Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1877 — Russian Feeling Toward England and the United States. [ARTICLE]

Russian Feeling Toward England and the United States.

There is a great deal of bitter feeling among the Russians against England for the part she has taken in the present quarrel. When we tell the people here that we are Americans they are pleased to find that we are not English. The mass of the people in Russia like everything that is American. One cannot help noticing this popular feeling, even during a limited intercourse with them. American goods are favorably received everywhere within the Ozar’s dominions. Over 2,000 American sewing machines are sold annually in Karkoff, a city of about 60,000 inhabitants. Owing to the manner in which England has shown her sympathy for the Turks, it will be almost impossible henceforth to sell English goods or machinery of any kind in Russia. Quite a large trade has been built up in agricultural machinery, but the present war will destroy it. American manufactures will replace the English beyond any doubt, and American merchants should wisely take advantage of the present favorable opportunity to send their goods to the Russian markets. Among the masses the curious impression prevails that an American fleet will yet sail up the Bosphorus and destroy the English and Turkish ironclads. The merchants take a more practical view of the situation in expressing the opinion that the English business houses will not be able to collect their bills in Russia for many years, if at all.— Letter from Ruatiia.

Dobing his visit to Ems in August, 1867, Bismarck told an American gentleman that Prince Gortschakoff was, in his opinion, the greatest statesman of his time, and expressed the belief that history would confirm that judgment. The American hinted that among his own countrymen public opinion inclined to award the first place to Bismarck himself, ter which the Oouht modestly replied; “ No; I am only the pupil. He is the master.”