The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-10-27

90 The Foreign intelligence grows more and
more portentous. The last steamers accounts are
full of wars and rumors Of wars, upon grand
scale. Large fleets are moved to and fro-immense
armies are organized-cabinets are interchanging
hostile messages, and all things seem gathering for
one of the most desperate wars that ever ravaged
a continent or desolated humanity. 1t seems, in
deed, but triae which has set all this stupendous
machinery of state-craf and war into agitation
few defeated and powerless men flying from a
ruined country, which they perled and lost every
thing but life to save are hunted by mighty Des.
pot, with unrelentng and unquenchable hatred.
Amid the millions upel millions who own his he
reditary sway, and the tssrs of subjected millions
over whom he reigns undisputsd conqueror and
master, he is unsatis6ed, and unsafe till he can
seize and crush these homeless exiles. What
stands between him and them? What barrier
starts up suddenly in his path, behind which the
painting fugitves find shelter from his bafled pur-
suit2 What word of power suffices I" to curb this
cruel devil of his Wilt" It is the virtue of the
"infidel Turk-the sacredness of character with
which Oriental piety invests the stranger and the
guest-interposes between this mighty monarch
and the victims for whose blood he thirsts. The
scimetar of the Turk flashes across his way-the
standard of the Crescent is ready to be thrown
abroad; and the Descendant of the Prophet stands
out resolved to extnguish his race and his Empire
rather than hair of the head shall be touched of
the stranger who came to him for sanctuary. To
the support of this noble resolve, England, moved
by her ancient policy Of maintaining the Turkish
Empire as an essential part of the European sys.
tenn, without which, its adjustmentsof power would
rush Immediately TO ruin-and France, recurring
| with happy reyulsiOn to her natural position on
the side Of Western Europe against Cossack domi.
nation, unite their Councils and their forces And
thus, an event comparatively of no apparent mo.
ment, involving the lives of few heroic men
/ after mighty host have persisted without succoI
and unavenged-seryes to rally in one feeling a
| league of powerful governments and mighty ma
tiOns. The instincts of chivalry, generous sym
pathy for misfortune, and noble admiration of he
roic deeds and heroic sentiments, happily coincide
with political calculations and state interests; and
the effort looks like righting of the moral opinion
Of all Europe, and the reunion of the liberal ma
tons in common resistance to the overshadowina
domination of barbarous Russia. Happy will be
the fruits, if the union thus opportunely brought
about, from so unexpected an incident, shall be
permanent, and help to consolidate league of the
Western Governments, for the progress, enlighten.
ment and happiness of the nations-threatened, az
they have been of late, by the frightful growth o
4 DespOtic power.
Nor will the benefits of this demonstration fail
though war shall be averted now. The diplo
matist may again possibly adjust the pending diff
fculty and avert hostilities. 1t seems almost i'm
| possible, since the demands of Nicholas are abso
| lutte and peremptoTy for the persons of the Hun
| garians; and these will, under no CT circumstance,
be surrendered to him; yet the counsels of policy
may teach him 10 yield the personal point, and BE-
contentsd with assurances and guarantees tina
none of these dreaded fugitives shall return t.
plague him in Hungary or Poland. Negotiation
may save present war, but not the less has a more
favorable era for Europe commenced, when Eng
land holds menacing language to Russia, and Lou
Bonaparte has felt constrained to follow the ma,
tional impulses Of France, and take open ground
| against the aggressions of Nicholas.