The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-26
NAPOLEON AND SYRIA.

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Asequel to NJ. Edmond Abou,'s pamphlet, ala Prusse
en- $780,, has made It's appearance this day at Denus
the government publisher. ''La Syrie ct PAlalcc
Russo" has like Abouts work, the merit Of frankaess
and as understood to proceed from the government
work be where such productions are manufactured it
has naturally produced grea, sensation. II canddly
avows that the great empires OF the Contaeat-thAt
of France and Russshave amoug many other poias OF
contact, awant Of expansion the satisfaction OF which
must be the aim Of Intelligent system Of policy"
and 1t proceeds to make out that this swan. Of
expansion can be kgitlmateIy satisfied by suadry
compeDsailons to the Powers concerned, with two
excep,lons-Austria and England. Russia is 10 DO
brbed, by the offer OF Constantnops to assist France
in the reconciliation OF the Rhine frontief Prussia Is
to receive portion Of Austris by way OF conpensaon
and Syria is 10 be turnei into hef for Abdel kater
II England should object Malta Gibraltar and the lonlaa
Islands to be taken from her securities for her
good behaviour, and then. the legitimate wants Of ex
psnson being satisfied" Europe may be allowed TO ENJOY
the blessings OF peace This in few words is the sub
stance Of this impudent manifesto, which will ia 40 small
degree confirm the impression of distrust which prevails
Throughout Europe Of the Emperor OF the French The
substance, however fails TO convey an iea OF the
peculiar insolence aud sopsry of tas last government
efusun therefore suboin copiou5 extracts from IT,
which will perhaps prove serviceabe as seasoning to
the savory epstle which has had such wonderfully
softeniug effect upon tho London Morning Post. | need
hardly say that the headings OF the quotations append
from ola syrie ct rAIiance Russo rot 10 be met
with in the original
TIE MASsAcaEs-AsoraER REvsSDicAroy
As al the time OF the Crusades Christian Europe Is
moved by the horrible crimes OF which Syria has Just
been the scene Seven hundred thousand Christians
delivered up TO the mercess faaa,icsn OF two millions
OF Mussulmans, and the Turkish government by its
plicabe naction appears TO avow itself their accom-
plce Assuredly France would have forgotten all her
traditions had she not immediately reventlued the ho
OF protecting the lives and properties o, those who
IN former days the soldiers OF Peter the Hermit and
Philip Augustus 1t is, therefore high time to
think of a remedy for situation which could not last
any longer without leading TO great calamity the total
determination OF the Christian subjects Of the Porte
The expedition which the Turkish government talks 50
much about is totally insufficient to rest ore order The
Powers who have co iisonsls in Syria, aud who
justly alsrmei for their safety must be prepared bodily
interfere II they tarried would longer be time
to protect victims, their only duty would be to avenSe
martyrs.
Two nations are especially interested in defending the
Cross on those distant shores-France and Russia What
would be the probable CONSEQUENCE of union Of their
arms and the result for the Interior organization OF
Europe This Is what we are abou, to investigate.
TIE MISSION or FRANCE.
At certain periods Of history find that under the
pulse OF certain laws Of attraction and aggloueraton
peoples form political combinations unknown 10 the past
We are assisting at one Of these critical moments
the life OF mankind The Syrian question is but OF
the knots OF avery complicated situation. Tse whole OF
Europe Is IN state 81 expectation and anxiety waiting
for vast solution which may settle the basis OF lasting
pssce both Europe and the East, Now, that object
only be attained, inasmuch As the organization of
contires. sa.i 5e conformity with wishes re-
qureme1x o. the preseat; questions OF nasionates
(nuascs, noompaiioty Of tempcrs, languages rsdicsi
y opposed to each other, keep up certa European
States undcrcurreni Of agitation which prevents the
restoration of confidence ana hnder the progress Of civil
lsation. Peace that ultimate term OF the ambition Of all
governments can only be permanently s,cured when tn,
shall have disappeared We, therefore, wish to arrive
a double result
l. wherever such thing is possible to favor the for
nation Of homogeneous and rational state, the mission
of which would be absorb concentrate Ia mighty
unity populations having ideas or tendencies in common
2 To try and carry out that principle without having
recourse to arms.
