The Nevada journal., 1853-10-28
Prospects In Europe.

I
rope to the goth Aug. confirms the pre-
vious accounts that there will be no great
war in Europe. Having withstood so sue.
cessfully the establishment of politca
and military adventurer upon the Imperial
throne of ambitious and war loving France
and the old natural feud between the Russ
and the Turk, there is hope that the time
has come when the peace principle among
the great nations of the earth will reign
triumphant. and the horrors of war be NO
longer encountered by powerful and intel
ligent nations.
That the quarrels with minor nations,
and domestic discomfort, will yet for long
time to come, be suppressed with the
sword, it is TO be expected; until inteli-
Ngence and education shall have reached
IA higher standard in the nations, and
wealth becomes more diffused. But there
is reason to hope that the standard is now
reached when great nations will no longer
blindly rush into war, from which, even
the successful party cannot emerge without
great and terrible loss, involving all ranks
OF society.
When we consider how often the acci-
dent of an hour, or the act Of a single
man, sometimes brings about the most un.
expected results, and overthrows, alike the
most beautiful theories and the laborious
efforts md toll of years, we should not be
too exuifant, and attribute to the increased
wisdom and virtue Of men tbat which
! .esasaz,be foandln another cause
Ithas been hers, as Wiic9a Wiisa other
gsea. reiorms have bsppensa taat .e
world has been prepared for them, SO ,nat
they come of themselves, not only with
out the aid of men, but in despite of their
efforts to prevent them Tn the course of
human events it becomes necessary and
unavoidable that certain line of policy
should be pursued ard the men who have
in past times resisted it, and been It's most
sturdy opponents find that their interest
lies in change of policy and action.
So it is with this war question. In the
progress Of time, the balance of power has
been SO adjusted, that no great nations
have anything on the score even of selfish
ness or ambition, to induce them to embark
in hostilities against each other. In ad-
dition to this, powerful classes of manufac-
turers and merchants have grown up, to
whom war is ruin, while 10 the classes OF
mechanics and agriculturists who formerly
welded all the political influence outside
of the acting government, war was COM
paratively matter of indifference, some
times indeed, g thing which they encour-
aged as the national expenditure benefited
them, giving them better prices for their
Iproducts. by increasing consumption and
diminishing production, while the money
for the cost Of war was extracted from the
Jews of the cities, from the other wealthy
classes, or in some mode by which the bur-
then did not, at least Immediately, fall
upon the great mass Of the people
Now, long peace has led to a great
increase in the numbers and the influence
of the merchants and manufactures to
whom peace is a matter of much more vi
tai importance than to the mechanical and
agricultural classes. The governments find
themselves involved in heavy debts, main
ly contracted in the warslof the last gen
Grafton. They dare not repudiate these
debts, for the classes of people to whom
they are owed are numerous and powerful
enough to overthrow the government in
such an event. They find themselves
unable to assume the cost of new wars and
pay the interest on the old debts, without
resort to taxes which they dare not levy
upon the industrial and productive classes
I1CUSC II uuS tHdt even LUC LlOSl AT"
bitrary despots and the most ambitious
demagogues, when they think of war, are
compelled to ask the question, WHETHER
IT WILL PAY, and if they find tn they
cannot extort land or money enough from
the enemy to pay the cost of the war, they
are compelled to avoid the contest, by
stern necessity, for their own wealthy
classes will not bear the extortion which
was imposed on them before trade and in
dustry had obtained so great degree of
control among the people.
1t is evident that a general war in
christendom cannot again occur, unless
the mercantile and manufacturing interests
are completely crushed under it, and kings