The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-10

army and to provision it, by en- armistice, and you
ensure an other Crimean campaign, or throw away
all that has been so hardly won IN the campaigns Of
ls64-ls55 To this the people Of England or Of
France will scarcely consent whatever may be the
wirhes of Austria Prussia and dozen other paltry
German States, which have given us no help in the
war but the reverse; and the wishes OF which,
therefore, We are in no respect bound TO consult
from he London Times, jan. "a
Since the news of peace burst upon us we have
been so engaged with our own affairs that we have
not had moment TO devote TO the consideration Of
the present situation and future prospects OF Russia
We have endeavored ss far as existing circumstances
would admit, to take an impartial view Of our own
position, and should be glad IL Il were possible
70 do equal justice to that Of great antagonist
We have feeling of luminosity Jealousy to graft
fy. Thesocial conditions Of our moral our physical
and our political positions totally different, II not
Numerically opposed, and we can sincerely desire
the progress, the prosperity and the greatness OF
Russia because it would in no degree interfere with,
while in many particulars It would sssist, the pro
gress and prosperity Of these islands.
When the Emperor Alexander succeeded to the
throne ten months ago, be announced. or those who
were bequesthed TO him as advisers by his father
thought fit to announce in his name, to the Rns-
sian nation, that he would tread in the steps Of
Peter, Of Catherine. of Alexander, and Of Nicho-
resolutions have become an anachronism and an
impcssibility. Russia is called on 70 deliberate
no longer about following ont policy of conquest
and aggression, but about the best means OF pre-
q century and Q half Of fraud, war and intrigue
from being scattered to the winds. Never Was the
choice of Hercules between good and evil, between
the upward and downward course, presented more
clearly to any one, or with more mofnentous re-
suit for good and evil to the human race, Than TO
the Emperor Alexander at this moment The EAn-
peror is said to be mild and benevolent man. Let
him well consider the policy which he has inhe-
end TO which II has brought him. When the Ekn-
peror Nicholas, after having quenched the flames OF
the sedition which beset him when he rst assembled
the throne in the blood Of Postal, Mouravief and
their accomplices found himself undisputed master
Of Russia, he deliberately fixed upon an end, to
which he devoted, without sigh OF regret, not
only his OWN life but the lives OF those helpless mu
and unreenting hands The end he set before him.
eelf was universal conquest and dominion, and
once having this idea firmly before him, every
ing and Implying consistency. Arts, progress,
civilization, internal transport, literature and
science he gave mp without sigh for this enc
darling object. Master of people neither warlike
nor ambitious, he forced their ideas against their
will into the direction Of war and conquest He
maintained an army far larger than was needed for
the police or defence of his vast empire, and in
order to maintain he drained the resources OF his
subjects to the very dregs and compelled nation
that aspired to be the conquerors OF the world to
depend for its means Of cultivation on the annual
loan Of millions Of foreign capital. He formed
the priesthood into machine for supplying the
siasm and whatever he could save from the demands
of bis vast armies and arsenals he devoted to the
establishment Of line Of tremendous forti6cations,
and to forcing into existence navy in defiance Of
every obstacle which nature and situation could OPP
pose to his success navy destined to find its
grave in the yeY harbor from which 1t was intended
to sally forth to the conquest Of the East and Of
his subjects and of the principles Of well ascer-
tanned economic science, and choosing TO
consider Russia in her gloomy isolation as an
exception to all the other nations Of the
her commerce towards the South by guarantees
and export duties, and every species of vexatious
restriction, in the futile hope that by preventing the
tate the execution Of his plans the independence
of Turkey. With like view he lavished enormous
sums on the smaller courts of Germany, we'll aware
that by stimulating internal division he was most
Europe and The total extinction of her Liberties.
Thus lived and labored he for 80 years, and in the
30th year just as it appeared full blown, the bubble
burst and showed him. when it was TOO late. that he
had wasted his fine talents his untring industry, his
almost superhuman energy, upon a mere halucina-
ton, an uneubstantial chimera. The army in which
he trusted could not be maintained BY his finances
nor recruited by bis peasants. That exhaustion OF
men which befell the French republic, after eighteen
years Of exteImnating war, visited him before the
conclusion of the second campaign. The feet.
which had cost him such infinite sacrifices, persisted
with ignominy that even the heroic death of his
admirals and sailors could not redeem, and which
was only exceeded by the ingl0rious fate Of those
ships that lurked behind the bnwnrks Of Cronstad,
without even blocking up by their sunken hulks the
passage which leads to the very vestfbue Of the I'm
periai city.
These things are, We should think, sufficient to
warn the Emperor Alexander against following in
course pursued BY his father with 80 much talent,
30 much fImness. and such signal and notorious
disaster. Let the learn to be wiser II not greater
than his father He has In the natural instincts Of
bis pr ople in the inexhaustble riches Of his south
ern provinces, in their admirable water communica-
tion in the immense increase Of the demand all over
the world for the raw material of food and manufac
ture, and in the exemption OF the Black Sea from
the presence aud interference Of hostile fleets,
boundess source Of wealth and power. 1t rests with
him to become, II he wills it, the greatest exporter
Of corn, linseed tallow hemp and hides in the world
The strictly protective tariff to which he has succeeded
was principally the work Of his father, formed partly
to encourage sckly and unnatural manufactures,
partly to discourage foreign influence. and partly to
defray the enormous and unnatural expenses OF his
purely military and aggressive system. Let the
Emperor Alexander sincerely embrace the principles
of peace and progress and let him, without entering
on any career Of theoretical and impractical liberal
ism. study TO promote the material advancement of
his people. Let him produce ell he can, aud open
his ports to receive In exchange all that foreign
ti0ns con give him. Let him reduce his army to the
amount necessary for internal police and defence
against external aggression, and employ the surplus
OF his revenues in paying the interest on loans raised
for perectng his internal transport and the execu
as well as military merit and turn the attention of
the nation from the arts which embiter and destroy
to those which enliven and preserve life. Let him
do this and il should please Providence to protract
his reign, like that Of his father to the full period Of
thirty years, he win go down to his grave in peace,
not like bis father amid the shouts Of battle and the
shIeks Of despair, but among the tears and blessings
Of happy and regenerated people, who will recog-
nze In him among 30 many rulers and conquerGrs
their first benefactor and their only friend
(FTom the Lcnden Post e fhcial), Jan. 24
We shall now in short time receive the text of
the Russian acceptance Of the Austrian ultimatum,
which will show, what do not yet satisfactorily
know, the method and scope of the course adopt,
by Russia AS soon rs that shall have been fully
asceItained, 1t will be determined in London and
Paris how, and on what conditions, prelminares Of
peace may he arranged and negotiations be entered
upon. In the meantime, we receive dispatches from
Berlin which inform us of the receipt by Baron Bud
berg the Russian representative In that cantaI Of a