The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-25

paid for the stupidity the dsngenuousness whichever
il may have been of their first negotiations Vienna
not merely by the awful sacrifice Of life, but the still
more disastrous loss of public honor They plunged
needless and headlong into ssnguinary war, which,
every step they take like the strong in quagmire,
they do but sink deeper and deeper in calamity and disas
ter Finding themselves in war; they knew how
they then looked around to how they to attack
their enemy They perceived that Russia accessible
to them only at two ponts-namey, Oronstadt on the
Baltic and Sebasopo the Black seaeach Of them such
citadel it might be supposed great military empire
would construct its maritime frontier They despatched
mighty fleet and army to the Baltic which did nothing,
except harass and page the unarmed Finn the very
thing they ought not have done they wished deach
Finland from Russia They sent another mighty feet and
army the Black sea- where they did nothing but plumber
and destroy the houses and vessels belonging to the Greeks
of Eupators Bslaklava at Kertsch and at other little
ports on the of the Of Azo the very thing they
ought have done there il they desired to diminish
the moral strength Of Russia in Turkey And thus after
suffering losses and inHcting losses
without producing the slightest military result the allies
entered upon the second conference of Vienna
We have the conclusion of this conference in the
extraordinary disclosures made in debate in the House
Commons which occurred immediately before the depart
of the last steamer and which is destined, pre-
dict to exercise decisive influence future
Great Britain
At this conference be it remembered four points were
brought forward for discussion the basis of peace
namely first the future condition of Moldavia and Wal
achia and second the state Of navigation in the Lower
Danube These questions with which Great Britain
and France had business any more than with some
question which may arise tomorrow between and Next
CO. They were questions which concerned Austria Rus
sia and Turkey and them alone, and they could have
been settled by the parties any time with without
the obtrnsive and mischevous interference Of England
and France The fourth point was the future relation
of Russia to the Greek subjects of the Porte, which
the pretext for the military intervention of England
and France, which, but for their intervention Russia and
Turkey would have settled amcably themselves at the
outset, but which, at Vienna France and England
fuse touch until Russia shall first have agreed to sub
nit the dictaton of England and France upon third
point which has got to be the protested and the sole
object for which hundreds of thousands of human beings
being sacrificed by battle and by disease in the
Crimea.
That third point which, the debate TO which we al
ude indicates is Lord Pameston would be monstrous
il it not ridiculous and which would be so ride
ulous If ii not monstrous to seem to en-
anate from sheer insanity, is that Russia, unconquered
and unconquerable shall nevertheless humble herself in
the dust the feet of England and shall voluntarily
ter into agreement to crafty the pride Of England
do what it is physically impossible for her do if she
should agree to it thousand mesthat u.s. be
powerful and prosperous than Turkey This madly
impossible project seems is the substance Of the third
point, propounded by France rather by England.
To this proposition Russa Of course replies with sum
mary and scornfnl refusal hear and, if she had
chosen to discuss it. she might well have replied,
before talking of the demolition Of Sebastopol,
England should begin by pluckng the beam out of
her eye surrendering the Ionian islands Greece
Malta to its knights, Gibraltar and the West Indies
to Spain Heligoland to Germany Canada France the
Cape Of Good Hope and Ceyon the Netherlands Alden
to Arabia the Falkland islands the Argentine republic
the Bay Of Islands to Honduras Hong-Kong China and
the hundred and fifty millions Of Hndostan themselves
Indeed everybody in Europe Of London the pre-
poserous folly Of Lord Panestons third point Accord
ngy, Austria whose interests peace who is to gain
nothing and lose everything by making herself the cats
paw of England and who is vituperaed and illuminated
every day in the British Parliament because dig
nifty and frmness which do her credit she chooses
to consult her honor and her interests rather
dices Of England just for similar daily deluge
Of vuperation is poured ont in England upon the head
Of PrussiaAustra say, seeing how superatvey pre-
posterous this idea of Lord Pamerston utterly refuses
to back 1t in the Vienna conferences and proposes instead
that the five powers shall in guaranty the ineg
rity Of the Turkish Empire and that meanwhile England
and France shall maintain just large fleet as they
please in the Turkish for the purpose of watch
ing Russia and trying to keep alive the "sick man
the Porte If Russia refuses to agree to this Austria will
join in the war but if England and France refuse it,
hearts content against the walls Of Sebastopol while she
will reduce her army to peace footing and join hands
with Prussia to maintain by the million of soldiers they
have between them, the neutrality Of Germany.
We to the extraordinary deaouemen of these
negotiations, disclosed by Lord John Russell II is
this Mr.. Drouyn de Lhuys, in behalf Of the Emperor of
the French agreed to the proposition of Austria and
his to Paris the Emperor agreed it, subject the
of Great Britain, good faith required of him.
Lord John Russell also agreed to the proposition Wen
na and, of course promised to urge his government
accept it. but, his arrival at London, Lord Palmer
ston refused, and determined persevere in the war
OF course the Emperor Napoleon acquesced, although
the chief burden of the falls France who furnishes
soldiers for every furnished by England and is
pouring her blood and her like in this
of rival ambitions between the grea, Asiatic