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

WHICH we nave uOI lOOm Ill our COluHlto. ~
embraces nearly the same ground but is not
so we'll written as the following from the
London Times -
We have now before u.s. in complete /
form, not only the answer of the Emperor Of
Russia to the letter Of the Emperor Napole-
on but also the manifesto or declaration
which the Car has thought fit TO address to
his own subjects at this crisis. We copied
this manifesto last week. These documents
render the position Of the Russian govern |
ment towards Europe as clear and determn-
ed as that of England and France has be-
come since the recent declaration of Her
Majesty's ministers in parliament and the
address of Louis Napoleon to the legislative
body of his empire These documents serve
also to render the contrast we have already
pointed out between the language of Russia
and that of France still more palpable and
striking. The merit of the French Emperor's
speech is, that it is throughout straight-for-
ward, accurate, and true there Is no attempt
to disguise one part of the case or to disavoW
another part it demonstrates TO the CaPa-
city of any peasant in France, that the most
civilized nations of Europe are reluctantly
drawn into war with the Russian empire,
because great acts of aggression and violence
have been committed because the public
laws of the world have been broken: and
because the general and particular interests
of every nation command resistance to such
a course of action.
! The Russian manifesto, on the contrary,
assigns no definite ground of war, gives no
definite object to these hoStiEties. 1t tadverts
| to what are termed the treaCherouS insl-
cations addressed to Turkey, as ii they, and
not the unjust demands Of Russia, followed
! by the seizure Of the PrinCipaites, were the
cause of the quarrel. 1t insists on former
treaties, but il does not attempt to allcge any
specific violation of them. 1t declares, last
! ", that the entry of the combined fleets into
/ the Black Sea, for the purpose OF protecting
/ the Turks and impeding the navigation OF
/ that sea by Russian vessels of war, is an un
heard-of proceeding among civilized nations.
But, instead of resenting such an interference
in the manner which might be expected from
the head of great empire, the Emperor Mich
! olas informs his subjects upon this point that
he :" has broken off all political intercourse
with the allied Powers Such would not
have been his language if real wrong had
been inflicted upon him, and if he were not
4 conscious that his own forcibie seizure Of
lllC llllC cllJlCo illplt tlld1I JNSbll'S 'ilN
measures of retaliation that are directed
against him. In short, the true causes OF the
war are in this Russian document either
misstated or kept out of sight and a false
E issue is raised by the suggestion that the
frontiers Of Russia and the Christian religion
are attacked by England and France, while
Russia herself is preparing to contend for the
defense of her territories and Of the orthodox
; faith.
The letter addressed by the Gar to the
Emperor of the French enters still more mi
nutely into these details it evadeS every
> real point in the case, and endeavors TO press
into the service of Russian diplomacy several
, of the arguments which had previously been
. demolished by official proof. Here, too, we
find an allusion to some fatal influence,
. . which, like the " reacherous instigation' o.
= the manifesto, is, no doubt, an expression
intended to reflect on the conduct OF tht
; British ambassador at Coustantinople, be,
cause Lord Stratford de Redcliife stood. witt
= a foresight and courage which it is impos
> sible to rate too highly, between the aggres
Z sor and his victims. These calumnies have
: already been vctorously diproved upon pos
: tive evidence, in the parliamentary papers
. now before this county and before Europe
but, when Russia speaks of the L" fatal influ
D ence" which opposed and defeated such
her demands as were unjust, she forsets tina