Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-07-02
The Cauldron of Europe.

The London Leader, in review of the pre-
sent condition Of Europe, says:
The rulers of Europe appear more and more
to treat the world as though there were no Sc
curity in it. They are returning to the savage
tenure Of property-actual grasp. The negro
who carries about with him his blanket, his tr
kettle, and his top boots, believing moments
repose in freedom on the deck for these valued
articles to be total loss, is the prototype of the
Emperor holding every foot Of his ground by a
standing army of soldiers. of police spies, and
priests. Absolutists ignoring the principles OF
insurance, regard "chance," or the natural
course Of events under Providence, as wholly
adverse to themselves, and malignant; and as if
to verify that diabolical doctrine, the world is
crowning ong-continued peace with tumul. and
terment in every quarter.
China is admitted to the freemasonry of ma
tions by virtue of her rebellion, and the uncer-
tainty of all she is and has. Her dynasty may
by this time be with the fugitive monarchs of
the world, promoted to equality with that of
France-th0se Of France, we should say Her
rebel chief may be her Emperor and the victory
OF some great 'principle" may by this time
have suspended her commerce and rayaged her
fields with civil war.
In India, the borders of English authority
are known by the smoke Of war; and in Bur
NAH, true to the type of native India, the bar
barre race is expending rccklessy i strength
in resistance, the cost of which recalls the
economist of the House of Commons to the i'm
mortality of aggrandizement by war.
Between India and China, in the Indian seas,
Rajah Brooke exempIifies English rule by
strange alliances; and British philanthropy
weeps over tie pirates that are victimized in
trying to vjctmize him.
At the Cape Of Good Hope, Gen. Cathcart
has just concluded peace by establishing some
of the most warlike tribes on a territory too
small to hold them-beautful 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 snatching supply of those negroes
for a trade which she has undertaken to sup
press, and about which she has SO recently in
suited the officers Of that very British feet upon
which she counts to protect her against the
United States.
In the North of Africa, the Pasha of Egypt
is calculating chances of rebellion against his
suzeran of Turkey, and resting his hopes in
the break up Of the empire to which he belongs
In Constantinople, diplomatistsare endeayor-
ing 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 negl,bor, and sharpest perse-
cutor, Austria, is, in all paris of her domnions,
keeping down rebellion by tyranny which rem
ders submission impossible Austria, the ally
of England, who would rather break with lib
erty, with truth, with her own traditions, than
with the ally of 1915! Russia continues to
menace Europe with universal subjugation,
Europe retorting in the hope of Russian dis
ruption. 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 "union,'
and her kings have continued for the five ensu-
ing years to move about consulting each other
how they may keep the people apart; for royal.
ty in Europe at the present moment rests its
hopes on the influences of anarchy and disuni-
on.
On the seven hills of Italy, support ed by for
eign contributions, sits that pauper- -potentate,
he Pontiff, who assists the Emperorsi in sowing
'ivil anarchy by spiritual chicane. His last
lct is to forbid the reading of "Uncle Tom,"
perhaps, because it contains the word ''liber:y."
Perhaps the worst blowto slavery is the fact
hat it has been taken under the protection of
he Pope, and that the aboltionist novel has |
'een put in the Lnder Erpurgatorious.
France, groaning under an upstart despot,
Who has just re-established the guillotine by
which his predecessors suffered, is kept quiet
or the moment by an extrayagant expenditure
hat must ruin Government and State; and the
ountry is seething everywhere with systematic
fficial corruption and secret conspiracy.