Washington telegraph., 1855-10-31
NO. IL
"A EEO-lsussi0n StategEnan OH the
FaiE of sesastOpol.
BRUSSELS, Sept. 18th, 1855.

BRUSSELS, Sept. 18th, 1855,
MY DEAR -: One act of the drama
i is through. The Russians have lost Sevas.
topol, and with it the Crimea and GER
tainiy they will not attempt to retake them.
L think that the real war viii now com
mence, for all who have written on the
wai have lost sight of the fact that there
has not been from The beginning, either On
the Danube or in the Crimea, a single pitch
ed battle. All the lighting has been in at
tacking fortified or intrenched places o.
tenitza, Alma, Inkermann, Silistria, Tcher-
maya and Sevastopol Now we shall see
have always thought and still think that
in an open-tield the Russians can cope with
their enemies. {Bah y At any rate thew
can if they could do it at Inkerman aud
Tchernaya, where they fought under all
possible disadvantages, where they were
huddled together by the ground, and could
not deploy, On a level field the Russians
man0uvre as well and as quickly as any
other troops--and the improvements of
modern tactics aro more familiar to them
than the English. One thing is sure, they
will fight well better than they have fought
so far. Defeats and disasters 90 not iniurc
their morale believe me, that is a pecu-
liarity of the Russian character BIT take
Il all ia ait, 1t IS a terrible Gioac 10 Rus-
sia j; not TO her prestige, but TO her polc-
er. SerGstopOl and fhe CriD1ea contrib
aHeel far more to the 2orcponderance chi
tie prospects Of Russia than that little
region achich goes Jy the name IF Po-
idHd 1t was tile most vulnerable point in
the whole empire Mutilate that and it
will take quarter Of century to heal the
wound. In my opinion it is as bad as
bombsrdment of st. Petersburg; l would
haze preferred the latter. | always have
maintained this against everybody, and l
still maintain that the man who planned
the expedition to the Crimea played haz-
ardous game, but knew where to strike
The only consolation for me is to see that
babbler, kossuth made an ASS of with his
predictions Believe me-aud | feel the
palpitations of Russia's heart-the past and
present Emperors, as well as every Russian
statesman and general, would have prefer
red a thousand times 20 see all Europe-no
matter if "a nnllion of men in arms, in Poland.
on the Nistua, or the Neimcn. to the Cri-
mean expedition.
Tie Russians hare certainty lost more
IN resources, horses. anil men, IN sap
porting Their army IN the Crimea, Man
they did IN the campaign cf lS12-
Any man who knows the country 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 nation
ality-that is Poland whereas it is Russia
which now suffers and bleeds from ST Pc
teTsburg to the Black Sea. 1t would have
been easier for the Russians to maintain
600 600 smen between the Baltic aud Bes-
sarabia than 10000 in the Crimea And
then all Europe in arms or the Neimen or
the Fistula would have been starved ont
in three months. Germany and Prussia
would have suffered terribly while France
could and can, as we'll as England, much
more easily provide for her troops in the
Crimea by the aid OF her fleets, than she
could in Poland or in any place in the inte-
rior Of poor country which, the Russians
would have laid waste for hundreds Of miles
around am sure that even now, if the
Russians could choose. they would rather
see Pelssier and his army in Polund than
continue the struggle in the Crimea. THIS
as srhat the Crimean erpcaitioa amounts
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