Washington telegraph., 1854-02-15
From tie LcHFon Lcader.l
England and Russia.

4 war now IS to England tar more seri
Gus than to France or Russia England viii
be ruined by war II she does not win in ii
There are no evidences that her present ruler,
are tie men to carry her through Tie war
in the last war Pitt ard Wellington were
both young; Int now, not only are all hcl
statesmen i'll cfice, tat all her generals and
adinirals, are dangerously Ola men. and thc
chances are ti1at before she begins 10 win,
she will have to kill off All tie ola statesmen
ard all tie old commanders.
! Youth il genius 1t i energy. Age IN &C.
tion is a Liundcr. because ii II hot active
The Influence of ace j. visible III tic neco-
+ tiations which have caused tile now inevita-
bic war could such influence hc trusted ii
the conduct Of campaign. To surrcst
that sexagenarians and septragenariuns are
less capable than men Of thirty ana forty to
4 conduct and manage great war, i no more
10 insult Old age, ttan X il insnlted hy the
I mark tiat boards grow grey. The men who
4 would have % conduct q war now On behalf
Of England lord Aberdeen, Lord Hard
dinge. Sir James Graham, Lord John Rus
sell and Lord Palmerstor-would break
] Gown simply because council Of war, III
\ MI,
possibly achieve q victory. Experience has
advantages--but only wien action i routine
| Nester talked more wisely ilian ann body
4 else in the debates before Troy; but Achilles,
a rash young fool. took The city. Austria
: it may be said, was saved tic other day TN
/ the .octogenarian Rndctzhy Hut she Vas Ill
so before lOst hy Wumstr. against 4 general
| of thirty Aud it England gives waY. frst,
as .Radotzky dd. her Radctzkys will never
bring her to Tic front again for Russia i not
Lombardy; ana We arc not like Austria,
accustomed ID he loser
Gentlemen If from sixty 10 severity wears
of age are 80 wise that they cannot Le orig
inal: ard if EHeland's rulers and generals
connot now lift themselves out IL routine into
conception IF great campaign England j..
lost. And there il no evidence that our
Cabinet or onr Connander-in-ch have
got vigorous ideas about the war They A.
ready talk through leading Journal to The
effect that a. war only brings the heliger-
ents to treaty. nll Tho blocd4hcd had better
be skipped" and We hal better begin with
The treaty. And this Is said tile same day
on which the Czar's challenge l. bruited
! fprth to Eurorc.-wai- ID determination G.
Starting from such different points of view.
the Russians seeking the determination
Of lis opnonent, and the English govern
ment aiming only a The trncc of confer
cncc. which is likely 70 win
! England ought % accept ;he challenge,
| and cxierlninate Russia Iii shc fights only
to conquer Russia in some pitched battle.
them to coerce Russia into temporary truce,
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prehension Russia a. 4 system which gives
10 one man tie power which Gar Nicholas
possess and misuses, il the curse Of man
kind. We are about to make war On Rus
sia RS public robbcr, piundercr and break
er of treaties If We beat her in q battle.
or battles and ret new treaty or treaties.
we 90 not avert. We only postpone thnt dan
ger to ConStantinople, which l. the danger
/ Of western civilization. Russia, i an enemy
to he conquered il one way by being De-
stroved-Ln ,eitcyyc u i'onfyGncc,
Wars are undertaken to procure peace !,
that is the best war which secures the long
est peace. The existence If Russia--as
political system being incompatible with
peace. (ard there i no peace while each
power uploldz vast standing armies, n the
existence of Russia rcq't;res of every other
rower) that war would be holy war which
annihilaied Russia.
Russia Is one man, tle master of 60,0OO.-
600 other men, whom lie orpresses and cor
rups. or allows To be oppressed; whom he
retains 10 harbarsln whom lie converts in
to the enemies of the rest of mankind. To
destroy, therefore. tho system by which this
one ,,,a,, he= poser, would " ici.oneGs I1ot
only Western Europe but all the Russians
History arplauds all the conquests accom-
plished by civilized men over larbarians- --
Rome benefited the world by organizing the
world. William the Norman was hero
whom, humanity blessed FIR conqnering Sax
I on England Henry the Norman was .
benefactor for haEling over Celtic Ireland 70
| Norman baronS. Pizarro and Crotos were
heroes for carrying civilization among savae-
es-by force Of arms. Penn, the saint,
was not the less saint, that hc was plum
dcrcr,-of the lands Of the Red Indians
I The world would have been the gamer II
the Crusades had been successful. The
world has been the gamer that England con
oueresi Hindostan from preceding conquer
ors. England i admired by Lngllshmen
when she exterminates Kaffrs and New
Zealandcrs. whose crime i. that they do not
appreciatc commercial settlements IN their
neighborhood<. France i doing the work
of civilization in routing out the Sheiks
from Algicrs. Brooke i blessed for >laugh-
tcring savaccs in the Indian Archipelago
Yet not one Of these cpnquests has that jus
tification which would attend q conquest Of
Russia. For Russia-the political system
is the common for Of all mankind Ia
guerre then, a L'onfrnnce.
But how annihilate Russia ? We live g
much rotine that the idea terrides. We