Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-22

TIE PREsEsr CzAR.-The followins
is from the New York 7ri5uns of tht
10th:
In whatever way Nicholas closed hi.
career, the most interesting question
which presents itself is how his success
sor, now Alexander ii, viii act. Long
ago European newspapers intimatec
that grave misunderstanding prevailed
in the Imperial family, having its source
in the complications into which Russia
was precipitated by the war. 1t wa:
severally represented that the present
Emperor was opposed to the policy o.
his father, and to that of a party said
to be headed by the Grand Duke Con-
stantine, his younger brother, a young
man Of eminent capacities. Still, nc
positive facts ever confirmed these re-
ports. On the contrary, as commander
in-chief of the Guards, the hereditary
Grand Duke, now Emperor, marched
into Lithsnia and Poland, and was thus
to command, Extensively or defensively,
the great army comprising the flower Of
the Russian forces. His headquarters
have been at Wilma. This and many
other reasons lead us to suppose that
there will not be at once any departure
from the policy pursued BY his father.
The new Gar was born on the 29th
of April, 1918, and accordingly is near
ly thirty-seven. If not of extraordina-
ry abilities, he possesses fair capacity
and intellect. If not gifted with the
iron will of his father, and if marked BY
a certain mildness of temper, he has
exhibited more than once considerable
energy. He has poetical and chival-
rous turn Of mind, and is Russian to the
core. Years ago he urged the use Of
the Russian language at Court, instead
CT French. As Grand Duke he was al
ways kindly to any pure, genuine Rus
sian development in literature and poll
cy. Some ten years ago he insisted
strongly on the propagation of the Rus
so-Greek creed among the Protestant
Finns, Ecthonians, and other tribes
forming the peasantry in the Baltic
provinces.
1t is scarcely to be supposed that he
viii make any changes among the high
est dignitaries of the Empire. Such
things will come by-and-by, as for some
time past he has had small court and
a knot of favorites around him. Promi-
nent among these is Prince Baryatyns-
Ky, who last year distinguished himself
in Asia against the Turks ald the Cir
cassian Schamyl. This prince is a
proud, naughty, ambitious Russian
He spent great deal of his youth in
Vienna, and it is possible he may be
sent thither, under some pretext, to con-
troll the action of the Russian Legation
at the approaching conferences.
Could it be admitted that the war, at
The start, had not the approval of the
new Emperor, he viii feel it necessary
% prosecute it vigorously, unless
peace, acceptable to Russia, can be OBJ
aimed. In honor of the memory of his
ather, whom he loved devotedly, and to
whom he looked with deep Difference,
le will so act. He was always treated
" the deceased Gar with the utmost
ondness-always as the most confden-
ial friend, and as his successor. For
bout eighteen years the Grand Duke
las been habitually present at Cabinet
meetings, giving his opinion and sharing
With his father the thorny and heavy
'urdens Of absolute power. 1t was the
i'm of the late Emperor to fit his son to
way the Imperial scepter, and not to al
DIV him to be taken unawares in his new
'osition. Alexander II, therefore, as
ends the throne, not as a mere novice,
nut wholly aware Of the great task be-
ore him. If so disposed, he could not
t once change the policy of the Empire.
The late Car, idolized as he was, by
he Russian people, viii now be looked
pom as kind of martyr to the strong
nd wide coalition against him, and his
udden death will, in our view, lend
-esh fuel to the warlike flame. In this
oint of view, the death of Nicholas
reates no new probability of peace, nor
enders it possible to count on any con-
ession to the allies which he would not :
ave made.
Another probability which merits con- !
deration, is that the King of Prussia, /
lie uncle of the new Car, with the ,
russian Court, and the officers of the I
rmy, and, of course, what is called '
the Russian party, at Berlin, f
owed by the sentiment Of so-called d
livalrous honor, will not desert the a
'ung Autocrat. Indeed, they will be r
lely to espouse his cause more deci- +,
:dly. Nor should we be astonished to
ar that Francis Joseph, moved by
mmon courtesy, should mediate for r
armistice, to give time to the new :,
vereign to assume his royal charge, to l.
certain his position and decide on his "'
licy. That such demand, made by 6.
1stria, and backed by Prussia, would E
acceded to by the English Cabinet at !" :,
lst, is probable. Out of this might a. :,
ise an interruption in the fighting in 2 2
e Crimea, as well as a delay in the =,
gotiations for peace. 1t would, how VI
er. be Premature to deduce from the n
ath of Nicholas any considerable ad- r. r.
ion to the chances of speedy termi- "
ton of the war.