The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-20

above The called peace would have been but hollow
truce But the first fired the Danube viii blow
all these treaties with ali their sipuations to the four
winds Of Heaven Nay II may be argued that mere de
claraton Of war sufficient in the eye Of international
Law TO abrogate all treaties pre- existing between the pow
ers thereby placed In the relation OF belgeents The
bond. therefore, which Russia has been silently at diff
been broken The destined prey will have burst from the
tolls Of the spoer 1t must be the Of Turkey and her
Ottoman and Russian empires to make stand against
resuscitaton OF every compact that attributes t. -;
such right of interference in the internal TIL.
With he g. s au y, ..ory irreconceable
;ons Wv ~.ereignp :" Porte within it, own domin-
with the independence the nation The brushing
away of those diplomatic sprnges which Russia has been
SO assdousy setting for Turkey would be cheapy purch
ased by war.
On the other hand the want of wisdom evnced b. the
Emperor of Russia in provoking with Turkey at
this momenand of the Aust rian government in abet
ting himlooks like infatuaton war be ween any of
the despotc Powers and any neighbor at this time can
be comp AIRED to rohng but of these
dues in which the CO mbatants exchanged shots over
barrel Of gum owder with the top stove in Europe
everywhere thickly srewed with combusble tier and
they who have most to lose thereby insist upon mourning
the risk Of setting FIRE to it, The ren Is Of rational pro
gressrom the most moderate of wings to the Democratic
fdofqumsy shudder at the prospect but there is not
red republican in Europe, not an emeser BY profession,
but will hail the commencement OF war with delight.
The fercest of tempests, however ust have an end
War must some time another be succeeded by peace,
which will find the despotic rulers weak and exhausted by
their exertions and the people strong in their immortal
youth The friends of rational freedom therefore
the coming storm with comparative tranquility but the
absolute rulers who have provoked tor connived at its
provocation-may rest assured that it begins to
In earnest Of their already t0terng thrones
will be laid PROSTATE by it before 1t blows over.
OPINION OF LORD PALMERsToNs ORGAN.
from the London Globe, Qord Islmerston's organ)
Oct. IL
Weexraet article from the rime which WILDE read
with interest," the present critical position Of the ques
ton which must be supposed 10 occupy this days Cabi
net council
When are told, the highly respectable authority
of our morning contemporary that the whole question
Of al
that is exclusive the fault Of party if it has not
been kepta verbal question from the outset The dispute
in kind there could at this moment have been sort
of danger that Europe should to blows about
bal difference because Russia did not stop at words
that the spirit and Of the opposite party have
been taxed to the extent they have been and that its
thence has given way under the infection If are asked
whether form of words can be matter for Europe to
go to about, rsply-No, certainly-any form Of
words tina, expresses honest meaning, would quite
satisfy us to stay at peace. But if dispute merely
how could precisely such dispute furnish for
Russian aggresson Horse foot and artillery facts
words would have created the danger which,
not be denied, now threatens the peace Of Europe.
those which, on the part Of Russia first pro iuced
alarm ane then evaporation in Turkey subsequent
verbal punctios One of the parties has proved that
words the counters it plays WITH not the real stake
of the game. When forms of words sought to be
portance which the pa1y which thus seeks to
enforce then cannot strip them of at will Since Turkey
withheld no treaty rights from Russia-nay recognized
all such rights in terms almost Of humlitythe point
sought to be extorted could be point comprised
those reatiesthe armed enforcement of it. therefore,
could not be matter of right point Of honor There
must have been something else in view than formal re-
cogniton Of rights which existed; and that something
else must have been deemed o. sufficient value to infringe
subsistng treaties in pursuit Of That something else
we are told is no longer in view now Eat present. says
the Times mo encroAchments threatened in that
case the of Europe secured since the statement
implies cessation OF the Entertainments already in
Of commission, and the persistence in which, in spite of
all European medationassuredy conducted in the most
making Spirits the provocaton which has goaded
Turkey into her present attitude