The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-06-30
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II. \ onaon Times, that the Occupation "
Msldayia and Wsllachia BY the Nas'a.s'
would afford no reasonable ground o. "a' y
.h.sS.,,.n. because il would be no aggIess'o"
mnor Turkey. From the letter OF kossa'n IN
~. New York Times. allude to by US 10 an
a,hs, article. we gather certain historical IN
formation with regard to these Two p'o'A.s as
/tbe Dacia Of the Romans winch We p'''e''
~ Law before our readers
si.,v years before the capture Oh oo":.aa.'
!. M.bomet IL, that is to say IN the
nop'' ,aoa the famous Sultan bsjazet, the
- Timour Tor Tameriand,l nine
ve.,s afterwards defeated and captured IN .ne
a,e., battle of Ancyra, formed with the wal
i.eb;.n Prince Mrcea, treaty, at Nicopolis,
he vb;ch il was stipulated that the country
shonId retain it's selfgovernment, with
Prince elected by its inhabitants, Legisla'
ture and Mini siry of its own, &c. Alter the
all of Constantinople in l453, Nah omet IL,
,he Sultan who captured il, confirmed this
t,ea,v by another, in which il was stipulated
that no Turkish Mosque should be built in
the Roumain territory, tMoldavia and Walla-
chia)-that the Turks should not be permitted
10 acquire or hold property there-and that
no Mussulnan becoming christian and taking
refuge there should be reclaimed by the Sub
lime Porte. By this treaty Turkey relln'
cuisines all claim to the Sovereignty, retain
ing only what the feudal law calls the suze'
rainty. s
In all her wars with the Porte, Russia, never
losing sic hit of her great object, the entire con-
Quest of that country, has been in the habit OF
making of Moldayia and Wallachia tools to
work out that end. Eve as early as the
war of I'LL she began these practises, and she
steadily persisted in them during those of 1885,
I76O, 1887, 1906 and 1929. Her intrigues have
never failed to convulse them by stimulating
their natural antipathy to the Porte, and, until
the last mentioned war, she was always ready
to desert them, and to give them up to the ven
geance Of their enemies. The object is evident.
Itwas to render the dominion of the Turks as
odous as possible to the MoldoW allachians,
and by that means TO prepare the latter for
change Of rulers. BY every treaty which fol-
lowed these wars. the Suzerainiy Of Turkey
was confirmed. In The meantime, the intrigues
of Russia were felt not less at Constantinople
than in the Principalities, and there they were
constantly employed TO induce the Turkish
Government to punish the inhabitants for hav'
ing yielded to Russian influence, by depriving
them of the privilege Of electing their princes.
In this Russia succeeded; but in 1921, when the
Greek revolution began, the Porte, in order to
detach the PrinciRalities from the cause of
Greece, restored their right of electing and
being governed by their own princes, together
with all their ancient privileges, even going SO
far as to add others which they did not pre-
viously possess. 1t has always religiously re-
spected these rights and privileges from that
day TO the present, and 10 1887 went SO far as
to place their constitutional self-goVernment
under the guardianship of Russia, pledging it.
selfat the same time, not to interfere in their
domestic administration. The consequence of
placing a constitutional government under the
protection of Russia, may easily be nagined.
1t was very much like entrusting the guardian.
ship of flock of sheep to their arch enemy
the wolf. 1t was not long before Russian
party was formed in the country, and so hate.
full did it become to the people, that exercising
their undoubted rights, they rose against it in
1848 and declared that they would be govern
ed by their own laws. and not by foreign in
fuence. The Gear made this movement
pretext to interfere in their affairs, and send
his soldiers to suppress the free spirit of the
people. Turkey protested against this inter
vention, declaring that she had granted to
Russia the power to protect the people of the
PrincipaIities against herself tTurkey,) but
not to occupy their country under any other
pretext. She forthwith sent an army into Wal
lachia to counterbalance that of Russia. and
when the latter refused TO evacuate the coun~
try en- the plea thatits occupation was necessa.
Ty to arrest the spread of revolutionary move.
ments 80 near the Russian frontier, declared tina,
she would have part in the suppression. In
pursuance of this resolutionthe treaty of Balta
Liman was negotiated, the high contracting
parties engaging to keepa certain number of
troops there-not to increase them-aud 70
evacuate the country simultaneously, and at a
certain specified time. Thus these provinces
were, for two years, occupied by two armies,
Turkey, all the time insisting on the eyacua.
ton, and Russia continually finding pretexts
for defsrring it. At last by the influence nj
England, Russia withdrew her troops across
the Pruth fthe boundary bet xeen Bessarsb;a
and Asldavia,| and Turkey retired behind the
Danube. Since that time, the Principalities
have been tranquil, though exceedingly ill.go.
verned, by faction entirely under Russian
influence. - -.
From this statement it is plain tina, Russia
cannot, unless in violation of solemn treaty
occupy the rrincipalitea, If she cannot show
that Turkey has attempted to interfere in
their domestic affairs. This she has NOT even
pretended; and yet the London Times tells il,
readers that the occupation of the pr;ncn,I;
ties will not be an act Of aggression ON IN,
part Of Russia! It'll plain that if that oecu
patton take place, il will proceed altoee,be
from the determination of Russia to take nos
session Of them as part of her own territo,y
and that ii will not be long before her agent
will produce revolution in Seryia, which viii
rive the Car the best possible pretex, for on