New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-24
DIR DEBT TO RUSSIA.
r1s Past Not To Be Forgotten IN the
p-e,ert Crigig-Truth Of History.

o.. -. Esitor % The Ir-5ne.
q '"1 80 read i- The Tribune ~ the 21st
~ Henry C.,vs's letter 10 Marquis Ito.
p'--si,b frd that De says: An effort has
" -.,5e Ivy The -ep-esertatives Of Russia 20
corvince oU~ people that Russia during
- -, ~ our civil y z- was our friend, and
- -. ought % he hers now; as an evidence
ne NC they claim that she sent Ter feet 10
y VII where IL was anchored for some time
- sealed orders 20 give Us aid IN the event
7. ,-s becoming necessary.
-levs proceeds 20 say that This version
,-.,-elv incorrect, as ] know o. my own
= ,,5re." and he states that the coming here
u, r,yssian feet was only due 20 an invita-
O. -. bv M Seward 20 the officer in com
toI Z, t5e Russian feet and that 1T was not
t-.er.ion OF Russia 10 help rs 10y her fleet
a. n was simply p shrewd device OF Secre-
e,ua-F to make s. appear So In other
- Il was q blur.
..ess lIr Clews Is right as 20 the invita-
- by AIr. Seward. But u any one can
-. tsat the officer IN command OF the Rus
- Gee. would have accepted that invitation
.,,o-- the authorization % the Russian gov
-. ana that that government would have
80 i-F feet TO come 10 New-NoTk without
-. .,,lest appreciation Oh its part Of the con-
Ter which would be put (and was TuD
- .ba whole civilized world upon that visit, and
-, I. allowed the Russian feet 20 be used by
a. seun-d 90 carry out a shrewd device-a
- be must have remarkable tiea OF tie
,-,usessness a. the Cza- and his advisers
ts +o rhe sealed orders" they may have been
,- existence or they may not. odr. Clews's story
- ,he invitation does not in the least tend 10
- that they were not iu existence, nor does
4 tend 10 show that @this version is entirely
Incorrect" as q seems 90 me the invitation and
~. sealed orders" might have ooucurred
P-- does Ar. Clews mean 10 imply that the
.,.,- that during our civil War Russia was
= s-isud" IS uufouudele 7 should not think
>. could have 60 Intended have tUst read in
-,,-lsrs Life q Gladstone" a passage 81 hich
49, out the claim that she Was our friend.
r,- sspruber ~. 1sG2. Lord Russell had writ
t,-foLord Palrrerston that the time had come
ia, oferirC mediation 10 the United states
ro-prnmeut with o view 70 The recognition of
sss fndepeudcuce Of the Confaderates.' on
Cuober Afr. Gladstone had MADE his speech
p, Newcastle ir which be said that JEFF Davis
and his associates had made "a nation
III November" says ar. Morley, The French
Emperor renewed proposals OF Joint mediation
lie cast restIess.y about FOR any COM
h!nadon thar promised aid 10 the Southern Con-
Fede-ates VINO, whether they should emerge
strong or weak from The struggle, would be d
Useful instrument for his future purposes. 50
how be pressed England and Russia 10 join him
In a project OF mediation. Russia declined The
English Cabinet was divided
EJoes II need more thau those two UOroe
Prussia declined 10 show that Russia was our
friend rhen2 lis 4 not quite IN the BOUNDS OF
possibility that II Russia had not declined
-heue would not be to-day the one United States
% America Oh the map OF this hemisphere
7 am not surprised al the sympathy shown 10y
our people for Japan. il has its origin ia many
sources and not the least iu the feeling THAI IN
The present controversy Russia has been IN the
wrong.
But our sympathy with Japan now ought not
- drive cut of our memory our great Indebted
3legs 20 Russia in the time OF our own great
trouble. II IA any way the influence Of our
government could be eXerted toward the ending
~ honorable terms for both Russia and Japan
~ this terrible struggle between them Il would
b. a blessing for them and Tor Us. r =. =.
Brooklyn Teb % 1904