Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-07-09
The Cauldron of Europe.
The London Leader, in a review of iii

The London Leader, in review of tllt
present condition Europe, says:
The rulers of Europe appear more ant
more 10 treat the world as though there
were no security in it. They are returning
to the savage tenure of property-actua
grasp. The negro who carries about with
him his blanket, his tin kettle, and his tor
boots, believing a moments re pose in free
dom on the deck for these valued articles
to be total loss is the prototype Of the En-
peror holding every foot of his ground by a
standing army Of soldiers, ofpolice spies: anc
priests. Absolutists, ignoring the principle
OF insurance, regard "chance," Or the natura
course of events under Providence, as wholly
adverse to themselves, and malignant; and
as If to verify that diabolical doctrine, the
world is browning long-continued peace
with tumult and ferment in every quarter
China is admitted to the freemasonry Of
nations by virtue Of her rebellion. and the
uncertainty of all she is and has Her dynas.
ty may by this time be with the fugitive
monarchs of the world, promoted 10 equality
with that of France-thosc of France, we
should say. Her rebe! chief may be her
Emperor, and the victory of some great
''principle" may by this time have suspended
her commerce and ravaged her fields with
civil war;
In India. the borders OF English authority
are known BY the smoke of war; and i'll Bur-
NAH, true 10 the type of native India, the
barbara race is expending recklessIy its
strength in resistance, the cost of which
recalls the economist of the House of Com
mons to the immortality Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
by war.
Between India and China, in the Indian
seas, Rajah Brooke exemplifes English rule
by strange alliances; and British philan-
throPy weeps over the pirates that are VIC
limized in trying to victimize him.
At the Cape of Good Hope, Gen. Cathcart
has Just concluded peace by establishing
some ofthe most warlike tribes OIL territory
too small to hold them-beautiful provisions
for securing the fruit of war out of the seed
of peace.
1t is out of Caffraria that our ally, Spain,
is detected in snatchng supply of those
negroes for a trade which she has under
taken to suppress, and about which she has
so recently insulted the officers Of that very
British fleet upon which she counts to pro-
tect her against the United States.
In the North of Africa, the Pasha of Egypt
is calculating chances of rebellion against
his suzeraln of Turkey, and resting his hopes
IN the break up of the empire to which he
belongs.
In Constantinople. diplomatists are en-
deavoring to conceal the quarrel amongst
themselves, lest one should get the start Of
the others, and seize the larger share in
partitioning Turkey.
Turkeys near neighbor, and sharpest per-
secutor. Austria. is, in all parts of her
dominions, keeping down rebellion by a
tyranny which renders submission impossi-
the ally of England, who
would rather break with liberty, with truth,
with her own traditions. than with the ally
OF 1915! Russia continues to menace Europe
with universal suhlugatio,l, Europe retortng
in the hope of Russian disruption. Germany
imprisons Gervinus because he interprets
the history of modern times as indicating the
victory of the great masses of the people.
Germany has aspired to Eunion,' and her
kings have continued for the five ensuing
years to move about consulting each other
how they may keep the people apart; for
royalty in Europe at the present moment
rests its hopes on the influences of anarchy
and disunion.
On the seven hills of Italy, supported by
foreign contributions, sits that pauper-poten-
tate, the Pontiff, who assists the Emperors
in sowing civil anarchy by spiritual chicane.
His last act is TO forbid the reading of FUncle
Tom" perhaps, because it contains the word
s'liberty." Perhaps the worst blow to slavery
is the fact that it has been taken under the
protection Of the Pope, and that the abo-
ll,ionist novel has been put in the index
Erpurgatorious. -..
France: groaning under an upstart des-
pot, who has Just re-established the gull
lotine by which his predecessors suffered, is
kept quiet for the moment by an extrava.
giant expenditure that must ruin Govern
ment and State; and the country is seething
everywhere with systematic official corrup-
ton and secret conspiracy.
PREcocITY OF THIS Go-AHEAD AGE.-We
never read accounts Of extreme advance in life,
without thinking of the remarkable progress