The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-06-20
STATE OF EUROPE.

STATE OF EUROPE.
Mr.. Canning said, in his day, that Europe
was rapidly tending towards war of opinion
The sagacious anticipation is now nearer realI
cation than at any similar crisis in European
affairs. Whilst within the last thirty years The
antasonis,ic forces Of Liberty and Aksoluris'r
we're brought into only partial or local collision
whist this Dukedom or that Principally or
the Continent exhibited merely varying phases
Of this connc,.-hc war of opnien was on
contracted scale. To bring the struggle 10
decisive issue, it most embrace powerful gov
ernments and large divisions Of the European
population,
These conditions are about 10 be satisfied
The East and the West. the Cossack and the
Frenchman are, from all indications, about to
measure weapons in the struggle. II seems
impossible that France can give up Central
Europe to Scythian bayonets, any more than
she can permit the Danubian provinces or the
maritime dettnces of Turkey TO fall under the
dominion of the Russian Antocrat. The fields
of Germany must witness the issue oflhs com
bat and the leading parties 10 it must nrcessa'
rilv be France and Russia. The olher powers
as auxliares. or allies, have a subordinate part
to play in this great drama ofna,ona hostilIlcs.
Absolutism, represented in the Russian power,
and repnbicanism, in the French, will draw all
the rest of Europe within the vortex.
The elections to the new French Assemblies
in connection with the lalc vo'e in the present
House of Deputies on the resolution OF CavaIg.
nae, afford clear indication of the prevailing
feeling in France, as relates 10 the movement
dc the asI,ra,ion sword
Ia the sentiment that any such armed invention
should be resisted at every hazard and expense,
there is almost perfect unanmi,y among all
classes of French Statesmen. Whether The
Legitimist Ar Republican parties obtain ma.
iority in the new Chambers, tie French troops
will cross the Rhine, by popular acclamalon.
The party of public order in France has also
the instinct Of national safety. No French au.
thorily can maintain itself that suffers the qnrs'
ton, whether rational liberty or absolute rule
shall prevail in Central Europe, to be decided
by Cossack bayonels.
Ii is not a little remarkable that the Russian
Manifesto, jusi(ying armed interference, should
appear precisely a, the same time with the long
DELAYED acknowledgment Of the French Repub-
lie. Was this done 10 prop,iale the French
people, and disarm their opposition Or is it
done to show that Russia does not war against
Republics, but only against the anarcha spirit
which threatens the overthrow Of all existing
social arrangements
Let the prrtext or palliative be what it may,
the peril 20 the liberties and independence OF
Europe is too great to permit the settlement ot
it's affairs, by armies flushed with victory-ar'
mics composed of semi.barbarians. lfthc bal.
ance Of power has not become an empty maine
in Europe, it is impossible for France and Eng.
land to fold their arms, whilst Russia and Aus.
tria, having crushed the independence Of Hun.
gary, trsmpcs out the last spark Of liberty it,
Italy and Germany. Itappears TO us, therefore
inevitable that the same war cry that brings
the Scylhan to The shores Of the Danube. will
be echoed back by the French legions which
Rhine. Were the conflict not TO embrace the
two European power which occupy the extremes
of political opinion, it would soon come to an
issue, and Hungary would loose its independ
ence and Germany lis liberties. But the bat.
tie Of principles once begun, it is easier to pre-.
dict hop than rhca ii will terminate. 1t may
be !ons conflict that arms the people Of CONT.
mental Europe against royalty and prerogaive
| but if civilization is not made to retrogradc un.
der Cossack sway, compromise Of opinions
liberty tempered by ordcr-is likely to be the
fruit ofthe grea, struggle.-Erc. Ncps.
Langhable things sometimes happen in New
Jersey. The "patent churn" just now is al!
the rage. The other day certain Esquire,
who shall be namcless, was showing the gaping
crowd of natives the great wonders of the but
ter making machine. While granding out the
butter and >undry long yarns, and like The auc.
tionecr, alternating the labor with various ex'
plantations, a mischievous wag slipped dab o
soap silly into the milk.-Soon the agatcd
mass commenced froihing, and filled the churn
to overnowing, but no butter.
"You sce," said tho ever ready expounded o
mysteries as he paused to catch breath, "whelh.
er butter comes or not. it makes three times as
much bultermk as any other churn %
A GENERAL WAR.-A Paris correspondent
of the New. York Courier writes under date o.
! Nav 2lsl: "rherc is fire kindling which is
soon to set all Europe in blaze! Ii is hardly
permitted to doubt that we are on the eve Of a
general war. The recent elections are of a
nature to rapidly hasten the catastrophe. 1t is
they perhaps which render it inevitable. Had
not the Democratic and Socialist party in France
issued from the elections with so much increased
force, the peace of Europe might have bceu
J preserved"