The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1847-07-27
THE TWO RACES THAT RULE THE
WORLD.

LIE lWO hACES Thai hULE lHE
WORLD.
Oar readers are doubtless we'll aware that
from two races of men have sprung that por-
ton of mankind who, at the present moment,
hold in their possession the knowledge, the
power, and the destinies, if we may so speak,
of the world. These two races are the Feu-
tonic and the Slavonic. The former, having
occupied Germany with men who possessed
the milder and gentler, as well as the moral
elements Of character in a higher degree
than existed in any other nation, spread it.
self over Western Europe, absorbing the rel
les of the Roman Empire, and inrermixing
with the Gauls of France, the inhabitants of
Spain, and through our Auglo-Saxon branch,
with the Britons, the ancient inhabitants of
England. Possessing the highest elements
of human character, and appropriating to its
improvement all the treasures of human ex-
porience, wisdom, and refinement that could
be found in Athens, or Jerusalem. or Rome,
they have subdued by their energy, and ele-
vated by their Improvements, Western Eu-
rope, The continent ofAmerica, the thousand
islands of the Ocean, The southern portion
of Asia,and many parts in Africa. Their
course has been one of great Advancement
in physical power; in intelligence, and in the
improvement of the higher traits of human
character. A progress in the development
of the great principles of their nature,
seems to be the present destiny of this
race.
On the other hand, the Slavonic race
seems TO possess less activity but surpri-
sing power OF force of character. This is
the most numerous race of Europe, and the
nations which compose it occupy not only
the largest portion of its territory, but the
whole of Asia to the fliy-second degree oi
latitude. The Slavonic tongue extends to
the banks of the Oder, the upper parts Of the
Elbe, the borders Of The Tyrol, and Italy,
and the shores of the Adriatic eastward to
the Black and Caspian Seas, and even the
Pacific ocean to the Caucasian mountains,
and almost to the shores Of the Mediterra-
mean. The population of the Slavonc race
is now estimated at nearly eighty millions,
and the territories which it occupies preeent
facilities fol an indefinite increase in its
numbers, whereas Western Europe is even
now almost overstocked with its inhabitants.
Such being the fact it is apparent that the
destinies Of that continent may ultimately
| fall into the hands Of the Slavonic nations.-
These circumstances attach more than or
dnary interests to whatever relates TO their
political institutions or Intellectual develop
ment.
We have spoken ofthem rather minutely in OIL
der to notice more particularly the extraordi-
nary Intellectual movement which is now Ia
king place among the nations composing the
Slavonic race, and 10 which we find alusor
made in some ofthe foreign journals that we
have received. The following extract viii
serve as an explanation of it:
"There is now an extraordinary intellectu
al movement animatng all the nations be-
longing to the Slavonic race. Every branch
of human knowledge is cultivated with mere
or less success, according 10 the degree o
civilization to which those nations have re
spectively arrived, but the subject which par
ticuarly engages the attention of Savonie
writer's is the improvement Of their nationa
idioms, and the study of their national histo
ry and antiquities. Everything which re
lates to the past of those nations, historical
documents, national songs, proverbs, &c.
are carefully collected and published, and al
these remnants of the olden times are thu
objects Of an enthusiastic veneration. This
termination of the national intellec
amongst the Slavonians is accompanied by {
peculiar circumstance--a circumstance which
may be productive of the most serious con
sequences to Europe-this is, tendency
which is now rapidly growing amongst al
the Slavonic nations TO unite into one whole
This tendency is generally known under the
name ofPanslavsm, a name which ALREADY
creates much apprehension in Germany
and begins to produce sensation in France
"The object oePanslavism is mutual re
Cancellation aud approximation of all the Sla
: vonic nations, in order finally to unite then
into one political body. This gigantic scheme
is ardently promoted by the leading writers
) of the different S!avonic nations, although
they greatly differ about the form in which
it is to be accomplished. One party wishes
for the establishment of confederation
f composed of all the Slavonic nations, eacl
of them retaining its national Independent
organization; the other party, and the mos
active of them, rejects the idea of a confed
Grafton as being impractible, and advocates
the establishment of one great SlavonIc EN-
pire, or at least an aggregate of Slavoni'
states, under the protection ofthe most pow
erful of them. This last combination is, un
doubtedly the most feasible of the two, be
cause it is much more easy to rally the scat
tered parts of the Savonic race around th'
only now existing Slavonic. state (Russia
and which already comprehends two-third
of the whole Slavonic race, than to form