The daily union., 1854-12-17

declares that fe the gift Of God and cannot be taken
by man. BY law life guaranteed to every subject and
judicial tribunal take it away This is the only nation
on earth that imbodes in its organic formation this hu,
name principle And yet in that vast empire Of millions
there are perperssed in century the murders and
crimes that of weekly in the cities of Lon
don and Paris in large cities All their laws
are founded in humanity and illustrate the truth Of the
political aphorsm that the benecence of law is the
tanty of furnishing its offenders The policy Of Russia
has ever been maintain the majesty of law and the dig
nifty of its magistrates The wisdom of that policy is
in its RESULTS great despotc empire governing millions
bv a single will and those millions yielding flia aud
reverentisl love to the power of one man.
Contrast that power with its natural antagonist and
emythe Moslem Old Asia, the birthplace of the human
family the birthplace of Saviour is under the Mos
LENS sway Isansm and all its revolving rites is rampant
where Adam and Eve the morning that creation dawned
walked together in Eden before sin invaded its bowers and
there DESTROYED the likeness of Deity in the rsborn pair
That country that Graded the human family and upon
which the Star of the shed down its first gospel light
has been devastated with Christian blood and the groaas
of those whom Christ redeem have for centuries
gone up the places of Judgment and rerbution. The
power Of the Moslem has been sitting nighmsre
the nobest types of man. and the unhoy rites Of bash
nous prophets have been hanging pail on the souls
and energies of generations of races enchained in super
stton and emasculaed Of the great attributes that dig
nifty and ennobe natures Iltte below angels" Ta
land of the grape and the olive of the vine and
the 6g-ree, is enshrouded in darkness, and the wine
press no longer rodden does the lord Of the vine
yard longer gather his fruits sit under his vine
and fig tree The sceptre has departed from JUDAH and
if we may be permitted open the veil of the future and
indulge in prophecy, should say the Shiloh is now
come The tax-gatherers and the receivers of tribute
money have pressed the last energies of of
raj people, who have been driven by their exact0ns from
their vineyards and their fields of olives and corn to the
vagant and uncertain life of the nomads that swarm upon
the vast seppes and wastes of despoiled Asia This g
nary of the Old World is boundless desert where
desoation and misery reign in all their sullen horrors
The husbandman has no longer home, where the
daughters of his handmade dragged to the harens Of
the lords and where virtue purity and beauty are brought
into the poygaous shambles and sold toys for the gray
haired lechers of Moslem favor The earth longer finds
tcrs of its soil where the OK muzed that treadeth out
the corn and where by the of the brow the bread
that is earned snatched from the hungered mouths of
aborers children who arve the tithemen in their ra
pacy take the last measure of oil and II Is here
that women denied Heaven and Chrssans and dcss
are forbidden to enter the mosques where the vouptuo
and lustfu Mosem makes bis amorons orisops tp fhs
great Allah, and asks the Hours paradise,
And yet this vast dominion of the Sultan, accursed Of
God wasting with the decay its unrightcous sys-
TENS of fraud rapne and mercess exactions, has CAUSED
the Christian powers of Europe to unite to reinvgo
rate and restore.
These are fair of the present comparative r
tons of the Russian and Mosem powers The Gar gov
erns seventy millions of happy and contented Christian
subjects protected in life and property by humane laws;
they glory in their Emperor and worship God in the faith
of their foresather and in the faith of the living God
The traveller who passes the entire length and breadth
that great territory subject who would
change his condition. misery that appeals to biz sym
pathes for any relief
i The Sultan it is true, girdles in his power dominion
not so large popuous The of God upon his lands
as blight and the masses of miserable hordes Of vagrat
homeless subjects that wander upon his desolate and fruit
less seppes trusting the precarious chances Of the nomsd
for the comfortles life that ends without hope Of bet
ter Every spark of the divinity of their natures Is
uenched and the coma Of lifeless spirieas inacton
upon their uninpred and strangled spirits There
is no security to life or property aid the heavy heel
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hope seems have fed forever With these convictions
of the relative merits of the Russian and Mosem rule
will doubt where sympathes would be In the contest
where they alone were contending for supremacy.
But this has entangled in its issue the interests
all the thrones of Europe and do not eddle with
the political aairs of that continent feelings not
biased and we have little whether the double
eagles of Nicholas shall be planted upon the Acropol or
clipped of their proud plumage be driven back to la i'm
peral Egra at St Petersburgh Yet in its end
not fail to be less remotely affected and fur
we have interest it is in the Of England and
France in the rsgscitaon of the sick patient He
may regarded beyond cure and the partition Of his
great estate safer in the hands Of the Czar than In those
in less responsible executors who will make the metes and
bounds the Of endless and entail upon Europe
/ years of miseres and curses.
| GEy WEBB EUROPEAN wAR--The New York
Courier whose editor General webb retirued hoic
the Pacific presents his views OF the war; and forth
the British loss at Inkermann greater than that Of Water
loo considering the numbers engaged The British race
he says again demonstrated its predomnance but never
did Russian troops fight better No assault be made
without great renforcements the of tho allies being
too much exposed on their long lines lie inrtner S4xs
The battle demonstrated the nyincibty of the sllea
army fighting side by side after centuries OF hostility and
although thus far the English army with less than bal
oft heeb ed N do