The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-13 00:00:00

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his power and the tool of his ambition. Was there a
truth ever evident if this is not ? And that's not all
yet. Poland, with your authority, with year aid in
arms, will assure King Oscar of Sweden that lie is not
to be left a sacrifice in the hands of an overpowerful
Russia. Poland in arms gives you Sweden for an ally ;
and Sweden, again, occupies at least 100,000 Russians
in Finland—and, seconde I by your fleet, pushes on to-
wards St. Petersburg. (Cheers.) Thus
you may tak•
Sebastopol under these conditions. It will be but a
fortress with a garrison. Your 30,000 braves will do
the work. But not only will you have taken Sebastopol
in that way —you will also have conquered the Czar.
Poland in arms is the wedge driven in the backbone of.
Itu,sta. It is the only one which can prostrate the Czar.
Poland's resurrection is not an object of the future treaty
af peace ; it is the instrumentality of your triumph.
With Poland, victory ; without it, defeat. Make your
but
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gism. If not ; look to Wallachia—look. to your puzzled
Position—and be sure of it, you shall be the tool of
Austria. She already holds poor Wallachia—it is the
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(Hear,
hear,) Prudence, interest, foresight, honour, patriotism,
humanity, and civilisation, claim that settlement from
you. To begin with the lamentable partition of Poland,
this foulest act of diplomaticimmorality, enough of sacri-
fices 'nave already fallen to the accursed expediency of
adjourning and always adjourning the definitive settle-
ment, this inevitable necessity. The delay of every
new year will throw new sacrifices into that yawning
gulf, and yet no delays can conjure the necessity—now
unsolved, the question will soon return again augmented
in dangers, increased in difficulties. Meet it, since yo*
cannot conjure it ; finish it, since at last you are come
at it. New objects may bring new wars upon your
children, that you cannot prevent—liberty of all who
are oppressed on earth could only prevent new wars
freedom and justice to all on earth can only build up th•
temple of lasting peace, amidst the exaltation of all hu-
manity ; but since that cannot be hoped for, so long as
Plos El'bri°ePc stars,
despotism can glory in rising on the neck of cure, rbe
nations to fame ; so long as Rotnanoffs and /lapsb u „h
not only rule, but also alternately prevail in the cousnicntip
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of the only constitutional country
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fight, you cannot spare your children ail
spare them the curse of having anew to to bleed,
which
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paralleled favour of opportunities, w
'nave drawn your sword ; but not 4-
ch divine Prowl-
and t spend their life sweat tor a question in you
you still have left unfinished and
in Hungary, and Italy, .
hence brings within the reach of your hand in Poland.
unsolved, only because your powerholding leaders have
been blind, ignorant, or cowards i Oh, no ; they un-
derstand matters weP, and, being Britons, they are
men : no, it is only because they fear what the Britisk
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eople e
love
At the very
sound of which the human heart throbs with emotion
of all that is good and what is divine the human
heart. Fear freedom ! at the spreading triumph of
;they
Continent fair
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which the Eternal himself would smile with joy and pour
daternal blessings over the lung.tried creatures of
His Almighty hand But ys•u, who are loving what
some others fear—you who ar • not afraid of freedom,
on you would I call : Be careful and wise ; do not be-
queath to your children the curse of that war—permit
not the name of Great Britain to be branded with the
shame, that while honour and national interest called
on her to said the C 11,11114 of liberty she allowed hon4ft

that is not true, bemuse what there is not disposable in
an army, that is so much as if it did not exist • secondly,
if she were even three million men strong, what' good is
that to you if they don't pull your cart in the direction
you like ? (Laughter and cheers.) lam not a powerful
man, but had I to drag a cart, I certainly would prefer
to be left alone than to have an ox for a companion,
which either does not move or pulls the cart back and me
together with it. And this is precisely what Austria was
doing all the while, and is doing just now, and will con-
tinue to do with you. (Cheers.) And again I hear that
after all, if Austria were not with you, she would be
against you, so it is better to have her with you on any
terms. But that is again short-sighted sophistry. If
you fear Austria, then, ordinary common sense would
suggest to paralyse her, to make her innoxious, to put
her in a condition incapable to do you harm. To come
to this you had the means in Poland, Hungary, and
Italy. It is clear as sunshine. The success was within
the hollow of your hand. Instead of that your Govern-
ment chose to 'fetter Great Britain's hands by linking it
to Austria. They yoked you to the unmoving or drag-
ging hack ox when you want to go ahead. Is that good
sense ? Oh, desolation of abomination ! And I request
you to con,ider to what situation you have drifted.
(Hear.) The Turks, and not you, have beaten the
Russians. Every core led knows that a victory is just
so much as we profit by it alter. Now, the most ordi-
nary common sense would have suggested to hurry on
with the greatest possible speed your Ailed 100,000 men
up to the Danube, cross it, and combined with Omer
Paella's army, push on after the retreating Russians,
and take Bessarabia before they come to breath. Mind,
Bessarabia means the Danube free ! Without Bessarabia
wrested from Russia, only fools can prattle about the
freedom of the Danube. Instead of that, what happens?
Your dear ally Austria draws up in line between the
victorious Turks and the beaten Russians, and says,
" Stop, friends, I will keep Wallachia." Keep it !
