Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1855 — The New Czar and the War. [ARTICLE]
The New Czar and the War.
> jTh© infeWgent wriiefion Rtanian aiiairs in tU givqsus the following: .i jTb ft RP v v C3aF 4iMh of April 1818, and is nearly thirty-seven.. If ript oF extraabilities,, ribssessea fair capacity'and iriteilcct. If hot gifted wrth the iron vVill oi’ bfcf father, anti if marked by a certain -Oriidneeref once considerable epergy, Me £aa a poetical and chivaftpiu ’ tprn of mind, and Is Russian to 'tne Yeaht’ago he Urged the use of the Rushan Itfngurigeat Court, instead of Ftench. LA< Grand Duke. he wris alwaya kindly tosmy pure, genuine, Russian developm e »t in literature and policy. Some ten years ago, he insisted strongly on the propagation of the Russo-Greek creed among the Protestant FinriS/'ilsih'OnTariy, arid other tribes fbrinftig the peasantry in the BaJric-provimife*. It is scSfbel/td'fie ; sttppriStA that he wifi make any changes among the higheet dignitaries.of the Empire.— Such, tbipi , as for sometipe past her hps-jrad a email court and a knot of favorites around 'him. Prominent among these is . Prince B{iryrity"’’ky*, / U-hriTasit year - distinguished himself in Asia against •the Turks-Hod the Cireasi&n Shamy 1. This prmoe is a proud, haughty, auiI bilmup .RtwsimuHe spent a great ideal of his,youth in fpossible he may be sent thithec un- , der some pretext—to control the JIS*. tion of tin- Russian Legation at the < approafddijg cbftferehce. i Could it bendrifittefr Chafthe war, i at the start, had not the approval of the new Emperor, be-' will feel-it f>dei Cjjsaxy tu pxoaeente At unj less a peace, acceptable to .Russia, ■can be obtained.;. tn (ionor of the i memory rif his father, whom he loved 'deMtediy,' arid tri WHdirif fid Irioketl with deep (left'rerfbe, hf‘X\Tll •io’act, He' tv as always treated by thedeeeased Czar with tho iutfeosifeadnefts ~-a)w»yi as the .most eanftamitial has been habitugly j>rae ? t a< Cabmot meetings, giving his ppiriipn and sharing with his ’/mhfef ' tfiri' thoMy, and heavy burden of absolute pb#'er. It was the aim of the- tatri Em-i peror to fit hia son Ao siray t the Impe- ; rial scepter, and no| allow him to be taken unawares in his new position. Alexander JI, therefore, throne .not as a mere -novice, but wholly aware of the great task before him. If so disposed he could not at once change the policy of the Empire. The late Czar, idolized as he wffß by the Russian people* will now be looked upon as a kind of martyr to the strong and wide, coalition , against him, and his sudden deatii- ! will, in Our view, lend fresh fuel to the ‘ warlike flame. In this point of vieiv, ! the death of Nicholas cftaUknb new j probability of peaeo, not 'renders it ' possible to count on any concestiion ! to the Allies which he would not have
I ' . Another probability merits consideration, is that the Iking of • Prussia, the uncle of the new Czat, with the Prussian Court, and the W > ficers of the army, and of course, what w called politically tho Rustfian party at Berlin,: moved by the senti-' J moot of so-called honor, :' will not desert flje y oung Autocrat.— 11ndeed, they willbe lively to espouse (his cause more decidedly. . Nor , should we be astOlnished''to hear that Francis Joseph, moved by Common ■ courtesy, should mediate for ah afmistico, togiye time te the new reign to assume bis royal charge, to ascertain, his position and to decide oh Ms policy. That such a demand, made by Austria, and backed by Prussia, would be acceded to by the Engfish Cabinet at least is probable. Out of thia might arise an interruption in tfip fighting in the Crimea, as 9t delay in the negotiations for peace. It would, however be premature to deduce from tfefi death of Nicholas any cousiderablq add v tion tothechhneds of a speedy ter- ’ initiation of the war. f show® a man’s heart. u-wl mi? ? i - fiCr’Xeal mthout jlodgement L« an evil, though it be zbal unto good. • ■ ♦ >i; Q DCpHope is the.dread of the vigilant. > True nnbijity i.s exempt from Tear.
