The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-28

mr.. Hays-Bill to charter and make
pubic Atrby's Cross Roads, leading to
| Big Pee Dee River. Referred.
a Joint resolution to ascertain the
amount and validity OF the State debt,
being the unfinished business of Satur-
day. was discussed, amended and O new
Dill introduced, wheh the enacting
Ssalsss OF both were stricken out-thus
leaving the matter as it stood before.
| RussIA's Objective PoINT.-The Lon.
don Spectator, writing on the Central
Aeiatlc question generally. and of the
present intent and ultimate object of the
Bussian march against the Khanates and
England's interests therein, says:
The problem presented by Muscoyite
encroachments beyond the Hindoo
koosh Glands there doubtless for solu
lion, and will one day task the sagacity
aud v'gor Of English statesmen. That
We shall have to frame policy shifted to
the circumstances, few will be found to
deny. The question, in all it's bearings
and they do not concern India alone. or
India go much as other countries nearer
home-mnst be thought out by those
who are responsible for imperial safety
East and West of the Euphrates. An
abrupt interposition at the present time,
still more proceeding net only sudden
but violent, not only imparting q de-
clarstion of policy, but enunoiating Il
distinct threat. bears its own condamn na-
tion on it's face-6rst, because it would
be uncalied for; next, because it would
be inappropriate. War, might not be the
result, but peace would not be more se-
cure. The capital Importance Of the
Central Asian question does not lie in
Iashkend and Samarcand, but on the
Enphrates and Bosphorus, There are
men OF great learning and sagacity who
see visions OF Russian Timour heading
the warrior desert tribes in new career
OF conquest beyond the Indus. We do
not dispute that n process of time. Mus
covIte genius may discipline Taranian
vaior, and make the riders of the steppes
once more formidable with lance and
6Feeoh-ioader; but an inroad upon Hin
dostan ls not tho aim of Russia. She is
playing for even greater stake. Her
| objective point is not Delhi, but Oon-
stantinople. Whenever she tries to
reach that goal again, her course will not
be through Roumania and Bulgaria; it
will be direct athwart Asia Minor, and
she will rely on q solid position about
the Oxus and Caspian shores, to paralyze
the arm OF England in tho East. The
production of that effect is the end
aonght to be gained by Central Asian
| conquests. We shall be smitten with
political blindness if We ever fail to dis
oern this cardinal fact in Russian policy.
Those who think thnt India alone is en-
dangered would lead us astray from the
| facts. 1t Is not India Which is in peril;
it Is the Bosphorus and entrance to the
Mediterranean. Now, except at greater
cost than the object proposed is worth,
| we cannot prevent Russia from subiu.
eating the kLanates, uny more than we
could exclude her flag from the Caspian.
Khiya. despite the bravery of Turcoman
and Usbcg. is doomed to become Rus
sian prefecture, and her troops will be
master of tho desert roads beyond. The
result is foregono conclusion, because
obstacles presented by nature have
everywhere yielded to the art of man,
and there arc no other really valid i'm
pediments. When the conquest we are
not prepared to Illustrate has been nc
complished, then we may devise policy
on the basis OF asoertained facts. Unless
we ara determined to fight at once, we
shall not say, "Here are the limits to
Jour arms" What is essential is strfct
watchfulness and accurate knowledge
Since We never give up empire without u
struggle to maintain it, English states.
men III England and India may be trust.
ed to adopt fitting course at the proper
moment, provided always that they keep
themselves we'll informed, and are not
lulied to sleep by jargon about trade
aud civilization. or oajoled by absurd
proposals to establish zone of neu.
trality.
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