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12 Advoc. Peace 1 (1856-1857)

handle is hein.journals/wrldaf12 and id is 1 raw text is: ADVOCATE OF .PEACE. JANUARY, 1856. CONSEQUENCES OF THE EUROPEAN WAR. WIrILa the friends of peace place their chief reliance on expositions of the evils, criminality and anti-christianity of war, for its abolition, they do not hesitate to add representations of its expense and impolicy, and its in efficacy in attaining its professed objects; well knowing that many men, es- pecially those in power, are more deeply affected by the latter than the for- mer. There was perhaps never a better occasion to point out the failure of a war to accomplish its declared designs, than that now raging on the East- ern Continent; and for that purpose we now give attention to it. The war is not indeed so far terminated that its results-can be stated as facts; but the state to which it is now brought renders its most important probable conse- quences circumstances of easy and safe prediction. Let us first look at Russia, who may be considered as having commenced the war, by the invasion of the Danubian Provinces. Putting aside the proposal to administer on the estate of the sick man, which was exposed and abandoned, the next pretence of tle Russian Czar was the maintain- ance of the rights and privileges of the Greek Christians in the Ottoman dominions. In this he was probably sincere, but the more important real object is well understood to be the annexation of the invaded Provinces, and the possession of Constantinople. By the valor of the Turks and the intervention of Austria, the Russian forces have been compelled to abandon the Danubian Provinces, and to retreat within their own boundaries; and the occupancy of Constantinople is a more remote and hopeless prospect titan ever before. And atter the success of the Allies, and the flush of vic- tory in the Turks,,no one we presume will venture to say, that any further relief of the Greek Christians from their oppressions, will be effected by Russian intervention. The whole object of the war, avowed or concealed, on the part of Russia, have plainly irrecoverably failed. But this failure is what the Allies intended to effect, and will be claimed by them as acc(omplishihents of their object. Let us see: The objects de- clared by Euglond and France, in alliance, were to preserve the integrity of the Ottoman Empir and the balance of power in Europe. The bal-

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