Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1877 — Russians and Bermans. [ARTICLE]

Russians and Bermans.

The explanation which tlie Spectator gives of the tardiness of the Russian army is a very shrewd one. It says that the staff has got the campaign of 1870 on the brain ; it wants to move hosts equal to tlie German ones with the same precision, the same unfailing success, and the same earthquaky results ; it aims to do everything on a gigantic scale, aud to move men by the hundred thousand across a broad river, Tint finds that the task involves difficulties only to lie met by a grievous expenditure of "time. The Russian forces light well, maneuver well, and are well directed ; but there is a, want of “ go” about them, a disposition to have everything prepared as if an army were a watch, a tendency to wait for overwhelming masses of artillery, which reveals a certain want of selfconfidence not to lie anticipated in a conquering people. These strictures are made by the great Liberal weekly which has criticised the policy of the British Government most unmercifully, espoused the cause of Russia, and hailed the Avar as the most just and necessary of modern times. British Generals, however, have been charged with making war with watch in hand.