This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...merits attentive perusal.--_Emros. VOL. XXXV. C C Let us not deceive ourselves. The present war has not for its cause a mere bone of contention, or a couple of provinces on the Danube. What England and Russia are really about to dispute is the empire of Asia, as well as ascendancy in Europe. We have had the signal address or great good fortune to commence that war for an apparently European question, and so we have been able to marshal upon our side the most puissant of European powers. But they will soon find out that the true object in dispute is not Europe, but Asia; and then, instead of being, as we hoped, but one of an alliance for the reduction of Russia, we shall, in fact, be compelled to bear, by and by, the whole weight of it. The Czar sees this well, and has shown in his words and preparations, a full sense of his and of our position. In the present war he has one great safety, one great bnckler of defence. It is this, that in consequence of the alliance with which we undertake the war, we cannot fight it with popular weapons. Vve cannot invoke the cause of liberty, the nationality of races, or the independence of countries now subject. The Emperor of the French will not join us in any appeal to popular insurrection, and Austria will oppose any scheme for Slavonian freedom and independence. Whilst Prussia covers Poland in a manner to protect that weak point of Russia from all European agression, Austria will forbid the formation of any nucleus of Slavonian or Servian freedom. And thus, without the people for our allies, we must go to war with fleets and armies, and with these alone. Let us consider what we can do with them. The first hostile shots will now no doubt be fired in the Baltic. Decisive they will be, as far as the...