In connection with Nicolae Vogoride's policies, Asachi drew on historical subject to counter the calls for unity voiced by "Partida Naţională"; in addition to the endorsement he gave to the "Chronicle of Huru", he emphasized, in an article of June 1857, the campaign led by Stephen the Great into Wallachia, calling for a landmark to be raised in honor of "the vanquisher of the Wallachians". This mirrored the earlier comments made by the Wallachian anti-unionist Dimitrie Papazoglu, who proposed a celebration and monument honoring the 1653 Battle of Finta (during which the Wallachian forces of Matei Basarab had defeated an army of Moldavians and Cossacks).