Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-06-22
signe.


Since the dethronement of NAporEor BoSAe
PARTE and the restoration of the Bourbons to
France, there have been but few wars in Ea-
rope. The portentous quiet of more than quar-
ter of a century was temporarily broken by the.
revolution of 1s4s Popular privileges gained
the ascendency; but twas ftful fever. Perjury
and blood marked the footsteps of returning Pow-
Ter. Constitutions granted, as IT was alleged IN
tsrrorem, were flung to the winds. Five years cF
reaction have rolled away, distinguished By bsr-
barites in the shape Of confscation, exile and
death. The popular party has lostits leaders,
They wander in bordering countries, ready to;
catch each note of alarm, m,--their eye fixed upon
the palaces wherein willy ministers meet around
crowned head, to keep that bauble in its place.
The least agitation is felt throughout the whole of
Europe. The indignant fr own of an ambassador
at Constantinople, is expressed throughout Eu.t
rope, and the exchange at London and the
Bourse at Paris felt it as it were shock.
| This state of things cannot continue. A war
between, Russia and France, or Turkey and Rus
sia: or Austria and Switzerland, would be the
signal for popular uprising THERE'S now q
| likelihood of such contests. 5.4t.
| l. Vi iuO idot IhiLy yOdios Oip4OuoCJt WulCu -
ever endeavoring to aggrandize by nice entangle-
ments, has been reaching out her hundred arms
and moving with steady ain toward the accom-
| plishment ofdarling schemes. Prussia has been
hankering after Neufchatel; Austria dislkes,
| the republican frontier of Switzerland; France
would love to have Belgium on her
South cannot well get along without chasing the
Turkish power from the shores of the Adriatic
and unnexing servia. England must extend her
dominions in the East The London Times lut-
ters to think, even that the United States have
stronger force near China, just now in the rebell-
ious cris' 5, than En- gland. Russa--oh! how does
she not long for the worlds capital upon the Bos-
phorus, for which she would barter millions of
acres and sacrifice mllions of Cossacks
Nations like men, are selfish. When selfish
ness is her own Judge and her own advocate
when by thela of nations, euch State is the in
dependent arbiter of her own destiny, and is TO b.
regulated in her relations only by the restraints of
tho worlds conscience; the same old result ap-
pears, which always appears whero sel6shness 10
strong and conscience weak. t
Russia thought to take Turkey by hurried
and graceful dash ofthe pen diplomatic. But the
French navy was playing over the waters of Sal
atns; and the rock ribbed harbor of Malta con-
tanned England's wooden bulwarks So, before
the Turk was entirely at the Cars mercy, Eng
land and France were in harmony to resist
Can Russia Withstand the temptation any lon
ger! Will she risk a general wara Will Aus
tria dare to open up the cnrrent of bloodi Ifso,
Vienna may revel in bloody carnival, in which
the people may riot as in lSi3 France my
become aroused, as to throw from her the NA.
PoLEoNs or, atleast, compel them to yindicate
popular sovereignty, throughout Europe.
Whatever may be done--the "Signs'' of Eu-
rope, betoken some extraordinary movement.
God grant the agitation may eveptuate in the
happ;nsss and freedom of the millions Ohio
Statesman.