Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-08-23
shon1d thera be war2

Will there be an Eastern war, is question fTe=
quently asked by the press, and but seldom an
swered by any two Of them alike. .--,
Should there be such war is question, which
r. speaking as politician, we apprehend could be
much more easily answ cred by ChriStendom, if the
political results alone could be the criteria from
which to form the Judgment We have ever be-
slonged to the number Of those, who hold that war
IS sometimes inevitable and necessary to work off
the'impurities of nations. We have always thought
II al the English Revolution which resulted in the
deposition of Charles the first was one Of the
great epochs in the worlds history, which marked
the onward march and development of the great
principles CT freedom which we now manifest to
the gaze OF nations, and revolution second only
in time, first in importance, 10 the day Which wit
messed the assembled Burrons at Runnymede, anu
the extoriion from the tyranuical yet puSiilant-
nous John of th= great first charter of Englh
saxon liberty. We have ever thought Oliver Crom-
well, despite the opprobism and obloqnIty cast
upon him by every crown bought writer OF English
history, one of the great champions and apostles
of human liberty who gave to The great primo p"s
which he personifed, impetus which hurled
them onward even to our own age. The French
Revolution, with all its horrors unnecessary many
was yet fraught with good to the European world.
lis greatest actor, Slandered though he may have
been by venal and envious English press, as he
was Imprisoned and prosecuted by the English
minestry autocrat IN many things, even tyrannica
in some, was yet the type OF free principles. His
organizations and his policy, though he found it
then necessary to rule his tickle subjects with the
rod of power, were yet such as tended 10 the ex-
II r,F h..
capacty of man, to make him see himself as such
and above all to feel flat merit aud desert should
con tie the measure of position, rather than
tims m titles and imbecie nrislocracy. He was
the d of the aristocracy of Europe, tie friend
Of TN smocracy and the rewarder of merit, and
we rejoice at seeing partially accomplished, his
own prophesy at st. Helena, "that after ages
alone would appreciate his actions.''
With the light of popular revolutions heretofore
10 aid u.s. we will have but little difficulty in fore
seeing the manifest result OF collision Ct the
three great powers of Euiope, upon Turkish
battle ground already divided against itself! as are
the constituent elements Of that rotten empire =
Its policy, its religion, Tor rather that whichi calls
such,)g need the fltering and the frey ordeal OF
revolution, and the nations of Europe To mingle in
con1ictupon her plains, and from the conflict will
be elected a spark which will ignite the people
themselves, and ftomt nought but good can come.
Turkey may be tisnembered even, but who can
regret til What but good can come Of the con-
quest of such k,ngdom, with such policy, such
religons Who regrets the discovery of America
AMI necessary destruction of the Abo. igines? And
in what are the Turks their snperiors. As nation
shs stands without redeeming traitin her history.
Luxury, ! lust, and the, bloody persecution of
ehrisians compose the pages of her sluggish his
tory., scio, blood watered by the slaughter Of
81, 600 men, women and children in a single day,
istbe boosted page in her history of accomplish
s Palestine, with her mar.yred thousands of
christians, stillthe captive Judah of old, dear to
chrisendom as the birth place of its glories, down
trodden, oppressed and ground into the dust by
the Ottoman, constitutes another page Of that his
tory. And can Christendom regret the upheayal,
which mus; overthrow the reign of Mahomet, and
opeti the eyes Of his del,ided votaries7 We think
moi. and however much war is TO be deprecated,
however much its horrots are such, We can but
think that the coIlisonof Europeon the vineyards
az Turkey viii do much towards drawing back the
once famed city of the pious, yet ignorant Con-
siatiEe, 10 its former position among the kingdoms
of earth stari gee ss4s f-