The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-11-13
From the Saturday Evening Post

llatlOn OF aOOut OO,OoOyUOO.5 lnlS Sixty
millions is composed of-31 different peo-
Piles. divided into l2 different races-the
most numerous of which is the Sclavoni-
an race, which includes the Russians
so-called, the Poles, the Cos
sacks, &c. Among these lle different
peoples, these twelve different races,
dwelling over an immense tract of coun-
try stretching from the middle of Europe
to the extreme east of Asia-thinly set
tied, and divided often from each other
by dreary wastes--all is unity and har
mony, except in the single case Of the
Poles, and they seem to be becoming ra-
pidly reconciled to their lot. No dis
cordant feeling is believed to prevail-but
all are devoted to the existing form of
government, to the Gear, and to United
Russia.
And yet the governing class among
this sixty millions, is one Gar, and 1856,
900 hereditary nobility! Where these
lead, $4,000 priests, and over fifty mine
millions of people, including merchants,
tradesmen, artisans. peasants, and serfs
unhesitatingly follow. Nicholas begins
a war,-and stirs upthe passions of the
masses to a high pitch of religious and
political fanaticism. His successor makes
peace, and calms down the excited feel
ings of the people as easily as Nicholas
had aroused them. And it is the masses
especially which are enthusiastic and fa-
natical in their loyalty-tcaring the very
robes and ribbons off the heralds who re-
Gently made proclamation of the corona
ton of Alexander not in hate or passion,
but merely in good humored though in
tensely fervent desire to possess them
selves of some memento of so transcend
emily important and auspicious an event
The Gear might initiate Louis Napoleon
with perfect safety, and put it to vote
whether he should be Gear, wi h the alb
solute powers of his ancestors. Why the
man who would vote "no,,' would be
torn to pieces by his " faithful" Rus
slams. We should not be surprised if,
at this moment, there were more Repub-
licans at heart among the handful of the
young nobility of Russia, than among all
the rest Of the population. z@T
All, it is queer world-and it widens
the mind to take look at 1T occasionally
from some other point of view than that
which has been prepared for us by tie
mere prejudices of birth and education
AS matter of physical power, it would
seem very easy thing for the sixty mil
| lions of Russia to throw off their ruling
class of 10000. One would naturally
say, what are 10000 men when pitted
against GO 100000? But, as "a practical
matter, we all know it would be one o.
the most difficult things in the world.
And why ? Because the masses would
be divided at once againt themselves
and the contented used to put down The
discontented. And further, because they
really believe that things are better a
they are--that they are more wisely gov
erned by the nobility and the Gear thai
they would be by themselves. And VIII
shall say, in view of the lamentable fail
ures of that year of Revolutions, 1848
that they are not right? =
We think th at intelligent men in thi
country and in Europe never occupied $
nearly the same political platform as a
this moment. All calm, clear, common
sense thinkers-no matter how much the
may love Aristocratic institutions on th
one hand, or Democratic onesion the 9th
er--are beginning to grow less and les
inclined to advocate either rs an absolut
rule. They are beginning to see ths
what is one nation meat may be ant
theirs poison. That institutions are nc
, positively good or bad, SO much as rela
lively SO. That only institutions whie
absolutely set themselves against mate
rial, intellectual and spiritual progress
> can be set down as positively and esser
tally evil. That the institutions of
!, people must be proportioned to their il
tellectual and moral advancement--gi,
: ing a lsrger and larger portion of sci
government to tie masses, as they b.
come qualified to enjoy and make goo
use of such liberty. And, on the oth'
!. hand, Withholding or Withdrawing Il
privileges of self-government in propo
ton as the masses retrograde in INTEL
gence and morality. f2 a{
Thus, it does not follow that becaus
republican institutions are best for. an
9 the positive right of, some nations. th
9 an aristocracy and Gear should not |
Y the best for Russia or a limited mona
IS chy, and modified and liberal aristocr