New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-13

masses Of armed defenders oc'as'oPol anu 'hc
,bores Of the Fu1ine are heavy losses; Russia is
partially crippled, but still is up and menacins.
Now. a. in the past, certain law seems to rule
Russian destnies She loses battles, but gains
w,rs Without. however. discussing the chances
favorable 70 Russia, let US imagine toe contrary,
ard suppo.ipg her reduced to secondr rate power
or lowered from her politco-diplomatic position
discuss how far this alteration OF the pivot OF
European politics will affect the various States Of
the continent in their existing relations We speak
now entirely OF Europe as she Is, CON posed OF
monsrches, and ruled BY egotistical, hesrtless,
dirty Diplomacy; for at present We behold no
signs of her deliversnce. and expect nothing lib
eral from English selfshness, Napoleonic perjury
and Austrian brutality.
This Europe for the last forty years has had her
affairs, Der destinies, managed By i've prlncipa!
mowers. Russia, Austria, England, France and
Prussia Should Russia become reduced, or placed
at the tail above or behind Prussia the other three
powers will become almost absolute arbiter, Of
Europe England and Austria must then follow
10 the foul track Of France, or rather in that Of
the Bonspartes Prussia will either be wholly
thrown out or reduced-even if leaning on en-
fe+ bled Russis-to make but useless opposition.
Aus ria in her turn presents too many vulnerable
points TO the present allies to be able to act indie
pt pdently. Such condition of things as We are
suppOspg, mo, cover, suits her appetite for 'ss-
ing on Prussia and Germany, in which she is now
backed BY France and England. Thus would be
inaupurated new trisd, not to last long but able
TO make itself felt on the minor States. In word
the rest Of Europe would have to submit to in
satiable Bapsbureism and Bonapartism in politics
and diplomacy, and to the equally Unsuitable mer-
camille policy of England
For nearly a century, as is shown by diplomatic
annals, Russia has formed counterpoise in the
political an6 diplomatic balance of Europe, often
to the great advantage of the lesser States.
Russia, though for her own diplomatic purposes,
indeed has often backed the weaker against the
stronger Thus, during the war of our In1epend.
ence, she proclaimed armed neutrality, and around
her flag were grouped the minor maritime powers
oppressed by Engand's supremacy upon the seas.
Napoleon covered nearly all Europe with his
military sway; but when Madrid, Berlin, Ham,
burg, Amsterdam, Vienna trembled before him and
did bis bidding Russia alone resisted. French
battalions were turned from Spain toward the
North and thus the resistance of Russia facilitated
the wars of Wellington 1t is certain that Spain
recovered her independence through the Russian
campaign of 1912, as did the whole Of continental
Europe. Thus in that great contest, Russia was
a sautary cOunterpoise for Europe and especially
for the States Of the second order
That old world of Europe, based as it is on ra-
pacious cOnquests, requires for the security of
smaller States just such a counterpoise The
epoch is to come when people will regulate their
international affairs without the royal recipe of
rapine and murder But at the present stage Of
affairs, the reduction of Russia will force Europe
under the Bonapartean sway. Italy and Spain are
greedily gloated over by the hungry tribe at the
Tuileries. The Dations will certainly gain nothing
by exchanging for the Bonapartes or the Murats
the Bourbons, the Nassaus, the Gothas, or any of
the nov reigning dynasties. What, indeed, did
France gain by the return of that greedy pack
Freedom and manhood will be gagged and down
trodden now, as they are in the south Of Europe.
The rule of every scion of the new dynasty, if
raised to throne, will be modelled after the pat
tern of the present French usurper How des
perate is that despotism! All the Russian Cars
for three hundred and fifty years have not sent out
of their country TO Siberia forty thousand men, as
Louis BOnaparte has done since the Second of De-
cember! The Hapsburgs in this respect will,
however, always be bis dutiful cOmpeers. Both
will gladly extipguish all the minor States. Sar-
DINA has already been dashed to the fatal trsin and
Denmark and Spain may also soon see themselves
turned into shambles.
England, with her Free trade or her industrial
and commercial monopolizing spirit, is the most
dangerous and direct enemy of the prosperity and
civilization of ether States The internal light of
the States is dimmed so long as they depend on
foreign countries for their industry and higher arts
Where English Free trade prevails, there industry
and manufactures die out. Moreover England, in
case of need, is as insultingy imperous, as quick
in tramplng down the independence of weaker
States, as the perjurer of the Tuileries himself
She well knows that all the European States for
bid their subjects to enlist under foreign power.
Nevertheless her recruiting sergeant is abroad,
melting people to break the law for her sake
Besides, England humbled at the feet of Louis
is shown off by him as a second-rate
military power, playing everywhere the second
fiddle. She will be unable TO thwart the arbitrary
DEGREES of her ally, or to stand by the weaker
States even should she desire TO do so. Her i'm.
portsnce as continental military power is an in-
fact, and it is only such power
that the minor States repose with security.
All this is felt by those States, and above al by
Prussia. In the event of the great changes which
we have supposed, she well knows that England
would be feeble support and that she herself