RsssxBtAycx BETWEEN DEsrorn RUSSIA AND oEspono
FRANCE
At first sight France and Russia appear to hare realized
the ideal of monarchies Though 400 leagues divide them
those Powers have arrived by the most different
N il nh IN
empires, not ephemera circumscrpons, the limits OF
which may be changed any day by the fortune of
Of Peter the Great have ceased 10 cast oove.ous
glances European Turkey Must France continue to
ing empire of the Sultan, We think not II Rus
STA lent US her operation for the reveudica.
that kingdom would not be too high a price for her
alliance. Thanks TO that combination, France might
resume her real limits, as traced by the geographer
from strsbo enumeraIg the advantages Of srI as the
seat Of powerful empire) II be easily understood
work presume the frontiers OF GauD thwarted for 80
many centuries by the fraud OF man. that Is so much
the Of things that period when we were not
thinking of territorial agzrandzemeut, Germany WAS
nevertheless subject to periodical nts OF Asness AMI
lung a, US as pledge OF defiance, Beckers patriotic
song. We know that We are not alone in hsv.
ing plans Of aggrandzement. Now, If Russia regards
Consantinope in the same way rs look at the Rhine
not turn these analogous pre,ensions ac
count and force upon Europe acceptance OF comb
nation which would alot Turkey 10 Russia 10 France
fr0nte which Napoleon considered
as sine qua condition ,f his existence sovereign
MODERATE CHARACTER OF rHs pRSIxss'oss FRANCE
There are only two millions Of Turks Europe, whereas
there are thirteen millions of Greeks, who's, spiritual
head Ia the Car The Greek usurrecton, which lasted
nine years but the prelude of the movement which
preparing in those regions aud which the massacres in
Syria may act upon signal 10 break out The Greek
at St Petersburg their patriarch at Constant
rise agans, the nhdcs and there but few
politicians who do not anticipate solution OF the East,
Rrn AuREt sAp Ia ia
distant time II is not therefore, surprising that at
the call OF their coreligonsts aad encouraged by the
predictions OF Stalezanew the Russians should be pre-
pared to cross the Pruth at to irst alert.
rug RsssoS WHY FRaScE SHOULD ASSsx BsIsUx.
We cast an eye on our own frontiers, the consdera
tons which Justify our tendencies appear to be quite
important as those which actua,e Russia Let us set
aside all historical recolections, aud all geographical
yes, take one by one the prov enclosed 10y the
Rhine, and examine the reasons that initiate ia favor OF
their annexation.
First, We meet with Belgium In good faith it is din.
cult TO question ae striking analogy which Induced
some historians 20 call the Belgans the French the
North To fact throughout the country the educated
classes apguage but French, and the Flemish dla
lee, only understood by The lover classes Of the popu
lation in some few localities. Moreover, Belgium is
her sister by origin diom aud religion that she Is in
debted for her Independence We will recall the fact
nine French Departments until Isis Nevertheless. n
would appear that yoke not very heavy, in
1881, Belgium having been unable 70 obtain from the
Great Powers the permission OF being annexed France
offered, by vote Of the two Chambers. the Belgium
crown 10 the Duke De Nemours, the OF the King Of
the French The refusal OF the latter Induced them sub
10 offer 10 the Duke o. SAKE Coburg since Leo
poa but the precedcn, refer TO appears highly
important and 10 leads the presumpt on that n Bel
GUM consulted she would not prove less generous
than savoy. and would prove the attraction
the pretge whcn the greatness Of France he
feel The opposition Of fen members OF the upper Gas
scs would be very s;led by popular sccsnations
MODERATION or FRANCE N NOT AsszNiye rIz vnOtz OF
Before falling into the sea the Rhine ics Itself iato
hrce branches two OF which rua 10 rather norhery III
-econs, the Ysse which 10 into the Zgyderzse aud
he Wahal, continent % thu Ncuse france had once
more 10 trace her limits might she not ta1e the lice Of
he Rhine properly called, instead Of tina. o. the Wa
hal the lsse 10 slice OIL little poss Die OF
southern Holland That Is what she would assuredy do
Moreover, the side of Holland that u s ndts.
pcnsabe to rccty frontier By taking ia. line Of the
Kline as basis Belgium, with her prescnt frontiers,
would be enough 10 satisfy the want Of xtsas oa which
" late has been 50 loudly claimed by public o2i,on Tue
Inc OF the schcd vas the foatier conceded
% France by The Treaty OF Lunevile, IA 1901.
Here follows short passage, demonstrating by similar
the necessity Of annexng the Graud Duchy OF
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