movement against US in Mexico.
Our popular institutions were obnoxious and
full Of danger to the English aristocracy and
the French empire and both England and
France hoped from the dissolution of the
American Union an enduring foothold upon
this Continent and a strong American balance
of power. Russia, having no such balance of
power to consider, was free TO give us, and
freely gave us through all the great struggle
for our national existence, her sympathies and
her moral support. Hence, when this struggle
was over, she found our government 80 CRATE
fully inclined that it regarded the offer Of the
five hundred thousand square miles of Alaska
and the islands appended, for seven millions
two hundred thousand dollars in gold, as
bargain not because those vast domains Of
ice and snow are worth anything, but because
our friend, the Gear, just then, needed little
ready cash, and We were happy to accommo-