Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-04-22
Gurrka Daily 9entltel.
KEEP THE BALANCE LEVEL

The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser. commenting on remarks OF the
Herald about the sympathy of the Ameri-
can people in the event of war between
England and Russia, declares that there
is "every reason why it should go out
strongly toward England"
The Advertiser errs in so broad a de-
claration, replies the Herald. There
are some reasons for sympathy with
England, but there is by no means
"every reason" On the contrary, there
are also some reasons for sympathy with
Russia. At the dinner given by the
municipality of New York in October,
1863, to Admiral Lisovski and the officers
of the powerful Russian feet which had
just made its oppor.une appearance in
our bay, Mr.. David Dudley Field said,
and we think truly:
The American people will never forget,
through all the changes of future years,
that in their mortal struggle the Gear has
been true to them, and in the exercise OF
his great Office has been iniexible in his
adherence to the grand and salutary prln-
ciples of public law. And they will just
as surely never cease to believe that the
Government of England has desired the
disruption of this Republic and has given
to the rebel forces every species OF indirect
assistance which 1t wss possible to give, |
short of engaging in hostilities. These
things will never be forgotten SO long as
Americans can read and remember.
1t is very generous toward England on
the part of the Advertiser to overlook
the past, but not all the people of the
United States have SO forgiving a tenn.
per or so submissive a memory. On the
contrary, a great many are SO unregener-
ate that they will test such averments as
the Advertiser's-that England stands
for the dominance in the world Of our
principles and IDEAS" and Russia for the
contrary-by the relative conduct of the
two Powers toward us in our civil war.
Russia was our friend. So early as
July 10, 1861, the Car directed his Min
lister at Washington to express to Presi-
dent Lincoln his "lively solicitude in the
presence of the dangers which menace
the American Union" his "%sincere
wishes for the maintenance of that great
work" and his assurance that in every
event the American nation may count
upon his most cordial sympathy" From
that time forward throughout the long
and sometimes almost desperate struggle
the friendship never wavered. AS the
London Telegraph remarked, sneering
alike at the emancipation edicts of Rus
STA and of the United States: "The
aoolitionism Of the East is harmoniously
uniting with the abolitionism of the
West"
Was England our friend? The world
knows whether she was or not-whether
tour principles and ideas" would have
ucceeded or succumbed if she could
have had her way. The world remem-
bers, also, who it was that repulsed us
with the phrase, Jefferson Davis has
created a nation," when we were yearn-
ing for a word of comfort and sympathy
from English-speaking people across the
sea.
We do not recur to these remembran-
ces to indicate at this moment a pre-
ponderance of sympathy with Russia on
our own part but to keep the American
balance level against such weights as the
Advertiser and other journals of its way
of thinking are casting exclusively into
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