New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-14
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es,e,e IT, In its Ultimate results such an annex
atop would be mischievoDs to the we'll being Of the
Rssrias Empire and DatoO, and it would be wei
ssn.d by the Christians of Turkey Only if every
Other jssse should become impossible. 1t may seem
strsDee that, after having for more than quarter
Of q century ardeDtly advocated the absorption OF
Turkey By Rassis, l now abandon az aim CHERISHED
40 Ing. But new notifications have been brought
forth BY altogether new events. New polltics' pne
n mena make the domination of Russia over Jersey
neiiber possible nor desirable. Previous 70 tno
Criusan war and to the treaty Of Pans tnA
eeed,t,on of the Christians Of Turkey was oe-
yeBd The pale of European domestic anu ,D'
tespetiopal policy. BY political ana geOg'spOi-
cal reasons by religion and eonfangnlnuy' nus
MA alone was attracted toward tue heiesPoh'
The Cssrs-bitherto organic necessities OF the nus
,;., nstiop-were the powerful agencies OF the int
mate rrIatioDs existing between the Russisns and the
Tnrle.Slas,c populations. 10 sbe name OF religious
and national brotherhood, the Cars alone worked
Cor the emancipation Of the Chr stians and the Slavi
erusled BY TIE ottomans. Fbey were then the ex-
slusi,e larbDgers Of civilization and emauc'pahon'
Of the amel Grafton Of the people and the country
between the Pruth and the ProPODts. At that time,
annexation to Russia was the Only possible ISSUE
An il eAa1 ged now if tie arrowmiodedness OF the
European Cabinets and IN ers do not turn the cur
rent Of events INTO its former channel. Were the
Russisn Government obstinstely resolved to become
he master of the DardsnelIes. BY blood and by toe
rwerd, and to do tn merely for geographical rea'
sens. ,uch obstinacy would be rather imbec hty
"A int ha NM
,sd one far more sure and broad than the posses
sies Of CoDstaDtiDop'e can ever secure. The Auoor
l. a continuation of the European aorta OF Russia
in the direction rom west to east IL brings Russia
inssnsaet with Asia ard America, with 800 millions
ssaet We and h,rious Chinese, and With some %
millions of highly cultivated japanese, This free
or,tlnt from Der possessions on the AmOor into the
Psc,6c completes Tor Russia the circle of tue globe.
Even with the possession of ConstantinOple, Russia
veuld be shut up in the Mediterranean, compressed
asd crowded 10 by many rivals. Every step, every
fuiter of the Russian flag would be jealDnsy
watched. impeded, and contested. The AmoOr
spsns Imitless horizon, and by it Russia spans
DE Two hemispheres almost without solution OF
continuity Let the most violent war rage IN Eu-
Fpve and stain her waters with gore, friendly inter-
course between Russia and the American UNI N can
scarcely be jeOpsrd'sed on the Pacific. For tue fa
ture deitnies of Russia, the possession Of the Bay
sfTsIiary Outweigbs that Of the HelesPOut and tue
PropOutis. A great Asiatc State is growing up FROM
tie MaDtcboo countries aud from the soatbern
slopes Of the Atai, embracing the sOltudes of Tar
tap down 10 the geographical frontier Of Europe.
For centuries to come this new Empire viii be u
vital and healthy portion of tho whole body Con-
ssaDtnople would be-tO use a stale but we'll under.
dsntOOd cOmparsOD-a Nessns shirt fer Russia. lts
possession would uDsvoidably end 10 the disruption
u Rupsia of the reiguiDg family and Of the nation.
IL " oud break down the energy of tie Empire,
poison its vitality, relax ts activity, and, cancer
hike, eat up its forces.
1t may be possible that some Russian diplomats
sDa Statesmen still turn longing eyes toward Con-
staptiDople. 1t is to be hoped that they will be
cured b, the iwpossibity of Still, the in
sSyersepce of the masters of Europe, aud the nar
row stupidity of English OpioioD.m,kers may
brow events into the bands Of Russian cOvetOus
sess If Epglithmen insist upon supporting the
Porte to the last extremity, they bridge the pass for
Ra,sis. The treaty of Paris liberated Russa from
tire high moral duty of watching over the Interests
Of The Christian populst ons Religious Liberty aud
cish rights were stcured-on paPer-and put under
he safeguard Of Western Europe. by it the most
powerful tie between these populations aud Russia
was 10 be severed and destroyed. But the HAITI
HamaJ Gun published by the Sultan, under the d.
rec,ion of the Western Alliance, lie worse than a
dead litter, for, instead Of securing liberty and jus
tee to the Christians il has rekindlei the bigotry
and the hatred of the Moslems. Expiring no
hammedanism is making @ savage effort to reconquer
lie power. The Cbristian rsyss and mathematics
are now more tyraunicaly oppressed than they
ever were before the treaty of Paris.
Roman, Catholic France ard her Sovereigus con-
slider themselves to be prOyidential warders OF Ro-
man Catholics in the East. Far more genuioe and
as ,acred ties unite Russia and the Cars with toe
iun,eI Sc majority of Greek Catholics. It depends
npon Europe wbetbsr she shall drive the oppressed
yepulaions BY force into the hands of Alexander Ii.
or bot. Before humanity and history it may be his
duty to stand up for them. Under the Mosem OPP
preston the Turko European populations feel a
more and more powerful attraction toward kin-
dred and mighty race. If Europe does not take a
d. cided step 10 put an end TO the Ottoman sway,
Europe viii be too feeble to prevent fusion OF the
Christians and Slaves with Russia. The war of 1884
was rot natoDal-not holy one, for the Christians
]. Turkey. The next must necesssrily have
Sacred, religious character. Western Europe
united under the Crescen. cannot cope with such
saersd -n,.p The haln NJ a generous and sincere