Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-09-03
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hnssta, though with Emperor and fresh oopos
inni'es seems far from disposed enter the bath o, re
ofm The obstinate and sG.en spirit stIl ive.-has.
ions are would appear almost already fotsouen and
""'" Ckr and people are a- really play tie old
Ssne OF pride, violence and cunning which -.
n' ior more than 100 years. Bot csuuot think that
,.the present time such display will be- succe-si-
"hn"n prudence would advise a gradual and l,ss
-n'-rafive return the assumptions and ,ep,ces nj
ctmeF days IL Il but few months since Ru.sia accent
90 the terms o peace proPosed through Austrian me da.
""" At that time seft told daily by the Rus.ian
press Ia Europe Of the sincerity ard moJ-ra f ,h.
Czsr To believe certain prints and certain politicians
ass. vas iad 81 good faitb aRd her unambtiou- peo
ps were lost in astoni-hneut the designs imputed To
hem by the misguided Cabinets of The West A.,
last February Ahen th representative OF Europe w,re
70 meet In Psi the t"ne OF Russian organ wa
most ms gn'oquent snd high minded P-sc. yooi~ill %
al men popular Instruction, rn.ays canals improved
'gncvute, free trade, IN heart Of every Rian
SMILE OF good-humored pity was the answer 10
those who limited that Museovite policy might stilI
'-nlsin unchanged, aud that il woaId be as vii 10
take guarantees while still strong united and in
earnest All this lasted until peace was made aud Rus.
a ootaned conditions with which she had reason to
oe dissa'isted Now however all changed Cronsta
= no longer threatened; Poland forever abandoned bv
TIE West and will be fully Rnssiaized before war AGAIN
s,'s Europe Bessar-bia with the exception Of narrow
p = preserved; the Caucasus sti remains Rissinn
poesssou The c1AT Is sbouE to ne ero~p~d with mucb
sp'endor and all Europe is hockng the sight Rus-.
Agan taxing her stand a. great Power, and IS long
- vast prison, with Il sovereign nobility and peope
laced under the ban Of the world Hence the old io-
'eterate obstnacy revives the old cunning i once mo
% he tried to discover If can Of yore command sue
cess.
There be doubt Of the UNIV ngness of Russia In
ie quietly and honouraby ~hat has become by treaty
TIE property ofthe Ottoman State. We shall perhaps
ave u explained with details that the dficulti.s
sc complain Of unavoidable that the estr,cton n,
hArks and the Danubian strictly LEGAL and that
thc occupation OF Serpents Island only some transac
on connected with the lighthouse But facts s remain
"a record IL Is certain that the conduct of th.
as induced England again occupy the Black Sea The
iannba has been sent 20 Serpents Island and sufficient
ntimaton has been given that in opinion of the allies
omething ike brearh Of faith has taken paee Con,
pare the conduct France and England with that of their
ate enemy. The allies had more than $50 900 men in
ne Fast They had prepared, far from their coun-
y Immense stores of food clothing and arlike mater
IT, IN expectation OF long hostilites. Every man and
horse and gun had to be brought away by sea at time
~hen transport was scarce and dear Yet In four months
Two thirds OF the time allowed not only the ermea I'm,
turkey itse has been cleared OF the allied troops We
earn from Constantinople to-day that after the depar-
are OF ho,ila then about to sail scarcely a
ihousafd frenchmen would be left in Turkey Our
own naval and military establishments have been broken
lp and soon Scrutar will retain no traces of US excent
e graves OF the dead and the which comnen
crates then This prompness, honorable 10 both na-
uous, has not been initiated by Russia Although K.rs
II but 80 miles from own frontier and held bu,
by fe" thousand she ID there STILL destroying works
cutting down forests refusing English officers the ,ght nj
visiting the spot and during her little term of power
playing the despot after the fashion of Warsaw or Ti.
he same Is the case at the mouth of the Danube Rus
| est
lay allowed by treaty with perhaps the desperate hope that
something will happen enable them to refuse the cesou
altogether The part Of Bessaabia which is to be added
10 the Princpates is still in Russian hands and the Ca,
ses doubts on the topography and would far as NAV
oe judged from appearances gladly evade condition
which ior the hrst time his frontier to recede
We do not certaihy think that any practical result will
oilow from these lteious and undgnhed DISPLAYS The
other Powers far much earnest to allow any tri
nlng Ia matters OF such Importance IL will be observed
thAt Austria, who perhaps knows her neighbour better
thA We DO, has not yet evacuated the Principates al
though she ought TO have done SO some time since She
- ho doubt, waiting until Russia shall have perlofmed
her part OF the engagement That when the end of the ak
months comes We shall the Russians depart
is certain enongh We may future times have to watch
their designs for the of their former terrory
ot that they will acquesce for the present we know be-
cause We have the to enforce il But the spirit of
the Court oi ST Petersburg is not the less sppa-
rent IL can hardly be to impose on civilized
"auons that the Russian Sovereign makes this
sPAy OF inPotent ob,tinacy. Indeed the impression
must leave on Europeans is rather that Russia
aud more sorey wounded than thought To see her
lingering at the spots she must leave and performing
"ets OF Pary tyranny to the last raise her in the
eyes oi German or Italian. But NAV be that on some
gnerant and conhdng the spectacle of her armed
occupation after the allies have LEFT the Fast NAV have m
influence If she hold Kars after France and England
have Withdrawn their armies from the fset
may be explained consistently with Russian interests
among nations TO whom Russia alone speaks Never
thees in the end such subterfuges car be OF little avail
and the conduct Of Russia, by destroying any nascen
leehng oi confidence among the Western nations will
og on her evils FAR overbaancing any advantages which
dilatory evacuation procure