The daily union., 1854-12-24
RUSSIA, TURKEY, AND TURKEYS ALLIES.


4" w hat are we TO do with the Crimea p
Flushed with victory Alma the allies were then
marching sebasopol which already they considered
in their possession Hence the question early propound
ed in the Chronicle The body of the article il by
saying that the allies will be placed under necessity Of
gusst as had often been the with England India
for Russia be allowed hold it, and it could
be the Turk the allies would have keep
themselves.
Should disaster overtake the allies another question may
arise TO ohich Of them ,eiH TIE Crimea go9 II is not
probable that the alliance could long survive
disaster An unexpected marriage of the Duke of Montpen
sier to the Infana Spain broke up the entente cora
between Louis Philippe and Englands fair Queen and
this better than cordial understanding this positive
active alliance in between the two countries may
pode sequel Sebastopol where has but just
had its commencement in arms This would throw the
parties back again each upon its Objects interests
ambition, and traditions Disappoinments and discon-
tent when bursting forth in England lead change of
ministry. In France military disasters might be fol-
lowed by connections home of which the French them
selves foreknow the character extent England
has not yet felt the but in private grefs Her
passions only beginning TO the surface They
will swell by degrees until reused by events yet come
they will up finally the level of her gigantic
pabites. She carry the contest, avishng more
blood year after year, fighting, expending grumbng and
hurraug This is her among nationsher unyeld
ing indomabe Against forebodings and predic
tons of her run she goes to ascend AS yet signs
of decay appear in her. A horizon is opening 10
her. She will learn many things from the French in
the Crmea She will adopt of the good
points in arms of the now despsed Russian just
as she used to ridicule us just she ridcued, to
the very skies, bits of striped bunting at first
and afterwards adopted much that she found excellent
in our naval equipments. BY the steadness of her
policy and vigor of her for agesstll by be-
ing advance of the great powers of Europe in Freedom
which has expanded and corroborated her swayshe
has at length to build up empire throughout the
globe, to which history, able writer has said,
show 'no parallel, either in the Roman the Arab, the
Spanard, the Gau in their palmest days. Her power
everywhere because it is aoa directed by stable
constitution at home which changes the age changes
which is faster than think, adapting itself always to
the and principles necessary to her aggran
dzement and her have yet been exhausted
though drawn upon past all calculation and although
hemenhy and constantly struck at by Napoleon with all
the potency of his mind and armamens when head
of continental Europe.
General Sir de Lacy Evans, who wounded at Alma
and who pointed the weak part the English camp
InkermanR precisely where it was afterwards attacked
has in his work Russia computed the English debt
be relatively less in these days than after the treaty of
American war and after the of the French revolu
than her debt In the work. he dwells with compre
he If Ruxs
her rapid Improvements in military view, and otherwise
and the idea escapes him be twenty years ago that
France did not cooperate towards checking her steps
England must look herself "If is to be carried
on by money England is sure to outbd me" These were
Napoicons words with Europe at his feet Russia
five Kings in his train three Of them of his family
and the Emperor of Austria his father-in-aw and his
tributary has been also recorded by of his own
historians the accomplished Segur, who has beautifully
portrayed his supendous genius with the appalling mis-
fortunes of his campaign to Moscow that the Eng
lish alone he meant to attack through Russia"
1t is no interest of ours that sebastopo should be
Without the naval power of England the attempt
could not have made and it is yet undecided if the
allies can effect it, If they can, conectures may be haz-
arded that England will he most likely keep it. The
war; it extends to objects and parties and
passions and temptations not dreamed of at the outset
all great do will be ready supply preexts to her
lofty ambition and thoughts Should Chatham
her cabinet he would counsel and demand in the
of former British and futurs British hopes His
spirit would have been beforehand wi the Gar in having
Constantnople itself The hunders of his oyerrung in
eect and eoquence would proclaim to all Europe that
the Turks never could should hold it. And why not
be in Englands keeping, he would say in addition to
Gibraltar, Heigoand, Cape of Good Hope Alden, india
jamaica the Falkland islands, yanconvers Standardized
the whole North American continent 1--WE surmsng
the language of the Brtop, not stating views)
north of ourselves except Russian s,rp the
northwest coast 2 Why not when Napoleon, marching
with his gorgeous host the Nieman in 1872 medtated
the dctaton of peace at Coas,aataop thus ousng the
Turk from it? Why not when France has since planted
her foot in Africa the Mediterranean shore where
Sebastopo by the world and acknowledged by her
rvas2
We check this strain OF feeling natural to American
fondy dwelling upon the future Developments and glory
by asking if it is for to invoke trumphs for
these two mighty nations, when either of them is so
far potent or offensive war away from their
shores than Russia. This, too, with the Cuban
question unsettled, the Central American question still
hanging us the Greytowu affair not done fes-
terng, and the Monroe doctrine admitted By neither Of
Memi Is it our arms cotton, four our pork