New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-03
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"a private Letter OOusaaicsted for THr TfieESE!

| IA private Letter GOMEZ nicsted for TIE TIE "
BRUssyis Thursday sept H. 1850.
Nv DEAR -: Ore act d the drains is
through. The Rssiaas have lot >eVastop'l aho
with it the CHINA: and certai5y they VIII not
attempt TO retste them ItbDb that the real war
will now COMMENCE For al who have written IN
this war hsvs Lost sight Of the hct that there has
not been fnm the beginning, ether Oh the Danube
or in the Crimes, single pihhed battle. All the
| fighting has been in attaching fortified or IN
trencbed places: Oltenitzs, Alma, Inker mann,
siIistria, Cberuaya and Sersstopol Vow we shall
see 7 lave lsgays thought aud stil think that IN
an omen field the Russisns can cope with their enc
uie, Atapy rate they can if they could do il at
| rnkermann and Cbernaya, where,they fought under
| all possibIe Disadvantages, where they we're hud-
died together BY the ground and could not depoy.
On level feld the Russians msueuver as well aud
as ouicky as any other troops and the improve
ments of modern tactics are more familiar
TO item than to the English. One thing
is pre-, they will fight well, better than they have
bupht so far Defeats and disasters do not injure
their morale; believe me, that is peculiarly OF
the Russian character But, take it ell in all, it is
terrible blow to Russia; not to her prestige but
to her power. SevastopOl and the Crimea contrib
uted far more to the prepoDderance and the pros
poets of Russia than that little region which gOesb by
the name of Poland. 1t was the most vulnerable
poirt in the whole empire. Mutilate that and 1t
will take quarter Of century to heal the wound
In my opinion it is as bad as a bombardnent OF
St Petersburg; would have preferred the latter.
ALWAYS have maintained this &C ainst every body,
and still maintain that the man who planned the
expedition to the Crimea played hazardous game
but knew where to strike The only consolation
for me is to see that babbler, Kcssuth, made an
ass Of, with bis predictions. Believe me-
and / feel the palpitations of Russia's
heart-the past and present Emperors as well as
every Russian statesman and general, would have
preferred thousand times to see all Europe-nO
matter million of men in arms in Poland, on the
Vistula or the Niemen, to the Crimean expedition.
The Russians have certainly lost more in re-
sources, horses, cattle, and men, in supporting
their army in the Crmea, than they did in the
campaign of 1912. Any man who knows the coun-
try knows this as surely as that the sun shines.
And then million of men in Poland fighting for
her nationality, as KOssuth says would have
starved ruined, devOured that nationality-that
is, Poland; whereas it is Russia which now suffers
and bleeds from ST. Petersburg to the Black Sea.
1t would have been easier for the Russians to
maintain 600 600 men between the Baltic and Bess-
arabia than 10000 in the CIimea. Aud 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 terri
bly,; while France could and can, as we'll as
England, much more easily provide for her
troops in the Crmea 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. / am sure tn 1t even now, if the Ras-
slams could choose they would rather see Pelis-
sier and his army in Poland than continue the
struggle in the CIimea. This is what the
Crimean expedition amounts to-
believe hope, that the Russians will do
the impossible. But to tell you the truth, my
heart bleeds, for see that by this event the
progress Of civilization has been stopped on two
points. First, in the West, Louis Napoleon is
fortified and the abjectness of the French in
creased-in whose eyes, with very few excep-
tions. the least glare of military glory sufices
for liberty, honor, morality, and real national
dignity; and then in the East, where, in spite
of all that is said to the contrary, Russia was
an agent of civilization, and where Russia alone
could and can fill that efice.
The Cars have received fearful punishment
for having folio we'd for more than twenty years
past a German and not Russian policy; for
meddling with European squabbles; for march
ing into Hungary in 1S49 instead of taking Con-
stantinople in 164S, as Russian interests de-
handed at time when nobody could have
opposed it. 1t is a terrible lesson BY which
they will profit. You are young, and you VIII
live long enough, l am sure, TO see Russia rise
aoain. Her latent forces are too great to be
broken By even this terrible blow. As for me-
have nothing but she petty consolation OF see
ing the great Kossuth hoOred. II even last
wear Russia or Nicholas had had the courage to
make an appeal to the Sclaves of Southern Eu-
rome. where now would Austria be with or
without her alle,l