New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-24
ricty Years in the New World.
NUMBER FOUR.

1t will not be necessary for the writer OF
hese sketches to apologize for the introduce
ion of these tableaux Of over oceanic remin-
SCIENCES on the contrary we think that
more circumstantial account or details Of the
Russians will be most welcome information
70 the public generally on this side OF the
Atlantic waters, and under the present pohtl-
cal and social coniuneture of our time. We
shall, therefore, continue our cursory MARIA
tives, fully persuaded that they can but meet
with the full appreciation of our readers. Now
we also must not be unnlindful that the very
different positions of nations and localities at
different epochs and periods of their history
necessarily bring about varied views and
changeable opinions which deserve to be
carefully weighed before pronouncing detn-
tive Judgment or resuming final result upon
such nations or peoples figuring upon the
great theater of the worlds history. This Is
the case with regard to the Russians, as a
modern nation who, in these latter days, have
very often encountered from the western
nations of Europe, but more especially from
tn. French, English and also some Germans,
for whatever might be undertaken by the
Russian government or administration. Now,
we are not here to undertake defense Of the
course pursued by the Museoyite government
towards the unhappy Poles, nor even towards
the former free mountaineers of the Caucasus,
the brave and heroic, but unfortunate Circas-
slams In both Of these cases we, on the con
trary, cannot disguise our entire disapproba-
ton of the course pursued by the Russian
government towards these unhappy nationah-
ties,
But. when We thus unqualifedly pronounce
our dissent from the political order, en-
forced by the st. Petersburg cabinet, in these
emergencies, we do not disguise to our
selves the great difficulties it had to contend
with, nor the obstacles purposely erected by
rival powers, to arrest the natural growth of
the great northern nation, that undoubtedly
before long will enter even greater role upon
the worlds historic stage As has been re-
marked, there is great similarity in the condl-
ton OF the two great modern powers, the Amer1-
can republic in the western and the uprising
slavonic empire in the eastern hemisphere.
Only few months ago great national ban
quet was held at the old Moscoyite metropo-
lis, to celebrate its millennium, when the Hon.
Marcus Cassius Clay, the ambassador from the
United States assisted, in the very midst Of
the ancient bazaars and merchants of that
modernized Tartar city. For it is an I'M
doubted fact that the native stock of the
Russian nation is of Tartar origin, free no
madic people inhabiting the wilds and prairie
steppes of the great Asiatie plains in the
midst of that continent This race of white
people has always been estimated as one of
the brightest branches of the Caucasian tribe;
hence throughout all the Russian empire, it is
an honor to be deemed descendant from
the pure Tartar race
When the Russian armies in the last war
against Napoleon /, in 1873 1914 and 1916,
overspread the North of Europe, and the first
Cossacks made their entrance in the city of
Hamburg about the middle of the month of
March, 1918, the enthusiasm of the people
was almost unbounded. These foreign war
riors, that had come from the distant steppes
of the Ukraine and the river Don, were looked
upon as most providential deliverers from a
most CALLING yoke. Is it strange that senti-
ments Of gratitude and friendship should
have been created by these comparatively
half barbarous people? Whilst on the other
side the French, the most polished and most
civilized nation, was then detested and alb
horred by almost the whole continent Of
Europe. How can we explain such an appar-
emily contradictory social phenomenon? By
a very simple process of reasoning. The civ
ilized and polished Frenchman had acted
towards the inhabitants of Germany and other
countries of the continent of Europe as a
conqueror, or enslaver, or oppressor, seeking
only to enrich himself and concentrate all the
treasures and pleasures of life in Paris, the
capital Of the great empire whilst the half
barbarian Russian came to deliver the subiu-
gated nationalities and reinstate them in their
own governments their home administration
Under similar circumstances this sentiment
will be the same all over the globe, and under
the most diversified people and tribes.
Since that time, it is true, political changes
have taken place that have, no doubt, con
tributed in giving to public opinion different
direction; and we may mention, in the first
place, the altered course of policy towards
unhappy Poland after the death of Alexander
the LIST, in 1925. Then, under the new Car
Nicholas l., the liberal regime was changed to
one much more stringent or rigorous; this was
in consequence Of the then already under
ground revolutionary proceedings in the king
dom, under the dubious administration Of
Constantine, the viceroy, brother of the Gar
who had married native princess of Poland
And when afterwards, in 1881, the revolution
broke out, under the secret auspices of the
king Of the French, Louis Philippe, who
would notsopenly espouse their cause, we
then saw the awful tragedies of which
that unhappy country has been so often the
theater. Certainly Americans cannot but
syinpathi2e with a brave and heroic people
like the Poles, that, abandoned. by all the
neighboring communities, find themselves
overpowered by the Russian masses. But,
though we cannot refuse them our sympathy,
have we not a right to complain about those
nations, the French and English for instance,
who, 2by casting their censare upon the
Russian nationality, thereby indirectly en-
eouraged the opposition Of the Polanders
to their eo-slavonic brethren, and, thus, ever
nursed or entertained a fire between the
different branches of the one oraot ,,orll,a,,,