Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-07-22
aIEs McDoNALp. Editor.
European News.

increduous ola Russian INVASION oil turkey.
but the steamer Franklin just arrived, "iih
dates from Liverpool to the 9Th inst, brings
positive information that the Russians have
crossed the Pruth, ia river that rises in Poland
and flowing through Modasia. enters the Dan.
ube above REM, in Turkey. forming the boun-
dary between that country and PRUSSIA.
This fills the condition OF war and creates a
necessity for the promised armed Intervention
of England and France. The curtain seems
about to rise. Up with it, aud let the bloody
play begin! II Europe is to be The scene OF
grand set-to of nations The sooner the tram
pets sound and the tourney opens the better
The power of the Gar is daily increasing; II
ia safer 10 close with him M " than 10 defer II
We feel no uneasncss as TO the result. Russia,
from the vastness Of her resources, and the
stold courage Of her soldiery, almost lnVincI
bic at home. Is not to he dreaded in an aggres.
siye war. Russian troops lack the elasticity,
the enthusiasm & the love of excitement winch
give life and efficiency to invading force.
Time after time, and with the heaviest cd is,
were they beaten by the unluiorcd valor Of
Poland and Hungary. They were powerless
TO ,sist The first Napoleon, With his army Of
F-enchmen, unit aided by the terrible allies
Of FIRE, famine and frost The English t'ooPs
aod navy are every way superior to them and
and they will whip them two TO one.
In such a contest as that which seems I'M
pending, or may already have begun, the sym
pahes 5f the American people would be with
Turkey and Ter allies. On the part OF Rus
sia,whatevcr pletexts may be nrged,such wal
would be n wanton attempt 10 extend her al.
ready colossal dominion, and 10 widen the
boundaries of that stupendous despolism. The
Russian monarchy is now The centre and rep
rescntAtive of the most solid absoutIsm. II IS
the very concroiion of individual sovereignty,
as opposed TO the natural rights and liberties
OF the masses As little as we see in the gov.
ernmcut of Turkey or Of France to admire.
and as much as we find in that OF England to
dsuko-we still recognize IN all ofthem Qarge
ly in the LAST the principle Of accountability
TO the governed. With Russia there is moth
ing OF the kind. Her government is a huge.
icy, impenetrabie mass Of absolute and unre-
lenting monarchy
Bat the main source Of the sympathy Of our
people for Turkey viii found in the mobile
stand taken by her Sultan IN favor Of the Hun
garians who fled to bis dominion For protection
from the blood hounds of Aastria and Russia,
after the disastrous termination oil their slrug-
gle for independence. At tbcperI Of war, he
bIavely refused to surrea3er them, and give
them shelter AID support. The nope that such
an imbrogiio Of nations is now threatened
would afford Hungary another and better op.
portunity 10 raise the banner OF frecdom-that
Poland and Italy would awake from their long
and death.lke slecp-tha Switzerland would
be relieved from the plrIs which threaten her
independence, and that the star of revolution
and republicanism would come out from the
clouds OF war.to shine more steadily than ever
upon the oppressed nations Of Europe, leads us
10 hope that the intelligence Of the crossing of
the Pruh by Russian troops may be true, and
that the movement may lie regarded as an act
ofwar. The light in which the English govern
ed would probably regard it may be gathered
from the following extract from the London
Times
If as We must assume the Emperor of Rus
sia commands his armies 10 cross the Pruth,
lie will place himself in fresh dilemma. The
territory of the principalities must either be
regarded as Turkish territory, or as the terri.
tory Of semi-indcpendenl prince called the
Hospojar,' IL it be Turkish territory in the
full sense Of the word, then the entry of the
troops is act of invasion, act of war,
which gives rise 10 the incidents OF war. and
in particular, in this Case, suspends the opera.
ZION of the convention of The Straits, and opens
them, with the concurrence of The Porte 10
the ships ofwar Of foreign powers. 1t the
principalities be not strictly Turkish territory
but the dominions Of Christian vassa of the
Porte, then the Invasion, which is intended to
coerce the Porte, falls with all its weight on
the heads of another people. What renders
such a proceeding more illogical and absurd
is, that the Emperor Of Russia, having put for
ward claim to the protection of the Greek
Christians in the Ottoman empire, makes these
Identical Greek Christians his first victims