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AFTER SEBASTOPOL—WHAT ? A CObSEspondent writes to us , commenting on oiir counsel of a liberal movement on the yrar , to ask , " Can you carry on war by public meetings ? " We venture . to answer —Yes . Because the war against Itussia will fail if it is to be merely a . military war . Because the war with Russia must be a political
war . Sevastopol b eing taken , the Kussian arinies in the Crimea annihilated , and the Russian naval force in the Black Sea destroyed , peace may foe gazetted . The independence and integrity of Turkey are asserted avad secured ; An allied army ^ or a 1 Turkish army-, could occupy the Crime ' a permanently —< mrcruisers in the -Black Sea would render that army safe . The Austrians blocking out Russia in the Principalities guarantee us' against acqsits helli on thatside . But what then ? The
Emperor : Nicholas will never sign a peace ¦ which the public opinion of England would accept . He will sign no abject peace merely because he loses the Crimea , because his army of the Danube falters even in Bessarabia , because his armjr of Asia girds way before Schamyl . The Crimea ; then , for us , is a cul-de-sac : Sebastopol leads nowhere . Nicholas , the Emperor , is humiliated ; but Russia , the Erhp ire * remains . We can keep Russia dbwn - ( supposing the alliance between England 1 and France to be permanent ) on the
Daimbe , in thfe Black Sea , and in the Crimea . But ( and tbe Principalities would probably object to an eternity of military occupation by rin alien and abhorred race ) we are scarcely equal to aii enormous enduring organisation to sustain' by armed peace the independence and- integrity of Turkey . The slightest retreat—and llussia advances . That is not only Russian policy but Russian necessity . Russia is really conquered , for a long time to come : but Europe would be on the Watch .
We must then think of Cronstadt and St . Petersburg . " Dictate a peace in St . Petersl ) urg "~ thafc is under-stood to be the cry of our wisest generals and our most gallant ) statesmen . In singular contradiction to the ' cry is the homeward move of tlie alliod fleets of the Baltic . The censure so universally inflicted on Sir Charles Napier is curiously illogical , lie lma done nothing in the Baltic . True ; but do wo forget that Admiral Dundas did nothing in the Black Sea ? Odessa balances Bomarsund : precisely tlio ^ reasons which pi-evented DundaB bombarding Sebastopol
prevented Napier talcing Cronsfcndfc . War must be carried on by armies , not by fleets : DundftB got an army — Napier got none < Dundas is popular—Napier is ridiculed . Can England and . Franco produce a land force eqviftl to taking St . Petersburg ? In tho ( 3 rimeft thoy do not muster 100 , 000 * ncn . St . Petersburg would require not only t \ i \ army , lint armies . Wo have" done our utmost in tho supply of troops . Louis ^ u poleon would not orapty JJVunco of ' troopsi J * ° pop . w ^ r ,. bu <; a lost battle might ruiii mmvu And ffrassiauL neutrality , is not cua ^ * antcod . °
, But supposing a victorious French and r English army marching 1 on St . Petersburg .: P # ris is' I ^ anee — St . Petersburg , is not Russia . Nicholas would retire to MEbseowcouldretire ta SFoVgorod . He is ' inassailabfe in HW recessed- of Ms empire ; Do ¦ we cfan * template a , permanent occupation , sinmltaneous ^ y . of the Crimea and of Sf : Petersburg ? These are the contingencies of a iaSitia # y war '— - a war' extending , necessarily , over several years—in those years ISTichola * having a variety of chances : a commercial panic in England ; a revolution in France ; a quarrel between France and England .
A political war would be more abrupt and more effectual A . political war would b © implied in the restoration of Poland—« £ . «* in the sacrifice of the Austrian alliance . To get peace—the p ' ermailent peace that coin ' es from legitimate concessions to nationalitieswe must fight for human , freedom . iRttssiais to be conquered by the destruction of Austria-The whole Controversy converts itself in the end into that fact ; and we assume that the English nation is resolute on conquering Russia— --once for all . The Austrian alliance
was not to be rejected while England was feeling her way : and is even now to be cultivated—if necessary . The Sheffield meetings on Monday * may not have been very sagacious or very logical . But' statesirien should study jty- ^ it 1 betrayed the instincts of the nation- —an instinctive conviction of the unreality ated impracticality of a war against Russia which is not likewise a war against Austria . It ? is a pity the meeting was not Tinaniinous- ^ it
would have better that Sheffield j rather than a certain' crowd in Sheffield , should have spoken . But ? it ? is observable -that the resolutions of the promoters of the meeting were carried by large majorities . There was an opposition solely because these promoters of the mefe-ting -iii&sted ^ dn the meeting being Anti > Mfttlsifetfial . This was a blunder' . Ou * pre *
sent" Ministry is " a " cabinet withouta / policyquite ready to do tlie nation ' s bidding ; and public meeting ^ should dictate to it without opposing it . We want nationality , not Anti-Ministerialism ; and , assuredly , Anti-Ministerialism is nval a prqpos in the ' Sebastopol week ; Austrian diplomacy has won the game against our- Cabinet ,- —but if Xing-land speaks , that-game may soon Tbe played out .
