The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1863., [Electronic resource]

The United States and Russia.

indicates nothing more than an increasing friendship between the two despotisms, the natural result of their recent assimilation in the principles of government, and the absence of all antagonistic points in their policy and interests. Whether the mutual affection of the Bear and the Buzzard, (late American Eagle,) will ripen into a more tender intimacy, remains to be seen. Possibly it foreshadows an ultimate alliance offensive and defensive between the two best Governments under the sun. At present Lincoln's main reliance for filling up his future armies is believed to be American citizens of African descent. The Czar Alexander may contract to loan him a few Muscovites to bolster up his falling fortunes. But, in that event, France will inevitably rally to the side of the Southern Confederacy, and we shall be the decided gainers by the new combinations. As a naval power France is far superior to Russia, and as a military power, there is no comparison between them. If Abraham can wheedle Russia into an alliance with the United States, and thereby bring France into the ring, he will for the first time in his life prove a benefactor of the human race. Not only the oppressed of America will be the gainers, but enslaved nations of Europe will seize the opportunity to break the yoke of the heartless despotism which, only a few years ago, England and France humbled to the dust.