New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-14

cal matters rebels against confinement to any one
business he likes change, AID changes one trade
at once for another, ithe former is not sufficiently
,,ostebIe-he looks upon O trade not, as Ger
man does. as d calling, but as a speculation
he is not. Like the Gernii.@ns. proud Of business
or a trade once chosen, hangs nce !" II WI"
heart and SOUL knows nothing of guild AN WI
porotion honors, and looks upon his business as a
mere transient means of becoming rich he looks
at it only VIII traders eye, and as such seeks to
profit BY it in She grand field, which speculation,
in all its form, offers. Least of all, would the Rus
sian with his spirit of speculation and tendency to
association, find himself at home in the letters
which bind the mechanic arts in Germany-es-
pecially, for instance, in the attempt now making
in Prussia to restore guild and corporate rights
and to separate completely trades from each
Other.
The.seryitlide in which this great national fam
ily lived for Centuries under the MOngOlians, and
their war OF liberation from the Monaghan domin-
ion, have been vast in their consequences to it.
Both-their oppression by the Mongols and their
war of inaependence-led to this result that
everything which relates to their nationality took
a religious significance, and all pertaining to their
religion, national col0ring. The feeling of ma
tionality, v hich held the individual members of
the comriunes together, was raised to truly re-
ligious Worship Religion, on the other hand, as
tie protection and rock Of safety against the
Mongos, became a national thing national re.
lieion. None Of the German, nor Of the German.
lied nations, have in this sense national religion.
For to none these nations is the Capital the OBJ
Jet Of POI tco-relgous reverence to the same
extent and degree that Moscow, the holy central
point Of the entire Russian family, is.
Papacy eayg the nations of Western Europe a
consciousness Of their belonging together, and the
indestructible feeling that all form one world and
all have common end for which to labor. Even
the Reformation, which divided Western Europe,
during the contests and continual excitement to
which it gave birth. created the bonds which held
the Western nations together.
On the contrary, the Greek Church belongs to
Russia alone, and through it Russia is shut out
from the scientific, religious and moral sympathes
Of the Occdenti 1t is the national church Of Rus
sa. in totally different sense from that in which,
for instance, the Lutheran is the national church
of Sweden or the Episcopal that Of England.
All that has been said above relates to Russia
as a homogeneous community of the peope-as a
Folk-state. But besides the State considere in
this light, whose holy central point is Moscow,
there is in Russia another which has its centre in
st. Petersburg.
The ruler-whom the Russian, when he ad-
dresses him calls Father lin fact, Father dear,
Batuschka whom he, as the political head of all
Russian families and communcs, callsCzar-is at the
same time lord of state comprising not the native
Russians alone, but numberless different races
and followers ofthe most different religions which,
besides the Russians, comprehends also Germans,
Poles Fins, Tartars and Asiatc races aud has
brought under it, conscript laws Catholics and
Protestants, Jews and Mohammedans, and all
classes of heathen-as lord Of state which, in
its relations to other lands, makes one entire SOW
reignty, the ruler is an Emperor.
While the native Russian, in his commune and
in the circle Of cOmmunes to which he belongs, has
his native horn Father and superior officer, the
affairs Of that state which has its center at 81.
Petersburg, are transacted mainly-with the ex-
ception Of the Pussian nobility-by the Germans
OF the Baltic Provinces yes, even the Emperor
whom the native Russian names Father and Car
is connected only through his mother with the
Ropanow blood Of Peter the Great, and is on his
fathers side a German, (IIolstein Sottorp.l
The Russian State considered rs composed OF
the natiye-bom race, is one truly national whole
the great European Power Russia, is for this very
reason Power" because, Ike Rome, England
and every state Of historic renown, its struggles
against the principle Of nationality as it, enemy,
and oycrthrows and subjects the most diverse
races.
Association aud unlimited speculation form and
keep alive private life in Russa-the imperial
state on the contrary has this end and aim to it,
all that this monstrous empire contains, from the
V;stula TO the Chinese boundaries, in the furthest
east must bow and become the servant.
Viewed interally, variety is the rule externally,
complete unty-unlimited speculation seeks to
develop the treasures within-without the
whole. under the guidance Of st. Petersburgh one
great camp.
Now. it is from this duOlism that the vital prn-
ciple and the greatness of Russia spring, and so
much the more certainly gives promise of great
history in the future, because the mighty kernel
of the native Russians shields from the danger of
this dualisln running into disunion. The imperial
city, st. Petersburg has a safe foundation in
Moscow, the city of the people.
The explanation of this dualism was necessary
to prepare the way for the statement that Russia
is the greatest representative of Imperialism, a
system of government with which Europe has IN
the immediate future to contend, and to serve as
an introduction to my future exhibition OF the
destiny which connects Russia and Western
Europe. DRUM DAOEA'
The Public Law OF Europe.
correspORssnce Of TIE n. Y. Tn6uns.
BRIGHToN, near London,
"Wednesday, June 80, lsj2.
The Notes Of the three Northern Courts