The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-25
RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.
why wo Feel Justified In Doing More For
the Former Than For tho Latter.

Why We Feel Justified In Doing More For
the Former Than For tho Latter.
The London Chronicle, discussing the
| treaty between the United States and the
cars government, wants to know why in
| the matter of tho extradition of assassins
we concede to Russia what we have refused
to England. The New York Sun accents
The Chronicles challenge aud makes the
following reply:
We can indicate some general grounds
on which we might be strongly impelled to
grant privileges to Russia for which Eng
land might appeal in vain. AS was dis
closed by the hostile tone of her newsDn-
pers at the time of our demand for an
apology and an indemnity from Chilli for
the massacre of American sailors, England
is still no cordial friend >of the United
States. So far as any tie of blood exists, it
seems only to aggravate her jealousy. Not
only in that part of her population which
is of Irish lineage, but in that still larger
and most influential element which traces
its descent to the men who created the
American colonies and fought the Revolu-
tionary war, there is no feeling moredcepIy
rooted OF more thoroughly justified by his
tory than that of resentment toward Eng
land.
To Russia, on the other hand, we are
bound by the strongest ties of gratitude
and friendship. When we say Russia we
mean not only or mainly the Russian peo
pie, but the house of Romanoff, which gov
erns the great northern empire. Never
since the beginning of our national life
have we suffered an injury at the hands of
that dynasty, and we are indebted to it for
tremendous services. When, even after
Yorktown, George III chung to his deter
mination to subjugatc the Is colonies, Cath
crime III Joined the league of ncutrals,
which subjected the British ministers, to
pressure which they could not resist
Again, when England by her orders in
council and Napoleon by his Milan and
Berlin DEGREES were combining to eXtermi-
nate American commerce, our vessels were
welcomed to the Baltic ports by Alcxan-
der 1.
In the war of lSl2-l5, while British sol
diers were engaged i'll burning the capitol
at Washington. the same car, Alexander
|, tried to mediate between the combatants
At the crisis of orr NATIONAL existence when
the Union seemed split in twain and Ma
poleon III proposed to England to give us
dcathblOw by II joint intcrventon-n
proposal passionatcly favored by the Eng
llsh aristocratic and plutocratic CLASSES
Alexander III interposed his veto, and his
intentions were signified by the dispatch of
IL Russian fleet to the harbor of New York
and Il Russian squadron to San Francisco
Finally, while England had done her best
TO deprive us of Oregon, Russia coded to
us Alaska ut II price ridculously small if
compared with the profits of the seal indus
try alone
These are the reasons, if it please the
London Chronicle, why the great body of
genuine Americans may well feel disposed
To do for Russia what they would decline to
do for England. When the Radicals, whom
The Chronicle represents, make themselves
the real masters of Great Britain, when
they have hunted the arstocrats out of
every nook and Granny of the administra-
ton and have revived the splendid common
wealth of Cromwell and Milton, then I'M
doubtedly Americans will look with very
different feelings upon their English kins-
men. But not before