The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-12-15
The TuRco-RusslAa WAS.


eiies, and constantinoPie, in its rela.
tive local advantages, the most impor.
tant piace upon the three continents o
ASIA, Europe and Africa, Selected BY
Constantine the Great, when he had tn,
whole world 20 choose from, as the fu
iure capital Of the Roman empire, Con.
stantinopie has vindicatod the sagacity
OF its founder and in no little degre,
has added iustre to name otherwise
illustrious.
1t survived the western empire neal
thousand years and though taken by
the crusaders 10 the thirteenth century
II was held by them only about fifty
years, and maintained tho name and
dignity of the Roman empire, until il
ieli before the power of Mahomet II. in
1853, and with it, after heroic but un.
avslling defense, tLelast ofth Caesars.
Situated on the confines of Europe
and Asia it is the poirt where mingIe
many diverse and alien races. Euro>
pcans, Armenians, Jews Arabians,
Greeks and Turks COMPOSE its populae
ton, while the Inhabitants of three
continents are attracted by its com.
merce. The eastern and western civil.
Eation come in contact with each other
10 ITS thOroughfares, and hostile creeds
collide among its heterogeneous peo>
pies, over all, the Ottoman with pride.
lndolent when unrufiied, but frocious
when reused, has for more than four CEN
turies, ruled the supreme master of that
vast dominion. reaching far over three
continents, of which Constantinople is
the capitol. Among those who were in
when it was taken by
hahomet H.. was Russian prelate
whom Mahomet was particularly anx-
lous To capture, He the prelate had been
sent by the Roman pontitf to the En-.
peror Constantine with assurances OF
aid upon certain conditions, He failed
IN his mission, but was fortunate
enough to escape the vengeance cons
templaied by the conqueror, not be-
cause he WAS Russian, but because he
was preiate of the pope of Rome How
II would have guiekened the vigilance
and sharpened the desire for vengeance
in the son Of Amurath, if he could have
looked through the centuries and seen
the crescen: falling back and growing
pale, before the advance of Russian pow
err Russia, at that time, had scarcely
recognition among the nations. Even
two centuries ago, the Muscovite power
had no place on the national state of
Europe, and now, the car is the ruler
OF the most extensive empire the world
ever saw.
Within the last century Russia has
advanced Der frontier near nine huns
bred miles toward Vienna. Berlin and
Paris, one thousand miles toward Per>
sis,and more than that distance towar d
India, and four hundred and fifty miles
toward Constantinople. Her territory
is mole than double that of all Europe.
and embraces one-seventh of all the
land upon the globe, with popula-
ton OF more than seventy millions,
and when We remember that this
vast power is under the con.
troll of an autocrat, that the
established and proclaimed policy OF
Russia is absoiutism, is it not apparent
that there are Others beside England
interested 10 the question of interpen-
ton between Russia. and the establish
ment of her dominion over CONSTANT
nople and European Turkey. When
further we reflect that Russia is Scla
yonie, snd that the great battle {Pul-
towa,) from which her expansion
sprung, was @ contest between the Ger
manic and Sclayonic races, in which
the former was beaten, reversing in that
eyentful day the current of all previous
conflicts between the two races in north
ern Europe, and that half the inhabit>
ants OF the Austrian empire are Scla,
vonians, and large portion of the
population of Turkey in Europe, a.
also the people of Silesia and Other
parts OF Prussia--the prophecy of Ma.
poleon flashes upon the mind with 9
force to which current events give deep
toned significance All Europe will be
republican or Cossael<." -
Whether Russia ends this war with
the overthrow OF Ottoman power in Eu
rope and the possessions of Constanti'
nopie or not, it is very certain she viii
retain or obtain such acquisitions o
places and territory, as will faoilitat.
her progress when again, she begins hel
march towards that long and fondly
cherished object. OF aer ambition. 1t il
neither pretentious or bold to say, thai
il is only a question of time when Rus
STA shall become the mistress of tn,
city of Constantine. What nation ther
can resist her progress TO Pan selavoni,
empire. There is only one, not he
equal in extent OF territory. hut soon I,
exceed her in population. aud now sur
passing her IN material development
antagonized to her in every sense il
which free government, is antagonire,
to despotisrn, and that nation Is, 9Th
United States OF America"
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where deaa-beating is unfashionable
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