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' An interesting Relic
Os a Great Soldier’s Plan.
The officially unconfirmed, I
but generally believed, cable- i
griunic rumor that China has,i
yielded to Russia and that the :
great Northern Bear has brought
about a lease for ninety nine
years of Port Arthur, gives added
interest to an alleged will of
Peter the Great, which a corres
pondent has forwarded and
which, whether genuine or not,
is certainly a most remarkable
document and evidently the ere
atitm of a far seeing brain. This
is the wording of this wonderful
paper:
In the name of the Holy and
Indivisible Trinity, we, Peter
the First, to all our descendants
and successors td the 1 hrone .
and Government of the Russian (
nation:
Having by the Great God, of
whom we received our existence,
been also endowed with the gift
of prescience, we view the Rus
sians as called, in course of fu
ture events, to the general do
minion of Europe.
This opinion is founded on the
fact that the other European na
tions have reached a state of old
age next to caducity, towards
which they are journeying with
great strides ; hence it follows,
that they should easily and un
doubtedly be conquered by a
people yotfng and new, when it
shall have acquired its strength t
and vigor.
We view the invasion of the
east and west countries by the
north as a periodical movement,
decreed among the arcana of
that Providence that degenera
ted the Roman people through
the invasion of the barbarians.
The emigrations of the Polar
men are like the flood of the
Nile, which comes at certain pe
riods to fertilize the exhausted
lands of Egyot.
We found Russia a rivul* t,
and leave it converted in-to a
river ; and my successors will
find it a sea, destined to fertilize
impoverished Europe, and its
waves will break down all op
posing dykes if my* descendants
have but the wisdom to direct
the current.
To this end I leave the follow
ing instructions, which are re
commended to their attention
and constant observance.
1. The Russian Nation must
be constantly on a war footing,
to keep the old soldiers warlike
and in good condition. No rest
must be allowed, except for the
purpose of relieving the state
finances, recruiting the army, or
biding the favorable moment for
attack. By these means peace is
made subservient to war, and
war to peace, in the interest of
aggrandisement and increasing
prosperity to Russia.
2. Every possible means
must be used to invite from the
most cultivated European states
commanders in war and philos
ophers in peace, to enable the
Russian Nation to participate in
the advantages of other coun
tries without losing any of its
own.
3. No opportunity must be
lost of taking part in the affairs
and disputes of Europe, especial
ly in those of Germany, which,
from its vicinity, is one of the
most direct interests to us.
4. Poland must be divided
by keeping up constant jealous
ies and confusions there. The
authorities must be gained over
with money, and the Assemblies
corrupted, so as to influence the
election of the kings. We must
get up a party of our own there,
and Russian troops into the
country, and let them sojourn
theio so long that they may ul
timatelely find some pretext for
remaininitig there forever.
Should the neighboring states
make difliculties. we must ap
pease them for the moment by
allov ing them a share of the ter
ritory. until we can safely re
sume what we have given away.
6. We must taKe away as
much territory as possible from
Sweden, and contrive that they
shall attack us first, so as to give
us a pretext for their subjuga
tion. With this object in view,
we must keep Sweden in opposi
tion to Den mar k, and Denmark
to Sweden, and sedulously foster
the mutual jealousies.
6. The consorts of the Rus
sian princes must always be
chosen from among the German
princesses, in order to multiply
our family alliances with the
Germans, and so unite our inter
ests with theirs, and thus, by
consolidating our influence in
Germany, to cause it to attach
itself spontaneously to our pol
icy.
7. We must be careful to
keep our commercial alliances
in England, for she’s the power
which has most need of our pro
duce for her navy, and at the
same time may be of greater
service to us in the development
of our own, We must export
wood and other articles in ex
change for her gold and establish
permanent connection between
her merchants and seamen and
our own.
8. We must keep steadily ex
tending our frontiers—north
ward along the Baltic, and south
ward along the shores of the
Black Sea.
9 We must progress as much
as possible in the direction of
Constantinople and India, lie
who can once get possession of
these places is the real ruler of
the World. With this view, we
must provoke constant quarrels
at one time with Turkey, and at
another with Persia. We must
establish wharves and docks in
the Euxine, and by degrees
make ourselves masters of that
sea as well as of the Baltic,
which is a doubly important
element in the success of our
plan. We must hasten the down
fall of Persia, push on into the
Persian Gulf if possible, re-es
tablish the ancient commercial
intercourse with the Levant
through Syria, and force our
way into the Indies, which are
the storehouses of the world.
Once there, we can dispense
with English gold.
10. Moreover, we must take
jiains to establish and maintain
an intimate union with Austria,
apparently countenancing her
schemes for future aggrandise
ment in Germany, and all the
while secretly rousing the jeal
ousy of the minor states against
her. By this way we must bring
it to pass, that one or the other
party will seek the aid of Rus
sia; and thus we will exercise a
sort of protectorate over the
country, which will pave away
for future supremacy.
