The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-21


give you fair warning that II ever
write your biography. viii take
you as you looked the day your
dividends came in twenty per cent.
larger than you ever anticipated, or
the morning on your way TO business after
your first child was born, or the morning
after your conversion when heaven had
rolled il on your soul The most sccursed
komunculi OF sll the earth are the pessi-
mists, who, whether they judge individual
or natl lnsl character, and whether they
WELD tongue or pen are filled with anathe-
matization, ard who have more to say about
the freckles on the cheek of beauty than OF
she sunrises and sunsets that flush it.
IL is most important that this country
have right ideas concerning Russia. for
among all the nations this side Of heaven
Russia is Americas best friend. There has
Rot been an hour in the last seventy-fve
years that the shipwreck OF free iustItu-
taOns in America would not have called
forth from all the despotisms Of Europe and
Asia shout Of gladness wide as earth and
deer as perdltion. But whoever else failed
VA Russia never did. and whoever else was
doubtful, Russia never was. Russia, then
an old government, smiled on the cradle OF
our government while yet In its earliest in
fancy. Empress Catherine Of Russia in
1776 or Whereabouts offered kindly inter-
ference that our thirteen colonies might not
70 down under the crueltlcS of war Again,
Dc a
merclful hand. When our dreadful civil
war was raging and the two thunder
clouds of northern and southern valor
elashed Russia practically said to
the nations OF Europe: Keep your hands
of and let the brave men OF the north and
the south settle their own Lroubles.n re-
bearsed some of those scenes to the emperor
last July, saying: You were probably too
young to remember the position your father
took at that time, but with radiant smile,
be responded: 20, yes, remember, l re-
member" and there was an accumulation Of
the words which demonstrated to me that
these occurrences had often been talked of
in the imperial household. l stood on New
York Battery, during the war, as suppose
many of you did, looking of through a
magnIfytng glass upon q fleet of Russian
ships. What are they doing therew !
asked, and so every one asked: Nv hat bust
ness have the Russian warships in our New
York h0rborp Word came that another
feet of Russian ships was in San Fran
cisco harbor. ''Wbst does this meanr
our rulers asked. but did not get immedi--
ate answer. In these two American her-
bors, the Russian fleets seemed sound asleep
Their great mouths Of iron spoke not a
wurd, and the Russian flag, whether floating
In the air or dropping by the flagstaff made
no answer to our inQuisitiveness. William
d. Seward, Secretary Of State, asked the
Russian minister at Washington, the mean
ing of those Russian ships in American
waters, and got no satisfactory response
Admiral Farragut said to a Russian officer
after dining in the home of the eminent
politician Thurlow Weed, that maker and
unmaker of Presidents: What are YOU
doing here with those Russian vessels of
warp Not until the war was over was il
found out that in case of foreign interview
ton all the guns and the last gun of these
two fleets in New York and San
EFnnrfGnn haE 81 T.. An
dispason upon any foreign ship that
should dare to interfere with the right of
Americans, north and south, to settle
their own controversy. But for those
fleets and their presence in American
waters, there can be no doubt that two OF
the tnightiest nations OF Europe would have
mingled In our fight. But for those two
fleets the American government would
have been to-day only name in history.
declare before God and the nation that |
believe Russia saved the United States of
America. Last July stood before a great
throng OF Russians in the embarrassing DO
tltion OF speaking to an audience three
fourths of which could not understand nv
language any more than ] could under
stand theirs. But there were two names
that they thoroughly understood as well as
you understand them, and the utterance of
those two names brought firth al acclama-
ton that made the city all OF ST Peters
burg quake from foundation stone to tower,
and those two names Were George Wash
ington" and Abraham Lincoln" Now,
Is IL not important that we should
feel right toward that mighty, that
God-given friend of more than one
hundred years? Yea, because il is A
nation Of more possibilities than any other
except our own should we cultivate its
friendship. There is a vast realm of Russia
as yet unoccupled. II the population of the
rest of Europe were poured into Russia, it
would be only partially occupied. After q
while, America will be so well populated
that the tides of emigration will go the
other way, and by railroads from Russia at
Boring straits-where Asia comes within
thlrty-six miles Of Joining America-mil-
lions of people will pour down through
Russia and Siberia, and on down through
all the regions waiting for the civilization
OF the next century to come and culture
great harvests aud build mighty cities.
What the United States now are on the
western hemisphere, Russia will be on
the eastern hemisphere. Not only because
OF what Russia has been TO our republic but
because OF what she will be, let US cease the
defamation of all that pertains to that great
empire. II Russia can afford TO be the
friend Of America, America can afford to
be the friend OF Russia. And now proceed
TO do what told the emperor and the en-
press and all the imperial family at the
palace of Pe:erhof l would do if / ever got
DICK TO America. and that Is to ans " or
some of the calumnies which have been an
nounced and reiterated and stereotyped
against Russia
Calumny the First: The emperor and all
the imperial family are in perpetual dread
OF assassination. They are practically pris-
oners in the winter palace, and trenches
with dynamite have been found dug around
the winter palace. They dare not venture
forth, except preceded and followed and
surrounded by most elaborate military
guard.
Ny answer TO this is that | never saw a
face more free from worriment than the
emperor's face. The winter palace. around
which the trenches are said to have been
charged with dynamite and in which the
imperial family are said 60 be prisoners. has
never been the residence of the imperial
family one moment since the present en-
peror has been on the throne That winter
palace has been changed into museum and
picture gallery and a place of great
levees. He spends his summer in the palace
at Peterhof, fifteen or twenty miles from
81. Petersburg; his sutumns at the palace
At Gatschina, and his winters in a palace at
81. Petersburg, but in quite different part
OF the city to that occupied by the winter
palace. de rides through the streets unar-