The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-10-18
Esps1sa ESUDt5ieG,

The New York tribune publishes ia5-
ter, dated at Brussels. touching the consc-
auences to Russia and to Europe OF the
fall of Sebastopol. The Tribune says If
they were at liberty to uame the author,
"he would at once be recognized rs man
of European, if not universal, reputation
We would not depend largely upon either the
one power or the other engaged in this con-
test, for material aid in advancing the cause
of religious liberation, under whose auspi-
ces only can civilization and human free
dom be said to make any true progress
We would rather trust to the weakness and
sense of justice of the Turk, than to the
policy" of either power.
The letter, it seems was not for publica-
ton, and its expression of feeling and opin-
ion may therefore be taken as genuine
outpouripg of an ingenious mind, thorough
ly informed on the subject of which he
speaks. We publish it as a matter of in
terest at the present time:
BRUssELs, Sept. ID, 1855.
My DEAR One act of the drama
is through. The Russians have lost Sebasto-
pol, and with it the Crimea 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 on the
Crimea, o single pitched battle. All the fight
ing has been in attacking fortified or intrench-
ed places Oltenitza, Alma, Inkerman, Silis-
tria, Tchernaya and Sebastopol. 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 Inkermann and
Tchernaya, where they fought under all posi-
BILE disadvantages, where they were huddled
together by the ground and could not deplov.
On level field the Russians vancouver as we'll
and as quickly as any other troops, and the
improvement of modern tactics are more ia
miliar to them than to the English. One thing
is sure, they will fight well--better than they
have fought so far. Defeats and disasters do
not iniure their morals a; believe me, that it is
a regularity of the Russian character. But,
take it all in all, it is terrible blow to Rus
STA not to her prestige but to her power -
Sebastopol and the Crimea contributed more
to the preponderance and the prospects of Rus
sia than that little region which goes by the
name of Poland 1t was the most vulnera-
BILE point in the whole empire. Mutilate that
and it would take quarter OF a century to
heal the wound. La my opinion it Is as bad as
a bombardment OF St Petersbargh / would
have preferred the latter. always have main
tanned this against every body, and ! still
maintain that the man who planned the eXncdi-
ton to the (rimea played . hazardous game
but ne knew where TO strike. The Only CON
ISOLATION for ME is 10 see that babb.cr, Kos
suth. made an ass of, with his predictions. Be
lieye me-and feel the ralpitaton q Rus
sias heart-thc past and present tmperors as
well as every Russian statesman and general.
would have preferred a thousand TINES 10 see
all Europe-no matter a million o men Ia
Poland, on the NiStUia, or the Nie.lea. 10 the
Crimea expedition. The RusSlons have GER
tainly lost more in resources, horses, cattle and
men. in supporting their army in the CciIea,
than they did in the campaign Of ISL. Any
man who knows the country knows this a sure
" as the sun shines. And theu u million OF
men in Poland fighting for her nationality, as
kOSSuth saws, WOuiu nave eIaiNcu, ioIuou' uo-
voured that nationality-that is, Poland ;
whereas it is Russia which now suffers aud
bleeds from ST. Petersburg to the Black Sea.
II would have been easier for the Russians TO
maintain 100000 men between the Baltic and
Bessarabia than 10000 in the Crimea. And
then all Europe in arms on the Niemen or the
Vistula would have been starved out in three
months. Germany and Prussia would have
suffered terribly while France could and can,
As well Is England, much more easily provide
for her troops in the Crimea by the aid of her
fleets than she could in Poland, or in any place
in the interior of poor country which the
Russians would have laid waste for hundreds
of miles around. l am sure that even now, ii
the Russians could choose, they would rather
ace Pelissier and his army in Poland than con-
tinue he struggle in the Crimea. This is what
the Crimea expedition amounts to.
believe, hope, that the Russians will do
the impossible. But to tell you the truth, my
hear. bleeds, for see that by this event the
progress of civilization has been stopped on
two points. FIRST, in the West, Louis Napo'
leon is fortified and the abjectness OF the French
increased-in whose eyes with very few e1'