The New York herald., 1870-11-24

runs thai PrusSian engineers and Ofhcers, lent
TO the Russian government at its own request
to instruct the Muscovlte army, have secretly
made military maps OF all the Southern
provinces Of the Gear, far surpassing in accu-
racy and completeness anything Of the kind
that the latter possesses, and have sent them
to Bismarck; but, as q contradiction to the
designs that this conduct might seem to imply,
the Cracow journal-the Krqj-publishes the
report of Russian diplomat of conversation
with the Prussian Premier, In which the latter
utterly disclaimed any intent to resuscitate
Poland or to seize the Baltic provinces as
the st. Petersburg Gasette had charged. The
Count declared that, with regard to the Poles,
his and tho Russian policy were identical,
and the Prussian liberal constitution would be
no pleasant gift to the barons Of Lithuania and
Esthonia, while their territory would be no
boon to King William without much moro to
the eastward, but would merely be constant
bone of bitter contention between him and the
Gar.
II we may accept as real this expression Of
Prussian dlplomacy--and all. circumstances
point to its authenticity find Russia, on her
side, doing as the United States would do, and
must do, In sustaining our natural position for
to-day and for tomorrow. In the Russian
German provinces the German nobility and
burghers form but q small minority. They
amount to NO more thsa two HUNDRED thou
sand souls, while the real Esthonians and
Lithuanians number ofacially one million five
hundred thousand, devoted to Russia. We
may, Therefore, dismiss any idea Of Prussian
antagonism in that direction, and consider
Russia as simply Power building herself up
on her own soil, and seeking an Issue for her
agricultural products and her manufactures in
the South and East.
Has Turkey, then, the right, and will Chris
tendon recognize such claim in her, to
impede the progress q the age, to shut out
light from the East, to battle against the
advance Of international trade and to impede
the onward march Of the Christian religion,
! no matter 10 whose hands, toward the be-
nighted races Of the Orient2 No! The mo-
ment has come for decisive answer 70 the
question. Other champions, stricken down
through their own folly, give place to grand
civilizing and Christianizing Power. Kieff, in
the south Of Russia, which by eloquent and
gifted writer's has been called ''the Tartar
Rome, is becoming great city. Her manu-
factures debouch upon the Black Sea, and the
latter must be made free to the empire which
covers its shores with thriving ports
and throws open the agriculture and
industry Of seventy millions Of human
beings to the world. Russia is right.
The Black Sen must be freed from all restic-
items. European civilization and the Church
Of Christ throsgh all their agencies, must
have an open course. There is no diplomacy
and there are no treaties which, in the interest
Of mankind, can be allowed to prevent this
consummation. The benighted West once
beheld the star Of ,civilisation shine resplen-
dent in the East; light now remains there, but
q brighter hight for all the'tribes and nations
begins to shine upon them from the North-so
long In gloom, but now radiant with the aurora
Of future civilization to Asia. In Ane, the
attitude Of Russia to-day is Of a Power which,
h demanding It's own just privileges, unwit-
tingly, perhaps, but most logically and most
certainly, performs her mission in the far Esst
Of the European world which we are proud to
assign to the great Republic In the West,