The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-06-07
THE RUssIANs IN NEW YORK

Popular Sentiment IN Regaf5 70 Esopsan
Affairs.
About three-fourths of the New York
merchants have no idea that England
and Russia viii go to war; these think
that Russia is too clever To risk her
conquests in Turkey, and the English
commercial class too apprehensive not to
be content with the military ardor and
public unity England has already dis
played. The other fourth of our critics
say that Disraeh is subtle and ambitious
of a great war on personal account before
he passes in his chips" and that the
British military and aristocratic clssses
want fighting to make vacancies snd
promotions, and stop sgTSra - sad
agitation. 1t is well understood that
the drift of British agitation, IS directed
by such differing spirits as Derby, Glad
stone and Bright, : toward disestablish-
ing the state hurch. Lerd Derby
belongs to what's called the Iconoclastic
Tories, or lancashire Conservatives.
The English church, IS well as
the military, navy and feudslity,
not to mention the pOpulace, therefore
favors war. England has no enemy
but the Irish who are always hostile,
not less in pace than in war. The
United Statesis tied up by recent treat
les, and underline cold serenityo of Hayes
government would undoubtedly suppress
Fenianism and privateeriug with more
yigor than has ever been shown in fill
clustering periods here. l have heard it
said that, as to privateers, our govern
ment would have more difficulty in the
south than il the north; yet the south
is almost without naval officers now, the
old supply Of 1861 being pretty we'll dead
or disabled
New York, however, Is full OF Russian
officers, American contractors and go-be-
tweena. wss introduced to Russian
naval Constructor yesterday, little fel-
low who looked q cross betweens German
and an Englishmsn, with an indescTiba-
BILE suggestion OF a rat somewhere about
his Tsrtar-like hazel eyes and teeth and
moustaehe. He suoke g little English,
assured me that everybody in Russia
now, heretofore ami forever had loved
the United States, and ss to war said ::
% We don't care if We have it We Rus
sian officers are ready for anything. The
general impression have obtained from
these Russians ENJOYS IS not favorable to
their intelligence, sudscity, and ply
sique to whip the English. There Is
suggestion Of the meagre, unindiyhual,
passive Asiatic about most Of hem,
children of uDquestionable despatism
with mere thinning individual manhood.
Yet they tell me that Russia Is more
easily made republic5thsn any sate IN
Europe; that the car could ordert and
be Washington with hereditary
having the sincere love of all his ,eople
but the Poles, and politically oppOed by
the nobility more than the peopE Be
sides, the Russian priesthood hu no
influence, a. it has in England and nos,
continental nations. Between an sb,
solute and q free government in Russia
there is neither a secular nor an eosssi.
satical mobility of influence, but thers ia
vast ignorance and inexperience. Russia
is in terrific, yet golden moment VIC.
tory, liberty, danger and revolution
without and within her Yet she cannot
be Tevolutionized snd still beat her
enemies, SIS France did in 1892. The
France of to-day is less a military power
than the France which had not an sIIy
in Europe, the France Of Robespisre
For the first time since the Turk vss
beaten by Sobieaki at Vienna, the Asistic
hosts are 70 be called into a European
war; 800, 600 British Mohammedans and
a vast levy of Tsrtara. War, therefore
between Russia and England must con,
yuise Asia and lead to emigration from
Asia to America. II ia here that the
labor reform party, already organized
among US, may find fuel for, under the
Joint propulsion of war and tamine. the
mild and obserYant deyotee5 of Asia
must be keeping wistful eye on Amer.
lea. 1t is nearly century since the
world experienced a revolution, and in
the interval what vast agencies have been
let loose upon it,
The Americans are said 10 be induIgin0
in their old speculative habit of running
up the prices of their steamships, in ex.
pectatiOn of a Russian market. hear
that out of 1872 steamships owned here
only about 80 are good racers. 1t is
understood that the Morgan steamships.
which are among the best, can not be
bought. There is s general look Ct Gov
etousness on the Philadelphia line, which
is rumored TO be speedy. osethis be
certain: That the Russians re here,
ready for mischief, and already being
piloted up and down and kept well
posted 10y Americans, and probably the
injuries they design on British commerce
Is the most conservative influence to-
ward restraining the English from 8 war
that would be otherwise manifestIv pop
ular.--[" Gath"