Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-08-10
10, 1874.
PEACE


PEACE!
new and blessed era is now dawnng upon
the world! 1t is an era of peace! The quiet
and transformations labors of few roble souled
men IN this country and England commenced a
lew years since. are already producing great re-
suits. The little acorn has BECOME giant oak
with branches spreading through every part of
christendom. Peace is beginning to have her
triumphs. In the Iangfage of that great Chris
tan yorker in the glorious cause, Elihu Burritt:
Let no faint, Predetermined faith doubt the divine
augury of that morning Fight of a new epoch in
the history Of mankind. If Peace has her vic
tories, no less than War; they are such as war
can never win; they are conquests which can
never be reconquered The great DAYS of Peace
are not revolutions, but PRECAUTIONS, which car
ry forward the whole family of ciyiised nations
toward that condition of brotherhood which is the
perfection of human society" In England, the
subject OF international peace has lately been oc-
cupylng the serious attention of Parliament -..
A plan for organizing permanent and universal
peace was presented by Golden, and earnestly
and ably supported by the mover, and by MANY of
the leading and best minds in the House of Conn
mons. The proposed arrangements for arbitra-
ting and peacefully adjusting national difficulties
were received and treated with general favor, and
acknowledged to be fully practicable. One MEM
Der said the purpose was so rational, so much in
accordance with all hun1an e&perienco, that it
must be ultimately successful. Whatever
might be the immediate result of the motion. if
was the beginning of great European and
world reformation" Even the opponents of the
measure, knowing the growing sentiment of the
people upon the subject, and anticipating the Ill
innate triumph Of the great measure. were care
fl not to commit themselves against its princ-
pIes and the call for the previous question which
was sustained BY vote of l76 to 70, was made
on the express ground, and with the express
aVowal, that 1t was the general desire not to con.
Vey any condemnation against the principIe.-
Inc Fnme Minister, in the course of the debate.
expressed his faith in the coming day when war
between re,ghboring nations "would Be deemed
as improbable, absurd and barbarous as between
neighboring cities under the same governmcnts;'
and he might have added as between men under
the same roof and in the same family!
Not only in England, but in France also is the
peace principle beginning to exhibit its triumphs
In the French Assembly on the 26th of June. the
m'nisterof foreign affairs, uttered these remark
able words " The Republic ,cM render ITSELF
immortal The day ii shall establish Petce!r' and
the whole Assembly, from the Right to the
Mountain, from the extreme moderates to the
extreme opposition, cried out with unanimous
voice awe wish for peace," The sentiment or
the French people is rapidly rpening for peace;
and the recent "wretched events at Rome must
have tended to take off the edge of the French
appetite for military glory. The French people
have had Illuminating lesson, that the war svs-
tenn may fill a nation with unmitrated shame
and disgust, as well as feed the national vanity
Peace will not be less attractive to Frencbmen
since Oudinot has so dragglcd the tr-coIor in the
blood of the Roman Republic" And we have
no doubt the expression of the sentiment above
quoted, was made in view of the disgraceful and
humiliatlng position in which France has placed
herself by her war upon the Roman people.
In Germany and Holland, and everywhere
throughout christendom the atten ton of the pco-
pie is being turned more or less to the subject Of
Peace, and their interest and duty in regard to it
is evidently beginning to be understood.
The great Worlds Peace Convention, which
is to assemble in Paris, or the 9Th of the present
month, VIII doubtless have representatives from
every portion of Europe and America; and that
the deliberations will give renewed impetus to
the enterprise throughout the civilized world.
cannot be doubted. The subjects which are par
ticulary to engage the attention of that Conven-
ton are the Immorality and Impocv OF War;
international Treaties of Arbitration: General
Disarmament; Congress of Nations" "Itis pro-
posed that short treatises be prepared on these
subjects by Edward Mail, for England; NJ. Rous-
SELL for Belgium; NJ. Gerardin, for France; and
f. Burriu, or Charles Sumner, for America:--
such thesis not to occupy more than 5 minutes
III Ie"uii's' anu 'heu 10 De spoken by the repre-
sentatives Of various countries"
The nobest spirits of Europe and America
will bein this great Convention Its discussions
and deliberations will be second in point Of inter
est and importance to those Of no denberative
body that has ever yet assembled in the world,
and It's consequences so far as the great interests
OF mankind are concerned, are beyond any hu-
man computation. WE shall look for the pro-
ceedings with a feeling of far more than ordin1-
ny interest.
II VIII brother Brown of the Madison De-
mocFat, tell US what his share of the sooils is TO
be in this late descent of the Argus on the state
treasury. We have understood that he refused
last year $1,000 to enter into similar arranpe-