New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-01
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The following snecdo,s may DO an invention bu, u
60 II IL true TO the reality When P.sSe~issch stood
before Warsaw In the year ls3i, Russ,a recruit
pointing to the fortress said to veteran "ths,
.possrs 10 be very 6rm." "Yes," said the vs,sraa-
II do no, believe that we can take H." "But n tbs
Emperor commands H." replied the recruit, That
alters the csse. said the other, and we shall take
then"
The following incident on the other hand Is related
good authority. Daring the burning OF the winter
palace, priest rushed through the flames In order 70
the host AZ be hurried back vita IT, he SAY
soldier on the way through the smoke and asked him 10
20 with him. NO., said the soldier al will stand
my post, but give me thy blessing The priest did 81
and ssveI himself with eificulty
This chdnke obedience which a, the sar,o time 10
an ellen Of passion and fiery zeal for the people
this iatl ery su,hoy, which IL also the power Of the
State rsonifed-gves to Russia relation TO westsru
Europe the position held By standing armies 10 icdvid.
ia. States Russia has thereby been transformed Into
rsdly disciplined camp which, by ,hs single fact that
hold, guard on the frontiers of the West prevents
less and unmespng strueg giles, which At present would
have no more significance than the brsws OF the early
Polish parties By this internal discipline 1t Is what
Rome was for the ancient world which put an end 70
the Continual wars. especially Of the Greek usdons,
when they had desenersted into useless contests and
mutual self.destrucdon
True Russia has remained quiet since lsiS-but
only ike The few proud men Of the West, who In Sc
cure possession of their internal merits could look
calmly on during the rsving and fruess efforts OF the
mediocrtes being certain that tue nature Of things
would maintain their rights, and that the msdicchns
after their Illusions scattered, would retarn In
still greater degree 10 their original iusgnticanse.
Russia can only gain by every Western Revolution
The pride of her people In her disciplined might would
gain fresh sire ugth and receive complete usdc atom
While the West wrlthing In the psngs of dissolu
ton
The experience, which has been furnished to every
student of history by the year lsS, has certainly nos
been lost TO Russia She is trD secure, conseq aent
ysteus ATTIC In sl hines-snd hence, II will always or at
least for a very long time be her policy to look quiety
on during the future revolutionary struggles of tho
West so long the conhagrstion retains It's drn heat
and when the exhausted combasnts Ia their Infusion
shall know not here to look, she will sep forth
ds,o and Gator or In the last extremity In the
ste Hungarian struggle will be called on for aid, and
will nterpose with her military force, and quench tbs
fire.
Butwill ii always retire with the dsinerested
ness, as In the of Hungary, after proterng the
wished for aid
The question resolves Itself into this WIN no, the
people of the West be still distracted and dsmsg
ed by fu ure Revolutions than by the last
No doubt they will for tho cid culture must needs
give way more and more In order 10 make place for Q
new culture and hence Russia will be compelled N ad-
vance further with Its military forca In orderso main
tain the order and Conference Of the Continent which
demands the maturity Of the new ideas.
She must 20 still further forward In order 10 call out
the struggle by which the new ideas must be tested
What AZ hhereto been manifested 10 the germ of the
new ideas cannot contend either with the Democratic
popular assemblies, with Pariamens or even with
sing!e Western Government not excepting the French
or Prussian and their spgaarly ordinary ministers.
struggle with Manteufiel or Msupss would truly be
too email for the new elements of culture They wish
for more spacious feld-and Russia will supply It,
She will become European. The elements of culture
thus far are found only in Isolated persons who have to
elaborate 70 fashion, to establish them-but certainly not
10 contend with a Man,sadsl, a Maupas, q Jew
DIsrael or whoever else they may be-
Butis another question whether isss will positively
e.,sbllsb new culture This question feel bound 10
answer in the negative All that Russia could do would
be- to spread her psfrsrchs culture, her Organization
of the communicate these purely national, and shs
has never able TO spread them over any Of her
conquess The German nobility OF the Baltic provin-
ces aud the Polish nobility, who, with the Casholicsmo
the dde Age, have also received the prevailing ysx
Of the West may the absoutist State which has
its central point In st. Petersbugh, and reader obedi
the European power and Dictatorship OF Russia
but they can sssnilste siih the )scOytsh tho
patnsI chsl Stste-their Western culture superior
10 the pstrisrchai stand point for that
Thus has Russiaa contradiction In inelt lie patti
ar hal sbsout'sm secures superiority the West
and still the German, the Western sense of personality
superior to H. ana csnno. be destroyed This contrs
d. ion will guide 10 our fu ther exp jsdpn
Of The fate which connects Russia and tns West with
each other BRUNo BAUER.