Show I I PARAGRAPHS 01 Ol HISTORY In these days when the t e alleged anti Russian sentiment In the United States Is in receiving n II great deal of oe attention It Is Interesting to recall the cordial re relations reo lotions lations that existed between this coun coon country try tl anti during the war that thai threatened the Union with dissolution The rho New Bedford Mercury tells the story of ot Mr h Foxs special mission to Hussla years ago 11 go Rue Kus Kussin sin muia had sent us a u message of oC sympathy In la a n dispatch to the Russian minister at nt Washington dated at St Petersburg July 10 1881 1861 Prince vice chancellor and minister of or foreign af lit affairs fairs bade bude M do make known to the Federal Government the heel deep Interest with which our out august master was observing the tho development of or a crisis which puts In question the prosperity and even oven the Ih existence of ot the Union The dispatch added If It within the limits of ot your our friendly relations rel your language and your cI may mil contribute to 10 o this result reconciliation you ou will respond sir IIII to the he Intentions of ot his hi majesty the em emperor emIn In devoting to this the personal per influence which you may have been able to acquire during your our long resi resl residence dence In Washington anil the consider consideration atton which belongs to your our character as an the time representative of at a Ii sovereign animated by hy the Ihl roost most friendly renti ments toward the American Union This Union Is IB not simply In our eyes ces tin In element clement essential ee to the universal political It constitutes besides a n nation to which our august master and all have havo pledged the most friendly Interest for the time two placed at nt the extremities of or the two worlds both In the ascending period of ot their development appear called all 11 to a n natural community of ot In interests and ami of ot sympathies of or which they thO have he given mutual proofs to each ench other oilier lint nul nU sympathy In that crisis cristA va nc not hot confined to 10 words word Tho The emperor emper ir sent Relit n a 1 fleet to New York rind a one ono to to If San Han Francisco ammil Prince Irinco Instructed the minister nt at Washington Wn Mr to 10 tell Secy ecy Seward that he ho wn wan sending the fleet Jeet over oer for Cor or no unfriendly purpose Tho The caine came and stayed n a summer ummer and ami v Inter and the time general impression wn Willi that while whilo UH ilK it help would probably not bo b needed It would be given If IC It II were needed The Ion Ios II eleK Times quotes Abra Abril Lincoln to show chow how the service at lit that thai time was regarded President Lincoln said to and this IH Is one onn of ot the tho hap happiest ui conferences wo we U have hae hail had during these awful years In tho the dark days of 01 the pa post t there thoro has been beell one ono bright spot shining out of ot tho the sky of ot our foreign relations We three know lenow hot bol hotter hotter ter tel than anybody else ele the lIe struggles weve made mado tho the men wove weve ee rent enl anti and tho the money mono weve spent to hi keep keell Euro Kuro I uro lean nations from Crom Interfering In our contest Weve made these efforts In pretty much every Important court of Europe except one onu and that H iii St Petersburg bur To fo that court we have havn nev II i er sent en 1 II Juan i on nU have n a v vor vr or em r a II dollar She Sho has been our ur friend front from the Ihl beginning 1111 Now It tt has hall occurred o to me that we three l knowing these thee things ought to 10 have 1100 a n common understanding that whoever liven Ien to o see nee tho tim whole thole country reunited and again n lIln to todo todo do what whal hat we can COlt to have our aliI govern government mont ment perform some Rome great national not nol netto notto to show cin to Hussla and Mil the lie whole thole world that this government Is not Ml fui In iii the life tire of at the em emperor emperor was saved from tho the murderous attack of or n a madman and Congress con COli eluded to show the lime gratitude of ot this country tr to 10 Alexander So aD It was ro me solved to send A n special envoy enoy In a mi na naval val nl vessel to carry this the Mr Fox For 10 tho the assistant secretary of ot the tha navy was Wall selected for lor tho time mission The rho monitor mob moh warf wn assigned l MIl to his hlA service with time tho Augusta and lint the tho Ashuelot wooden woodell na as convoys convoy Never before I wan Wail nM such Mich n a 1 resolution voted or such a n mission sent In such lIuch nn an unexampled i manner monner Mr Ir Fox 10 amul his uk ships were ere escorted by h the nU fleet to Cron antI and throughout the empire a 1 I marvelous ovation was vita extended our countrymen There wore were banquets ev cv everywhere e i at nt which the tho Americans ami uni struck glasses et and proclaim proclaimed ed eil eu friendship Saul Said ono one I speaker It JC nations require i friends and must lean toward each oth I Ier cr er like Individuals horn here are eighty millions of oe people otto one race one Ian Inn gouge runge anti and a n unit In their feelings of oC friendship for or tho thu United States Sin los Tho The Chicago Chronicle calls attention to the fact laet that we are arc oho also Indebted to for tor time the ot of tho the Ala Aln question At t the time end of at tIme l war wat England I was no imo titled IWed by I that the tho th clause In the Iha treaty treat of ne limiting pow how power or er In the tIme Sea Sen was abrogated It was waR for Cor this that the Iho Crimean War Var hlll hat been fought and nd the tho note noto was ivas practically cally u it 1 challenge to another The rho Chronicle 1011 Thus placed III led between bet a n hostile ho nil Hill Hia on ono side and n a undue hostile America on all tho other Great took look Immune Imme Unto Hate action lu lii placate American senti ment A commission lon was as appointed to decide time the Alabama question which n nH as nil know II n 0 resulted In lii the tho award a 11 Ill that upheld tho principle for tor which America was contending however un 1 tory It Il may been In the matter of or dollare and cents The Tha eagerness of ot Great Britain to repair the tho longstandIng Ing Injustice was shown by the tho fact that the thin 11 C nn was waR aa ran tri ed eLI p r rut id ll on Ite its way to 10 Washington be before before fore tore the tact fact was known at the Amerl Mneri can Legation In London according to tou tou toa u a historian of ot that period These are arc Interesting paragraphs of or history They may explain the disappointment In St Petersburg over the sentiment now so freely trelly expressed by bya i ia a large larRe portion of ot the American press I |