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THE TRILTMEH OF RIGHT.
Adam Street, Act4hi, 29a May 1855. Sin—At length we are moving onwards, and the Scyth is moving off. The Sea of Asov is as much ours as the see of Asaph. True to his instincts, the Russ has once more taken to his legitimate warfare, burning, destroying, and retreating. Ever a bully to the weak, he flies before the strong to hide in his burrow of stone or of wilderness, where no one may care to follow him. We may now devoutly hope that obstinacy will prevail, and that he will not sue for peace till he has lost all the strongholds it is desirable to ex- pel him from—till he be shut out from the highways of nature, the seas and watercourses of the world ; and, pent within his own boundaries, he be re- - duced to the condition of earning his claim again to mingle with the civilized world, by conformino-* his institutions to the requirements of a high- er humanity than he has yet contemplated—institutions recognizing men as individuals as well as a mass—institutions that will promote human pro- gress and not mere imperial power—institutions that may give full scope to the humanizing arts of peace, and not sacrifice humanity .by converting it into a helot soldiery under a system mischievous as that of Sparta with- out its redeeming virtues. Till Russia be reduced to this condition, she should be allowed no peace by France and England ; and it is a triumph for free humanity that all this will have been achieved without the aid of Austria, who, when the question is settled, will still make good the words of Shakspere-
" Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!"
Her aid, the aid of her choice, would be to Russia if she dared. Her object will be to enlarge her territories at the cost of the Danubian Provinces— if the Allies permit it. We do not war to increase despotic power, but to abate it ; and if it be alleged that our allies are governed by a despot, the answer to that is that he is a Dictator after the fashion of the Boman Re- public, chosen for a time of peril, but no one knowing better than himself that his power of repression must be limited by time and circumstances. We may assume the Crimea to be token; and possibly the next news may be that the Russians have themselves destroyed Sebastopol, as part of their system of warfare, prior to retreat. 'What then to do with it? Certainly, not to give it back to Russia under any circumstances. That would be but a sorry policy. Our true policy is to build it up into such a state and with such a government as may form a barrier to any further Russian aggression in the Black Sea, or any repetition of Sinope. And such a state might fairly be called upon to pay an annual revenue to England and France as a quitrent for their guarantee. Possibly the land might be divided amongst the very soldiers who have won it and become acclimated to it. A -free state, and free port, it would rapidly be peopled by the industrious of many nations and become as Tyre of old, an emporium of commerce between the East and West.
Then comes the question of rapid communication from England to the Black Sea overland. If the Russian frontier be set back to the Dniester by restoring Bessarabia to Turkey, we might have steam. navigation ng the Danube so far as Austria and the depth of water would permit ; and vic- torious France and England, backed by wise Sardinia, could give weighty
seasons in the cause of general humanity why the Danube should be a free 'highway. The Rhine being free up to its navigable point, the distance be- tween the two rivers could be spanned by railways, and in due time the rivers would give place to the rails through their whole course. A blessing to Europe and to the world would this be, and an immense prosperity to all the bordering countries that transit throughout this district should be ab- solutely free from all customhouses or passports. It should be as the ocean, a free highway to all. It might not be good for the despotic system of either Austria or Prussia, but it would be good for the communities, tending to increase their wealth and intelligence. We owe nothing to Austria save through Austria's fears. We can hope for nothing save from the same source. The great sham of Russia has ex- ploded. She is filling up her own harbours, and destroying her own ships, and exploding her own forts in fear of her invaders—doing precisely the invaders' work and saving them trouble, just as the beaver is fabled to bite off a portion of his body to disarm the hunter in his pursuit. Austria dares not help Russia if she mould, and Prussia, fearing Austria, cannot unite with her. Europe is not yet doomed to be Cossack; but the Cossack portion .will be doomed by the civilized man to undergo the fate of the Red Indians, and be civilized from the face of the earth, or from that portion of it which civilized men may seek to occupy. Like the savage tribes of Africa, the demi-savages of Europe must be rolled back in the tidal wave of progress ; and the natives of more civilized countries who henceforth seek suit and service with them will be regarded as renegades and pirate!, till they shall come under the same category as civilized nations by recognizing human rights. It is not strange that the Czar should have found sympathizers amongst the people who float on the surface of society and diebonour the name of the American Union. The "Filibuster" demagogue is of the same class as the Filibuster * despot, and knows well that the time will come when moral and regenerate Europe will put an effec-
tual veto on the processes of plunder which are disguised under the name of
liberty ; will claim to exercise the rights of police in American as well as European waters of the great mass if freeborn Americans submit to rapine and permit the most worthless to usurp the empire and the rule amongst them. A new phase is growing on the world—a phase in which laws based on morality must prevail. There will be a comity of nations ; and if our descendants prove bastards to our name and race, they cannot be of that comity, any more than Cossacks. If they belie their own traditions that first led them across the great water, they are no longer of us but against us ; and the eternal principles of justice shall prevail against them, as they did against us when we wronged their forefathers. Our war-cry in this contest is 'Justice and Progress." May it ever remain so !
• Filibuster, American. From the Spanish Filibustero. From the French F10- bustier—Fliboutier. From the English Freebooter; a profession pursued by the -Boucaniers or Bacon-makers, when driven by the Spaniards from the Tortuga or Tortoise Island, and afterwards called Bucaniers and Buccaneers.
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