The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-18
RUSSIA IN THE OPENING CONTEST
WHAT PART WILL SHE PLAY2

FROM The AZ Y. Herald.
Has Russia forgotten Sebastopol? Thereby
hangs tale. The Gar Nicholas was hurried
to the grave by the check he and the policy
handed down to him by Peter the Great met
in the Crimea. Has not this reflection been
the canker-woTm gnawing at the heart of the
Gar Alexander, An empire headed by the
magical name of Napoleon has arisen in the
West to rival if not to overshadow the gran
deur of that magnificent empire which ''the
Prince of Rosch, Moschk, and Tobolsk" even
in biblical prophecy was predestined to build
up in the East What power stood in the
way, then, of Russian advance to that city Of
Constantinople which even the First Nepo-
leon admitted to be the key of the East
Austria, is the historians and the statesmau's
answer. Austria was crippled BY whom
First, by France under the present Napoleon,
at Magenta and Solferino, and then by Prus-
sia, at Sadowa, compelling her to relinquish
Venice To-day she is shattered by dissen-
sions in Hungary, in Croatia, in Slavonia
Has Russia anything to do with this Oh
not at all. The Panslavonic feeling, how
ever, is at work, and that contemplates the
building up of an empire in the east of
Europe, partly at Austrias expense, which
will not be hostile to Russia or an impediment
in her way. The recent Austrian elections,
take them as you will prove this.
Has Austria anything to fear from Prussia
Why, she is allied with her in blood; aud
Prussia faces and marches southwark and
westward, while Russia faces and moves
southeastward. They act in parallel, not in
rectangular lines
What adversary, then, still stands, as in
the Crimea it stood, antagonstic to the Rus
sian advance upon the Golden. Horn and the
Holy Sepulchre? France. France at Suez,
France in Syria, France on the Red Sea !!
Let Prussia be defeated and the French enter
Berlin. France armies will then menace the
Russian frontier, and French fleets ride in
the Great and Little Belts and on the Baltic
| Sea.
Russian finance is not houlishing, but the
! Russian navy is strong and we'll organized,
| Kussias fortresses are spiendldy equipped
and armed, and her army, even in Europe. is
gigantic, while her people and soldiery are
alike fanatical. The recent emancipation of
the serfs has also greatly inspired them. Her
successes in the East, her recent victories in
| Turkisfan, and her warm alliance with the
Shah of Persia have revivifed the old ideas
of Peter. The period for the settlement of
the prediction Europe in fifty years repub-
lican or Cossack" may not yet have come.
but the question of supremacy in the Blacl.
Sea, at the Dardanelles, and at Jerusalem, is
right upon us.
The position of Russia, therefore, in case
of threatening French success, laying all
sympathies aside, must, perforce, be with The
power that stands between her and danger
on the West, and that strengthens and helps
her against her sole great rival in administer
ing upon the affairs of the Sultan and in
establishing an independent and friendly ally
in Egypt, on the East. Meal. while, Russia
will act upon her own line of orbit, ''by her
inevitable momentum" as Nesselrode once
termed it, and she will lose no time.