The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-08-25
THE PILOT.

WAR BETW ZEN FRANCE, ENGLAND,
RUSSIA, PRUSsIAAND THEPORTE.-We
think the following article from the Times Q4oR-
DOM is conclusive that there will be no war IN
Europe. The present age is for peace:
Most earnestly do we deprecate the violent
outbreak of ma! ional pride, and all the clamor Of
martial preparation, which have reached US
tbrough tbe French press. These detestable OPP
nertunites of strife are hailed in tone OF exulta
tion which should be laid aside people hold
ing so high place in the rank OF civilized ma
tons should demonstrate with nation as CIVIL
lied as itself in calmer and more pacific language
than that which is necessarily used to sthe semi
barbarians of Cairo or Pekin. We do not share
the prediction of the French people or the
French Governmen. for the Pacha; but if aught
of needness mistrust or personal slight has been
shown toward Franch or her able and respect
ed represe NATIVE in this country, by the
British Governmental by foreign diplomitists in
London, the people of England are now as much
as ever disposed to testify their esteem for the
French alliance, whether that country send US
marshal or philosophers Soult Guizot
But the people of England look on nothing with
more contempt than hot and misplaced indigna-
tion even though it be supported by unuouDted
resources and untarnished bravery.
We are sincerely DESTROYS that the Eastern
question should be settled; bnt II any proof be
needed of the hold which the alliance oil Franch
has acquired upon the opinions and the interests,
ftbis country, that proof will be found in the
general dread of the public lest settlement
Otherwise so desirable, should be obtained at too
great a risk But if Franch act with good sense
and good faith, that risk, as we stated on Satur-
day, it very SMALL for what and where is there
the cause OF war? Are nations TO be estranged by
the same puny cause which drove the pedantlc
and punctilious Courts of the 18th and 18th CEN
*
the national insult or the national wrong winch
can Justify so violent and desperate resentment
IT, by the untoward course of events, these sparks
are afted on till they threaten the fabric OF Eu-
ropean society with conHagration, 1t will be re-
corded that events disastrous never spnlng
from a more paltry cause Such war would be
begun not for independence, for Poland Perlshed
un2ssisted: not for freedom, for the appeal ofthe
most oppressed countries i'll Europe has been
made in vain; not for fame, for enough OF fame
has been bought by France, though at too dear a
price; not for territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, Tor
the disputants on neither side put forth ther own
claim to possesson not 70 fulfil the faith of trea-
ties, for France, having signed the collective
note of the 9th of July, for the maintenance OF
the integrity of the Ottoman empire, has already
pledged herself at least, not to assail it. Are
we then exposed to these dangers for the sake
of desperado like Mehemet Ali, whose hard
Government is placed, even by his supporters,
on the lowest level of Oriental despetIsm, or for
fine sake of the barbarous and lawless popula-
ton of the pachalid of Aleppo and Mesopotamia'
The details of the Eastern question are in them
selves so eontemptble-the rival powers so SINH
lar in their badness, that this apple OF dscord is
not even apple OF gold
The loss of one drop of Christian blood shed in
war in the heart OF Europe is followed by more
calamities, and is more grieyous to humanity,
than the massacre oil a horde of Mussulman in
surgents. The evils Of war are exactly proper
toned to the civilization ofthe countries engaged
in it. The nations which have made most pro-
gress in the arts of peace most afflicted by
the interruption of them, and if France and Eng
land stoop to share the violence they ought to
moderate, the advantages even of victory will be
shared or engrossed by powers quite unable as
vet to compete with either of them in benettiDg
mankind, thoughready to surpass them in bloed-
shed; the burden and the ruin will rest upon
themselves.
But. although it cannot be concealed that the
utmost foresight cannot insure the avoidance of
so fatal rupture is it too much to ask and to
hone that social and Christian spirit may yet
command the elements OF political strlie! Ii We
are seuarated from Franch on this question, that
is no reason for severing the great and numcr-
Gus interests by which we are now and Tor the
future as much united to that nation as we were
yesterday.
II ON the ether hand, we find ourselves strange
ly combined with Russia in this particular treaty,
that is no reason for laying aside our long vigi-
lance other designs and our Protestations against
the spirit manifested by so many OF her previous
and her present actions. On the contrary, that
vigilance requires to be redoubled, especially
If we have TO deal with her either as friend or foe
single-handed. We have ere this contracted al
liances with Russia, from which she has extract
ed all the benefit she sought; we have ere this
fought battles of which she has reaped the spoil.
England is not more inclined now than she has
ever been before to tolerate Russian dominion in
Constantinope; and, great as is the responsible
ty of those who have venturcd on SO bold acourse
for the attainment of its immediate object, that
responsibility binds them under the heaviest and
most solemn obligation to provide against the
possibility of being deceived by its ultimate re-
cult