Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-28

sea, WGUlu nave Uted FdsilSt Eiad 10
know that the necessity OF keeping fsv5s-
iopol well garri1onod served mems diver
sion, By kesping the main Russian army
30 much smaller. But before beating the
Russians decisiveIy in tho field, in no
csss would have served my disposabie
forces as you did, by separating from
100, 900 Turks on the Danube in no case
would have invited Russia to bring
down upon my divided forces 100, 900
men to position. the most advantageous
to her. and the Dos, disadyantageoUs to
you SIS certainly Sevastopol Is. in 70 case
would have afforded to the 100, 600 Rus
SLAMS the additional advantage of the
strength OF those fortificaiions # the vast
stores OF their armame Mt and of The guns
OF the ships noorei in the bay. ! would
have foGcei the Russians either to fight
without these Advantages, or to GO off
AMI - leave these comm odies without
the 100 coo men; but In no case would
have permitted them both ole ments Of
strength.
Such sre the facts. will not say
tina. You Will not take Sevastopol, lead
e!S and men ike those YOU have there
may do pro3igies, though their position
Is certainly anything but satisfactory -
Whatever be the events which coming
events have cast over my soul, of those
brave. when all ,he, spirits are required
in the supreme trial they haveSo stand.
Let Us take for granted that they succeed
/ let Us anticipate the sight when the shat
tered ruins Of Seyastopol-well,sn and az
teff II your secret aim in this war has
beel solely the destruction of the Russian
fleet, well this will be achieved by the
sacrifice o. the fewer OF both your ma.
tons; ou: this YOU never can dare to avow;
! ycu never can nvow that your only
! object in this war has been rehearsal OF
! Copenhagen and Navarno. from mere
| jealousy. Well. if YOU have higher
broader aims. AZ YOU must, then suppo
sing you have taken SevastoYol, | ask YOU
well, and after? Oh, how different
could be your position now if your Gov
eminent bad not sacrificed your success
for the wors; of despots and despotism.
Suppose YOU had organized a brigade OF
Polish exiles} France-even the France
Of Napoleon HAS foreign legion why
not you, who are not over sbundtnt in
men, and have fought almost all your
continental wars with your own money
but with foreign armies; your own braves
ssking the part which the Old Guards of
Napoleon asked. Suppose you have or
gani1ed foreign legion Of Poles here,
and ordered Sir Charles Napier not TO care
! about barren Ccns:radt, but take Rign and
and the Polish legions TO call on Rus
| sian-P Poland 10 raise; and 10 back them,
| aud the - 600 French who were des
patched 10 the Baltic with such romp
Gus flourish of imperial words. and who
did there SO wonderfully little; suppose
! his done and suppose at the same time
that the Anglo French army in the East.
100 600 strong joining The 100 600 Turks
elected By recent victory. pushing on af-
ter the defeated Russians up Besserabis
how different would be your position now.
But Austria What with Austria?
hear the sien, question of your hearts
| anxiety. Well, of two things. one, either
Austria would have let you do-and then
the question requires no snswer-or she
would have plsycd false against YOU; and
in this case YOU had but TO cali on Hun
gary and Italy. and where would Austria
be now?
Eng and takes hu. TOO much tho airs
Of looking down upon Us with the com.
misseraiion of pride because we are poor
eIiles. You forget that some of these poor
eIles, united ma! weigh. tomorrow, the
destinss of Europe ana your own, in the
hollow of their hand. Whv, few years
back you have seen him nothing but an
exile, less entitled 10 reasonable hone,
bu, rot tess miserable than We are. You
forgot that revolution which we assem-
bed here 10 commemorate; you forget how
the kosziniers (ayihenen) of sighted Po
land have mown down the invncibe cui-
rsssiers of Russia like grass; you forget
shat we Hungarians, abandoned, almost
betrayed. by all the world, we nlone have
stood our ground, not only egains, that
Austria, which aristocra.ic 'Englend so
much fears and so much courts, but stood
our ground against that Russia besides,
which YOU are three powers 10 fight,
Prudence, justice. and humanity. alike
advised you TO lock TO nations for your AL
lies. and To- England flatlers dynasties.
and relies on alliances with passing men
instead of lookIng'.to lasting nations.
Whatever be my opinion about Napo-
leon, and your alliance with him, will
respect your feelings, and will not say any
Thing 10 hurt them; yet one consideration
l would recommend England TO we'll weigh.
Napoleon is a mortal man. like whatsoever
else, he may be dyinga at this very moment
who knows, at.all events Napoleon is
bui passing meteor--the French nation
is lasting luminary. You are allied to
Napoleon; do you believe you have SO
cured the alliance Of the French nation?
No, you have not. And why not? Be-
cause your alliance purports to barter u
way the freedom OF Poland. Hungary, Italy
and Germany, for the precarious and the
disreputab bic friendship of the Hapsburgs,
and the Branjenburgs. Such is your al
lance with Napoleon. Now, do you DO
lieve that the French nation, restored to
lis sovereignty, as certainly restored it
will be ever would sanction such Oh al
Lancet No, by all tha. is sacred TO man
never, never, never.