The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-03

dence the Courier imputes nor the prouAc'o" III
activity the null result Of the great expedition TO the
Baltic the long procrasnaton Of any attempted action
of the Allies in the Black to be justified and explained
by considerations of military prudence as
argued by the Courier The true explanation lies deeP
under all these superficial considerations
Great Britain and France have undertaken this war; a
they themselves aege and avow for the purpose OF mum
bling Russia That is undertaking which II is u'n
easier get into than out Of The Great Napoleon u"o
took the same thing with million tried soldiers uhu
his command and nearly the whole OF Europe 10 pcA h'
and failed dsastrously He, with all his vast military re
sources failed in the attempt although he had access 10
Russia on its fankhat is through Prussia ana foahu
Now with smaller military resources at their aspoS'
France and England attacking Russia not by lis un
defended and ndeensibe western land frontier but only
at two extreme points of the empire which alone are ao
cessibc and each of which is outlying CITADEL the
reduction of which would more impair the intrinsic
strength and the national vitality of Russia than e loss
of Agiers would that Of France, or Gibraltar tha' Vi
Great Britain The strength of Russia consists in the vast
extent of homogeneous territory altogether IN one mass
in the magnitude of her population relatively to that OF
any other country in Europe in the comparative unity OF
race of that populations in the popularity OF their regon
in their exemption from revolutionary convulsions IN the
intensity Of their nationasm and, above all III those
very qualities for which undervalue and reproach
themnamey Standardization of the great body OF the
people the privileges and pride of the aristocrac GLASS;
and the despoc autocracy of the Gar 1t is deporaby
ridiculous for the French and English to pretend to depre-
ciae Nikola Romanzof that great empire OF when ne
is at once the political chief and the representative man
He the nhertor of the best blood of that old master race
of the Normans and thus entering into all the ideas ana
associations of Western Europe Emperor OF its most
imperial stock the adopted descendant OF the ancient
nrnces of the most numerous and powerful branch OF the
great Scavlc race which occupies Eastern Europe their
Car and their Father and beyond the confines OF Europe
the white Khan who divides with the yellow Khan two
thirds of Asia such person. standing in such reiauon
TO so large portion of the human family when IN add
ton to all this he happens to possess the highest mental
faculties and accomplishments, unsullied personal honor
virtues such as are somewhat in either prince
or and the devoted attachment of the country he
rules is not to be lightly dealt with by Louis Napoleon
r avep nv Victoria Alexandrina And when such ruler
in his projects of national aggrandzemen is acting moi
in the mere pursuit personal AMBITION but for the salts
faction NJ te deepseated and universal sentiment OF the
rea, nation of which be the political chief nay when
/ the sin which he commits is not his alone but the
hereditary sentiment of bis country; and when Inc
avowed object of those who attack him is to prevent
Tho contamination of an object inseparably identified
with the material interests, well as the rehgious
and political passions of every man, woman, anu
child in that country under such circumstances tn'
thing undertaken which to humble depress and perma
nenty curta the power Of Russia is task scarcely pos
sble to accomplished even by The cordial coalition and
cooperation of all the rest of Europe IT IS easy 10 see
them why England and France Should IN the prosecution
of their protested undertaking. seek to bring all the Ger
man States into active and offensive combination witt
them SO as to have Russia assaed her western flank
and that meantime they should have paused or at least
held back for while in their separate military oper
alton which is to attack Russia her strongest positions
that Is Sebastopol and Cronstadt In ascrbng therefore
the long delay Of the French and English to make an eff
fctive forward movement to mere tmidy, the Courri
altogether underestimate the gravity OF the facts ano
proposes solution in the highest degree injurious to the
Allies who as we cheerfuy admit are the most brave az
well as the intelligent among all the NATIONS OF hn
rome And the Courier would have fallen into TINS
line Of reasoning unjust to its own cause but ina
it set out With and aborng to establish hypothe
sis injurious to the United States
In the same paragraphs the Courier in speaking OF thu
war with Mexico, calls it "adveItH-e suboinng TINS
parenthetical commentary "The event has nishe y ahe
an adventure than war" How disingenuous are a.!
these arguments and insnuaons of depreciation agans
the Uniei States We engage in foreign war with emf
nent success and with what is imputed us even undue
spirit and courage therefore forsooth it is an adven
ture and not war Let apply this novel and strange
doctrine to other Napoleon Bonaparte entered Italy
at the head of an army inferior that of the Ausrans
and gained eries of victories by what according to TIT
Courier was of prudence or in the same way hi
marches into Austria and gaans series OF victories OF
the same in Prussia According TO the Courier we arr
not to consider any of these campaigns war; but only az
adventure At any rate adventures Of this kind consti
tutc the most brilliant pages in the Annals es France
2 tbey well may in those of the United States.
The Courier proceeds to furnish very amusing
summary OF what the Allies have done at the time whei
!, the article was written, as follows
.In the Black sea all the Russian ports blockaded
Odessa has been bombrded and its p4esep exsenc
but 10 the will of the admiras the Russians nave bee
constrained to evacuate and to Destroy with their owl
hands almost all the with which they had garnishe'
their coast camp is established at varna; 10000 mel
have advanced even Rouschonck ready to furnish M
TO the Turks il they should have neea OF III IN hne or
mdnbe body for Decentralization is on the Vtch 10 esp
lish itself on The coast of the Crimea FOR the capture
Gaia and Anapa In the Baltic, as in the Black sea- ID
Russian commerce is shut up Ia its ports several OF ines
last have been bombarded forty thousand men are IN pro
res of taking possession of Bomarsupd a4d the Aaan
ands Besides those parts Of these two seas which hay
been rendered more dangerous by the suppression III
Russian lighthouses have been examined oronshat AN
hava studied in such manner rs 10 tor
ouqhly instruct the chiefs of the expedition with regard