The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-04-05
MANIFESTO OF THE CAR NICHOLAS

MANIFESTO OF THE GEAR NICHOLAS.
awe, Nicholas ], &c.
ave have already informed our beloved and
faithful subjects of the progress of our disagree
,aents with The Ottoman Porte.
"Since then, although hostlities have COM
we have not ceased sincerity to wish,
as We still wish, the cessation Of bloodshed
We even entertained the hope that reflection
and time would convince ,he Turkish govern
ment OF its misconceptions, engendered BY
treacherous insisators, in which our just de-
mands, founded on treaties, have been represent
ed as attempts at its independence, and veilin:
intentions of aggrandizement Vain, however,
have been our expectations, so far
"Fhe English and French governments have
sided with Turkey, and the appearance OF the
combine ate cts at Consantinople served as a
fur ther incentive TO its obstinacy; aud now bo h
the western powers, without previously declar-
ing war, have sent their fleets into the Black
sea, proc!aming their intention TO protect the
Turks and to impede the free Navigation OF
oar vessels of war for the defence Of our coasts
Alter so uGheard of course among civilized
nations, we recalled our embassies from Eng
land and France. aud have broken off all poiiti-
cal intercourse with those powers
"Thus England and France have sided with
the enemies OF Christianity aga nst Russla, who
is combating for the orthodox faith.
"But Russia will not betray her holy calling;
and, it enemies Infringe our frontiers, we are
ready To meet hem with the firmness bequrath
ed 10 US by our foretathers. Are we not the
same Russian nation of whose exploits the me.
morable events of 1912 bear witness3
"flay the Almgh y assist to prove ihis-b BY
deeds. Vih this hope, combating Tor our per.
secuted brethren, followers of the faith of CHRIST,
with one accord let all Russia exclaim: 20
Lord, our Redeemer! whom shall we fear?
Nay God be glorfrd and his enemies be scat
terpd!'
ST. petersburgh, 9th {2lsD February, 1854. "
FRANCE.
The Car Niehoiass Reply to Napofeon-
Drouyn de L'huys Commentary there.
upon.
The Moniteur publishes in full the Cars
reply TO the Emperor Napoleon's letter. The
Gar writes as follows.
st. Petrrsburgh, January %, (Feb. 81
SIRE: cannot better reply to your Majesty
than by repeating, they belong to me, the
words WHICH your letter terminates, ssOur rela
tons ought 10 be sincerely amicabIe, and should
be based upon the same in,eniions-the main
tenance OF order, the love OF peace, respect for
treaties, and reciprocal good feeling" Your
Majesty, is accepting this programme, as had
traced it, says that you remain faithful to It.
dare belteve-and my conscience tells me go
that have not exceeded lis limits; for, in the
affair which have excited division between US
the orig of which not to be attributed to me
have always sought to maintain trie ndly rea
tons with France, and have always endeavored
to AVOID any hing which might clash with the
religion professed by your Majesty.
have made for the maintenance of peace, all
the Concessions, both of form and subs ance
compatible with my honor; and, in claiming for
my co.rellgionists in Turkey the confirmation o!
the rights and privileges which they have long
acquired at the price of Russian blood, claimed
nothing which was not considered treaties. II
the Porte had been left to herself the difference
which has so long Kept Europe in suspense
would have been solved. fatal influence has
thrown everything into confusion. BY provok
ing graiuitous suspicious, by exciting the tanat
icism OF the Turks, and by deceiving their go
vernment as to my intenlens and the real scope
of my demands, it has so exaggerated the extent
of the questions that the probable result seem,
to be war. Your Majesty must allow me no,
to enter too much in detail into the circumstan
ces as they present themselves TO you in your
letter, in which those circumstances are marked
out. Several acts on my part, appreciated with
more than one fact perverted, would requile
in order to be properly rectifed, at least as
conceive long developments, INTO which it would
not be proper to enter in a correspondence be
tween sovereign end sovereign.
For instance, your Majesty attributes to the
Occupation of the prIncipail.ies the evil ofhaylng
suddenly transported the question from the re
gion of discusso on 10 'hat,ot fact; but your Ma
iesty leaves out of view the circumstance that
this occupation, still purely conditional, was
preceded, and in great measure caused, by a
very important previous fact-the appearance OF
the combined fleet in the vicinity OF the Dardan.
elles, and besides this, much before the period
when England hestated 10 assume hoslle
attitude, your Majesty took the initiative in
sending your feet as far as Salamis. This
woundrng demonstration certainly exhibited
little nfidence in me. 1t was calculated to
encourage the Turks, and to paraIyxe before
hand the success ofneghiauons, by giving them
the idea that France and England weie ready 20
support their Cause under all circumstances In
sar same war~J VI jesty makes 1t appear
that The expiina Dry cJniLlsn afies OF my cabl-
mel upon he Vienna note rendered It inposshe
for France and England to recommend lis adop
ton by The Porte; but your Majesty may reco.
lect that our commentaries followed, and did
not precede, the pure and non acce ptance of the
note. ana believe that the powers were 81 litt.e
seriously DESTROYS OF peace that they confined
themselves to the claims OF the pure and simple
adoption of that note, instead ct allowing the
Porte to modify what he had previously adopted
without change.
Besides, IT any point OF our commentaries ha d
gwen rise to difficulties, offered satisfactory
solution to them at Olnu,z, aud such was i,
considered by Austria and Prussia. Jnfortu
nately in the interval, part o. the Anglo French
fleet had already entered the Dardanelles, under
the pretext of there protecting the lives and
parties of English and French subjects; and Ill
order to allow The whole 10 enter, without viola.
ting the treaty of lo4l, i. was necessary tina; the
Ottoman government should declare war against
us. My opinion is that if France and Eng and
had desired peace as much as | they would al
any cost prevented that declaration of war or
when war was once declared, have taken care
that it should be restrained within the limits
which wished to contine ii on The Danube, SO
that might not be..compelled by force to aban'
don the purely defensive system whic | wished
to ADOPT. But from the moment when the
Turks were allowed to attack our Aslatic terri.
Tory, to carry away one OF our frontier pests,
(even before the time fixsd for the Commence.
nent Of h"stlitles,) TO blockade Akhaltzik, and
to ravage the province of Armena-trom the
to transport ,roops, arms and munitions of war
to our coasts, could i, be reasonably hoped that
we should wait patiently the result Of such an
attempt' Was it not supposed that we should
do all we coul to pravent It'll
The affair Of Sinupe was the result Of it
That affair was the forced consequence of the
attitude adopted by the two powers, and the re.
suit certainly could not have been unexpected
had declared my wish to remain upon the de-
fensive; but before war broke out, az my honor
and my interests could permit me to do so, anc
long as the war was restrained within certain
limits, has all been done which ought to have
been done to prevent these limits being exceed
ed. If the character of spectator, or even thai
OF mediator, was not sufficient for your Majes,,
and il your Majesty wished to become the aux
llary of my enemies, then, sire, j, would have
been more honorable and more worthy OF yot
to have told me frankly beforehand by de-
carng against Each OF US would
then have known the IA ri he had TO play Blu