New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-07-03
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track OF tQe nUoSlau dIHis' Ano w.
iects we shall credit to the reader who takes
sufficient interest in the subject to folio"
our argument. According to theory
rendered reasonable by accompanying
facts. the principal! object OF Russia Is
the acquisition of territory producing
the great tropical and semi-troplcal
staples, with tina. particular product which
clothes large portion Of the world. Inc
object of Russia is then commerce.
political. This policy has has been
for more than century CONSISTENT
in one feature. Since the days
of the car who worked in the
English shipyard,. and invited the most
intellectual men Of Europe to visit his
court, Russia has copied and cultivated
the practical and polite arts. She has
done so as an agency to maintain ana ez-
tend her empire. In the development OF
her commerce she has found it necessary
to acquire commercial seaport, at which
might be exchanged all the products OF
her inhospitable climate for those luxurles
which her advancing civilization demands.
Obviously Constantinople. which occu-
pies the same intermediary position with
respect to this exchange which New Dr.
leans does upon this continent. was the
objective point proper for this policy.
Hence the history of the past half CEN
fury has been filed with the diplomatic and
military efforts of Russia to acquire that
station. The European States. hostile to
the further aggrandizement Of this mani
moth power. have done all they could do
to Illustrate her design, and the combined
armies of England and France forced
Russia, by the Crimean war, to abandon
and renounce her purposed advance to
the tropics by the line Of the Bosphorus.
"Kings." says the proverb. ''have long
hands" and despotisms have long memo
ries Cor shame and vengeance. Russia.
turned from the Mediterranean. may &C.
complish her traditional polio: in man
ner perhaps as efectual. certainly more
within her means. The Crimean war
closed, Russia laid down an extensive sys-
tenn Of railways. which will develop and
bring into central connection every part
of her vast territory. The maps will show
the connection of this rail with the Missis-
sipp: of Southern Russia-the Volga. and
that again with the Caspian. Taking, then.
this sea and that Of Aral as base of sup
ply, the line of advance on India by the
river Syr-Daria is obvious. For more than
five years Russia has had controversies
with the ruler Of principally Of Turkes-
tan whose territories lie right i'll line to-
ward the British possession in India. An
invasion of the hostile province has been
organized. the line of advance has been
fortified and provisioned. a powerful and
we'll appointed Russian army has fought
its way to the capital of Khivs. and the
ruler Of that country is represented to
have surrendered his capital and his COM
mard Internationally. a. this point We
pause.
Russia. by reinforcing her line ofstations
and annexing the government of khiva.
could undoubtedly command the occupa-
ton of Hindoostan at any moment it may
suit her perpetual and profound policy to
do so. The invasion Of Turkestan is, then.
a flank movement or an attack in rear Of
the Western European policy in Asia. Nor
can it be seen how they can possibly coun-
t:ract it. The occupation of border
country. backed by base Of eighty mil
lions Of people. with a modern armament
and means Of transportation. how could
the distant powers OF England, France
and Germany defend the East Indies
against this powerful invader: Il will be
plainly impossible to do so by force OF
arms. England has but seventy or eighty
thousand white troops in all British India.
Its defense, with even the neutrality OF
the native princes. would be hopeless.
Diplomacy may do much. 1t may induce
the two hundred millions of British Indian
subjects to resis: obedience to the Car.
It may combine all the nations adjacent
TO Turkestar in a common alliance against
Russian encroachments. The honors to the
Shah of Persia, and the consideration shown
the kLedive Of Egypt prove that the East
ern question may resume its Importance
in the cabinets Of Europe. OF these re-
rults we can offer no prediction. Our
purpose was only to show the suspicious
persistency with which Russia has devel-
oped in q tropical direction. and how.
after having been obstructed upon one
line of advance in that direction, she has
organized an advance upon another.
To those who dea! in our own principa!
staple. the possibilities Of this policy are
interesting if not important. England has
at an immense expenditure OF money.
planted and spread an immense culture
in her distant possessions OF india. 1t
was hex object as manufacturer to carry
out her carries: American colonial policy
to produce abroad Draw material which
could be worked up at home. to create
Lersel; staple whose price i'll market
should not huctuatc with the political
issues OF secession and emancipation
She IT,, succeeded perfectly in these plans
and nov about onc-:hird OF the cotton
which size spins is imputed the growth
and product Of her own Eas: India pos
session.
The effect Of this domestic stock per-
fectly within the control of her Gpinners