The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-22


iy of France How many Of these have persisted by pes
thence and the sword in the hrs year of the war is not
known but probably not less than eighty to hundred
thousand At this rate the anticipated twenyyears war
OF the Times ito conquer honorable peace VIII involve
the necessity of repeated conscrptons and there moth
ing exhausts nation than withdrawing hundreds
of thousands of in the prime of life from the pursuits
of industry where they producers to convert them
into consumers maintained and fed by thelabors OF others
No nation stand this process for succession OF years
without being greatly weakened If not entirely exhausted
country drained of and money at and the same
time must suffer from increasing debility; and though
this may be counteraced by series of spasmodc efforts
temporary exctemen each of these will in the end
be only followed by posraon of strength from which
will be and difficult to recover 1t seems to
u.s. therefore that long continuance of the present war;
which thus far promises decisive advantages to the
French alliance viii be greatly disastrous to the
prosperity Of both France and Great Britain not only
diminishing their strength but imparing their resources
They can derive commercial advantages from block
aiding Russia and in cutting off the supplies of wheat from
the Black only taking the bread from their own
mouths
Among the items Of the late war; the speech of the French
Emperor the Senate and Deputies is not the least worthy
attention 1t richly merits particular analysis but
this would require time and space than at
present spare As usual with the French and British cab
nets the entire responsibility of the present is thrown
on Russia, which, though she did not first declare war,
rejected those propositions which, had they been accepted
would have rendered the unnecessary. Impartial
ookers-on might here ask by what right Great Britain
and France undertook impose these conditions on Rus
sa with what justice she be accused of having
provoked war which could only have been avoided by
concession the degrading independents pow
erfu empire She was peremptoriy required to abandon
system of policy which had been invariably pursued
long centuries without any interference Of any of the pow
ers of Europe and to renqush all the advantages
acquired over power which had been for ages her rival
and enemy Her preponderancy the Black like that
Great Britain all Others cost her series of bloody
struggles sacrifices and this preponderancy
she is called upon to resign the bidding of two powers
which do possess foot of territory within hundreds
we may almost say Thousands of miles of this When
the Car of Russia submits this then indeed he be
humbled to the dust
His imperial Majesty of France calls the propositions Of
which this the only rejected by Russia magaan-
mous and dsneresed the part of France and Great
Britain We confess they do not appear to us exactly in
this light We have considered them very magnan
nous, altogether disinterested, unless magnanimy
consists in what is commonly designated arrogance and
disinterestedness in pursuing interests under
cover Of protecting those Of Others.
1--WE demanded sas the French Emperor Sin the inter
of humanity and justice the guarantee for the
Christians of every confession under the exclusive proe
ton of the SULTAN 1t is sufficiently notorious that the
Christians of all denominations throughout the Ottoman
empire have ever the establishment of the Mussnman
faith been designated by the respectable cognomen of
adogs" and subjected to every species of insult and OPP
preston 1t also that the present Sultan though
he promulgated what is called tonzmau" by which
his Christian subjects nominaly protected in their civil
and religious rights yet that thus far it has been praci
cay Of no effect whatever He may be perfectly sincere
for augh know but the Koran presents insuperable
obstacle to an amagamation of Mussumen and Christians
under the same code Of civil law and such the stern
inexble bigory of slamsm, that the authority Of the
present mbecile Sultan utterly inefficient to enforce any
thing really approaching to federation Yet the magnani-
nous and dsneresed allies in their zeal for Christianity
would obge Russia which has hitherto been the only eff
ectual shield of the Christians to abandon them ITO the
exclusive protection of the Sultan The Gar has offered
to accede to joint protecorate Of the five powers ncu
ding Russia and the Austrian penpotentiary at the last
conference proposed negotiate that point, passing
the third which relates the preponderany Of Rus
STA in the Black This promptly rejected by the
British and French ENJOYS Nothing could be done for
twelve or fifteen millions Of oppressed Christians until the
ahird point adjusted and Russia had abdcaed her
preponderancy in the Black 1t was here the shoe
pinched and would not hairs breadth further
The war; which originally palmed upon the world as
one behalf of Christianity is prosecuted without
ifc ad
longer obrude his good Offices and the Christians
once more consigned to the exclusive protection of the
Sultan" Surely there be decisive evidence
that this Of Christianity and civilization is on the
part of the AngloFencn alliance sheer of policy
and ambition and that its object is neither the protection
the Christians the Turks to strengthen France
and Great Britain by humbling Russia
We hope we shall not be accused of violation Of
tona courtesy making these few remarks the late
speech Of his Imperial Majesty to whom not the
slightest disrcspect personally The British and French
press does hesitate deal very freely only with
the communications but the personal character, of the
head of The government OF the United States and
no special why may follow their example
we shall probably do occasionally in future.
EAST TENNESSEE
One Of the abest and distinguished of the demo
cratic leaders in East Tennessee writes says the Nash
vile Unon) letter private business, from which we
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