Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-16
RUSSIAN ACCOUNT OF THE EASTERN WAR

! RUSSIAN ACCOUNT OF THE EASTERN WAR.
FROM JOURNAL Oh ST. rsrnasBuaoH.
The Journal des Debats Of the 10th August publishes
malicious and summing up Of the operations
Of our armies since the commencement Of the war.
may suit the purpose Of the Western press to endea
seek satisfaction for their seove by representing
the actual position Of troops the manifestation Of
check to the policy of Russia well the prestige
Of its military power This is mode Of efecting an
alteration in the opinion Of the public the rdiculousy
small results obtained by the display Of such gigantic
and expensive forces by the two Powers in alliance with
Turkey and above ALL Of lessenng the disgrace which
attaches them of exploits present confined to attacks
against deenceless towns and inoensive merchant
sels They forget, however, that the Government of
France and England pompousy announced their inten-
ton to conquer and dsmember Russia, whilst Russia
herself neither wishes for the unjust which is at pre-
being waged against her had made preparations
for it.
Furthermore those who from the beginning have de-
voted themselves to incorporating the intentions of the
Imperial Government to describing it animated with
ambitious views and aggressive tendencies would natu
rally seek reconcile at the present moment the facts
with their malicious fabrications But Russia cannot be
prevailed upon to consider check the Of
intentions which falsely ascribed to her. and which
she has entertained
Had they exercised little good faith in their
decisions the organs of the Western press might have
been easily convinced that if the Imperial Government
occupied the Principaes it simply for the end of
seizing momentary material pledge for the ndem
nifcatons which it had right to exact from the Sui
tan and which had in vain sought to obtain by the
Of friendly negotiations is quite certain that
the conquest Of Turkey could not be effected by the sixty
/ n vnfnc nat;np and
if were possible hope for any mpartaty frsm the
press the insufcency Of the military displayed
by Russia in such grave conuncture ought to have de-
monstrated better than any assertion the moderation and
the sincerity of the Imperial Government.
The inferory which it is the fashion to impute to us
the Danube is another proof Of what assert for
troops have remained for the period Of eight months
in defensive position real disadvantage to Them mas
much they scarcely sufficient to cover line Of
hundred leagues-the is that the Imperial Go
vernment anxiousy desired to fulfil faithfully the engage
into which has entered with Europe In the
spective position of the two begerents the Turks by
of their numerical superiority and the support of
their many forresses must necessarily have found them
selves superior in numbers many points this space
but without refusing enemies the justice which is
their due, think that every impartial military man will
acknowledge that they have shown very little ability in
maknguse of their advantages, and that if the results
flor the part negatve) Of their pretended victories
prove any thing is precisely the ntrepdty and heroic
| immemorial, been the glory Of the Russian armies.
We shall not discuss here the different plans for the
campaign which have been kindly attributed to in
that those who have done may have the pleasure
of pointing out the want Of success of these plans One
Of these is the project of exciting to insurrecon the
pulaton OF Serva and the other Christian provinces of
Turkey; and the Journal des Debas cannot explain how
that Russia has not put in operation all the means
that might have been employed for this purpose This
establishment the part of the Western writer
not surprise Political revolutions with them ia
according their patronage to the bloody reprisas taken
by Mussuman anaticsm the Christian subjects of
Sultan We cannot think that the Imperial Government
any justification for not having etoose upon these
wretched countries the horrors Of Of determination
With respect to the last operation OF troops, the
des Debats and its Western brethren anxious
persuade their credulous readers, well their Mus
sulman allies that these operations the result not
only the energetic attitude Of the Turks but ALSO and
particularly Of the presence Of the
troops upon the theatre of We cannot permit them
to indulge in this illusion.
The Imperial Government had right to hope that the
moderation of its acts well the loyalty Of its inten
tions would be appreciated by the Cabinet Of Vienna.
this persuasion has regulated its conduct since the
commencement of the present crisis The final attitude
chosen by Austria by rendering untenable strategeca
position taken by armies ia full confidence, has
dered necessary Of concentration which they
have just completed and, that they have returned
to territory the Austrian Government freed from all
anxiety feels itself without doubt position to make
the allies Of the Sultan respect those principles of the
independence of Turkey and the integrity of the Otto
man Empire established by the Congress Of Vienna.
Nevertheless when performing this movement the Com
mander-in-chief Prince Gortschako, took to de-
priye of the character with which it is sought to be
vested in the present day. by accomplishing it under the
very eyes of the enemy with the requisite leisure and
dignity He remained long time before Bucharest
in front of the Turkish army with the hope that Omer
Pasha would offer battle, and only after this hope
disappointed did he decide upon continuing his march
1t is not his fault therefore, that, in spite Of their
like impatence the Turks remained the other side of
the Danube.
We shall enter into any further examination Of the
assertions contained in the article alluded to- Our readers
will be able appreciate them. They have their origin
in the sentiments Of blind hatred and will to
which have already directed attention. from the very
ed Paris and London in which, according to the needs
represented at time threatening both the North
and the South ready to invade European cvliza
ton at another time denuded Of all real power, and
possessed at the utmost of strength than was
necessary to keep tmidy the defensive. Such
tons refute themselves II any conclusion can be drawn
from them it is that Russia has remained as 1t has al
ways been faithful to the principles Of conservatism to
that moderation and wisdom which form the foundation Of
her policy She will not depart from these; and trusting
in Divine Providence and in the energetic devotion OF
her children will wait with composure the aggressons
with which it is threatened, and which perhaps too
noisiy enunciated to occasion legitimate subject OF
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