The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-10

the final adjustment of metes and bounds The mind OF
a Meternich would be lost ia such maze ] again
peat that the equbro Of Europe abstraction of dip
lomaey utter impossibity. The sword alone
construct Europe and war alone afix new bounda-
That sword reluctantly unsbeathed by Russia, viii
be returned its scabbard until samsm is smitten
through and the skies Of old Asia where
ated and redeemed shine again with the light that first
irradiaed Judea with the promise of Bethlehem Even
then it will hang all Europe the sword Of Damo
Giles above his throne, suspended by hair
These few only of the difficulties in the way Of per-
peace Europe Those who dream of peace while
eighty thrones yet stand whose conflicting interests may
any disturb the peace Of the race
win find in the realization of their illusions continued
There will be repose Europe until one federal
power controls the entire continent The consolidation
into one great empire government of all the existing
monarchies and thrones is inevitable God is working
this great result which will be the beginning of peace
mankind. The example of the United States Of America
has filled the world with this sentiment and the progress
of these States in every national greatness and
prosperity is the guarantee Europe that all her clash
ing thrones by consolidation into federal head retain
ing constitutional sovereignty through representation may
be harmonzed and the peace of the world secured Napo
leon | and Peter Of Russia il with cearness of
vision almost prophetic The former thirty years ago gave
fifty years the minimum Of time that would see all Eu-
rope republican Cossack Republicanism has had but
brief and ephemeral existence.
The Cossack empire by slow acquisition in power has
become colossal and besrides wohrds Of that con-
nent, numbering 100000 of souls She is strong in
every element that makes power enduring commanding
every in war; and controlling every branch
trade and that gives prosperity and growth in
peace In name she is an absolute monarchyn fact the
government approaches the representative will of
the masses than any other in Europe In che terri
BILE but slow and just before entering upon SO mercess
an alternative Her system perfected by Suwarrow is in
attack and action The rapid successes Of
that renowned of Russias marshals when he drove
back from Germany and Italy upon the Apprentices the
best disciplined veterans Of France Under their victorious
generals imbued NIL Russia with ideas Of nvincibity and
contempt of all danger The real their unexam-
Piled vigilance, action, and the bayonet
They never gave enemy rest time. Suwarrow was
preparing his army for battle when of his engineers
asked for force to cover the reconnaissance of the enemy
The reply HISTORICAL Reconnaissance sir Not for
me- sir That for the timd and tel the enemy to
prepare Form column sir charge bayonet plunge into
the centre of the enemy This is my reconnaissance sir
Here in fact is the whole Scyhian genius Of war 1t is
still the pervading spirit that inspires all Russia I'm
proved BY all the modern and strategy of war; directed
by skilled and experienced generals it threatens with
more than Sythan energy to sweep from the Crmea the
allied armies of Europe When your generals and soldiers
return from Sobasopolf happily, that should be the
good fortune of many-they will tell you how greatly
have overrated England and France Your blunder was
fatal, and it is too late to retrieve the mistake
The advance of the Cossack Empire 10 greatness has
been slowly progressive. AS her power and domain have
been extended the acquisition has been consolidated and
secured In this particular she bears but faint resemblance
any OF the great powers Of the earth who have swept
suddenly with conquest and sprung into epheera great
ness Her slow maturity her protraccd adolescence into
her profound diplomacy harmonizing to her
nd
ties the faith guaranteed to empires and nations she has
conguered auguries of her future power and
mnon Nations rise and decay attains his meridian
and dies. He who springs from his swaddngs into the
estate of manhood regardless of the regimen of nature
reaches old agcsetdom the strength of maturity
So with nations The empire of Alexandra an usra-
ton of ancient that of Napoleon of modern time The
Of Russia in every snew of military strength
ncacuabe Her dominions engirdle in their
every soil and climate aud the native homes of the
highest types Of the human The earth yields to
dustry every necessary and every luxury of life "The
cattle her thousand hills and the boundess seppe
falling from her mountains to her lakes and seas yield
pasuage to herds of beeves horses and sheep that
not be numbered These give occupation to the million
nomads whose skill in horsemanshp whose restless and
hardy habits whose bold and wild life scorn of dam
ger and make of these Tartar the finest cavalry in
the world The habit of the Muscovite essentially that
of the soldier He is taught to law, and yield
implicit submission to his rulers and to authority This
habit of obedience becomes second nature II is the
doctrine Of his regionand all Russians religious
He regards his Emperor dvinely appointed Obedience
him and to civil law is much scruple submission
Divine The Gar also held in religious veneraona the
vicarious head of empire whose religion is ndivsbe
and Incorporates itself into all its civil institutions Next
the Russians idea Of the perfect attributes of Deity the
Emperor the idea justice and the Embodiment of every
virtue In Russia the proverb of monarchies "he King
do evP is not ctional The Cossack in bis
and happy estate the protection of law admins
tered in equity and the paarcha and paerna of his
rulers and in the benevoence of humane institutions that
fill the land enjoys and the realization of that idea
If the great end of government is the happne
of its subjects to them in the enjoyment Of life lib
erty and property, to foster civilization and Christianity
the Cossack has done toward that accomplishment
than any other of the European systems The happy
and conentment of 100000 of subjects clear
proof of that fact The wisdom and fitness of govern
theories That is the genuine The best that adapt
ed to the taste and condition of its masses that pro-
their pursuits and happiness eevatng the same
time the standard of human character by progress civ
iization and Christianity These among the tests that
have formed our Judgment Of the comparative fitness of the
old monarches Of Europe to promote the happiness their
peoples and to keep the track of progression of the
Should apply these tests to the institutions OF France
and England should not look upon the walls of her
palaces for the cae meme tei upharsn of Babylon for
the voices of their millions in starvation and poverty have
declared with unmistakabe emphasis, thou weighed in
the balance and found wanting The of your peo
pie daily pierce heaven with the voices of amenation.