The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-06-17
CHAR EST ON.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE II. 1868.
ass lrape, the Russian and you Find the
Tartar"

Gar PETER's Moscow sign post, "This
way to Constantinople !" is temporarily for
gotten, and on the Southern peak Of the
Ural Mountains is now planted shield
upon which is inscribed, "This way to the
heart of England" The hugo idea Of the
civilized NApoLEoa has been seized by; o
,nation,of barbarisns, and the plans forahe
downfall of .'per6dious Albion" formed on
the banks Of the Seine, are being fashioned
into. results on. the icy shores of the Neva.
Russia, checked, butnot subdued, by the
Crimean bluRder, has turned her mighty
finger towards those who were the cause OF
her defeat, and the Gallo Eagle and Eng
lish Lion have driven the Bear from the
.ssick man,s'' couch only to find him hug
ging to his breast the frontier towns of gor-
geous British India.
So far, Russia has been successful. There
were warrior chieftains to kill, mountain
Businesses to destroy, seeds Of rebellion TO-.
stamp out, and modest Europe would not
object to the automatic soldiery of the Gar
finding congenial employment near the
bitter Sea of Aral. But the Muscovite
knows not where to halt. Success has fol-
lowed success, advance has followed ad-
vance, and now in the capture of Bokhara
and Samarcand Russia throws down the
gauntlet to the conquerors Of India. Con-
stantinople is flanked. II is now the ques-
tion Of English rule in India, not of Mus
sulman rule in. Turkey; and tho attention
of Parliament has already been directed to
the far off yet close at hand danger. The
Car, when asked, will roar as gently as a
sucking dove,-will assure his good cousin
that ideas of personal aggrandizement never
entered his head, that Queen VICTORIA is
woman after his own heart; and will con-
tinue to declare'and protest that he has no
intention of doing harm, until he can at
one blow accomplish his purpose and, at
the same time, justify his words by dcclar;
ing that it was all for the relief of On op-
pressed nationality-all for the good of the
people.
Russia cannot, at this moment, afford to 60
10 war with Europe or any one Of the great
powers. The emancipation and enfran-
chiscment of tho serfs-a measure consid-
cred and determined on by the Gar PETER,
but allowed to sleep when death passed him
to sleep-has shocked the Empire to its
core. An old order of things is gone;.
the new order has not come. The
country is in transition state, and has
not the full command of its money and
muscle. Men do not doubt, in Russia,
the wisdom of emancipating the slaves, but
the gain cannot be had in an hour or in q
year. Trade is improving; the capital
that great mockery where the flowers of the
tropics and the painted Partisan arc sep
aratcd by marble wall from the sheep
skinned Mujik, the knout of the police, the
anguishing cold of an Arctic winter-is
becoming more prosperous, the pear shaped
peasantry are more cheerful and as dirty
as of yore, the soldier still bends to his
officer and cries that the "Czar is near and
God is far" but the Empire is unsound,
and for years to come dare not 60 to war
unless in defence of national existence.
But the day will come when her voice may
be heard, when the revolutionary liberty of
America may be joined to the infinite des-
potism of Russia will be seen the
tug of war which shall decide whether Eu-
rope is to be pRepublican or Russian" The
battles on the Indus and in the gorges ofthe
Himalayas may be contemporaneous with ma
val combats in the Black Sea, and guerilla
fights along the line of the Carpathians.
Then will the Russ Bite hard and hug tight;
then will it be determined whether surface
civilization shall rule the world then shall
1t be known whether dsspotiHm or rational
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