The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1855-10-10
A Soldiers View Of the Advantages gained
by the Allies at Sebast0pol.

On Tuesday the 18th. the day after the re-.
ception Of the news Of the capture of sebas.
topcl, the day having been previously appoiu-
ted Tor the purpose. public dinner was CIV
en- by the principal inhabitants of the borough
and county Of Elgin, in Scotland. to Lieut..
Gen. Sir George Brown. who is a native Of
that county, aud recently returned from ac.
tive service in the crimsa. The giant gem
cral, in the course Of his speech returning
thanks for the honor done him. alluded in
the following terms to the news Of the yicto.
Wy which had Just been received:
We have not been able to move the army
because we depended upon our ships for ey-
cry ounce Of provisions. every morsel Of for.
age, and every truss Of hny we consumed.
Ii was impossible to move the army 10 pass
the rchernaya and march upon the Russians
without having at least ninety thousand men
upon the plateau to sustain our position there.
We could not leave our ground and enor-
minus material there TO 70 out aud attack
them; they would mt only have got our
guns. but they would have obtained posses.
sion Of points Of our position which VIC never
could have gained lrom them. They would
have established themselves upon the high
ground in the way they previously establish.
ed themselves upon the low ground. and the
consequence woald have been that Ne should
have been bcsicged. Instead of besieging
them. IN our ow n harbur. Ne have nav gat
possession 81 the suuth side ut the harbour
which is in TACT all the inwn--and orr troops
will be able with a small force TO maintain
tie road 10 Mackrnzie's farm. We can cross
n -. A Ill L.. kl G.
the enemy upon open ground, whereas before
we could only fight them through the town
may say that till nav We were tied BY the
leg.
The Russian army, il must be remem-
bered, has frequently heen superior in num-
bers 10 ours Mind you the Russians have
not been acting in regard to their army as
we have been doing To- ours, or as any other
State 10 Europe has been dang for, while
we have been improving our civil institutions
mainly. they have been paying no attention
60 any thing but their army. Russia Is the
most gigantic military power ever seen upon
earth. She has an artillery never rqualled
just let me mention that while We and the
French brought up our siege trains, consist
ing Of the usual lour.inch mortars. these tel.
lows brought against Us guns which threw
into my own camp shat Of no less weight
than eighty six pounds. while the size ul
their shells also autmatrhed ours. In this
country II ours we have lostered the spirit
81 freedom Of opinion; bat there = one dis
advantage attendant on this. You meet with
people sometimes who think the, knnw every
thing. There are COOL many who fancy
the, knew ntler peoples business better than
themselves. The consequence Of this feeling
i, that we have had mare great Generals an,l
Adnlrals al the club, aud coffee -houses. than
We had IL the army aud navy. IL would be
no very difficult matter. however, to shuw
that every movement which ha, been made
BY tie Eastern army there has been good
reason fur."