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The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Another movement of the enemy from the Peninsula. (search)
The Yankees surfeited the officers of the Russian fleet in New York with their nauseous flatteries and flunkeyism, and Mr. Seward has been remarkably sweet in a diplomatic way to the Russian Government. In writing to the United States Charged Affaires, Bayard Taylor, Mr. Seward says: "Russia has our friendship in every case in preference to any other European Power, because she always wishes us well, and leaves us to conduct our own affairs as we think best." But the Russian Bear is not as stuto any other Power," not even the Southern Confederacy. On the contrary, Prince Gortchakoff directs Mr. Taylor to tell Mr. Seward: "We greatly desire, as you know, the termination of your unfortunate struggle, but we shall not offer our friendly medeference to the war as England and France, and expressly disclaims all hostility to the Southern people. In point of fact, Russia has preserved her neutrality more strictly than England, and if Mr. Seward is satisfied with her position, so are we.
The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], The late affair in Hardy county--Fuller particulars of the capture of the Yankee wagon train. (search)
England and the Federal Government The lately published correspondence between Seward and Earl Russell shows John Bull apparently in great trepidation of Yankee prowess. Never has the old gentleman been so successfully bullied. Is he getting weak and nervous? Or is he in his dotage? Far from it, we think. To use one of the slang phrases of his own cockneys, he is a remarkably "deep old file. " He is preserving a very "strict neutrality," very strict, indeed, which consists in helping both combatants, as far as consistent with his own interests, to destroy each other equally. He leans to the Northern side apparently, and to the Southern side under the rose. He must keep on good terms with the North on account of privateers and Canada; but he is very well satisfied that the South cannot be subjugated, though he expects her to be seriously crippled. He would prefer that the North should conquer the South and abolish slavery, for that would ruin both countries; but, as this i