The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-03-21
~. The Emperor Of Russia is i'm a bad way.


rr The Emperor Of Russia isin bad way
He has involved himself in most uncom
Portable tight FIX. BY this time, he must ..
profoundly penitenL for the blunder, II ""'
the crime, of his course upon the Eas'.."
question. That venerable indiviaaa' :,
subterranean Nicholas, would never nav m.
lowed himself to be trapped in tins way =.
must be inexpressibly shocked 10 ''nu ons
h..r;nrh ;s name and possessing SO inueh u
- -, .,,h;.;ou and love of sway, dsgrac-
ing his origin by such stupidi.y
1r r,.noror has now no alternative but
- ou. or fight 1t is dismal
alternative. If he backs out, he d'sgraces
and dsbonors himself and his empire. II ne
sobts. which i. doubtful, he is oea.eh az
all points, his Navy annihllated, and MS
armies given to the beasts and birds OF prey
His power will be effectually crippled the
provinces and territories he has pinhaereu
frsm other nations will be restored TO men,
and Russia will be reduced to thiro rate
empire. Such, at least, seems to be the pro-
liable result of the contest, unless Austria ana
reason for anticipating.
We confess that, while we look upon the
Car as the aggressor and the wrong-doer'
and think he has richly deserved the sound
flogging the Turks have given him, we have
no particular sympathy or respect for the al
lies who, after the Turks have shown them
selves able to do their own fighting, have
ferociously come to their assistance. Inc
course of Russia towards Turkey has not
been comparable in iniquity with the course
of the same Government towards Poland ana
Hungary. those christian and gallant nations
which had the highest claims on the sympa-
thy and support of free and civilized world.
But the heroic and glorious Poles were left
to their fate, and turned their dying eyes in
vain to behold the bayonets of England
and France peering above the horizon. The
Hungarians, who had protected Europe from
the inroads of the Turks, were permitted to
be overwhelmed by the Russian power, while
it was only in behalf of the Turks, who had
been the scourge of Europe, that the Western
nations could force themselves to thepoint of
a warlike resistance to Russian aggression.
1t must be admitted however, that they
would not have drawn the sword even for
Turkey if she had not committed them to it
by her own prompt appeal to arms. They
would be temporizing and negotiating still il
Omar Pacha had not crossed the Danube, and
placed his friends in dilemma as perplexing
rs that in which the Gar is involved, when
there must be back out or fight.
Except SO far as the masses of the Ole
world may be benefited by the approach
ing war, we don't see any great reason the
people of America have to sympathize with
either of the combatants. The Government:
of England and France have been just as "a
pacious, aggressive and INSCRIPTIONS in then
eminent of Russia. The old and the new
world is stained with the bloody footsteps o
their steady march of territorial aggrandize
ment. They are at this moment allied agains
our own country as well as Russia. We may
soon hear upon our own shores the thunders
Russian Navy. The Congress of the United
States, in view Of the relations of this " holy
alliance" to ourselves, and the probability
that the Cuban difficulty may involve Ills be
fore year is over in an European war, ought
tomorrow to vote the money for large
Steam Navy. With Russia in the East and
the United States in the West the allies
might find their hands full, while Great Bri.
tain, in particular, losing her two best Gus
TONERS in the world, would discover that it is
much cheaper to mind ones own business
than to regulate the affairs of two hemis.
pheres.
~ We have rarely known such sue
cession of sad calamities upon the Western
upon to record. In no other country in the
world do we hear of such appalling destruc-
ton as prevails upon our great highways,
both by land and water. The victories of
peace, which have been achieved by steam.
are with us as bloody as the victories of war.
The Indifference to human life in some parts
of this country is frightful A hundred hui
man beings are cut off in their prime by one
of these fearful accidents, and in a week
their fate is forgotten. Nay, the public is
surprised and disappointed if it does not
hear within week of another and more de-
structive catastrophe.
The ATHENEUM.-Wet trust that our read.
ers will bear in mind that tonight Lecture
will be delivered at the Athenaum, by John
Il. Thompson, Esq, the able and accom-.
pilshed editor of the Southern Literary Mes
senger' The Lecture was postponed on
thursday night, in consequence of the exer.
cises at the Medical College. We anticipate
crowded house and we know from the fine
talents OF the lecturer, it will be a most graf;
fed one.
ikafEkASeE.-The New York Legislature
Is actively debating a prohibitory Liouor
Law. Brandy is certainly the Evil One
Approach him in whatever form Won nle.s.
and heproduces trouble Drink him and hs
kicks up row-raise the question Of mt,
ting him under the ban-driy;np hin, e.