New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-21
GREATBRI TAIN ANDTHE WAR
TIE DRIFT OLE PrBLIc SYMPATHY.

bEiAlSh COURT ANII-RCsSIAN - GlADSIONE,
CARLYLE, AND THE HIGH CHURCH CLERGY
AGAINST THE TURK-IHE LIBERALS N GEN
ERAL PRO-RUssIGN
fFRoH TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBUSEl
LONDON, Nov. 1.-Sir. Goodwin Smith, under the
pungent title THE Slaveowner and the Turk"
discusses, In The Contemporary the parallelism be-
tween the attitude of England toward America dur
ing the Rebellion and the present attitude of Eng
land toward Russia and Turkey With some marked
exceptions, the dividing line of sympathy is nearly
the same. The friends of the North as rule, are
the friends of Russia the friends Of the slaveowner
AS a rule, are the friends of the Turk This has
long since struck everybody who observes what is
going on around him, but it has never been worked
out so carefully in detail as now by Mr.
Goodwin Smith. On one side, the most conspicuous
individual exception is Mr.. Gladstone, who was
against the North, but is now for Russia. On the
other side, the Court has changed In our war, the
Prince Consort. who had brain and heart, kept
the Court with the North but now it yields TO its
natural bias, and is ultraTurk. in this, if
in nothing else, the Sovereign and the Heir
Apparent arc agreed. third llustrous
instance is Carlyle, who all for Slavery. but
IS now all for Russia. In answer to an expos
tuaton that he ought to sympathize with a Power
whose rule depends so wholly on Force as that OF
/ Turkey, he has already explained that his idea Of
Force is Force organized and efficient for political
and social purposes-not blind weller Of violence
and cruel ferocity, going hand in hand with proved
incapabeness for government except by massacre.
Besides these the chief exception is the Hgh Church
clergy who like the rest of their order were South
ern. bat are Russian from sympathy with the
Greek Church. with which they have long been en-
deGyoring to form a connection The Duke Of Argyll
and some Of the better members Of the aristocracy
are anti-Iurk, they anti-Slavery and all
honor 20 them for it. But the mass Of the
tOcracy the upper classes generally and the vulgar
staggering part of the commercial class and the
shopseepers who were pro-Slayery in 1868, are pro-
Turk in 1877
believe Mr.. Golwin Smith to be right in saying
that the rank and file Of the Liberal party, the bulk
OF the workirgmen, especially in the manufacturing
districts, the Nonconformists almost to man and
it is not the only point on which they are wor'ng
with the High Church party, with most Of
the journals which are the regular organs Of
Liberal opinion are united In opposition 10 the Turk
as they We're united in opposition to slavery. But
some qualification must be made. fear, in the case
Of the Liberal journals Some of the ablest Of them
which used to see 10 Yorkshire last Summer, We're
Turk They were possessed with the idea that their
sympathes were due To the Turk because he was
the weaker Of the two alyersaries precisely as be-
tween South and North; and precisely, as remem-
bier reading long since when Heenan and Sayers
fought, and when pous journal while express
ing great horror at the fight l0f which il gave
pretty full account expressed. also its righteous in
di1uai0n az such big man Is Keenan, hitting such
n little man ~ Savers Other provincial papers
which did not quite take sides with the Turk. fill
their news columns with special dispatches and let
ters violently in his favor. Notwithstanding this
Mr. Goodwin Smiths remark about the 10 DIS i
button of opinion is substantially accurate; London
is very Turkish, but at Birmingham you enter diff
fercn zone.
The phantom Of danger to British interests fright
eued this island from spropriety in sG1l65
In both cases il was vague apprehension of remote
danger; TO Canada in the one case; to India at
present though in what the dangerto India consists
nobody has vet indicated with precision. The Tory
party. which chershes more or less sincerely these
views and apprehensons, then-but let me
quote Mr.. Goodwin Smiths words
"Ou the former occasion this party was ont Of
power and il could carry on the war only by
means of Alabamas and other devices OF an II
regular kind. 1t is now in power, and though re
strained from open intervention in favor OF Turkey
bv che strength Of the Liberal opposition and the
pacific tendencies Of commerce, it can write acrI-
monious dispatches, send fleets to Beslka Bay sur
vev Gallipoh bully Greece, and place representa-
tive of its sympathies in the guise of British AM
bas.ador at Coustantnopie. Possibly ITS policy, az
IT il identical i'm general character with that which
il pursued before may again produce the same et-
fects Ii may lure the Ottoman As 1t lured the
Southerner to his doom. by feeding him with deceit
ful hopes II AID and IL may prepare for the bps Of
Ergdpd some bitter drdught OF 4umitt-On such as She
drunk under the Treaty Of WdshiHgton."
The sentence have put in italics will show Won
how, keeulv the modification imposed upon England
at Geneva is felt even by an English Liberal whose
friendship for America has been a hundred times
tried and proved. But believe there are still peo-
pe IN America who maintain that the Treaty OF
washington was axsurrender on the part OF Amer
lea. and not Of Great Britain
That the animosty against Russia viii pass away,
"a that against the North passed away, is possible
enough. perhaps if Russia is victorious writes
Mr. GOODWIN Smith, not without austerity. chlv-
alrous sympathy VIII once more wait upon success.
II Will be as difficult to find Turkophilst in the
clubs and drawing-rooms Of London, as 1t was TO
find a secessionist after the surrender of Lee and
the homage which is now being paid by all England,
including the most arstocratic classes, 10 the con-
oueror Of slavery may be paid with equal warmth
and unanimity TO the conqueror Of the Turk"
an English friend wrote me some months ago on
this ouestion-though hardly dare quote his words
as follows: Depend upon 1t, the instinct OF the
Tory aristocracy and the turnkey classes In this
country Is infallible in its way. When they take
side you may be sure the opposite side Is that Of
Humanity. The motives of Russia may be mixed
no doubt they are but her cause must, in the MAN,
no the right one or the friends of slavery would not
be her enemies"
with reference to what Mr.. Goodwin Smith says
Of English feeling toward America, passage or two
from letters by Sir George Cornewal Lewis Is worth
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