The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-05-04

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etfvef p1sbt have consulted " con
Grsed afl Che aHs ~ words Used Nv en-.
ceti the feal meaning " The speaker
nave hffn brought into rrqutiti0h
drafts without number ~ the document
tbHt WA f0 bring concord Go t1e great
nations NJ the continent were Wiae
amended, rewritten, intcfltned scratched
out. rejected. and thrown away untn
one WAS found that WIS acceptable t0aIl
and the signing Of which wa supposed
to be The certain precursor OF peace
when. presto! Turkey, whom nobody
had consulted, whom nobody seemed 70
think il worth while to pay any atten-
ton To. steps forth, master Of the silua
ton stamps the protocol under foot, aud
AT once utterly destroys the prospect Of
peace. 1.u
not of weight, the difficulty, not to say
impossibilitv, of sending an army
through Asia Minor in any other dlrec.
ton than Immediately along the south'
coast of the Black sea Will be suilClehV
, to prevent anything more than a ia,nI'
Xerxes army might easily be lost IN the
mountains of Armenia, and the long
stretch of t~reeless, waterless, parched'
, sandy desert which i%ntervenes between
Georgia and Syria efiectually procludes
> all danger of a serious invasion from this
: quarter. Then, if the Russian army
should move along the southern Black
sea coast, its objective point must be
: Constantinople, and England and Iur
! kew will fight for that city just asfiercely
t a%gainst invaders from the southwest as
= from the north.
: 1t is probable, therefore, that Russia,
u though attempts may be made III both
t directions, will trust to the route through
Roumania, by the way OF the DANUBE
/ and the Balkan mountains. There viii
be serious difficulty in this line OF march
c also. since the Turkish fleet will hold the
II Black sea, and the Turkish army Is no"
resting on the southern bank OF the
Danube, behind the works OF consider
Il able strength, thrown up by the best en-.
l rineers in the English army. In the las
y war, the Russian army left half its mum
her in the unhealthy marshes OF TIT
Is Danube, and there is no cause to suppose
e that these have become any less MAS
u matte, or that the Russians are any more
healthy. Since Russia is now bound Il
, 90 to war, or allow herself to be bullieC
T. by Turkey, the cars generals will hayt
!, to risk the dangers of the swamps, thu
y perils of effecting the passage of a rive
ike the Mississippi in the teeth of a de
q termined enemy, and the uncertainty o
forcing the passes of the Balkans, only
after all. to find that fighting the Turk
as is a small matter compared with tightln
~ the British. -,
u There is little doubt that the Turks
rs cabinet have become perfectly desperate
:! nor can the fact be wondered at when W
as a remember the peculiar Circumstance
" under which they are placed. On tn
~ ~ one side they have Russia, an avowe
enemy, eager to seize any preteXt &c
wv complaint: on another they have Austri@
~ anxious to annex a large share Of thel
" " best territory while on the third the
j. have England, an indifferent friend, Onl
ready to assist when English Interest
Isl lT are really or apparently endangered
az Add to these complications an arm
; which they are alike afraid to keep an
ne 10 disband, the men of which they cal
ue not paw, and who would desolate tn
ayt c%ountry if discharged, and a populat
VI who will not hesitate to demand of II
! sultan the heads of the ministers If tt
" times get out Of Joint, and 1t Will
4 1a seen that the office of imperial couI
Wy cillor is by no means a sinecure.
~ Acting under pressure from a dozt
quarters, it is probable the Turkish mi
uI' istry has taken what it believed to
the safest course. Between the chanc
ne of foreign war and those of the rioto
~ outbreak OF Mussulman fury, there W
Ile rar less danger in the former, and this
y doubtless, the reason why it has be
ieu chosen. And now we are to see WI
Russia is going to do about it. '
:n have all along heard of the mighty P
III variations that have been made on
.aI northern coast of the Black sea, a
within a couple of weeks it will be Sc
whether or not so pOrtenous a smoke
n n to be supplemented by any fire. 1
~ indications are that, during the ca
W part of the war, Russia will endeavor
tbss avoid European complications as Tar
.vnu possible, by operating in Asia ana
biz attempting to gain possession OF ~
IL" Asia Minor and Palestine. But this
n the very step which England would
no,, most unwilling to see the Russians ia
ny An advance into Asia Minor is a dir
VI threat to the Suez canal and the Ind
,ouo communications, and will not be tol6
Laso ted by Great Britain GIobe-DeH'oc
hSoO
Virtue itself otfends when coup
lsseu with ~forbidding manners.-Btshop
l'Ie dietOn.