The true Democrat., 1855-11-06

church, viz "Render unto Caesar the things which are C;esars," to attemptor EVEN TO WISH TO TAKE FROM THEIR BLOCKS that dear and valuable right, THE PRIVILEGE OF VOTING AC- CoRDING TO THE DICTATES OF THEIR OWN JUDG- MENT.
 hope the Colonel will not again get into such an unfortunate category as to make charges which are so VIGOROUSLY UNTRUE as those herein treated of.
 Very respectfully
 PETER FARREL.
 LITTLE Roc1, Nov. Sd, 1855.
 From the London Morning Herald, Sept. 20. The War Just Commenced in Flu
 rope.
 Major Curzon arrived in London soon after midnight, with the despatches of General S;mp- son, detailing the events which accompanied the fall of Sebastopol. Ere we shall have conclud- ed the remarks which we have thus commence ed, we shall in all probability have in our pos- session those details of the terrible loss by which the possession of that fortress has been purchased, and which will bring agony to ma- ny home. The nation has not grudged it's blood in the contest in which we are engaged Over the vail of individual anguish, mourning private loss, the shout of national triumph as- cends to Heaven, and public rejoicing drowns the cry of many widow and orphan flom hearths felt desolate by the glorious but fearful victory of the 8th
 Nevertheless, the fact that so many of our countrymen have fallen in the bloody enterprise which it has pleased Heaven to crown with success-the number of brave and devoted men by whose sacrifice this success has been won these things surely compel us almost nvolun- tarlly to ask, "For what have these sacrifices been made?' They impose upon Us the duty of seeing, as far as we can, that they have no t been made in vain.
 It is no. for us to deprecate the triumph that the allied arms have achieved In the columns of this journal 1t was that the invasion of the Crimea was first urged upon timid ministry Two years have passed since for days together we pointed at Sebastopol as the place in which a vital blow might be struck at Russian power with comparatively little risk to ourselves.- When men were dreaming of peace, we repeat ed week by week, and day by day, the cry that Sebastopol must be destroyed. It is not, then, for us to lessen the value to the allied cause of its demolition Still, we must caution the nation against exaggerating its importance. W7th the talang of Sebastopol tue ,oar only in re- a1ity commences. Russia ls not hunsble1. Her poa0er as not broken Her gigantic migIN stiU lies almost unsettled. Her powers of aggression are, it may almost be said, unimpaired Her bar baran hordes are still in the reserve of her mmeasurable plains, ready to be precipitated upon Europe whenever Europe is divided or weakened enough to be incapable of resis- tancc. Her frontier is still unassalabe by hos tile armies, and in the gloomy recesses of her mpenetrable domains her statesmen still plot that dark conspiracy against the liberties of the world which is the policy of Russia
 WI hat is to be the next move? We do not now speak of man9uvres in the Cr;mea. If there are to be such, they but little longer protract the hour when the allied powers must determine upon some course of action very different from the storming of a fortress in a remote angle of the Russian territory. We suppose the Russians driven from the crmea- we suppose the whole peninsula in the undis- puted possession of the French and English armies-what then?
 The question may seem strange to those who believe that after such disasters Russia will sue | for peace. This was the deluson under which this war was originally undertaken. Lord Aberdeen dreamed that a demonstlation-the appearance of fleet in the Baltic, the knock ing down a few miserable walls at Bomarsund, or the sheling few houses at Odessa-would bring the Russian government to their senses. Just as miseraby deceived are they who now expect that the conquest of the Crimea, even were it completed tomorrow, will have the smallest effect in forcing Russia to yield. Most assuredly 1t will not Her strength lies in her enormous power of endurance. Russia can to- lerate and grow strong upon a thousand defeats. The burning of Moscow did not quell her. We question if the destruction of St. Peters bug would do more than compel her court to retire into those fastnesses in which the very distance to be travelled would be the protec- ton against an invading foe.
 This may seem a dsheartening picture of the contest in which we are engaged. We believe 1t, nevertheless, to be true one Let us ask, then, when the Crimea is conquered, and Rus sla makes no sign of yielding a safe and honor- able peace, are those who guide the destncs of England prepared for the next move?- There lies Russia, strong in her passive resiS- tance, secure Tn the very extent of her territory. She may, or she may not, in the spring, send down fresh hordes to attempt to reinvest the Crmea, always supposing we have taken it from her hands. We may drive them back, but we are only at the point where we are now. It is time that we should ponder on the ques" tion-For what are we to continue the war? How are we to continue 1t?
 We believe it mere delusion to continue that war in the hope that by any amount of suc- cess we may gain we will drive Russia to the terms of secure peace. This is the death struggle for Russias policy-a policy which she will only surrender with her life. If the war is to be pursued at all, it must be pursued with different object We must take with the strong arm material guarantees, and with the strong arm we must keep them. We must reduce the territory of Russia by war, and not by negotiation. If we possess the Crimea we must not wait for conditions of peace to allocate it. We must raise up nation free from Rus sian tyranny. Our future blows at Russia must be actual separations of territory from her em- pire. Our only effective movement in the Bal tic must be to declare and make Finland free from her yoke. Really to assail her on the shores of the Euxine and the banks of the Dan- ube we must reclaim from her to freedom the soil upon which we can erect a free confede- ration of emancipated tribes If we assail her in central Europe, we must win back her DOT tion of the plunder of Poland, and in defiance of her armies make at least the Grand Duchy of Warsaw an independent State. But this will never be done in articles of peace. Ii must be done by war and in war; The move- ments of armies must become realities in the