M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-08-17

/ schikof that is TO say, that Russia Nh
never exercised. or nrsionIed n ~
else a rirht orenterrerence in Tn,keyl s,
extensive as that evercisel no F,sSS.
The Plench and Enolisb ministers m rIsss
.ened. bat the Sultan stood firm MIN
very despair Of Gndins himself wb+ss
used by his professed Sllies and f,iends
than by his actual enemy. At Ma
point a strange thing happened--th,
slrangest in the annals Of diplomacg.
and as discreditabIe to the intelHysoes
Of the French and English neaotiato,s
as it was to their good faith. They a..
puted with Turkoy the plain, obyio9s
meauing Of their e'su psatosltion, =. =
They did lot understand, OF pretendsd
not, understand, the very decia.atlol
hwhichthey themselves had elaborate
ly drawn up and carefully deliben,ed.
But the ministers of the Sultan presis.
ted that the lpnguuge fthe declaration
was explicit and precise; that it had, d,
could have, no possible meaning except
that ascTibed to it by the Sultan,
Upon This, the allies applied 20 Rus
sid and said, Do yoq understand this pa
per as .he Porte does1T To which Russia
replied through Nesselrode, with that
straight forwarlness and directness
which chamcterize all his dispatches.
Yes, Of course we do; ithas no other
possible Specification. What was the
Inext steptl Ifit were rot set forth in
the printed dispatcher, ayowed by the
negotiltors, aai eloquently and cogaAt-
ly exhibited by the best writers aud
speakers in England aud Frdnce--such
as Mr.. Bright in the former and Mr..
FORBADE in the latter--it would br in
credible; it is the least credible ana
most marvellous event in modern htsto
ty. Great Britain and France lheteup-
on declared war, not against Turkey for
refusing, 5ut oglinst Russia for EXCEPT
ing their own proposition Of the Grst
Conference of Vienna.
Dearly have the two allies, and espe,
cially Great Britain, paid Tor the stu.
piditJ OF the disingenuousuess, which
ever it may have been, of their first ne
gotia.ions at Vienna, not merely by the
awful sacrifice OF life, but the still more
disastrous loss Of public honor. They
plunged needless and headlong into a
sangunary war, in. which every step
they take, like the Strons ian in qua :
gmire, they do but sinh dee per and dee D.
er in calamity and disaster. Finding
themselves in war, they scarce know
how; they then looked around to see
how they were to attack their enemy.
They perceived that Russia was acces
sible to them only at two points name
Iy, Cronstadt, on the Baltic, and Ssbas.
to pol on the black Sea-elch of them
such a citadel as i! mighl be supposed
a great military empire would construct
on its maritime frontier. They des.
pa tched mighty feet and army to the
Ba tic, which did nothing, except to
harness and pillage the unarmed Firms,
the very thing they. ought not TO have
done, if the : wished to delach Firond
from Russia. They sent another mighty
feet andarmg 10 .he Rlack sea, where
they did nothing but plunder and des.
troy the houses and vessels belonging
TO the Greeks Of Eupatoria, at Kertsch,
and at other little ports on the coast of
eea of Azol'. the very thing they ought
not to have done there if they desired
to diminish the moral strength of Rus
sia in Turkey, And thus, after suffer.
ing enormous losses, aud inllicting enor
nous losses. producing the slightest
military result, the allies entered upon
the conference of Vienna.
We now have the conclusion OF this
conference, in the extraordinary dis.
closures made in debate in the House
of Commons, which occurred immedi.
ateIy before the departure Of the last
steamer, and which is destined, as we
predict, 20 exercise decisive influence
over future events in Great Britain.
At this conference, be il remembered
Cour points were brought forward for
discussion as the basis OF peace-name.
ly, first, the future condition of Molda.
via and Wallachia, and, second, the
state of nayiaation in the Lower Dan.
ube. These we're questions with
which Great Britain and France had no
business. ouy more than with some mes
tion which NAV arise to.morrow he.
t,veen. ne and Aievicn Tlov wsrs mas
lions which co,re,nsl ipsir:, P,t.i,
and Tr,Lav and tbam ,Ions mi ,Ler
couId. have been sst,lsd bv tho ,.rtia,
=, INV limo virb or ,.i,hort Ib.inltrYs
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