The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-11-20
The state of Europo.-Amerioan Policy.


The state OF Europo.-American Policy.
There are but two of Communication with the
seat Of war the Danube-ones by relays Of horses
then by railroad to Vienna, and thence by telegraph
to ST. Petersbugh. In this line the Austrian govern
ment is therefore at the great chokepoint Of commu
nication with Western Europe and the United States
and as the Same telegraph by which the Austrian au
,hories send dispatches to ST. Petersburgh bring
return the construction which the Gear his ministers
desire the West and its people to put upon Them
approximate to the of credulty which must be re.
qnred in the West the amount OF credulity which
really exists in the Northeast when it is expec ed that
anything can be believed which from that quar-
ter The other line OF comm unicaon with the Danubian
frontier s one much highv, yet much more reliable
There is no unreliable operator between tho head
auarters of the Turkish army and the Sublime Porte
there is no double faced bird Of i'll omen, half Count
Buol half Nesselrode intervene there TO deceive the
creduous and curious West. The courers Of the Otto
man are faithful unprejudced, and ncouptibe carrier
pigeons kept in the immediate vicinity of Omer Pachs
What false information may reach by that route must
therefore, arise from the naked impolcy of the Porte it,
self II victorious, il will vaunt the fact aloud if de-
feated it will be equally truthful The West, its last
hope must lie in appealing the West But tele.
graph or railroad connects with Constantnople and the
West the Russo Austrian power have, by many days. the
advantage of the Turk in propagang whatever story
pleases In those points, therefore, OF the dispatches
we published yesterday, and OF all further from the
seat of war which conflict with the i-despoc inter.
es.s our readers will know what reliance ia 10 be
placed.
We gather, therefore from the dispatches by the Ara.
ba that up 10 latest dates the sick Muscovtes have been
everywhere defeated, and driven back very sick. And
this is further evident from the Russian revelation that
Paske witScb the warrior who bibed Ga orgey and made
terrible ouslaughls with his saddle bags, has been sent
to take command OF the Russian armies He s cruel
and unscrupuous Suvarrof; but yet do not fear
another sma for when he not general enough to
conquer the province OF Hungary" although with his
armies those of another empire he is not surely
pelen to beat in tacqx, however he may setuce in ps-
iique the organized, solvent and thousand oned
pire of Stamboul, The Well Defended.
On the Asalc side of the Black sea learn further
and this intelligence not only from its being consonan
with all previous facts and experience bu further. be-
il may have reached va the Turk and not VsS
the Austrian, has Likelihood Of being true-that what
called the "mountaneers" Chat is 10 say, the
riors who have for thirty maintained intemina
bic against Russian aggression pare victorious sgan
in Crcassa and Daghsan and that the old paragon OF
great mother Of wake and beautiful Crcassia.
Schamyl, is again in the field II is the most cxtraor
binary coincidence in history, that at this moment the
Cherkesses from the mountain ops-whencs flowed the
civilization and the blood Of Greecs and Rome, the o.
manlis from inner and further Tartary, the descendants
OF that primitive people Of Western Europe which pre-.
served the civilization OF anterior ages. when Greece had
sunk into oblivion and Rome had passed into mbeciliy
the modern democrat of all nations-the Christianlzed
Hun and Magyar-the defeated OF all modern republican
people in Europe and the paragon and only vronous
pubcans OF the New OF any other world-shouid now
be in common concord point the turning point
Of civizaton-aganst one principle hated in common
by ALL and obnoxious to the interests OF sll-pEsPornM
Another singular coincidence this connexion
The interests Of civilization, the anxiety OF civilized
world concentrated on one river bank-hat Of
the immemoral Danube-that which passed the
hordes who swept down the municipal civilization Of
Rome, and buried with il the art literature. excellence,
history, and faults OF the anterior world upon which
live.
II might have been thought that with the fall OF the
Roman empire. and the intra Asatic conquess Of tn.
northern barbarans" that that fecund northern Asae
mother near its end in the CESSATION OF barbariy
But ye, another horde passing 10 The race to Europe tie
hndmost settled in the rear, and il being consttuona
whether from cowardce or taste doss not appear al
dIced to fetid oil and wastes OF snow. stretched itself
out from Behring's straits TO Siberian parsdses. And
this the Russian. II is bu, since the age Ct Lord
| Bacon that EnElishman first saw tae psrsoa Of .
Muscove emperor and Lord Bacon thought il 20 curious
sight 10 hear Of, that he wrote OF IT, Tne discovery
OF Russia at Archangel is young as that OF Ameca-
in fact csemporsry with IT, Il is not one hundredand
ninety years, (2sth January 1905 fact recalled to ouf
memory by recent publication OF the Harpers in New
Yorkwhen the ambassador of the Muscovite ALEXIS the
Terrible, went in be presented to the Sultan. Nah
moud Nv, and was beaten out Of his presence with a
cudgel-an insult still to be resented
/ Nevertheless, two empires, two great ideas. have
grown in that short period to a common submiy q"
exten, and to grandeur or to baseness which must
be judged by the prejndces Of individuals, The effects
which the coRquest of either over the other must pro-
duce the coming ages OF The wo,dthey the equal
izng and disseminating principles OF American man
hood; the despoic and centrazing nature of Museo'
| wife autocracy.
That we are before the Gar arts. manhood, 'e'eroe
wokmen, ships, armies, power, and Territory, isa
ter not worthy of question. That IL impossible io'
any out-ide Of our country, unless he wee gus