The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-12-27

are fighting her 5aetles move than g0stz
oa0n ~ What a proud sneering there
was in official quarters when three months
ago, I told the good people of England,
that it believes to pay, and to bleedfo
fr eedemS while5 in reality, it ismade TO
fight for Austria Now it came out at
last. Truth will come out, just as MUIR
der will. Well, has your government
gained Austria Go and read the we'll
founded lamentations In the organ even
the ministerial organs of publicly, about
the treaeherous attitude and the over
bearing insolence of that Austria which
your Government has courted with SO
much submission, and which, in return,
the enterprises of Russia, iu-
suits your Allies, and counteracts your
combinations ? It is not only that you
have not gained over Austria, but there
you have the Turks arrested In the
midst af their victorious course there
you have the fruit of their heroic strug4
gle-poor Wallachia placed over into
the t~reacherous hands ofdespotie Aus
sria,-there is the Turkish army paral-
yzed ON the one hand, and there is, on
the other hand, the Gar made and left
free to throw oyerthrowing numbers up
on the flank and the real ofyour gal
liant rank in the Grimea.
"There you have the spirits of the
Turkish army, high flowing as they were
at the victories al Silistria and Giurge-
vo, now depressed there you have the
spirits 0 ftho Russian army, depressed as
as they were now restored. And oh!
l could tell you what it is to neglect the
moment of spirited excitement In a vic
~torious army,-and coYld tell you what
ir is to give time to a demoralized enemy
to resume its spirits and to take breath.
One such moments neglect in a war
and 1t is not battles, gentlemen-not
battles but empires that may be lost by
it. And Iast-alasi not least,-there is
Sebastopol. Every British heart has
watched the great bloody drama there
with intense anxiety. I am not wanted
to tell you the tale of your heart. / am
not wanted to describe how your braves
have found there an cntrenched camp
with an army, instead of a fortress with
garrison, as your Government seems to.
have anticipated,-how new armies are
pouring upon. your shattered ranks, as
your Government appears not to have
anticipated, or it would be more than an
error to act as they did. ALI have
wanted is to quote from public reports
these words: I" TIE question as. no Ion
ger 2eAether aUe shall take Se5aStopoL on.
not ; the siege of Ss5astopol, though not
raised, mag be regarded as at a stand
still. We are reduced to the dgehslge. y
Such is the situation the leaves have
turned ; Russia is the besieger, you are
the besieged. And at what price has
this situation been purchased?
Gentlemen, on the 5th of July, ten
weeks before England embarked on that
expedition, if-advised as well as illpre-
Ism a speech, the contents of
it would have been well for Great
Britain to mind, spoke these words to
Glasgow Not one ont gfve of your
6raucs soiX see Ak5ion again" Ofcourse
1 used the word fguratively, as indica-
tive of a great loss. Now it is a sad
reality Number your dead, your
wocnded and your disab!ed-more than
20, 900 men out of 10000 are already
lost. My sad anticipations are literal
ly fulfilled. And here, at home? Why
here the number of widows and orphans
applying for support to patriotic charity
amounts to II 900. Such is the position,
gentlemen. Now with that position thus
analysed, I call on cotemporary age, and
on history, to say whether I was exag-
gerating or too harsh, in saying that
England'sH policy has been wrong; that
it has been successful nowhere ; but
inefficient, unsuccessful, and disastrous
every where ? But you are told, for all
consolation, that no human foresight
could have fully anticipated that posi-
tom I, for one, have foreteld it, fact
by fact, word by word, and / wonder
how my thinking man could do other
wise but to knew all this, Yet if such
there were, they could have used the
modest light of my poor oil=lamp. tits
true, the people of Great Britain gave
me tremendous cheers in return and went
home to toll and then to sleep. 1t is as
if would have been mendicating fayors
for me, whereas it was England's hon
or, dignity, interest and seccess, that l
hold up before their eyes.
He thus depicts the present asitua-
tion" of the Allies, and finds two ex-
plantations to account for it:
The first is, that to begin a wal against
Russia with a landing expedition to the
Orimea is an idea SO supremely absurd,
that the Gar, giving more credit for
perspicacity to his enemies than they
deserved, did not believe it until you
actually landed off Eupatoria. Secondly
and chiefly, you are indebted to Poland
for not having tomeet l00, 600 Russians
more at Sebastopol. If England did
disregard the fact hat Poland is the
vulnerable part of Russia, the fact that
Poland is the vulnerable par of Russia,
the Gear was prudent enough to mind it.
Inthe Crinea proudEngland and France
attack him-he is content to oppose lOO,-
600 men of them on the Danube the
flower of the Turkish army, elated by
victory, defes and y him-he is
ooe+antt to oppose them with $4,000
But to Poland, where there is not one
man in arms, but where the unquencha-
BILE fire of a heroic nations hatred is
smouldering, he sent an army OF
100000 men, to be prepared for any
emergencies. Some may tell you that
this is due chiefly to a precaution against
Austria. But it Is clear to demonstra-
ton, that the Gear feels perfectly easy
about the submissive obedie ce of his
Proconsul in Vienna, or else he would
not have left the very existence of his
$4,000 on the. other side of the Pruth
at the mercy of his good friend, the
Hapsburg. Yes, it is the name of Po-
land you have to thank for the fact that
your army in the Crimea, all heroes as
tbav p have not fallen n victim to