The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-04-10

Russia and Turkey, il is not improbable that
and corruption might at last
have obtained that species Of settlement
which consists in submission, not only 20
these demands, but to any demands made by
so strong power on one so little capable of
,flectual resistance. But it is due 10 the
ministers of the Porte to remember that not
one of them hesitated as to the imperative
duty of making the best resistance they could
to such pretensions, and war was de-
clared by the unanimous advice Of the dig
nitaries of the empire, though in direct OPP
position to the advice Of the maritime Pow
ers.
The Russian government thinks fit to re-
peat the assertion that the occupation of the
had been preceded and in
great part brought about by an important pre-
vious occurrence-the arrival Of the comb
ned fleets in the neighborhood Of the Darda-
ueles." Lord Clarendon, however, has dem
onstralal. iu his dispatch of the 10th OF July,
1888 that The instructions empowering Lord
Stratford to send for the fleet, Were not dis
patched from London I'll, the lst Of June,
aud could not be known atSt Petersburg be
fore the 1lh or oth of that month whereas
the resolutions Of The Russian cabinet to
proceed to the occupation OF the Principal
titles had been taken on the 3lst OF May. !:
is therefore. false to state that our move
ment preceded that of Russia, and physical
ly impossible that the occupation of the
Principalities should have been brought about
BY an event that had not yet taken place
and was not even announced. Just as the
Russians attempted to represent the arrival
of the fleets in Besiha bay Us an equivalent
to the occupation of the Plincipalities, and
to establish parallel between these two
events, which was Justly and vehemently
denied By the English and French govern
mcnts, 50 they now attempt to assimilalc the
entry of the fleets into the Bosphorus with
the attack on Sinopc; that is to say, they
place on the same footing a perfectly legal
measure of defensive precaution, not amount
ing even 10 hostility, with one of the most
atrocious acts OF modern warfare; and they
even taunt the French government with not
having declared war before the event bad ia =
ken place. The resolution of the two Pow
crs to prevent the Russian fleets from cruis-
ing in the Black Sea, was am appropriate
punishment on Russia for that Outrage and
it has been so entirely successful, That we
believe since it was taken, our ships have
not had the fortune to meet with single
Russian man-o war out Of harbOr.
The Emperor of Russia carefully abstainS
in both these productions from any language
amounting to a declaration of war, yet he
SAYS that in the position in which be is pla-
ced he cannot discuss or even examine for u
moment the conditions offered to him. How,
then, does he suppose that Turkey was to
/ discuss and examine the conditions offered
to her. when they were backed By threats and
/ BY an act Of invasion far more direct and
/ incompatible with her dignity as a sovereign
state2 The Power which sent Prince Men
chikoff to Constantinopic and Count Gorlof
to Vienna has no right to complain of any
want of respect to the dignity and independ
'encc of the great empires or their ministers
Yet even on the very threshold Of war, al
that the united interests and remonstranCe'
\ of Europe have obtained from the Autocra
is summed up in the naughty phrases tina
conclude his letter: My conditions ar,
known at Vienna. They are the only basis
which | can permit myself to discuss Th,
purport of these documents is, therefore, ;
himsey attempt to give effect to one or two
arguments long since exploded in the judy
ment of all European affected disinClina
ton to declare war, inasmuch as to this hou
no lawful cause of war can be produced by
Russia-but, at the bottom, a complete de
E termination to yield nothing, and to tigh
I out this quarrel.
Il ~, TO- 20 no tho laC IN,