The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-07-15

departments, defeats the sincere zeal of the |
chief who attempts the impossibility Of in
speeding everywhere, and experimenting
everything and his locomotive ubiquity and
rapid louTneylngs to and fro, make him ac-
quainted with the mere external of things.
leaving the substance unknown and unau1e.
fiorated, and there is among his officers Ear
more Of parade Of obedience than of honest
performance Of duty.
RUSSIAN PoLTCY,-The motives and poll.
cy Of the Russian government may be sum-
med up under two principles-the one that
of ascertaining what every individual of the
empire is about,--the other that of supply
ing that gorged leviathan, the Russian army,
with perpetual succession Of human souls.
The SERFs AND NOBLEs-Safe blythe very
letters they wear from the artificial expert
ments of the crown; enjoying, as far as it
goes, healthy sphere of expansion, and re-
moved by their feudal dependence on their
lords from any frequent contact with the
State, in this class alone are found in their
Vigor the elements Of loyalty and promise
of civilization. In other qualities, as in
these, the nobility are beneath their booTs
Unlike his serf, the Russian noble rarely
respects anything that is national. He de-
preciates the real merits of his country, a.
postatizes from her real virtues, abiures her
rich and energetic language, and gIories in
nothing that belongs to her except her do.
mination.
THE MINISTERS OF STATE.-The Russian
crown invariably overwhelms with vocations
its ministers and superior servants; and
! while the drudges in Office have leisure in
plenty for mal(easance, the chef has not q
} moment for the barest circumspection-
: Hence, inveteTate disorder AFFECTS every de
pastment of the public business. One no
bic parsonage, for example, unites in hi
S weatheT-beaten person, as many functions a
{ would amply occupy half dozen stronge
S officers Commando in Chief of the al
/, my--Aid-de-camp General--head of th
] gen d'armerie Of the empiEe--head of th
! secret police of the crown--member Of th
: Council--member of the Senate--and an
5 of the counts possible spare moments ar
filed up with the duties of censor of th
} theatres, which includes the obligation @
! reading every play before acting; and lastl
i he has charge of the Imperial person, inclu
puAuSipottOA d ObCty YCGCg pa
, rade and masked ball, and corporal attend
ance in the emperor's carriage, in the Car
whirlwind expeditions from Tobolsk to War
saw, from Finland to the Black Sea- Be i
: remembered, too, that the military servic,
is one Of ceaseless punctilio and Immense
bodily fatigue, that the civil one is encum
bered as has been described, and that il
! Russia there are no sinecures-and that b.
) has everything to do and no time to do it in
Those who, like the count, devote thei
whole time and energy to their multifol
/. employments, become detected and wor
: out. The sum total of duties surpass thei
/ powers, and even in what they might accom-
! plish, they are sore let and hindered by tn
negGgences, perVersions, and imbeeility c
:, other bureaux. One Of the first mobiles G
{ the empire, in birth and talent, exclaimed
: E'' On nous perd le tens, tGntOt aUec des nsC
/ chGncetes, taatot aVec des betises." To thi
! over taxation of ability, the emperor has len
G his Herculean frame and will, and unremil
: ting but iniudicious efforts to contribute.
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