The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-10-11
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BB sss.s. Thursday. Sept IS
Mr. DEAR 0ne act Of the drama IS
through Tie Russians have lost sessslapol.
au3 with il tie Crinea. and certainly t.5ey
viii ret s,ttsInet TO retake them. I think dat
the real war viii ~conanenee. For I'll
who have written on-sssis war .have lost sight
Of the fact 5ha. there ias not been from the
beginning, either op the Danube or in the
Crimea, single nsesed battle. All the
fghsins has been inatlaeking fortified or in
trenehed places-Oltenitza, Aims, Inkernl.n.
Silistria. Chernava and SevaStopol. Now we
SHALL see | have always thought and still
think that in an open field the Russians can
cope with ther enemies. At any rae. they
can if they could do X at Inkerman and
Chernsya. where they fought under all posi-
bic disadvantages, where they were huddled
together by the ground and could hot deploy
On level field the Russians msneuyre as we'll
AID as quickly any other troops. and the
Improvements of modern tactics are more fa-
miIiar to them than to the English One
thing is sure. they III fght well-better than
they have fought so far Defeats and disas-
ters DO not iniure their morale-beleve me-
that is peculiarly Of the Russian character
But take il all in ALI it is a terrible blow to
Russia; not to her prestige, but to her power.
Sevastopol and the Crmea contributed far
more 10 the preponderance and prospects of
Russia than that little region which goes by
the name of Poland. II was the mos. vul
nerable point in the whole empire. Mutilate
that and it will take "a quarter Of century to
heal the wound Insmy opinion it is as bad
as the bombardment of ST. Petersburgh |
would have preferred the latter l always
have maintained this against every body, and |
still maintained that the man who planned the
expedition to the Cfimea played hazardous
game, but knew where TO strike The only
consolation for me is TO see that babbler, Kos
suth, made an ass Of with his predictions Be-
lieve me-and l feel the pslpi:ations Of Rus
sia's heart-the past and present Emperors as
we'll as every stasesman and general, would
have preferred thousand times to see all
Europe. matter a million of men in arms
Poland, on the Vislula. or the Niemen. TO the
CIimean expedition. The Russians have car
tainly lost more III resources, horses. cattle
and men, in supporting their army in the Cri-
mea, than they did IN the campaign Of 1912
Any man who knows the country, knows this
as surely as that The sun shines. And then a
million of men in Poland fighting for her
tionalty, as kossuth SAYS, would have starry
ed, ruined, deyoured that nationalIty-that IS,
Pol nd. whereas /. IS Russia which now suf
fers and bleeds from ST. Petersburg to the
1itCh sea Il "Ogi&i nave bSSH easier Asoi eiic
Russians to maintain 100000 men between
the Baltic and Bessebaria than / 50 900 in the
Crmea An then all Europe in arms on the
Nieman or Eistula would have been starved
out in t e months. Germany and Prussia
would nave sufere terribly, while France can
or couli rs well as -s.ng : land. much more easi-
iv provide tor her troops in the Crlmea by the
all Of her fleets than She could in Poland or
IL any other place in the interior Of poor
country which the Russians would have laid
waste for hundreds of miles around | am
sure that even now. if tie Russians could
choose, they would rather see Peli=ier and his
array in Poland. than continue the struggle
a ne Crinea. This IS VIA. tie CIit.oan sx-
pedi-ioa amounts 10.
| believe. | hope. that the Russians VIII do
The impossible. Bat 10 tell vo,. tie truth, my
asart beeds. for | see by this event the pro
gress Of civilization has been stopped on two
Points. First, in the West. Louis Napoleon is
fortified, aud the abjectness Of the French in
creased--In whose eyes, with very few ex-
cep:ians, the least glare of military glory suf
fees for liberty, honor, morality and real ma
tonal dignity; and then in the East, where. IN
spite Of all that is said to tie contrary. Rus
sia was agent of civilization, and where
Russia alone could and can ill that Office
The Czars have received fearful punish
nlent for havin. followed, for more than TWEEN
ty years past, German and not Russian
policy; for meddling with European squabbes;
for marching into Hungary in l849, instead
Of taking Constantinople in 1848, as Russian
interests demanded at time when nobody
could have opposed it. II is terrible lesson
by which tley will profit. You are young,
and you will live long enough, / am sure. TO
see Russia rise again. Her latent forces are
too great to be broken by even this terrible
blow. As for me, | have nothing but the
petty consolation of seeing the great Kos.uth
floored. II even last year Russia or Nicholas
had lad tie courage to make an appeal TO the
Sclaves Of Southeru Europe, where now would
Austria be with or without her allies?
KEEP Your BACK WARM-Abou twenty
years ago | read medical treatise which sta
ted sthat the back IS the most vulnerable part
Of the human system. through which most OF
the colds enter.
Recoiecting thai when took cold sudden
", noticed that my back was generally cold,
| lad my waisicoat cushioned along the back.
SIX or eight inches wide, since which time
have not taken cold one quarter as often as
before. Several who have tried the experi-
rnent at my suggestion. have informed me
that in their opinion they have been materially