The daily union., 1854-12-17
For the Union.
THE CRISIS IN THE CRIMEA.

For the Union
THE CRISIS IN THE CRIMEA.
The past two months the operations in the Crmea have
thrilled the civilized world with hopes and fears of an in
tensy unelt before since have scourged the world
and the vengeance Of has been poured out their
fellows through the red throat of battle.
The four great powers of modern Europe in conflict
war; in estimation pretextless and useless entered
upon hot haste has last reached crisis that threat
enveop all Europe in its flames and fury There is
somewhere fearful responsibility The blood of thou
sands of the nles victims of unhoy ambition is now as
cendng to the of Retribuon where Judgment and
vengeance await nations and where the walls of wrath,
yet sealed up will in time be poured out upon the guilty
heads of merciless men, who wiring the ebood from the
hearts of their people, and fill their lands with the
full voices of At this of the world wars must be
founded in necessities that the intelligence of the day
justify. They longer permitted as the means of
qualification to conflicting personal claims for thrones and
power in which the people have Interest," for ag-
gession and conquest The inquest upon the dead of this
war is yet to be held The people of England and France
will be the jurors The verdict may not CRAFTY the En-
pero of the throne of France be welcome to the min
istry of England
There is yet unsolved mystery in this war; the
luton that must with time is alone known to Him
who has declared that He came not to bring peace but
sword and His dealings mysterious and darkling
directing good ends the pestences that abroad at
noon-day the winds and the whirlwnds the end of this
campaign may be the reestabishment of the Cross the
Holy City, and the restoration of the sepuchre Of the Sa
vour of the World to the keeping of His apostles with whom
He declared himself the end But the mystery lies here
We the anomalous spectacle of two of the leading pow
the Christian world raying to maintain the banner
of the Crescent against the Cross and the Mosem and the
phde against the great conservative church of Constan
tnope of the Greek orthodoxy and faith Six centuries
have passed since Peter the Hermit made old England
ring with his appeals Christian knights to rally round
the ensign of their faith and to the land where
Christ born from the sceptre of the Mosem, whose
infde tread in the streets of the Holy City, and
profaned the sepulchre where Christ buried. The
heart of the Christian world beat high with hope and
sponded the stirring tones of that inspired Monk who
put the sword in the Of his Master From every
part of Chrendom there sprang up warrior men, and the
spirit of chvary at that age of Christianity raised up
those crusaders from every part of Chrisendom whose
vaorous deeds have filled the world with their renown,
and have sanctfed fiction with cooring that the brave
of all nations have been emuous to realize where
ances have been shvered scmetars crossed The lion
hearted Richard and the Of his me bore into those
the banner England would strike down. Where
that ensign waved in the strife with the Mosem there
the bate-cry Christ and the Holy Shrines rang out in
spring with superhuman valor the holy who sought
to redeem the birthplace of man from Islam and indel
domination. That power then rampant with conquest,
Christian Europe united to smite down. Now that it has
wasted away with the canker and decay of its poygamous
and unhoy dynastie and is ready to be overturned by
the discomfort and revolutions Of its millions of oppressed
Christian subjects Christian Europe joins to restore the
Moslem his power and to enchain in his nfdel fetters
twenty millions Of Christians ready to be free.
The pretex for this unhoy alliance is the preservation
of the equilibrium of power in Europe 1t is not
intention upon the merits of this war; The popu-
lar showing of France and England that the Gar has
broken the guarantees Of his treatess depressing
weaker power to which he has been faithessha his de-
signs are aggrandizement and conquest-may be more
specous than substantial These questions for dipo-
mats to settle and they have submitted that issue the
arbitration of the sword. The sober second thought of
France and England may yet require better showngs
than these justify the shedding of Christian blood
to restore the sick Mosem health and setting back
other century the progress of Christianity and the march
Of freedom It is for justify the Gar in his
solves protect the subjects of the Greek church in the
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privileges guaranteed by the faith of treaties Wheth
er forbearance and further negotiations might not
have accomplished the same ends he has determined
TO reach with the sword, is at all events probemati
CAL Yet 1t cannoi be doubted that his great pur-
pose is to vindcate the integrity OF treaties and to
secure than ten million Christian subjects of
his church the freedom of conscience and mmunes from
the exactions and crueltes of samm Could this have
been done without unsheathng the vengeful sword and
all the horrors of avoided il is certain that he has
sumed responsibility Of fearful and weghty magnitude
! Perhaps there is nation in the word whose masses
are so universally religious the Russian There are
there secs divisions dssensions Greek orho-
doxy is universal The Church has been in the unity
that faith for fourteen centuries The Patriarch of Con-
stannope is the spiritual head The constitution of the
empire however has subordnated the supreme power
OF the Gar all the interests Of his mighty nation both
temporal and polemca, and, the great arbter of its
destiny controls appeal the Church well State Here
is the key to the mystery of his unlimited sway His sub
iecs regard him with religious awe, and their veueraon
for their church is supreme that they yield the most
passive submission to bis viii But with them his viii in
the political administration of the Affairs thai rpe IN har
mony seventy millions Of men of every caste and tongue is
not less potential 1t is however the religious tone and
character of these hodes and that attempers their
varied the universal harmony and acquescence
in the will of single Religion is the leayen that
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