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STAND AGAINST RUSSIAN ENCROACHMENT.
Pindieo, 2d August 18.53. Six—I, in common with many of your readers, have been much pleased with the decided tone in which you have shown the duty and necessity of making a firm stand against the encroachments of Russia ; and it is to be hoped that a very short time will now sullies to inform us either that the Czar is about to disgorge the prey that he has seized, or that we are at once to take the most decisive measures to make hint do so.
But even if the present crisis is got over pacifically, it is quite clear that the equilibrium of European affairs will still be far from stable • and, with your permission, I wish to direct your attention to some point's to which I ; think the efforts of diplomacy should be turned.
1st. I think that we should not go out of our way to secure the alliance of Austria ; because any assistance that she can render would be nearly coun- terbalanced by our having our hands tied in regard to Hungary and Italy, and perhaps we might thus be almost compelled to lend- our active aid in. supporting tyranny and misgovernment in these countries. 2d. In opposing the Emperor of Russia, we ought to take care that we do not commit ourselves to the achievement of impossibilities ; amongst which, I am afraid, we must now reckon the upholding the independence of the Turkish empire, and perhaps also driving the Russians out of the Danubian . Provinces. But we might perhaps, without doing either, find some means , of establishing by degrees a better regime at.Constantinople, and securing at ! once the free navigation of the Danube. ad. In the event of another European war, it seems certain that the United States will have a powerful influence on its fortunes either directly or indirectly; and our efforts ought to be directed to securing their being at once received into the councils of the "Great Powers," so that, whether it is to be war or peace, they may take their proper place in the affairs of the world.
If this can be accomplished, I believe it would do more for securing the- peace and general progress of the human race than all the peace societies that have ever existed. The more numerous the great powers entering into any guarantee, the less likely is it that any one could venture to set the rest at defiance; and we would at the same time be no longer left alone as the only state attached to principles of liberty and progress. In every point of vies', our true policy seems to be to draw closer our con- nexion with the United States; first, by an entire reciprocity of trade; and, as a final result, all our efforts should be directed towards the attainment at last of an entire reciprocity of the privileges of citizenship between the two rations.
The Anglo-Saxon race would then form the greatest federal union the world has yet seen, and constitute the surest bulwark of liberty against despotism that has ever yet been erected. Moping that your powerful pen may be directed to these objects, I am
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