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t ^> thrive , § nd ^ to augment oxtpl ^ e . ge ha , ss t In former days fatten short o £ l $ s tasft , he bja # r prevented others from doing b ^ e ^ ter , jan ! cL evens from teaohang him .- WKen . those assistant priests—tlie students of' nature—have explained to him the laws of -the- ' ( Jod he wegs ships , he has scoffed ; when he Base been tolcL that if he . will consult the welfare of tb \ p labourers who help , him , by rendering tneir lives happier , their limbs Stronger , their in- *
tellects clearer , and their hearts more willing , he has turned a deaf , sulky- ear , and has referred the labourer from God to " the parish . * But the farmer , indeed , is not worse than his fellow men . Human pride , pecking its way into the mere crust of knowledge , discovers- a crumb , and , glorified at the prize , proclaims that it has discovered the truth , ike bread of life-, the all ; that to seek for more is profane , and " that those wlio still search for truth ana
trust m that which they believe themselves to have found , are wicked , malignant , to be destroyed , ruined , and put out- of Bocial life . There is not a great truth which has been discovered for the" benefit * of man , which" has not at the first be * en defaounced ^ as jjin impiety , aH immorality , or a folly jtheifeal ^ avs has been a time when the majority conformed to the disbelief in a transatlantic' continent ; in tne Cape route , in the compass , in stfcatn , in tHe electric powers "with which : we are now faini *
liar . Christianity arid morality w 6 re 'brought against tnese , as well as the social discoveries that human ifidustry worte riiost' jlrdductively when fr 6 e , state drder best itt frefedoiii . And as we have denied these" truths until the ^ were forced upon , us , so ef en to this day "we are denying freedom of ttioxtght , mdral inquiry , independent conviction , and ' arelabaur - ing to thwart , destroy , drire battle' into utter TUin those who ate Workiiig ' ottii the truth dt the future . "We know thetn not , it is true :
but We adopt the rule to prohibit ; and sup > p > ess all thduglit aMdact tHat doesitttt afe'cOrQ . with that already e ' attiblisited . A . stTie fartner of tlie past has forb'idaeii the corn" tir grow , the beast to be fatted , the sap to rise in thevine , declaring that he had finally , sufficiently " , and exclusively discovered the" truth in agrtculture , so it is all round ; afnd as corn haaBeeSi withered , so has life . These are the "judgments" of GJ-od : cholera ; scarcity , and Wftr are the scourges that lash the disobedient .
THE TIIANKSGIVJCN'G—AND HOW IT SHOULD BE . GotfLD pi * eacliera and people rise to the grandeur of tho great subject to which tomorrow is consecrated , infinite might bo the good extracted from the sermons and reflections . If the people could bo fully and universally awakened to the idea , that the sole path for attaining fulness of life ia to obey tho laws by which Grod works in this universe where out lot is cast , a greater obedience to
those laws might bring us to a greater fulness of life , a trusting and a happier reliance on tho end and sequel of life . It men . would repent their sins— -that is fcheir proved transgression of ascertained laws of God—manifest in Mb own works—then wo also shoulcl be helping more to work out the divine government , aud more identifying ourselves with tho movement of universal life ; whereas , forgetting , wo suffer
mildew to fall on tho root wo eat , out the vine , on man himself , and pcriah . If tho farmer , most especially , who is the instrument for working out certain of tho natural laws in our behalf , could lift himself to a broader view of his high dut 3 , he would aoo how his cIuhs haa repeatedly fnllpn short of its allotlod taali ; - —» how ho has blindly persisted in neglecting or even in thwarting , tho very rules by which tlio grain , our chief wuatonanco , is made to grow ,
~ We might , indeed , render thanks to-morrow , for having to some extent awakened to our case ; and as even a Charlds Knightlby can declare that Good ' s land has leen misused by the farmer , —who tried to grow corn Where he might have fed beasts , —beasts where he might have fed them , for their milk , —so some amongst us are slowly , doubtfully , and timidly awaking to the idea that perliaps we have not done our best for out fellow-croatures
—have withheld them from knowledge , denied their freedom in other ways than political , set up tho narrow-closed truth of tho past against tho ever expanding truth of tlxo future . For this happy reason , as surely as tho farmer ' s botter spirit will enable liim bettor to worlc out tiio laWs df God , and . bring us more corn , so surely will a loss presumptuous spirit lertd us to deal mdro humbly with the divine laws , and to receive to ourselvoa more life . 3 ? or that indeed , a $ well aa the golden earnest of a groat harvest , wo might give thanks , an < l fortify ourselves by tho act of thanksgiving .
But alaB ! wo are in poor ease to render thanks for so groat bounty . How can a community divided among themselves ^ — parcelled into conformists , diasontcrs , diabeliovoi-s . sects innumomblo , and cathohcrata unclasaifmblo—raise tho harmonious voice ot conscious gratitude P Tlie day Will be mottt in polite observance by tlio church ot tjio ' upper clnssoa , in moro or lbsa or grftiaAlab , more or Icsa of malignant praying' at otftor
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! Dhere is nothing so revolutionary , becaiise there is nothing sp unnatural and convulsive , as the strgdn to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creatiori in eternal -progress . —Db . AfcsoxiD .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 30, 1854, page 923, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2058/page/11/
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