The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-11-23
The Treaty Of Paris.

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this subectbrough into prominence BY recent events
in Europe-the main points spf which We eondense
This treaty concluded Paris in 1856, alter the
allies had terminated the Crimean with the cap
ture OF Sebastopo The parties TO the treaty were
Russia France Great Britain, Sardinia Turkey, Aus
tria and Prussia the allies in the against Russia
having been France Great Britain, Sardinia and Tur
key. 1t provided that Turkey should be reeog
nzed entitled all the advantages of international
law that the integrity other territory should be guar
anteed by the other powers; that the waters OF the
Black sea should be made neutral and opened TO the
merchant ships of all nations; that Russia and Turkey
should each have the right place two small war yes
sells at the mouths of the Danube; that Russia should
give up certain Bessarabn territory to be attaced to
Moldava that neither Russia nor Turkey should have
any military naval arsenals the coasts OF the
Black sea- and that neither Of them should have more
than six steamers of eight hundred EACH and two
small steamers of two hundred each in the waters
Of that sea.
1t is evident that though the above limitations nona-
inaly applied to both Russia and Turkey they were in
tended to be repressve of the former and protective
of the latter. About half the Of the Black sea
belonged to Russia AID it has been her settled policy
to obtain undsputed dominion over its waters, aud
from thence to de 'elop her empire upon the Mediter-
ranean The practical purport of the treaty was to
restrain her from taking any subsequent steps in pros
ecution of that policy, and 10 such restriction only
keen sense of duress could have induced her to SUBJ
NIT. 1t was imposed upon her by combined force
which, for the time being she unable to resist.
| ALL nhad
stood France Russia acquiesced in the necessities OF
the case, hoping they would be transient, and awaited
her opportunity.
| The war between Prussia aud France seems to have
offered that opportunity. According to the Bulletin
it is the of such treaties that they are dissolved
with the dissolution Of the force which dictated them
And although this view of the case would indicate that
moral obligations rest lightly upon the consciences oil
nations vet all history teaches that this view is the cor
rect one Russia then, thinks that the force which
compelled her to ANONYMOUSLY accept the conditions
of this treaty of Paris has been dissolved by the pres
ent war; and to the powers her conclusion
to consider as abrogated the prohibitions against her
She France engaged in terrible struggle from
which if she emerge with her territory intact and moi
permanently weakened, will yet be in too crippled
condition to take upon herself this quarrel; and she
doubts the ability Of Great Britain to secure an ade
quate alliance to check her encroachments.
In short the opportunity which she awaited has ap
parenty arrived, and from her standpoint of reason
ing, it is perfectly logical that she should now once
again spring to the practical assertion of that Eastern
policy which constitutes one of the vital ideas of Rus
sian nationality And the Bulletin thinks, from the
iousy recreant the national honor and TO the SUI
preme national aspiration if she should neglect to i'm
prove the present conjuncture favorable to her pc
cuar interests as it is extraordinary and portentou
! in other respects"