Year: 1866

from political factions, cliques and conven-
iions-for he does not need any such extra
neous and doubtful support-and the people
will make him President by such spontaneous
action and unanimous support as no candidate
has received since the time of Washington.


The Russian Tclcgra PIN and the Russian


Alliance.


We are glad to perceive that the House reso-
luton introduced by Mr.. Banks instructing the
to assist in the construction of the Russo
American telegraph by way Of Behring's
Strait has been adopted by the Senate. 1t is
of moterial interest to this country that we
should have telegraphic communication with
Europe, and inasmuch as the Russian scheme
of Mr. Collins is the most likely to be imme-
dately carried out it is manifestly due to the
Russian government, which has so literally
sustained it, that the United States should
afford every facility for its accomplishment
There exists also strong political reason why
Russia should have. our cooperation in this
the most consistent friend Of this country; we
may say the only one that in our hour of trial
stood firm and steadfast, the most honest OBJ
server of International law without permitting
kinks or quibbles to interfere with its fair
Interpretation. We gave material aid to the
Atlantic telegraph enterprise by sending the
Niagara to assist in laying the first cable,
which was designed to connect this country
with England-a nation which we have no
reason to regard as over friendly to us during
our late war; In this view we do not see but
that it is vastly more to our advantage to have
a telegraphic connection established through
Russia than through either England or
France.


The late demonstration in Moscow, where
the American Minister and Secretary of Lega-
ton were entertained at q grand banquet by
the Corporation of Merchants, was but an
incidental expression of real sentiments enter
tanned by the Russian people towards this
country, and the language used on that occa-
sion is all the more significant because it
comes from the representatives, of the CONNER
cial clement of the central mercantile city of
the Russian empire.


Mutual commercial interests, as well as the
political analogy which in a measure exists
between the two countries, are the links that
bind them together, and have created SEEM
ingly anomalous union between a republic and
an autocracy, at which the London Times sneers
as q curious evidence of extremes meeting, but
which one of the speakers at the Moscow ban
quet very aptly explains by the truism that
the love Of the strong for the strong is both
natural and proftable; sentiment which our
minister, Mr.. Clay, adopts when he says Of
Russia and America, that "both of us have
nothing to be ashamed Of in the past, and
nothing to fear in the future"


A variety Of circumstances have drawn the
great Russian empire very closely into alliance
with our people, and the establishment Of tele-
graphic communication will tend greatly TO
strengthen the connection. The Gar should not
loose an opportunity Of still more firmly cement
ing this spontaneous alliance by the exercise of
better Judgment in selecting the representatives
of his gnvernment in this conniry- He has been
unfortunate heretofore in the class of men who
have represented Russian interests here. It il
not because Russia has to bear the traditonary
reputation OF barbarism that she should be
represented abroad by barbarians. Society,
which recognizes the force of such sentiments
the Moscow banquet-such as "The progress
of education and enlightenment. in our CONNER
cial classes" and The Improvement OF the
moral and intellectual condition of the mill
hands"-cannot be regarded as one of the
elements Of barbarous nation.





The PRESS AND POLITICIANS OF THE SoUTH-
A WORD OF ADVICE Loyalty. This Is the
word which we would now commend TO
the earnest consideration of the press and
politicians of the South. The recent sus-
pension Of the Richmond Eraaiaer by order
OF General Grant was timely warning
against mischievous Increment to turn
the elements oil the rebellion into sociNl COM
bination against yankees" and Unionists OF
all sorts in any way identified with the Union |
cause in the late war. The Inevitable results |
of such Southern social organization, if |
would defeat all attempts at political |
reconciliation and harmony between the North |
Ind the South-between the government and |
he Southern States, and between the Unionsts |
md rebels and the whites and blacks from Vir- |
yinia to Texas. The 6re-eating journals and |
politicians of the South, with very few excep-
ions, have yet to learn that their Southern con-
ederacy has been destroyed; that an honest
to the consequences Of the war re- /
Iuires an honest recognition Of the Union.
he powers that be, and tho new order of
bings; and that social war against Union SOL
liers, citizens, visitors or emigrunts is a foolish
nd suicidal game to any Southern commu.
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