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Foreign News November 30, 1854

The Daily Dispatch

Richmond, Virginia

What is this article about?

Blackwood's Magazine hints at allied (Britain and France) policy to check US expansionism, like interest in Cuba, after resolving Russian war. US commentary hopes Russia occupies allies to prevent interference in Western Hemisphere, citing fleet movements to Sandwich Islands and Cuba.

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Policy of the Allies towards the United States.

The November number of Blackwood's Magazine gives another hint of the probable course of the allies towards this country, as soon as they have settled their Russian difficulties. The position of the writer is quite in conformity with the declaration of the Earl of Clarendon that the purposes of the alliance included both hemispheres, and with the sending of a fleet by Great Britain to the Sandwich Islands, and by Great Britain and France to Cuba. In an article on "Peace and War," after referring with much complacency to the success of the allied arms at Alma, (the writer had not heard the recent disastrous news from the Crimea.) Blackwood proceeds to say: "England and France are strong enough together to bind nearly all the world over to keep the peace. When Russia is settled, France may safely abate her army, and England her navy: but neither must disarm; if they do, not only will all other powers cease to respect them, but they will cease to respect each other. We must still be able to say 'No' to our lively young brother across the Atlantic, if he wants Cuba without paying for it, or takes any other little vagary into his head."

It is the multiplied proofs of such a policy towards this country, and the natural indignation which such arrogant dictation and interference beget, that have led us, in the present Eastern war, to desire the defeat of the allies, and to hope that Russia may give them full employment for all their energies. We have no sympathies with the Czar, as an absolute monarch, and, least of all, with his form of government. Were the present a war on the part of the allies for free principles, instead of national aggrandizement, and did they cherish no design of interfering in the affairs of this continent, we should rejoice over their victories and mourn for their disasters. But with such declarations as those of British statesmen and British periodicals, and such naval demonstrations as are witnessed near the Sandwich Islands and in the Gulf of Mexico, we cannot but hope that Russia will give them so much to do in the East, that our own country may be able to bid defiance to their threats, and compel them to keep their hands off the Western world.

What sub-type of article is it?

Diplomatic War Report Naval Affairs

What keywords are associated?

Allied Policy United States Russia War Cuba Sandwich Islands Blackwood Magazine Earl Clarendon

What entities or persons were involved?

Earl Of Clarendon Czar

Where did it happen?

Great Britain

Foreign News Details

Primary Location

Great Britain

Event Date

November

Key Persons

Earl Of Clarendon Czar

Event Details

Blackwood's Magazine article hints at post-Russian war allied policy to restrain US actions like acquiring Cuba, aligning with Clarendon's hemispheric alliance declaration and fleet deployments to Sandwich Islands and Cuba. References allied success at Alma before Crimean setbacks. US perspective hopes Russia engages allies to prevent Western interference.

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