Nor might any military past the current frontier by chance be extra favorably located for provides. The herds of Bessarabia, the corn of Wallachia, the Crimea, &c., provide, in these necessities, an inexpensive and enough useful resource. Wine is the frequent produce of a number of of the adjoining provinces. The provisioning of this military ought, with good administration, to value little or no greater than if it had remained in concentrated cantonments. And even have been it remoted upon the Bosporus, it have been nicely well worth the whereas of the Autocrat to incur the hazard and expense of its upkeep on so extraordinary and commanding a place.
The mere naval and army benefits, offensive and defensive, would amply indemnify him. Of the latter, probably the most distinguished is, that it’s going to fully lock up, because it have been, and canopy from all French or British expeditionary assaults,—within the doable occasion of hostility from these states,—the entire of his uncovered, unsettled, insecure, and rebellious conquests within the Caucasian isthmus. Thus, likewise, will probably be protected the communication with the precise flank of the place on the Araxes;—for this military is also mainly equipped with shops, reinforcements, and even a substantial a part of its provisions, by sea.
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To drive the Muscovite eagles again over the Danube or Prutah is probably not really easy a activity as to have checked their flight ere that they had handed these boundaries. Prevention is mostly simpler and all the time higher than treatment. If, nonetheless, prevention has not on this occasion been suitable both by or via our means, then now we have no extra to do than reconcile ourselves to the abandonment, at no distant interval, of each pretension to the station of an awesome or influential energy—and even finally put together to bow our necks to the yoke;—for, if we’re already so helpless, such should clearly, it’s in useless to disclaim it, in the end of time, be the consequence.
The will of wealth, when allowed to grasp the opposite passions, or to engross too completely the thoughts, has been ever discovered to be some of the tenacious rules of motion. Witness the Armenian and different retailers of Constantinople, who go on hoarding and buying, though conscious that success is the strange precursor of confiscation and loss of life. Witness the rigid fidelity of the banker Jews and goldsmiths, of former days, on this our personal nation.
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