The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-31
The Eastern Question Fastening to a
Solution.

ISOLATION.
From The ~ Y. Herald.
The Eastern question again looms up por-
tentously in the political horizon of Europe.
1t assumes an aspect more threatening than at
any time since the diplomatists thought they
had laid it away forever after the close of the
Crimean war. Instead of sleeping, it agitates
more and more the minds of statesmen and
causes increasing irritation and inquietude in
the royal cabinets of Europe, which in turn
entail the expense and trouble of maintaining
vast standing armies on war footing, ready
to be sent out to battle at a moments notice
Indications of every kind point to but one ter
minatiOn of all the discussions, ordinations,
recriminations, and secret workings evolved by
this vexed question. The sword must cut the
knot which the most subtle and skilful diplo-
matists have in vain attempted to unite.
Russia must find an outlet to the sea. 1t is mani
fest destiny that nation so grand and grow
| ing, so boldly and rapidly treading the upward
path of general advancement and universal
| Improvement, should not long remain isolated
and cut off from the world. She must have
room and chance to develop her latent powers.
| The worlds market must be open to her
where she may send her produce and bring
back needful articles in exchange. She has
| outgTown her limits and it is in the nature of
| things that she should demand room for pro-
per expansion. For seven months in the year
her ports are closed to her fleets by arctic rigor
on her western confines, while the Sultan,
backed by Christian powers, fOrbids their en-
trance by the east. Her geographical position,
her internal needs, and her Just weight in
| foreign affairs unite in firmly demanding that
all the barriers erected against her outgrowth
| by the fears or malevolenoe of foreign powers
| should be at once and forever swept away.
The Russian policy thus partakes of the nature
of manifest destiny ITSELF and is so regarded
by the Muscovites, and not simply as a tenn
porary line of conduct.
The most implacable and bitter enemy to
the traditional policy of Russia has been
France. Napoleon combined England and
Italy with Turkey and France against the
Czar, and was most active in the Crimean war.
And since the termination of that contest, so
painful and in degree humiliating to Russia,
the latter has never ceased to detest and hate
him. England too, is disliked, but it is too
well understood that she is in the future to be
a neutral power for the Russians to feel deeply
inimieal TO her. Although the active efforts
OF French influence have not been without
effect on a small but powerful element in the
Russian court the vast majority of the court
and people are hostile to France aud to French
policy. The moral support that the Gear lent
Prussia prevented Napoleon from intervening
|
subsequently deferred him from pushing
his claims to territory on the Rhine. Indeed,
we may safely assume that Russian influence
has been effectively employed in all the negO
tiations that have occurred for years as against
France. Napoleon's bold and insOlent effOr
to combine the great powers against Russia in
the Polish affair will not soon be forgotten by
her. 1t was successfully repelled at the time
but the offense rankles yet in MusoOvit'
bosoms, and has greatly strengthened the
Government in its resolve to find a solution o
the Eastern question and an end to Frencl
control on the continent 2 H.a.f7a.1
The last move Of Napoleon in securing tn
support of Austria in debating terms of set
tlement of the Eastern question has aroused
Russia, and must precipitate affairs. AL
ready the Moscow Gasette and the MUalid
Russo, recognized organs of the nobility an
the army, contain articles warning France
that her course imperils the peace Of Europe
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