The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-11-26

they excited alarm or served as n prctcxt Tor
for military occupation and she has pressed
forward in her course of domination with an
utter contempt of her engagements both TO
the people Of Germany and the other States
of Europe. Prussin, and Prussia alone, is
the cause of this frghtful perturbation in
Germany, which has again arrested the
course of trade and let loose all the terror Of
uncertain or imaginary danger and our
hope for the pacific adjustment Of these
questions lies mainly in the fact that the
Prussian Government has placed itself SO
utterly in the wrong, and has reached SO un-
tcnablc position, that it must fall under the
general resentment Of Germany and the
rest of Europe. Arrogant and infatuated as
we bieere NJ de Radowiiz to be he can
scarcely have the power to drag his country
down this prccipce lie has already ruled
long enough to see every one of his favoritc
schemes dissipatcd and defeated he has al
ready suffered all the dishonor that failure
can impose upon statesman and the ex-
pericncc of the last few months may have
convinced him that in politics no path is
practicable which deviates from the great
landmarks and the public engagements of the
civilized world. 1t is necessary, as We re-.
member TO have observed at a very early
stage of these transactions, that Prussia
should recedc from her attempted aggression
on the rights of her German coniederates,
and from her actual aggression on the rights
Of her Danish neighbor. We ask of her
no humiliatng surrender-the world de-
mands no shameful conditions. All that !,
required of her is to fulfl her own federal
engagements OF 1915 to Germany, and the
terms Of her Own recent treaty Of peace
Denmark. But her position is so singular
and her pretensions nave been 50 cxirava-
CANT, that she fauces herself to be humbled
and outraged by the demand that she should
fulfil her engagements, and holds true great
ness TO consist in defyng them. The time
is now rapidly approaching when she must
either abandon this eccentric system of pol
icy, or stand alone and exposed to all it.
consequences and unless the welfare of 4
nation and the peace of Europe are to be
sacrificed 10 The wayward spirit of one man
or the irregular impulses of another, the al
Tentative cannot be doubtful. No one vii
hail more cordially than we shall do the re.
turn Of the Prussian Government to the
rules of prudence and good faith, and We
apprehend that the rulers of that country
cannot be altogether insensible TO the uni
vcrsal censure and remonstrance Of public
opinion throughout the other parts Of Eu'
rope. Meanwhile the rumors which arrive
Of the negotiations at Warsaw, at Berlin
and elsewhere, arc so uncertain and so con
hictng that no reliance can be placed on
ny Of the numerous versions of these trans
actions. We hope that as between the Ger
man Powers they may be prompt and enec
tual for peace but even that great objec
would be dearly bought by the sacri
fee of the dearly purchased rights c
the German people, or by fresh acts 0
hostility against Denmark. While the ne
gotiations are indefinite, the movements o
troops, which are fully described by scyera
of our correspondents, are actually t1kin:
place and it is fact calculated to sugges
very serious reflections, that in the heart 0
! III Il =
tary operations of SO important and undis
gused a character should be occurring il
Germany, when that country is mcnaced b,
no dangers but those which unhappily arise
from the foies and the divisions of her owl
children"