New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-31
THE SEAT OF WAX.


uroubsr in the following PASSAGE from speech delivered
at recent meeting at Paisley
The last intelligence received Is Of most important ma
,ure II s the capture Of two places named Akiska ana
AksIkalk Thee names convayto yOu no peculiar mean
mo or wonder That you may sppehend the value OF the
fact revert 10 the incidents OF the past week. ana
forihst purpose must endeayor TO present 70 yon PIC
iure Of m theaier Thst iheater l. of vast dimenpns
and remarkable character The Turkish territory mes I'D
the form Of crescent the two horns Of which, on the
east and west stretch mp to The territory OF Russia IN
The center across line Of miles lies the basin Of the
Euxine These two advanced portions ere possesea on
important but diversified characters OF defense on tne
European side the Province Of the Danube present low
and arshy plain impossible in winter, and nhce1 win
dseases in summer arising from masmata In Tvs coma
try in every war the Russians have left the boaes OF hun
dfods ind thousands of men, but hesss Il supplies
enormous resources, when once occupied IN 1909 ana
meaLs Of transport On the Asetic side there es ~ "i
vance OF the mountains Of Armenia another plain OF
eoreie-in advance Of which again rises the apenaous
barrier Of the Caucasus This BARRIERS not merely phys
zeal one II is inhabited Icy numerous race Of ireensn
ard warriors who have not waited for the year 1883 to
make war against Russia. The men WIN gray hiifS
have known the condition o. peace wan nessoor
with whom i1tercourfe is contamination and cut Of from
the rest Of the world they have not merely mandined
their own. bat have organized political power and
created a military system, which has enabled them 70
reeofue the forressos which Russia had taken, and TO
beat her ornes in The field Russia wa thus enaOedto
attack tie iurkish domnons only Dy oV7dsePpl9 tuose
rhYiCs obstacles before these Yee comu;nrel havlnS
pscfd herself in occupation Of Georgia. ahe is1ated the
Cauca, us left the Crcassans behind and by peeu
Esry diplomatic process has been always able TO enter
tbe frovrcss Of the Danube without firing shot This
rrodcss has depended upon It's being the pet notion Of the
Eueish GoveTrmen-the only nxed idea offs polcy-to
wrtIoh these provinces from the Porte, and hand them
over 20 Russia You may be startled at such aproposi
ti,n-i only shows you ignorant OF history but once
before British squadron in presence OF Constantine
PIE il then ostensiby cent 10 accomplish tla purpose
Which is yet is secret and unayOwed mission I was sent
to conrl the Porte to surrender the PFncphhos Of tue
Danube 20 Russia. 1iis tailed, because the laiks
rlnnfed puDs on ey cry creek and rock, and com
pel,G II TO retire Failing 70 coerce Turkey, England
Itn attenrtfd 10 coerce France 10 Join with her in
nd ftrra
s concurrence that resumed hosiities with France.
subsequently ragged in Europe for eight years
had other purpose in it, origin than the carrying out OF
Ills pct ideo and fixed policy of the British Government
But when they could not get the WHOLE they were GLAD -
ret and in lsl2 they wrcnched mediation the half
Of Modayia from Turkey, aud delivered over 70 Russia
Al tie peace thCy coni med that usurpatiou aud "a re
Times aas recently told u deliberately excluded the
Turkh possessions from any such general guaraniy as
was extended to the other territorial arrangements OF
Europe Then followed the Greek nsurrectcn raised by
Russia in the Prncpaltes, when England again became
lie month piece Of Russia to demand again their eyacUe
tion by the Turkish troops. Soon aitoard We destroyed
In reece the Turkish nav y, which the defense Of the
sc Sea and 10 enabled Russia to march into the Prn
crnt;es In 1913 we again sanctioned thor occupation
rfose md u his very year 1853 inorp0sed to pre-
vent The Turks not only Om resisting similar 0ggres
sion bit from advancing their own forces across me Dan
ube when Russia advanced across the Pruih Ihi then,
h the diplomatic vehicle by which IN the west Russia
oyercomss This Otherwise Lsuperdbie barrier ana places
herself In the center Of the Ottoman Empire without
drawing a sword But in advance of these two horns
of the crescent there spreads remarkable region
10 which peculiar name - attached, inir6lng
dsimil0riy otncr poftlOn OF SOL 81
rore The Turkish territory does not come up to Russia
Proper II does not touch upon region tIayersed BY
roads ard canals possessing provender water fuel ana al
other thng- necessary for the march Of troops ana the
rapsrort of divisions Ii to the Seppes ofVOl
va end The Seppes Of the Black Sea- dreary, nhospa
bic waste of about miles in breadth, and requiring,
under the favorable circumstances full month to
traverse BIT tie difficulties of raversng arc not to be
estimated by those which European army Woud have to
encounter Russian force is vast un@iedy mass, as
corrupt in its management it is debGsed IN ITS character
There have been Russian armies that los more men in
60 Irfo to tho
clish regiments during the seven years war in Spain.
