The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-10-31
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE
Correspondence OF IN. Union.
New YoRk. October %. 1919.
=. d nrn.usels nf NichoLas

i New York, October %. lsl9
i 1hsparposss and prospects Of Nicholas.
The Enropas mails duly reached Friday evening.
As usual they embrace much of the thinker II
not embracing accounts OF of startling importance.
The condition OF Europe, your readers will ecoec Is still
Prebem 50 far her almost immediate future
Notwithstanding the apparently overwhelming success OF
the privileged by the grace of God and precedent In the
late convulsions Here as in France Germany and Eng.
land, the heah and minds lovers Of civil lib
lery are therefore turned with untegned
watch Tor the evolution OF facts tending TO the calculation,
In ADVANCE oil The grand result OF the terrible and aound
ing occurrences of which we heard wee ky during past
summer All that but the beginning OF the end
but OF the series OF moves the military and political
OF the Continent destined later TO
SUIT IN the disenthrament OF civilized people wherever
they exist The realizes the last thirty years
progress oil his race and yet continues believer In the
possibility simuchon continuance OF the political sys
TENS OF the European continent, bndedby the intensity
Of his $50 oaed conservatism right understanding Of
what has been passing around him.
IL would be waste OF time TO write for readers OF this,
the bindest eliss-or those who viii not whom In
Deed there are none others blind They be made
realizs that Russia struggles rather for her agyan
uzement In The East than from love OF the Empsrors prin
by himself Of ats paternity.
He wants command fthe Bosphorus, with that he has In
mis- pocket the key the virtual possession OF British India
interference in the Hung war, IL successful could
hardly end othsrwse than the estabishment Of his power
At Consantnople firm basis besides, after all, there
more or less of the spirit Of sefpreservaton at the
the continent really recognised the Hungarian be
essentially Russan Austrian crisis. few recol
econs "reminiscences will suffice satisfy your readers
| OF this fact.
y and freedom to Poland must have followed mme
date sequence. Seyia Waachia and Moldavia, which
Russia had then half gorged would have slipped back be-
tween the Cars teeth and joined the semi-republcan
bealzed league between Hungary and Poland and thus
the oil Kossuths plans would have resulted
verer blow to the ambition Of Nicholas, than the power
Of Austria. Thus indeed would the cunnngly devised
plans Of Peter the Great and Catherine II have been us
trated.
In times past, Russias tool this occasional ustria-
in connexon with France and had iceby checked
Russas designs in this connection On this OCCASION
the odds We're all, apparently, In favor Of the Czar for
while Austria suppliant that he would essay carry
tut his policy at her expense, literally, France had APP
parenty thrown away her revolution, no the hands OF
trcksers and anatics and stood overwhelmed with debit
bankrupt in finance, and torn by selfish factions home.
while embarrassed at Rome. Ay, and England, too,
IN position for resisting his purposes of selpresevaton
and sel-aggrandzement very little better than that Of the
really ensaved French people. The Gear doubtless
fully surveyed his ground before ordering Paskewtsch
march lie saw his vantage in the suicidal apathy Of
France and in the commissions of Germany Prussia, lie
anew, secretly leaned on him Austria has sold her indie
pendence in seeking snbvet that of Hungary England
vas isolated and, apparently only less financial cripple
than France and Austria Under these circumstances his
safety, well his desire compass the
purpose OF occupying Constantnope successfully urged
him into the Hungarian war; which being finished, he
fances, affords him the opportunity clutch the longcov
eed prize. Wanting but pretext like that Of the wolf
against the lamb for rapid march the Balkan, he
sought 1t in demand under treaty made In l77l by
which Turkey bound herself deliver expel
eons and trators-not uslrans Hungaans, owing no
allegiance To Russia.
Nichslas, mad with the result OF his Hungarian cam
paigns, oolishy imagined, that because England and
France had committed grand in nterposing TO
Hungary from Austria, and Austria from him, they
the keys II the Mediterranean and Black Alread
may have learned HE nisfake; though II 90
hoped that his bisdness Is s sufficiently great prevent
lin from realizing that, in thns waking up the great
powers Of the his present purposes unless
succumb, without fight, from his last pos on
shame aud humiliation, he has taken measures to
strengthen the oil right, give revolution" nm
easy victory, indeed, over "Russia."
In my last foreign affairs, venured the opinion thai
he Cars foreign strength was greatly
mean his capacity FOR the grand war of aggression he
threatens may remark In this exion, that OF
his nominal army OF l,O06 900 non MIR. Atkinson. WELL
nfjrnsd English military traveller in Russia, estimates
thai more than 1000 be brought into the field |
The sick tnvaids) amount TO $4,000. The Cars i'm.
mediate establishments require the services OF
600 In quarter, aud 1000 in all other quarters
while constantly required for ordnance Tor po
ice) day throughout the empire, aud therefore
available for foreign service So much for his Wanted
military His pecuniay resources, almost
much b,ased of over Europe, really quite beggary
aud utterly incompetent carry him through
another his recent Hung According
Mr. Golden, he has yet paid the expenses OF that
campaign made upon forced contributions, taking the
taxes, 40, OF tn, territories through which his armies
moved, and giving as security treasury receipts OF
guarantees. At this moment Russia has no aiierna
Two but 10 increase her paper money, aud thus be. |
dn act Of bankruptcy again, western
europe for loan. Nay before Paskewsch marched
Warsaw there not sufficient in the Russian
treasury for defrayns the necessary equipments and preps
rations and the delivery OF the supplies the armies
IN 10 be tel