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

and civilization Are such the habits Of barbarsm super
stition, and ignorance2
The belief is daily strengt henng in this country that
the alliance against Russia is unhoy and unjust and that
you have entered upon aggressive for conquest and
power AT its beginning sympathes with Turkey.
The Moslem the sick man. and this peoples impulses
carried by sentiment and sympathy TO the patient
in his weakness The real issues between Russia and
Turkey then concealed All that heard Of these
through the bias and ealouses of English and
French journals The manesoes Of the Gar the appeal he
made TO the Christian world for the recude Of his nten
tons aud justice Of his cause opened minds in
quiry and hearts fobearance and better Judgment
We have reviewed the history of past differences between
Russia and Turkeytheir of offence and defence
their relations in peacether negotiations and diplomacy
their treaties and conventions, of commerce and religion
This sober second thought this reference the great rea
ties and facts of this issue have radically and permanently
changed the American mind We find that Russia has kept
with scrupuous exacness the faith of her treaties and has
borne herself with great magnanmity while orbearance
could be ranked with virtue In contrast Turkey has
been reacherous and thess Her undyng hatred the
Christian her jealousy of the growing power Of her an
Gent and natural enemy have caused her Cypress with
more refined cruelty and more merciless exacons the
Greek religonsts of her empire The 100000 Of her
Christian subjects, placed by the guarantees of treaties
under the spiritual control of the Gar with the
of mmuntes of conscience and religion yet bear the
oppressive heel of the Mosem ax-gatberer He despos
them of the fruit Of their labor and fills the harems of the
polygamous Turk with Christian beauty purchased with
the spoil of Christian And yet with all these
Accommodations of offence and aithessness the part of
Turkeyground of just resentment by Russa,no appeal
would have gone to the sword had Turkey and Russia
been left untrammeled by other European entangemens
adjust their differences The ealouses Of Romish
Pontiifs whispered in the willing of the Sultan
Promises of aid from recenty-nsurped hronesnot yet
fixed ia The affections Of people thrsting for military
rite
of conquest and wars to forget their wrongs home
made and urgently repeated. Here in mind lies
all the blame aud responsibility of whose bloody
beginning promises safety to vengeance itself before it
ends Russia had agency and is without censure in
this beginning II her policy to avoid, this time
the present She clearly the Mosem patient
dying of MISUNDERSTANDING with centuries Of dis
and mpurty. There for eprosy God
had cast q upon lslamism. And yet Christian
Europe rises restore the leper and to stay, with its
armies, the DEGREES of the Almighty! Hast thou arm
like God ?" or canst thou thunder like him."
The hope of this country had turned toward Vienna.
Through England yet had lingering faith that peace
would be effected That hope has set orever And now
only see in continental Europe vast battle-ground
where pentup with fresh and vengeu fury will sweep
of in its tempest every throne in the Old World Did
England there exhaust every honorable expedient
ablsh peace? Were your demands to occupy the Black
with equal fleets with Russia just? Could Russia with
such humiIiaton2 While you had failed TO stone
in the fortress Of Sebasopo where you have exhausted
the military resources of France and England you
ganty claim concessions the bodness OF conquerors at
capitals would hesitate demand from enemy who has
defended with unexampled skill and fidelity "their affairs
and their fires The mind is lost in its wanderngs to find
ground where hope peace be fixed Can you conquer
IL? So far you have with disaster not defeat on every
side You have aroused the Scyhian spirit in 100000
600 of people, whose nature and habit make them
querabe There is not in the domain of Russia in
palace howell subject unaffected by the eaven of war 1t
pervades alike acasses the peasant the ser bourgeois and
the nobility The spirit that enkinded be quenched
the is in defence of their atar-res and their faith
and for the keeping of the sepuchre of Saviour the
"Holy Shrines and Holy Places" The Crescent or the
Cross must fall
Unable by your alliance to conquer or humilate that
Cossack barbarous neighbour you entertain the humane
idea of reenkindng the fires OF the slumherng uds of
all Europe enveloping in flame and internal revolution
ancient Germany, Hungary, and Poland Christian and
Hosiem alliance presented and strange spectacle
But to the vengeul passions of all the revolu-
tionary fury OF the continent is TO sweep all Europe with
the tempest Of This mercess alternative brings to
memories your old alliance with the mercess savage
whose was the universal of all CON
dtons and ages, when by your strength you had
failed to overthrow these colonies Such allies YOU hui
namely armed against your 'brehren in America from
whom you ask sympathy and the aid sentiment in
your present alliance scarcely less unnatural and unholy
than that with savages against the struggles of these
American colonies.
But you that Poland would consent to rcassume
throne whose monarch would hold his office by the un-
certain tenure of the good will of France and England
Would Poland consent to limits of empire defined BY those
thrones2 Would Poland take constitution draughted TO
suit the taste and ambition of other powers2 Would she
not hold every breath of her national existence by the IA
vor and consent of monarchs whose thrones are now
trembling in the struggle Of war; There sangeness in
this newborn love Of France and England for the unfo
tunate Poles Their appeals to those thrones in the hour
Of their trial. when freedom shreked and babe the
world arewell'-were unheard You then consented to
the partition that shared her other thrones and saw
Poland expuuged from the family of nations The memo
ny Of the Jageons yet lives Their descendants are too
proud and brave accept from you now the name
and nationality they have the spirit to win with the
sword should it be their interest their rights 10
nationality and to place in the family of nations
But the idea Of the restitution of Poland by the allies IS
the thnnes chInera of the startled diplomacy of your al
lance Russia alone reconstruct that empire This
as well known to Poles to you l. She is the only
power that guaranty constitution and execute such
guarantee But the Poles race have coalesced with
the SlavoRussan, and their homogencity makes them
contented and happy
Many OF these reasons apply with equal force your
contemplated reconstruction of hungary and Germany
The Magyars proscpve and ancient hatred of the Turk
undyng II Is not less strong than it was three
centuries ago. when the vaor of the agyars STAYED the
tide of Mosem conquest that threatened the subversion Of