may be here met with the objection that those Seppes of
tie Volga and kuxne were in former years the theater OF
great military expeditions, which would be impossible If in
The desoaie condition have described them actually to
be- They indeed the fields of contests during sove
raj centuries of Germans and Turks, OF Cossaeks and
Tarfar of Russians and Poles but at that fine they
inhabited by Tartar population while nov ihey are 9n'
inhabited and deserted. The population persisted under
Russian sway fed from Russian violence In day,
toward the end ofihe last century half million Of human
souls arose. abandoned their possessions, and fought
half the globe, to seek repose aud protection
nnder the Chinese sceper. Besides, these lands
adapted not to an agricultural but to pastoral
pushed draw out the Tartar they have brought
desoaon Focks and herds are adapted to that region
Tho horse is there necessary to man. and above all the
camel has been said that without the camel the desert
of Arabia would be unienautable, without would be
impossible the vast regions Of Siberia and Turkey The
Seppes paako for one halt of the deserts of Arabia aud
for the other half of the wilderness of Siberia. Judge
then of the effect the condition Of this req by the
ton of the importance Of the animal that owing 10
the foresight of Debch who had sent TO the banks Of
Noga for supply of them, that the Russians ena
bed to re cross the Balkan in 1880. But the Russians
have been besides positive deyastaors The Turks and
Moguls have been represented to as hodes OF de
vourng ocusts There is extract from aRussian oil
cia by which you will perceive that epihe belongs to
tie civIizng Russians; All races and all classes in
Russia are desroyers of wood Russian colnists have
DESTROYED the woods of Southern Russia which they
found existing, and have not planted tree At Inua
rekan they burnt for fuel the fruit trees planted by the
Tn nd opf The n
.planted bv the Mongols." You can imagine
what an effort requires for Russia, and what
sacrifice Of men and means to bring up her troops
10 the frontiers 0fhe Turkish empire, and how impossible
il would be for her TO strike against that empire an eec
tive blow had she to encounter Turkish army the
south or on the orCoO Of the Caucasus In fact the ys
ten of natural geographical defense is complete vast
so powerful that the very design of aggression becomes
heroic. When the last war opened, England @. said
destroyed the navy Of the Turks, and the Ooman empire
was in decomposition by sanguinary internal feud, /
which had turned the swords Of Mussulman against each
other the Christians were in Instruction the provinces in
revolt Russia, after two years Of preparation had as
sombled 2i6,OoO on the PTu,h. They suddenly passed
they found Turkish force to oppose Them and encouR
tered scarcely anything beyond the garon Of the for
tresses and the Turkish population on the theaerot war
They had therefore, passed all the natural difficulties to
which have adyorted andapppratod 10 themselves the
OF the Turkish provinces before the war com
menced. But the strength Of Turkey lies in Asia The
issue OF the the Danube would depend upon the
levies made in Asia and transported to Europe for its de-
Tense Hence the importance of the bearing OF the oper
atoms conducted at that time in Asia. Russia was in .
possession of Georgia beyond Caucasus barrier she
he'd crossed by force Her first operation in that
quarter was capture from the Turks the fortress of
Arabia at the north west extremity OF the line OF the
Caucasus and by this means she wholly isolated Tar
key from the Crcasslans, and place behind her the
barrier she could not subdue Then nom Georgia .
her troops advanced into the mountains OF Lessor Asia
where bv series of rapd and brilliant operations she