The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-12-21

as hearty and sincere as it is conspicuous.
The Inference is naturally drawn that these
two powerful, mysteriously affiliated friends
would, upon occasion, fight for each other;
and that combined they would make ugly
work with any other alliance of military
powers that could be formed.
We reasonably desire more intimate
knowledge of a people to whose government
we are already allied by the
strongest ties of friendship. Can We not
scrape relationship with them?
Verify we may, Don Cossack-Tartar and
Caucasian mixed, Esquimaux, GrAk and
Pole though they be. We >are Il Ter
ably mixed ourselves, our dash of Ethiopian
fully offsetting theirs of Mongul Tartar.
Let u, look back among the grandfathers a
moment.
The captain of the Norman Conquest
had everything his own way with the mixed
races whom he found inhabiting our mother
country, and his Normans had the power
and persisteney to hold on until England
became essentially Norman. There was
not so much parade of Anglo-Saxon blood
in those days as at present; it Was largely
at discount; but poetry and rhetoric have
since brought it to par, and in fact advanced
it to premium. The historic fact is that
it regained its position by fusion with \ or
man life.
About the year So, Ruric, Norman
pirate chief, almost as wicked as our own
piratical progenitors, while navigating the
CULTS and streams that pierce far into the
Russian plains, discovered the native city
of Novrogod, conquered it, set up govern
ment, took the title OF Grand Duke, and
named his possession Russia. 1t is claimed
that the name is derived from an ancient
warlike tribe, mentioned by Ezekiel, the
prophet, by the name Ros, who fought the
Romans with some success. But | take It
that d" Russia " stands as the memento Of
Ruric, its founder twisted Jut of shape by
some awkward Tartar tongue.
When those rowing Norman vultures
stopped to their quarry they were always
followed by a flock, as our Saxon scmi-an-
cestors found to their grief. So it was
! with the native inhabitants Of Russia In
course of time these Normans, starting at
| the Finnish Gulf, extended their conquests
| southwark nearly thousand miles to
| the Black Sea; and no sooner did they
strike that water than their pirate ships
were again ahoat, repeatedly attacking
Constantinople, and scourging the coasts on
all sides. Inland they built cities, i'm
proved their manners, extended their DO
minions, and stood above either the Lon
don or Paris Of the same period in ciyiiza
ton and power. Finally, one of then
kings, vladimir the Great, laid siege Il
the heart of the daughter of the Greel
Emperor, who, before the esrausals, re
quired him to adopt the Christian faith
and thus Russia became member Of The
Greek Christian Church.
| think there is somewhere extant
poem or novelette,, or pretty historical es
say with this beautiful Greek Princess 70
a heroine-how she converted her bronzed
strong handed barbarian lover, and reignc,
amid the peals of Christian bells, belur
unhcard, in Kew. If poetry has not al
ready gathered this bunch Of flowers j
should be woven By some tasteful hand int
bouquet for the Interior.
We have thus established our Norman
consanguinity with the Russians. True
they were ovcrrun by the Mongul Tartars
time they We're fighting the Danes, SweJles
Teutons, Poles, Hungarians and Greeks
: and the only reason why they were no
fighting half dozen other nations was be
cause they could not get at them. The,
went down under the Tartar horles undo
: command Of the son of the terrible .Zingi
khan-down to disintegration and barbar
ism. They emerged soIed, as We see, bu
holding fast to their dialects and Greel
faith. Moscow has been burned level witt
the ground three times; twice by tb'
Tartars and once during the French occu
pation-to-day it stands better than ever
That looks like Chicago pluck.
We number forty millions; they, il
Russia proper, seventy millions We hav,
in the last decade liberated four million,
of slaves, and had a great war The,
emanc;pated over forty millions O
serfs, ten times as many as we, and CAV,
them all lands, by fifty years leasehoIds
with privilege of purchase; at the sam,
time they satisfied and placatcd the forme,
masters. There is a stroke of statesman
ship worth looking at I! How does ou1
fearfully expensive, frightfully destructive
war appear beside it? Nor is this all of it
During the last decade the imports and ex
ports Of the nation more than doubled, ant
wealth increase. it'll a rapidity riyaIeG
only in the American West and Northwest
At this time the vast population of Rus
STA is attached to the Emperor and his
family with a devotion amounting to fanat
! icism. The Prussian military system has
been adopted, which will in time give the
empire ten millions of disciplined soldiers,
the material and morale of whom are second
to none in Europe. Military railroads ara
being built as rapidly as possible for the
prompt concentration of SO much of this
mighty host as may be needed, and the
Russian shIpyards and armories ring night
and day with the clash of axes and ham
mers and the roar Of FORCES.
SO much for our Russian cousins In.
terror
As soon as Grant ascertaind that Bullock
had manipulated $4,000, 600 he began to
consider the necessity for putting Georgia