New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-02
NAPOLEOS's WAR PLANS.


respecting the manner in which the war is to
be carried on for the next couple of months.
These exposes are now becoming not only
fashionable but periodical, and although they
are apt to be Inconsistent with each other,
they afford for the time pretty good ides oil
what favorable chances are open to the French
Government. Take them all in all, they form
collection ofsll Louis Bonsparte's possible plans
of campaign against Russia. As such they de-
serve some attention, for they involve the
destiny Of the second Empire and the possibility
of French national resurrection.
Il seems then shat there is to be no grdrde
"putrre" with so, 900 Austrilns and 1000
French on the Yistula and Dnieper. Nor is
there TO be general rising Of those Oppressed
"natioDalities" which constantly looking to-
ward the West. No Hungarian, Italian, Polish
armies are to appear at the magic call Of the man
who put down the Roman Republic. All that
belongs to the past Austria has done her duty
to the West. SO has Prussia. SO has all the
world. Everybody is satisfied with everybody.
This war no grand war st all. 1t is not des-
tined 10 renew the glory of the old struggles of
the French with the Russians, though Pelissier
accidental says as much in one Of bis dis
patches The French troops are not sent TO
the Crimea TO reap harvest of glory; they are
simply there TO do police duty. The question
pending Is a mere local one: the supremacy of
the Black Sea-snd il will De settled on the
very locality concerned. To give the war any
lsrler dimensions would be folly. Respect
"fuily but firmly" will the Allies knock down
every attempt at resistance by the Russians in
the Black Sea and on its coasts; and when they
have done that-why then Of course they or
Russia, or both of them will make peace.
Thus another of the Bonapartist selfdeu-
sioDs has been put aside. The dreams of the
Rhine as the boundary of France, Of the acqui-
stion of Belgium and Savoy, have vanishe, and
a sober mOdesty of no common degree has taken
their place. We are not fighting to restore
France TO the position which is due to her 10 Eu-
rope. Far from it. Not even are we fighting
for civilization, as We used TO say short time
ago. We are too modest TO pretend to anything
Of such magnitude. WHAT we ,re fighting for
is-wby nothing more than the Interpretation
Of the Third Point of the Vienna protocol! Such
is the language now held by his Imperial Majesty
Napoleon III, by the grace of the army and the
federation of Europe, Emperor of the French.
And what does this all amount to- We are told
the war is being carried on for a purely local
object, and can be brought to a successful ter
imitation by purely local means. Take the ac-
tual supremacy ofthe Black Sea out of the hands
of Russia, ADD the eud will be accomplished.
Once masters Of the Black Sea and its shores,
hold what you have got, and Russia will very soon
give in. Such is the most recent of all ths many
plans OF campaign issued from headquarters at
Paris. We proceed to look at it little more
closely.
We Will take matters as they stand at present
From Constantinope to the Danube on the one
side and round BY the Circassan coast, Anapa,
Kertcb BaSbavs, to Eupatoria, the whole
coast is taken out Of the hands of the Russians.
Ksfa ana Sevsstopel are the only points chat
hold OUT the oEe hard pressed, the other 40 stu
ated ttat It must be abandoned as soon as it is
seriously menaced More than that, the allied
hee,s sweep the inland sea of Azof; their light
vessels have been up as far as Tagaurog, and
every place of importance has been assailed By
them. No portion Of the coast can be said to
remain in the hands Of the Russians, except the
tract from Perebop to TIE Danube, or abolt one
fifteenth part of their possessions on that coast
Now we will even suppose that Ksfta and Sevas-
topol have fallen, and that the Crimea is in the
hands cf the Allies. What then Tina. Russia
will Lot make peace in that situation, she has
already loudly proclaimed. She would be mad
If she did. 1t would be giving up the battle
after your advanced guard has been thrown
back, at the very moment your main body is
coming up. What then can the Allies do, after
having secured these advantages at an immense
cost
They can, we are told, destroy Odessa,
Cherson, Nikolaieif; they can even laad strong
army al Odessa, fortify themselves there so as
to hold out against any number of Russians, and
then act according TO circumstances. They can,
besides, detach troops to the Caucasus and all
but destroy the Russian army which, under
General Muraviof, NOW holds Georgia and
the other trans-Caucasisn countries. But
suppose all these things to be accom-
plished and again we ash, what then, if Russia,
as she certainly will do, refase to make peace
under these circumstances Let it not be for
gotten that Russia is not placed in the same po-
sition as France or England. England csn az
ford to conclude shabby peace. In fact, az
soon as joan Bull has had enough Of excitement
and wsi.tsxts, be will be but too eager to
creep our # the mess and leave bis dear allies to
shift for themselves. EnglAnd's real power and
source Of strength do not exactly lie in that d.