Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-09-18
THE CRIMEAN WAR AND IT'S PROBA-
BILE RESULTS.


THE CRIMEAN WAR AND ITS PROBA-
BILE RESULTS.
As long as Turkey and Russia were the only
powers engaged i'll the war, our sympathies nat
urally inclined 10 the weaker side--the more So
as Turkey had rendered herself obnoxious to the
despotisms of Europe, by the exercise of noble
and liberal hospitality in favor of the gallant
exiles from Hungary and Poland. But when
England and France took part in the contest, we
at once transferred our good wishes TO Russia:
because we have no faith in the specious profess
sons, and we suspect the motives Of the Western
Allies. The existence of the Ottoman Empire to
to the west of the Bosphorus, at the present day.
IS due only 10 the jealousy of the great Powers of
Europe; but that it is now doomed TO dismem-
berment, either by the arms of the Gar or
the treachery OF IFS grasping Allies is more than
probable. The manner Of this ACKNOWLEDGMENT
however, is far from being matter of indiffer-
ence to the United States. We have had recent
indications, on the part Of the Western Powers,
Of disposition TO NEEDLE in the affairs of the
North American continent and if the Vienna
conferences had terminated in peace with Rus
sia, II would have been no matter of surprise to
US, TO have seen the combined fleets Of England
and France transferred from the Baltic to the
waters of the Gulf Of Mexico. Hence 1t is, that
any accession TO the power of the allies at the ex-
pense of Russia Turkey or both, is to be depre-
Gated by the United States. But we do not anti
cipate any such result. The extent and obvious
strength of the Muscoyite Empire-the Russian
character-the precedents of hstory-and, above
all, the events of the last twelve months lead us
on the contrary, to the belief that the "Bear"
will prove too strong for the ''Britsh Lion" and
Gallo Cock"
The Russian Empire extends from the Frozen
Ocean on the north to the Black Sea, and spreads
from West TO East over two hundred and eleven
degrees Of longitude Nor is this the vast, inert,
uninhabited wilderness, which some writers
would have believe it; on the contrary, it con-
tains within itself, and now in the process Of
rapid development, all the elements of national
power and greatness. The facilities for inter
communication, already great, are rapidly in
creasing. ST. Petersburg, the seat Of power on
the Baltic, is connected, by canal and nayigable
rivers, with Astrachan, the mistress Of the Cas-
plan. The Baltic and the Black Sea minple
their waters through the Beresna and Novegorod
canals-the sea ports Of St. Petersburg, Riga and
Archangel, interchange commodities with the
Celestial Empire, by means ola vast inland water
communication reaching to the Chinese wall
while magnificent system Of railroads is already
in the course Of construction 10 bind still closer
together the remote points Of European Russia.
As far back as 1911 Russia had unregistered
and at her disposal eighteen millions Of men ca
pable Of bearing arms. In 1922, her standing
army, actually equipped for the field, numbered
more than a million Of men, but her greatest
element Of military strength is the willing, cor
dial, unhesItating obedience Of this vast force
TO the direction and guidance Of single mind
and We may here remark, that the rulers Of Rus
STA are Of very different order from those Of
other despoisms-the breed Of kings has not
run out" in Muscovy
The Gar, Peter, with the far-reaching views
Of a statesman, decreed the annexation, sooner
or later Of Finland and Poland, and Of part Of
Persia to the Russian domnon the great Catha-
rine and her minister Potemkin resolved on the
resuscitaton Of the Byzantine empire. To carry
out these DEGREES has been the Underwriting policy
Of their successors, and their fufllment is an ar
ticle Of religious faith with the Muscoyte-of
such faith as gives TO the resolves Of powerful
and young nation the inexorable certainty Of
fate.
Since the victory Of Emback, in 1909, this
magnificent destiny, projected by these great
rulers Of Russia, has been steadily progressing to
full accomplishment. Finland is a Russian
province; Poland is a Russian province; three
Persian provinces were annexed in 1923, and to
these, IN 1897 were added the Kanships Of Ma
kitschevau aud Erivau, the latter the kew to the
whole Persian monarchy. From the Crimea.
Odessa, the mouths of the Dniester, the Dnieper,
aud the Don, Russia dominates the Black Sea
and commands the highway 70 Constaptinople.
and in 1893 her victorious Iegions dictated their
own terms al the very gates Of STEAMBOAT
England, rotten to the core every branch or
her administration misrnanaged bv, and hurdc,.
cd with, the support Of an efTete and corrupt oil
garchy-her very existence dependent solely on
the precarious mutations Of commerce, would
throw herself in the way Of this Russian destiny.
The French Emperor forgetful Of or seeking 10
avenge the dread disaster Of Moscow, with the
democratic volcano but slumbering beneath his
feet, would follow her example; and 50 far, what
has been the RESULT Before the simple earth.
works, devised BY the genius Of Lithuanian
Jew, and defended by the valor Of dospised Rus
sian serfs, England has, for the last twelve
months, displayed to an astounded world the
most complete military imbecility, and forfeited
forever those laurels due 10 her good fortune at
Waterloo, and earned in her contest with the
rice eaters Of India, while France has had to de-
plore the loss Of thousands Of her gallant yete-
rams Of the army Of Africa, swept away like the