The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-13
The Present State of the Russian War

class men like Gambetta.
The Present State of the Russian War.
Recent extracts from Russian papers
Indicate a growing feeling Of dissatis-
faction with the leaders of the military
operations in Bulgaria that appears to
be the first mutterings of political
storm, the violence and final results of
which it is difficult to forsee. Neverin
the history of Russia has popular dis
content been permitted to manifest it.
self so plainly or to threaten the powers
that be with such audacity- The sense
Of humiliation to which the great Slav
power is now exposed before all Europe
rankles in the breast of the nation, and
Is so keenly felt that, reckless of con-
sequences, it dares openly to express it
self in terms Of bitterness and even of
q; fiance.
The contempt with which Turkey
has been spoken of throughout Europe
now rccoils fcarfullv on the originators
Of the favorite cpithet which was coined
to express it a quarter ola century ago.
| The reaction would be ludicrous were
it not for the fearful consequences which
it may involve. If the terms "Sick
Man" and COLOSSUS of the North" had
never been invented, the Russians
would at least have been spared the
ridicule their vanity has been the means
Of heaping upon them; but blinded by
traditional and religious animOsity to
the true strength and vitality of the
power whose territory they coveted, and
puffcd up with an inordinate estimate
of their own magnitude and resources
they have called upOu Europe to wit
ness discontinue without parallel i'll
modern times.
Much-despiscd Turkey has been the
means of pricking the bubble which
ever since the Crimean war has been
/ expanding in dimensions, until all Eu-
rope was becoming alarmed The bug
bear which paralyzed the policy of Aus
+ tia is set arrest. 1t is now put beyond
doubt that Austria would at any time
/ have been more than a match, single
/ handed, against Russia. The German
army, in which a strong desire has eX-
/ isted ever since the FrancO-German war
to measure swords with Russia, as a
foeman worthy of their steel, now see
that no glory is to be gained by victor
/ les over nation whom the Turks can
vanuuish. The French, who, have
fondly chung to a possible alliance with
Russia, as atording the only hope OF
restoration to their former greatness
and influence in Europe, will perceive
that they have been trusting to a bro
ken reed; while England can regard
undismaved the annexation of petty
NIussulman States in central Asia, Sc,
cure in the fact that the troops that
have failed in the Shipka Pass would
never be able to force their way, in the
teeth of the armies of India, through
the Bolan and the Khvber. The illu
sion of the pan-slavic giant has beer
rudelv dispelled, and it is now cleal
that if Europe is to forced into the
Napoleonic alternative of becoming
either Cossack or republican, ii Is the
: latter fate which awaits her. ItwoulC
be strange, indeed, ifthe rePublicanisn
of Europe came from 4 Cossack source
and if the national agitation TO which
the failure of the Russian armies IL
1 Bulgaria may give rise, should be dc
, velopcd into Revolutionary movement
spreading into the other countries O
the continent That an importan
political change of some SORTS pendin
r in Russia, there can be little doubt
- hut this will in all probability be IL
augurated, as all important politics
changes have ever been in that singula
: country, by the removal, either b
: death or abdication, of its present rule
+ whose health and mind, it Is reported
: are both becoming seriously affected b
7 the failure of his armies. n. I. Sta
o President Hayes will visit Nashvlll
c next Wednesday and be welcomed
J. the capitol by Gov. Porter. Col. JnC
c. Burch is one Of the distinguish
Reception Committee, o! ehangefl
times
g Gen. n. b. Forest il apidly recOve
!. ING from his recent illness.