Arizona weekly miner., 1877-06-01
COL. urNroN.s LECTURE ArrREscorr.

attend the COlonelS lecture on lueSuay e'e- ming, May 22, but were unable, for different reasons to do so, We publish it for their ben- Ii, and the benefit of our readers generally
 THE LECTURE.
 The contest now opening in Europe and Asia Minor, k ono, that before II closes, will be ranked among the greatest conyul>lon> oi all among those memorable Tn the wonder ful fifty centuries, al least during which thc creative sun of history has illumlned the rc- rion now convulsed, moulded institutions, inspired thought and created states and cm- pires. temporal and >acrejotal. The r-I@iou> mystic may we'll believe that Armtg ,ddon has come, 50 massive and majestic ar the involved results. IL will be battle Ot IT. tans-the fablcd Gods of old Olympus jpin the fray, and more than all is the StupcndnCS possibility that k held within the triumph oi the Car. The giant murmurS under Mount -Etna The di.content of Europe, which finds vent in what's called social democracy. uttering malcdicIinns at a C ,mpctitive clYlii- zation whose chief oltcome tp them Is the gault hide1uSncss of paupcrlsm, an whose highest attribIt', as tLey see T., ls an llsp- lent Plutocra,v. may find a solution Tn the Impcrlt0r crowning the land lmmu1c anI setting in the city of Constantine the head of d race whose one primal and .itai evolu- lionary germ. k that of tht common owlcr- ship of the land. The Car leading 61,oR,- GOO of Land Communists, anima,et to1 by d tanatical zeal to re-cnthronc their church from the sacred lands detlei by the Pd>hidad'S horse tails, is a spectacle which may well give u: pause. "rhe Slualid Empire, as John Morley calls the Cars domains, has always b,el more or less a puzzle to the western politician and student. lt wIs not until the emancipation "f the Serts unlocked the doors that We SAW the explanation ot the riddle. Statesmen in other lands have never understood Russia Napoleon the Great ap- prchendcl the ncccsSitie, of thi, hug, giant, but even he had no conception oi ths p.yotal element from which the SavJuitn m p,ement was to be wrought out. Count CTsue, tIs great Italian leader, comprchend,d Il wuel y.lrs agD h. Stil to RIs,ial diplpm lt, that The equal right ypu give yJur peasants to the soil iS more dangerous tD our W stern civilization than al your armies That the declaration k true, k bal for western civiii- Zation. Count Bismarck, when leaving St Petersburg at the expiration of h., se.vlc., Is reported to have said, cvnic ally and cpl grammatically-"r Empire-lt k noth- ing," To-day he reverScs that opinion, and Tn his retircm mt chatcs beneath tEc only restraint he holds enough in awe to prevent his carrying into effect the great schrm, ot German a>csndancy, which lie in that ci- pacious brain. The Car Is the iuicr of Germany at this moment. Tdc latter pays the penalty Of sudden greatness in tribute tp one whose power, if joined to France, could overthrow her. l believe also that Europe is about to realize that only two forms of government can exist therein. The R,pub- lie or the Empire, Autocracy or the People Crowned states like Italy and England are only in d transition con litiol. The one is a republic called monarchy, and the other is a monarchy waiting with surety tD become q republic. Napoleon said Europe is to b. either Cossack or Republican. Did not be- lieve that autocracy carries the seed of de- struction within its own womb. l should de spair at the conditions which gather around the present war in Eastern Europe. Though we are not in this contest and are unaffected directly by it, still. nothing human k alien to American sympsihies, and American brains desire to know clearly what my be involved. To this end will my remarks be addressed.
 The war between Turkey and Russia has for an impellinS force the three greatest mo- tives that affect the action of men either as individuals or communities. These are Race, Religion, Self Preservation. The two first snimateS the Russian; the Turk fight, for self preservation, and religious zeal comes in to strengthen and enlarge the field of effort. Both meet in a field whereon the cider Napoleon declared that "the des- tiny of Europe is yet to be determined"
 put aside conquest direct motive on the part of Russia, because that is deter mined and embraced, as see it, by the in- expugnsble conditions which are gathered under that massive term-Race I consider