New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-03
GRECO-SLAVIC FEDERATION.

The Ottoman Empire is speedily approaching its
final dissolution; more speedily than ever since its
presumed restoration by the Crimean war and the
treaty Of Paris. The prophecy that the crescent is
TO fall from the cupola of st. Sophia after having
shone there for 400 years, if not fulfilled exactly,
seems after all to be not without ITS significance.
Forcible interposition arrested what few years
ago seemed to have been brought about by the nat
ura current of events But this nterpositon instead
of Strengthening the I" sick man," only exposed
more fully his corrosive cancers and putrefying
sores. A strong stimulant often hastens death.
The diverse component elements of the Turkish
Empire in Europe are held together solely by force,
Janizaran in fact, if not in name. There is not
even any such abnormal cement is loyalty to the
Kaiser in Austria, existing in European, nay, in the
major part of Asiatic Turkey. Nor are these parts
held together by the power of well-regulated, or
gained State, substituting in the administration Of
hevarious races and nationalites with statesmanlke
wisdom justice, equity ard equality for other more
cOgent and normal ties.
The chain which held together the European ele-
ments is altogether eaten up by rust This is now
admitted by those who were once very ardent Turk
ophies When by the Irresistible current of events
that chain shall be broken in pieces, the elements
now united by violence will remain there, each
bristliDg with its peculiar individuality. The COM
mon creed, or the Church, constitutes a spiritual
and her,rchcal link for the majority of the nation
alities in European Turkey But this link is power
less to mold them into political unity, or as rea
son of State Hitherto the hatred of the Turk has
been the only strong political feeling common to ALL
But the Turk gone, that communion OF hatred will
disappear, and the monsrous, chaotic heap is to be
co0rdnated and recognized.
It is not possible that the countries now compOs
ing European Turkey should constitute new, In
dependent, integral Empire under a Christian
dynasty. Such reconstruction would be alto
gether abnormal, and seed Of contention at home
and abroad. In Greece, the superpOstion of
foreign dynasty and its cortege upon more homo
geneous national elements has already proved almost
unsuccessful and the Kingdom of Greece was
erected amid circumstances altogether different from
those now to be expected. Then Turkey was still
strong, and the fear of the Turks exercised on the
Greeks centraliziDg influence. Under such cir
cumstances the little Kingdom of Greece, under the
protection Of its three godfathers could in no wise
excite the fears of any European Government. But
the present Cabinets of leading Powers will never
seriously think Of recOnstructng a powerful State
out of the dominions of the Sultan. Russis cannot
allow it under any circumstances whatever. Even if
a scion of the Imperial Russian dynasty were to step
into the Sultsn's slippers, such neghbor would in
the long run become dangerous to Russia. History
proves that dynastic alliances rarely hold together
for one generation and the interest OF blood disap
pears before reasons of State. Suilar family lice
smODg soyereigns have proved of little avail ia the
past, and will have no significance in the future
whatever may be the duration of royal dynastes \
Russian ruler at the head of powerful COnsta1tl
nopoltan Empire might easily enter INTO diplOm,tc
alliances menacing to the interests of the Russian
nation. The danger would be increased tenfold if
at the start the whole region from BIT. Hemus 10
the Egean Sea should fall into the hands of per-
feet stranger and presumptiye enemy. England
for many reasons does not desire another powerful
Empire in the Mediterranean. She did her utmost
to exclude Russia from it, and it is impossible to
suppose that she will ever aid in establishing there
another competitor, whose antagonism uniting with
those already existng-France, Spain, Naples
etc, may or later attempt to drive her dom
natingh out of the Mediterranean. Austria or the
Hapsburgs, who so long as their sands ruh are con-
demned 10 be detested by their neighbors-AustIia
cannot be willing to have at her back State al
hiated either with Russia by identity of creed and
race, or with France by the brotherhood of new
ideas. Ideas Of any kind are dreaded and abhorred
IN the Viennese Burg, and the Bonapartsts are at
times the fated bearers and dssemDatOrs of strange
notions, as has been the recently in Italy, Such
are some of the external diplomatic difficulties in
tbeway Of creating a single State upon dissolution
of the Moslem sway in Europe.
Other and far greater impediments will arise
from the nature of this region, ethnicaly so check
cred by different elements. Some portions of Eu-
ropean Turkey have already enjoyed kind of self
government and of partial independence under the
Sultan as lord paramount; others, not yet emanc
pated sdministratiyey, will be attracted toward
these by afnites more or less natural and genuine
If Christian dynasty should succeed the rule of the
Sultans over all the lands of European Turkey, of
course CoDstantinople would remain the focus aud
the Capital The new Sovereign, even if free from
any encourage from the land Of his birth, must M
ayoidably fall into the hands of the Fanaroes The
FanariOtes are the most parasitic and miserable of
the population of ConstaDtinope. They are 40
named from suburb of the city assigned to Greeks
aud Christians by Mohsmmed III. after he final.
ly took possession of the Imperial Metropolis When
subsequently Mabommed II destroyed the Empire