The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-01-31
LAMARTME ON RUSSIA.

INa secent work TIA great French
historian and poet, E1MARTINE, thus
speaks of ussia
/ Ruszia, which extends from Poland
/ to Persia and China, already weighs IN
/ fnitely too much on the globe If9o
such weight be added that of the Io0,=
i 600 square leagues of the OttomdAn enf-
| pire In Asia and EurepeSaH bal lEnce Of
forces is at an end. We should have ~
enter on whole hemisphere and on the
i half of another-the famous f5sSs Is6Eo-
MA, applied not merely TO Sartametia
but to all Europe
{. It is known that Napoleon was ac-
customed to say whatever no thought,
lis his familiar conversations 4rith his
friends. Count de Rambuteau, the
Chamberlain, and afterward Prefect of
Paris. was present one evening at the
Tuileries, at one of these grand impro-
yisations, IN january, 1885, period
when fortune had removed macy an .il-
lusion. Marshal Davoust and the Count
de Lobau, as we'll as NJ. Rambutean, lis
tened with respectful interest to the af-
ficting anecdotes Of the retreat from
Russia. Napoleon all at once inter-
rupted himself in the recital Of his re-
verses, and said Alas how the best
calculated plans may be thwaFted By
the most unfnfseep circumstances i-s
Placed in 1912 at the hoad Of Europe,
and disposing of all the forces of the.
West, thought the moment was come
to invade Russia wanted to raise up.
against her a barrier which she could
never pass i hoped, at least, to retardI
for hundred years that power; and in
reality have advanced her century.
/ IF ever she seizes on Constantinop1e,
she viii place Europe and Asia undeR
the same yoke. All if L had knDwzR
sooner the Importance of the Turkish
counterp0ise at Constantinople 70
And, in fact, " says M. de Lamar&
tine, let any one represent to himself
a Czar who recruits his armies among.
millions of men-men whose sole duty
is to die for their master--lek any one,
in his mind add to that formidable re-
lcruitment the forty nationa of Ottoman
subjects, Turks, Greeks, Abaseians, Arr
menians, Circassians, Drnses and Ma
ronites, and then add to that Che twen-
five millions Of Persians who already
ttremble before the advanced hosts Of
Russia and there will be one hundred
and thirty millions of men in one des--
Ipotic hand, to oppose one hundred and
twenty millions of others. What be-
Econ1es of the Black Sea, that Lake Of
Europe and Asia :? It becomes the
great dock of Russia, in-which hor-
fleets viii be constructed IN silence, un-
til such time as their innumerable sails
will debouch by the Dardanelles into
the Mediterranean, saying to the wind
like the Barbarians-' Blow where you
will, wherever you carry Hns the land is
ours What becomes of the Qapnbet
which after having flowed along freely.
for six hundred leagues across Germany
will find the muscoVite blockade ut its.
junction with the seas, it which it went.
to seek the sun and wealth of the East 3
| What will become of the Adriatic, in
which Austria was commencing to exers
else herself in navigation and commerce
| by Trieste and Venice, and which Dali
malta, Epirus and Albania, hencefor-
ward Russian. will close up like So
cond Black Sea to the Austrian flag
What becomes of Constantinople, that
Hanseatic capital, situated on two
continents, on the shores of three seas.
and Of two straits, common doors, OF
which the keys ought to be in neutral.
| friendly, or independent hand? Con-
stantinople becomes a Moscow of the.
Bosphorus, of which the Kremlin, built
on the place of the gardens of the serial
gio, will cause the ships Of war of Eu-
rope to pass under its cannon like slaves.
What becomes of the Mediterranean 3
It becomes either Russian lake CT a
battlefield. - &c.