The Empire County argus., 1855-09-22

~ calendar. Ihelr laws are founded in humanity,
ana Tor that reason they not hated, and are
kept reverenty and with religious exactness. is
the certainty of punishment in Russia not its Sc
verify, that prevents crime. They regard life as
the gilt OF God, and not to be taken by man. Up
on TINS foundation their criminal statutes based
and life can not be taken for any crime by sentence
OF any judicial tribunal Transportation for life is
the punishment for capital offences, crimes against
the empire and treason. The humane laws that
emboWel the criminal alive, drag him upon hurdles,
quarterng HIM, and sundering his limbs, impang
py the ROADSIDE etc, do not appear upon the pages
OF the criminal statutes of the " barbarous" Mus
coWte. Their benevolent institutions far exceed in
numbers n1 and hberality all the others of Europe
mere Is no misery that man can alleviate, in that
vast empire. And yet the piercing woes of your
splendid metropolises in France and England rise
hourly to the skies! Their public schools educate
every Russian-born subject. All are entitled to the
charity and support Of the hospitals of their COM
mune if by the act of God they are deprived of
the capability of selfsupport. The Russian gov
ernment encourages the arts the sciences, and the
enterprise OF all other nations. As a nation, the
Cossack is truly Christian. They have but one
faith, one orthodoxy. These are salvation through
the merits OF Christs atonement, by repentance,
faith, and obedience. Thry practice in life more of
the virtues and Offices Of the Christian religion than
any other people. 1t enters into the regimen of
their daily life. They never go to their business
without entering their sacristies, and asking bes-
sing upon their labors and offices, and especially
they ask to be kept honest and from temptation
The merchant would not expect to be prospered on
the exchange, did he not first enter its chapel and
at its altar invoke Divine aid to preserve him IN
integrity and honesty. The nobleman who goes
to the continent for pleasure on returning to his
palace at st Petersburg, before entering his home
drives to his chapel and there renders thanks to
Him who has kept his health and preserved him
from peril These are among evidences, to the in
telllgenoe OF the people of the United States eo-
quent OF Christianity and civilization Are such
the habits of barbarism, superstition, and igno-
rance?
The belief is daily trengthening in this country
that the alliance against Russia is unholy and I'M
just; and that you have entered upon an aggres-
sive war for conquest and power. At its beginning
our sympathies were with Turkey The Moslem
was the sick man. and this peoples impulses
we're carried by sentiment and sympathy to the
patient IN his weakness. The real issues between
kussla and Turkey were then concealed. All that
we heard OF these issues came through the bias
and jealouses of English and French journals.
lhe manltestos OF the Gar, the appeal he made to
the Christian world for the rectitude of his nen-
tons and the justice of his cause, opened our minds
to inquiry and our hearts to forbearance and bet
ter judgment We have reviewed the history of
past differences between Russia and Turkcv-their
wars Of offence and defence their relations in
peace-their negotiations and diplomacy, their
| ucdtCo anu COHN Ol commerce ana felIolOn
This sober second thought this reference to the
great realities and facts of this ISSUE have radical
| ly and permanently changed the American mind
We find that Russia has kept, with scrupuous ex-
actness the faith of her treaties and has borne
herself with great magnanimity, while forbearance
could be ranked with virtue. In contrast, Turkey
has been treacherous and faithless. Her undving
hatred Of the Christian, her jealousy of the grow
ing power of her ancient and natural enemy, have
caused her to oppress with more refined cruelty
and more merciess eXactions the Greek regonists
of her empire The 15000,000 of her Christian
subjects placed by the guarantees of treaties un-
der the spiritual control of the Gar with the as
surance of immunties of conscience and RELIGION.
yet bear the oppressive heel of the Mosem tax
gatherers. He despoils them of the fruit of their
labor and fills the harems Of the polygamous Turk
with Christian beauty, purchased with the spoil of
Christian treasure. And yet, with all these accu-
mutations of offence and taithlessness on the part
of Turkey-ground Of just resentment by Russia
no appeal would have gone to the sword, had
Turkey and Russia been left untrammeled by other
European entanglements to adjust their own differ
ences. The jealouses Of Romish Pontiffs were
whispered in the willing ear of the Sultan Prom
ises OF aid from recently-usurped thrones-not yet
fixed in the affections of people thrsting for mill
tary excitement and their ancient renown. willing
in the phronzes of conquest and wars, to forget
their wrongs at Eome--were made and urgently
repeated Here. in our mind, lies all the blame and
responsibility of war whose bloody beginning
promises safety to vengeance itself before it ends
Russia had no agency, and is without censure, in
this beginning. 1t was her policy to avoid, at this
time, the present war She clearly saw the Mos
lem "paticnt was dying of intirmites- chronic
with centuries of disease and impurity There
was no cure for leprosy God had cast as a curse
upon lslamism And yet Christian Europe rises to
restore the leper and to stay, with its armies the
DEGREES of the Almighty "Hast thou an arm like
God' " or canst thou thunder like him."
The hope Of this country had turned toward Vi
emma. Through England we yet had lingering
faith that peace would be effected That hope has
set forever! And now we only see in continental
Europe vast battle-ground, where pent-up war
with fresh and vengeful fury will sweep off in its
tempest every throne in the Old World Did Eng
land there exhaust every honorable expedent to re-
establish peace? Were your demands to occupy
the Black Sea with equal fleets with Russia lust!
Could Russia, without losing self-respect and the
respect OF nations, consent to such humiliation!
While you had failed to remove a stone in the for
tress OF Sebastopol, where you have exhausted the
military resources OF France and England you ar
roganty claim concessions the boldness of conquer
ors at capitals would hesitate to demand from an
enemy who has defended with unexampled skill
and fidelity his affairs and his fires" The mind
is lost in its wanderngs to find ground where hope
of peace can be fqed, Can you conquer if! So
far you have met with disaster, if not defeat on
every side You have aroused the Scythian war
spirit in 7O000,0O0 of people, whose nature and
habit make them uncomfortable. There is not in
the vast domain of Russia, in palace or hovel,