Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-11-01

A"o ioAoWihh lobtcAS bio 4NOW LoEA AffOuWt
says is from one of the greatest and most oele-
bratsd of Russian Statesmen-a man than
whom few men living are better qualified to
weigh the consequences to Russia, of the loss
Of Sevastopol and the Crimea;
private letter communicated to tn. Tribune.
BRUssELs, Thursday, Sept. l3, 1855.
Ny DEAR One act of the drama is
through The Russians have lost Sevastopol
and with it the Crmea and certainly they
will not attempt to retake them. think that
the real war will now commence. For all who
have written on this war have lost sight of the
fact that there has not been from the beginning;
either on the Danube, or in the Crimea, single
pitched battle. All the fighting has been in at
tacking fortified or trenched places oltsmtsa,
Alma. lnkermann, Silistria, Chernaya and Sc.
vastopol. Now we shall see. have always
thought and still think, that in an open field,
the Russians can cope with their enemies. AT
any rate, they can if they could do it at Inker-
mann and Cheruaya, where they fought under
oil possible disadvantages, where they were hud-
died together by the ground and could not de-
ploy. On level field, the Russians maneuver
as well and as quickly as any other troops, and
the Improvements of modern tactics are mora
familiar to them than. to che English. One
thing is sure, they will fight as we'll, better than
they have fought so far. Defeats and Disasters
do not injure their morale believe me, that is
. popularity Of the Russian character. But,
take it all in all, it is terrible blow to Russia
not to her pre,tiage but to her power. Sevas-
toppl and the Crimea contributd far more to the
preponderance and the prospects of Russia than
that little region which goes by the name oi
Poland. 1t was the most vulnerable point in
the whole empire. Mutilate that and it will
take quarter of q century to heal the wound.
In my opinion it is as bad as the bombardment
of St. Petersburg; would have preferred the
lstter. always have always maintained this
against everybody, and still maintain that the
man who planned the expedition to the Crimea
played hazardous game but knew where to
strike. The only consolation for me is To
sec that babbler, Kossuth, made an ass Of, with
his predictions. Believe me--and | feel the pal
pitatious Of Russia's heart-the past and pres
snt Emperors, as we'll as every Russian states
man and general, would have preferred thou
sand times TO soc oil Earope-no matter, mill
lion of men in arms in Poland, on the vistula
or the Nisnen, to the Crimean expedition. Th
Russians have certainly lost more in resources
horses, cattle and men, in supporting their arm,
! in the Crimea, than they did in 1912. An
, man who knows the country, knows this a
} surely as that the sun shines. And then mil
, lion Of men in Poland fighting for her nationali
. ", ss Kossuth says, would have starved, ruined
devoursd that nationality that is, Poland
whereas it is Russia which now suffers and bleed
from 81. Petersburg to the Black Sea. Il woul
9 have been easier for the Russians to maintai
: 600, 900 mon between the Baltic and Bessarabi
than 10000 in the Crimea. And then oil FL
4 rope in arms On the Niemen or the Vistul
. would have bsen starved cut in three months
4 Germany and Prussia would have suffered tsl