Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-10-25
Lord PaImeIston on the FalOf sebastop0l.

| to exchange mutual congratulations is one, no
doubt, Of the most remarkable and important which
has happened IN late aud recent times-I mean
the capture OF SebaStopol. Loud cheerS.)
We have been told by the commander OF the
Russian army hat in eyacuating the Town oil Sc
bastopol he LEFT nothing 10 the allies but 'OIo"u
stained ruin$;' and no doubt, as far as depended
upon him, 1t was his Intention TO leave nothlns
else to the victorious enemy. But allhongh IN ts
firing he DESTROYED everything that could lie BUM
ed within the time allow ed for his remaining stay,
yet we know that when the allies entered The tow
they found among its bloUd-stain ruins no less
than A. 900 pieceSol cannon, an immense quantliy
| of powder, enormous amount OF cannon oailS
and shells, and materials of vonOus kinds necessa-
~ for the prosecution OF the war. tHear.) Well
gentlemen, what does that tench US OIL reflection.
Why was that vast accumulation OF war ike ma
! teFial made more than could have been required
for the most prolonged defence Of the place! Why
was it that elements were there accumulated LOT
supplying great armies and for furnishing great
! fleets? Why, 1t was because they felt that in Sc
bastopol was the stronghold of theis power in the
East-that from that centre was 10 radlate that IN
tense and extensive power which vas 10 lead them
to the conquest of ConstaninOPle, and 10 leadthem
from that ceRLe Of empire TO sway the deStlneS oil
Europe. Great cheeuug.) Well, then, gentle
men, that think affords satisfactory proof Of the
sound judgment which was exercised by her MaieS-
TVS government in directing against SebastopoI the
| great power Of our army aud navy in the Black
Sea (Hear, hear)
There were thole-and some Of them mean
judges either of international or military aud naval
atfIiT$, there were some, say, who thought that
we ought to have emt Cur armies to the continent
10 scour the PrincipalisS, invade BeSSarabIa, and
pursue the vanquiShed and retreatng Russian ar
mIes-for vanquished and IeIreating they must have
been il our armies had lanGed and attacked them
| (cheerS)-thrOugh the stePpeS and great wilder
nesSes of Southern RuSSa. Why, if we had done
equal 10 what We have accomplished in the cap
tuTe of Sebastop0l? True, if we had adopted that
course We should have defeated army after army;
BUT army after army would have been replemiSh-
ed by the successive hordsS issuing from the north
aud at last we should have lound nothing but vast
and extensive plans from which we should have
been con PEELED 10 retire without having III our
hands tie pledge OF future security. (CheerS.)
"WelI. then, gentleman, we have heard much
Of the seige of Seb1stopol aud of the gallant de-
Tense Of The garrison which held that town; and
| Yet may he permitted TO say that, in the proper
Sense of the word, there has been no siree a! all
and that SebaStopOI has not been defended by any
garrison. Why, garrison means compa Tatively
small military force, which, shut up within the
walls of town fortress, defends itself against
a vastly superior army. Seige meaES an opera
lion which is conducted by superior force invest
Ing such fortress, cutting of its communication
with the rear, nnd by approaches which are flmI
! lar TO military men, al last making breach i'll the
defenceS, and then by bringing superior numbers
against the III eTior amount OF the ga rrison,
whelming them, as must be the case i'll SO unequal
n struggle. [Gheers.)
| But that which has happened in the CTimea has
been transaction of totally different kind The
allied armies for twelvemonth have not been be-
sieging single town, or attacking single garr-
son, but it has been lighting the entIre military
forces of tile Russian Empire. Loud cheers. l.
We have been cOntending not m,rely against an
army IN the Crimea equal, and sometimes superior
| 10 our own numbers, but with an entire military
| resources of that vast military empire: empire
which devoteS great part oil its revenues TO the
maintenance of an enormous standing army, an
army which they call n million of men; but
which may be set down at 600,OO0 or even S00,0Cq
men.
Well, gentlemen, almost the whole, or the great
er PARTON of that force set Free from The Bal
tic TO the Euxine; by the neutral position of those
powers which border The European frontiers OF
Russia. [dear, hear.l Russia had nothing 10 lear
Fl m either Austria or Prussia hear l--She was
therefore at liberty tn send down the Climea 10
defend SebaS'opOl, and drive our armies, as she
yalny boosted she could do, into the sea. Hear,
hear. She had nothing TO prevent her sending di-
VISION after divlSlon--armY alter armY--ihe garr-
sons OF Poland, and the garrison of ST. Petersburg
lin fact every man whom she could manage 10
feed at SO distant place. Hear. hear.I She
had no danger on her frontier 10 prevent her re-
Enforcing the CrImean army, and replacing with
new lewis lne losses she uuu III
I[heaT, hear.
say, therefore, our army has not conducted
what is commonly called segr-that it has not
conquered what is properly called garrison, but
that we have been fighting in the Crimea battle
against the whole military resources of Russia,
the armies Of Russia being tnirenched in posi-
lion strong beyond measure 10y NATURE strengthen
ed by all the OI art SanU all the contr-
vance Of skill and science, and tn t twelvemonih
struggle deeds of valOr have been performed by
our troops-Ly the British and French troops
deeds Of heroSn which will live in the memory
of the latest posterity, and which will do imnor-
tai honor 10 the people of the two cUuntries.--
Loud cheers
Well, gentlemen, every war is no doubt calam-
Ity but the course of the present war has brought
its evils as little home to the people Of this
try was possible comsists nifty with the
things. Our enemy has seen his aTSenalS in tie
Baluc flaming aud blazing to the sky. (Hear,
hear) Our enemy has seen that great fleet, lit arly
twenty eIgh; OF thirty sail Of The line, for which
the revenues Of the country were squandered, and
for which crews were conscribed-and 10 make
these crews efficient they weIe taught during the
icy UgOTS of winter 10 mount fictitious nasts erect
ed in their baTTackyar and to Imagine they VT re
climbing up the rigging of the fleet-(a augh)-
they have seen that fleet cooped up gnomlRiuu ly
in its harbors and lis docks not daring 10 face the
allied Squa,lronS, which, allow me TO say, were
nevtr Supt Tlor in numbers 10 the Russians, how
ever superior in other respects on which victory
depends. (Cheers]
They have had the modification of seeing that
all that expenditure and Trouble fruitleSs when
the moment came In which fleet ever might bs
useful. They have seen in the Baltic the hnm.
ialion attt ndng tina: state of things. They have
had their commerce crippled ami greatly reduced.
In the Black Sea they have seen fleet which not
long ago proudly staggered over the waves Of the
Euxine, and whose most glorious achievement
was the ba1barouS Outrage Of Sinope- (ironical
Law boyo hot not u
an open battle, or yielding after brave resistance
to superior force oil antagonists, but sinking I'M
der the hands of its own commander. and leaving
nothing but the topmasts sticking out of the water,
as marks Of the degradation to which they have
been subjected. (CheeEs.)
They have seen III great arsenal-this vast
capital Of which they are so proud, but of which
they were so chary that nO pfying stranger was
ever allowed to enter It's walls, so that the only
Englishman that hasever given any account of II
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