From whom ? From the Russians. But they are re.
treating ; therefore, from whom.? Why, from the Turks,
that is evident,. (Great laughter.) The only gift which
Great Britain and France have until now bestowed upon
the poor Sultan is, that they brought down one of his
mortal enemies, Austria, upon him, to keep his own pro-
vinces from himself, and arrest him in reaping the fruits
of his own victory. But that is not all yet. As long as the
Czar was on the offensive, the best service which Austria
could do to him was to remain neutral. With so much
he could advance to the Danube with perfect security.
His left flank was covered by the sea, his right flank by
the neutrality of Austria. And Austria did that service
to the Czar. She was shuffling and fooling the Western
Powers, and remained neutral up to the very last
reducedbav
mo-
ment of the Czar's acting on the offensive. (Hear.)
But the
the
exigenciesfirstry of h
moment that
t positionha i
I(eHanesivre; h
hear.) The neutrality of Austria would not do
any more ; it was for the Tuiks just what it formerly
was for the Czar. It would have left for the Turks the
road open to the Pruth, and covered their left flank in
pushing on offensively against Russia. Therefore, an-
other service was requirti by the occasion. " Stop be-
to Austria, and at the very moment the boy stepped in.
tween, boy, and arrest my enemies," cried out the Czar
—(Laughter.) And your Government calls that alli-
ance ; but I call it treason ! and your history will call
it so.—(Cheers.) More yet. By this trick of Austrian
perfidy, the Czar being relieved from every danger in
that quarter, his right wing secured, he can and will
now detach such numbers of his army hence as he likes,
and concentrate them thither where you choose to at-
tick him. He at home, you thousands of miles far off ;
you shall be beaten—remember my word. It is now
you are come to the test about what I told Great
Britain, that it is not abroad, not in the offensive that
Russia is dangerous, except as a rearguard of other
powers ; but it is at home in the defensive that she is
dangerous. Once brought to that point, it is then that
you require allies. Have you any ? You have not. Is
Austria for that purpose your ally ? No—a thousand
times no. In that quarter, for that purpose, there are
no other allies possible as we—Poland and Hungary I •
And yet Britain rejects us ! Well, the doom will fall
on the head of him who sinned. With us, you might
have shaken hands in the Kremlin of Moscow ; without
us, you are as incapable to harm Russia as a child.
With us the world would have seen the proud spectacle
of Schamyl and Omer, and Cambridge and Napoleon,
and the descendents of Arpad and of Kosciusko, united
on the plains of Russia, to thank the Eternal for the
deliverance of the world ; without us you are doomed
to be beaten, or to retrace your steps in shame.—(Tre-
mendous cheering.) Poland and Hungary are not
beggars who mendicate your generosity, they are na-
tions which weigh your victory or your defeat "in
the hollow of their hands ; as Poland alone has
weighed, forty-four years ago, the victory or defeat of Na-
poleon the Great. But the prattling fools with whom you
are cursed, tell you that, since now you have nothing to do
on the Danube—oh ! bitter mockery of treason—you shall
go and take Sebastopol and the Crimea. Before all, I
must remind you of that geographical fact, that the
taking of Sebastopol is no solution of the conflict, still
less of the pending qsestion. It will not bring the Czar
down to claim your pardon ; quite the contrary ; it will
excite him to raging perseverance. Still less is the
Crimea a security for the future ; it is no barrier which
defends, it is au acquisition which requires defence. To
take it, is nothing yet ; to keep it, that is the problem.
Now, will you stay there to keep it ! I don't think so.
You go home and leave the task to the Turks. Many
thanks for the gift. (Laughter.) I, as the sincerest
friend of the Turks, hope to Gud they will not be such
fools as to meddle with that business. It is your own
laundress work ; do it if you please. Ncw, as to the
doing it ; I don't think you can take Sebastopol by the
sea. The opportune moment of coup de main being
lost, it would cost sacrifices which you neither can afford
nor risk. And as to taking it by land ; to take a fortress,
accessible by trenches, and having but a garrison to de-
fend it, that is but a matter of art and of comparative
sacrifices. It can he calculated to the hour. But to
take an entrenched camp linked by terrible fortresses and
an army for garrison is it and now armies pouring upon
your flank and rear, and you in the plains of the Crimea
with almost no cavalry to resist them, that is such an
undertaking to succeed in which more forces are neces-
sary than England and France ever can unite in that
quarter for such an aim. Ask about it any staff officer
who has learned something about tactics and strategy.
And in that position is Sebastopol, thanks to your Aus-
trian alliance, which, having interposed herself between
you and your enemy in Wallachia, made the Czar free
to send such numbers to Sebastopol as he likes. Yon
will be beaten, remember my word. Your braves will
fall in vain under Russian bullets and Crimean air—as
the Russians fell under Turkish bullets and Danubian
fever. Not one out of five of your braves, immolated in
vain, shall see Albion or Gallia again. (Hear, hear.) But
tell you in what manner Sebastopol is to be taken.
It is at Warsaw that you can take Sebastopol. Napier
landing in Samogilia, and brave Poland rising at his
gallant call, will at the very first moment engage 100,000
Russians. The first ace nint of Poland's resurrection
can but spread dissolution in the Polish ranks of the
Russian army, in three months the Czar shall have
300,000 men less, and shall avant 300,000 men more.
his bravest provinces, twelve millions of Poles, will not
only have slipt from his grasp, but fight against him—
twelve millions left by your impolicy to be the source of