11. We must make the House of
Austria interested in the expul
sion of the Turks from Europe,
and we must neutralize its jeal
ousy at the capture of Constan
tinople, either by pre-occupying
it with a war with the old Euro
pean States or by allowing it a
share of the spoil, which we can
afterwards resume at our lei
sure.
12. We must collect round
our house, as round a centre, all
the detached sections of Greeks,
which are scattered abroad in
Hungary, Turkey and South
Poland. W e must make them
look to us for .support., and then,
by establishing beforehand a
sort of ecclesiastical supremacy,,
we shall pave the way for uni-'
versa! sovereignty.
13. When Sweeden is ours,
Persia vanished, Poland subju
gated , Turkey com] tiered— when
our armies are united, and the
Euxine and Baltic are in the
possession of our ships, then we
must m ike separate and secret
overtures, first to the Court of
Versailles, and then to that at
Vienna to share with, them the
dominion of the world. If nei
ther of them accept our propo
sitions, which is certain to hap
pen, if their ambition and self
interest are properly worked up
on, we must make use of one to
annihilate the other; this donq,
we have only to destroy the re-j
mainingoneby finding a pretext
for a quarrel, the issue of which
cannot be doubtful, as Russia
will then be in the absolute pos-i
session of the east and the best I
part of Europe.
14. Should the improbable
case happen of both refusing
the propositions 'of Russia, then
our policy will be to set one
against the other, and” make
them tear each other to pieces.
Russia must then watch for and
seize the favorable moment, and
pour her already assembled
hosts into Germany, while two
immense fleets, laden with Asi
atic hordes, and convoyed by
the armed squadrons of the Eux
ine and the Baltic, set sail sim
ultaneously from” the sea of Azoff
and the harbor of Archangel;
sweeping along the Mediterra
nean and the Atlantic, they will
overrun France on the one side,
while Germany is overpowered
on the other.
When these countries are ful
ly conquered, the rest of Europe
must fall easily, and without a
struggle, under our yoke.
Thus Europe can and must
be subjugated.
The above testament, no mat
ter who devised it, certainly pos
sesses more than the ordinary
wealth of Satanic wisdom. Its
genuineness is not accepted as an
historical fact. In one of “Our
Race News-Leaflets.” bearing date
; of July August, 1897, in which th*
• famous alleged will is reprinted,
. under the heading of “An Evil
j design,” it is stated that the wil l
was found among the papers ot
I Catharine. 1., since whose days a
study of Russian policy rwveals
he fact that it has been consis
tently followed. Fisher in his
■ outlines, of Universal History.”
• disputes the authenticity of the
i document and makes it not older
than 1821 It is first mentioned at
5 the time in a book, published by
, Lesur, as he intimates, by direc
tion of N apolead 1., but it was
not until 1836 that it was made
public in complete form, when it
was alleged that it had been
brought to Paris in 1857, by the
Chevalier d’Eon. who discovered
it while making an authorized
I search among the Russia achieves.
’ Engine Schuyley says that “Lem
ur’s book was morely a pxmphlet
to justify the invasion of Russia
. bvNapolen.” (Life of Peter the
Great, Vol. IL. p. 512) “ 1 here
are however arguments upon both
, sides. Certainly Russia never
would have published such a pa
per willingly and thus laid In r se- I
cret policy. Certainly too it is
hus admittedly 85years old. and
is as true to the policy of its pre
ceededing 88 years of doubt or
concealment as it is to those of its
known existence. Be, therefore
the paper original with Peter or
Napoleon, it is the offspring of a
genius, and is cousumate in its
terse his’ory and prophecy of
ivetns.”
Alexander II , the tenth Czar
from Peter the Great, succeed
ed to the empire after an inter
val of 130 years, indicated upoi>
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ascending the throne his determi
t ation to adhere to the policy of
his family in these words. “May
Providence so aid us that we may
he able to strengthen Russia
in the higher degree of power and
glory that by us may be acom
plisbed the views ana designs,
of our illustrious pred-cess >rs,
Peter, Catherine, Alexander, and
our August father o f inpmsnable
memory.’l Thus it may be seen
that “dating from the days of
Peter lhe Great (whether tfie will
is authentic or not), there ha*-
existed a distinct line in the pol
icy (that of the.will itself) ir. ih
Russian government. and that
e; ch successor to the throne Im
endeavored as nearly as circum
stances would admit, to adhere to
it.”
The new move in China is cer
tainly in keeping with the sugges
tions of the disputed will. Yet
the man who created that policy
—for Peter certainly gave the first
impetus to the domineering prog
ress of the Muscovite race, evidence
of which are being witnessed at
the present time ever, if he did
not write the referred
to, was in his personal chaiacteris-
ics one of the meanest and lowest
■*f mankind. Then why Peter the
Great ?
Ah! that’s another story.
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