The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-23

Between the years of 1915 and 1884, on an island il
Tue ooulh Atlantic. situated about latitude 10 deg
ana IN The meridian Of England, there was an exile.
poPoe genus is always prophetc who. like John in
ra"os saw the future and this his prophecy Eu-
rope VIII De Democratic Cossaek" He had wasted his
giant powers and mighty efforts to establish an absolute
au'hofy IN the name OF liberty; he had sought re-
s'o'e something OF mixed governments form between
despoisn and pure democracy and his ambition 10
De me Resloer Of Society after the terrible uson
OF he great French revolution restore society upon
'he oasis OF property and privege-and he failed for
ihough The eeat OF his victories capvaled France for
whiie and permitted him to exercise unquesoned
power over her, he knew that his was only
OF glory and felt that il must be shorved hence his
own expression, "war is necessary Tor me-" He saw
tue mighty but unsubstantia fabric crumbe for il was
not based upon reason, and upon the niesuclbe idea
oil the rights OF man." which The great of the
close OF the eighteenth century had evolved. And
when IRON his prison-rock this great reviewed
the history OF his life, which the history of Eu
rope Tor that PERIOD his dscursve and powerful
genius revealed to him the fact that the march OF mind
and the increasing consolidation OF power in the hands
OF the northern auocrat rendered only one of two forms
OF government possible in the future OF Europe--the
government OF reason or the government OF force.
To illustrate this fact, which Napoleon prophecally
announced more than thirty years ago. have taken the
progressive development of France and Russia Other
nations develop less the progress OF the age
the advance OF arbitrary power, but these two chiefly,
and in degree apparent to the most ordinary observer
The contest is between French ideas and Russian power
1t is the same which precpitaed the allied armies
in Holland and Belgium in 1893 against the revolution,
and which never ceased Till millions OF the flower of Eu
rope slain, and England was crushed with debt
OF hundreds OF millions sterling. But now circum-
stances have changed respects tn character of
the alliance and OF the parties to and the field of bat
tie is not so crcumscribed as before. England who is
reapng the glory OF the against France, by paying
annually hundred millions of dollars interest on the debt
then contracted does not wish 10 acquire any such
expensive glory Besides her sympaes are not SO strong
for the despots of the present day That waged
prevent the principles Of the revolution from crossing the
Rhine and the Alps II was a of aggression to de-
slroy the revolutionary idea It's birth and the allies
had in the end 10 stand on the defensive on their own
SOIL against the terrible power they had dared provoke
Now this idea has not only crossed the Rhine and The
Alps, bu, the Danube the Carpathans the Elbe, and the
Pyeneesit has made the circuit OF Europe. And this
new alliance, most unhoy upon which the
OF God estsfor He suffers its members to become natu-
aed with power in order TO destroy them in their mad
toxicalionis OF yrans, and the privileged orders
,anst The people. Patriotism, nallonaltes the bond of
relationship, and common language, all despsed 10
maintain power and selfish privileges Oh, that the peo-
pie would learn to initiate thar oppressors, and unite
The present contest s not confined 10 the plains of Bel
pe'es5urg govern the movemen,s-one " its moral and
the other by It's physical power.
/, nave showG in my former letters what was the
power Of France in Europe how it had developed Itself
and what results might expect from il action And
have also. the first four letters of this SERIES exposed
The character OF Russian policy. For this purpose took
the Dannbian Principalities best calculated ex-
hbit the as,u,eness and ambition OF this extra.
ordinary nation | might have taken POLAND, or any
other OF the she has absorbed for the same pur-
POSE as the history OF the absorption of is the his.
tory OF all There is bu, for the fall of all
her victims that sher fatal conuguily Russia The
Danuhan Prncpstes. however, from their geograph-
cal position, being the gaze 10 Consan,nope, which
the Glars have long looked with covetous gaze, and
rorl their relation the Sublime Porte, afford more ma
teri,s By which TO comprehend Moscove ambition than
any of the other subugaled nations II is by strength.
ennr her power in the East that Russia e.iec
tuay threaten the West; as one OF her generals ex-
claimed when he entered Bucharest, snow is the time
10 seize the East and menace the West" Since Peter
the Great her policy has been to become great naval
well military power. She supports at an enor
nous annual expense great navy which is an,os,
less is confined 10 the frozen Baltic and the Euyne
and never can be ethcient without ports the Medi
terranean or Northern ocean, and mercantile marine
Hence her ceaseess eorshrst by intrigue and then by
coerconto subiagae the eastern nations the shores
OF the Black Sea and the Danube lying between her
and Turkey in order reach the Helespont or Darda
neles Ny letters these countries show the nature
and progress OF such efforts but TO place Russia and the
principle OF absolutism, which she represents closer
uxlaposition with France and the revolutionary idea OF
equality will attempt 10 show briefly, in more par
tcuar manner the character OF the Russian people and
their government
This nation. unique in its character and history is
bu, the growth. hecuean though be- OF yesterday 1t
seems as IL the bearded hyperborean had all a.,
once risen, like fantastic sxhaatoos IRON swamp, from
the north pole Its stature is grea, tina, already
looks two hemis pheres-Europe and Asa-lrom the Baltic
10 the Pacific ocean The inhabitants OF the south look
upon its supehuman proportions and rghtul form,
cred with hair and ice with shiverng terror They are
doubtless. seized with unnecessary alarm; for what is
distant is mysterious and mystery begets fear. This
monster OF the north with little force in
genial climate and he approaches the south and
bis proportions reduced and his form rendered less
frightful. STILL Russia is formidable power. She has
attained this from the character OF her emperors from the
nature OF her people, and from the various people, with
their distinct natonaes and civil wars, which sur
rounded her on the west the SOUTH and the east. who
have been by easily conquered and assnilaed
and also from the icy and boundess home to which she
could always retreat beyond the fear Of pursuit An in.
vadns army like tina, OF Napoleon would melt under the
Russian SHOWS. she is impregnable at home.
| The regning house of Ronanow is remarkable for in
teigence and eatness OF character which has contrib
uled in high degree 10 tie power OF the empre-Pe.
ter the Great who may be called its founder; Caha-
rine, who consolidated it; Alexander who, by the
verses Of Napoleon and MS IN the great
which ended in lsl5 made ii he FIRST State in Europe
and the npefor Nicholas. by his aslue policy during