The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-06-06
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From the Charleston Standard.
The Era of Important Events Birds.
Eye Glance at the World.

Eye Glance at the World.
The dsguerreotype view presented in our
pages to-day of important events transpiring In
all sections of the habitable globe, will natu.
rally cause the intelligent reader to pause and
reflect upon the consequences of the vast, the
mighty connections at this moment agtating
nearly all nations and all people throughout
the universe In the Old World, from pole to
pole, from East to West we hear of little else
than revolution and bloodshed the masses
are infuriated, driven to madness, by internal
and external wars-wars in which the inhabi.
tants Of every nation feel deep and abiding
interest. We see an almost uninterrupted chain
of political volcanoes, famed by the flames of
discord and revolution, stretching from the
southernmost limits of Africa, and extending
from ocean to ocean, until lost amid the per.
petual SHOWS and ice of the torrid zone.
Let US hastily glance at some of the most
important features of this sanguinary state Of
affairs. In Africa we find that the English, af.
ter making conquest of large amount of ter.
ritory, originated under the plea that they
were desirous of suppressing the slave trade
and the attrocious barbarities practised by the
wild races against each other, are now with
drawing their naval aud military forces from
the country. The consequence probably will
be, that the blacks will soon unite iu opposi-
tion to the unprotected whites remaining in the
country and massacre them without mercy
Already do we see the whites organizing and
preparing for this anticipated emergency in the
adjacent neghborhood of the Cape of Good
Hope. England having withdrawn from the
control and support of the Orange river sove-
reignty, the whites have established q republic
and elected President, upon plan similar to
that of this Union. But, under the circum.
stances, it is feared that this fedged re.
public will be overp powered and obIiterated by
thd hordes of savages nhabting that district
of country. The same may be said OF the
greater portion of the English and French
settlements in all parts of Africa, the East In
dies, &C., the natives Of all which countries
entertain a deadly antipathy to the white race,
and most of them will hardly permit the pre-
sent year to pass without exhibiting symptoms
of hostility. Now that the attention and arms
of the European governments are engaged IN
desperate warfare at home, they will most like.
" seize the moment to avenge themselves for
the grievous wrongs that have been heaped
upon them, without ceasing from the time the
pale faces first made their appearance among
them. Should they succeed to any extent,
the cause of civilization will be thrown back
at least half century.
Turning to Asia, our attention is directed to
the revolution which has been progressing for
q great number of years in China, and which
promises to continue for many years more
So far as concerns the multitude of people en-
gagged in this wide. spread rebellion, it doubtless
eclipses any similar event of the kind that has
ever before happened since Adam was thrust
from the Garden of Eden. The people OF
that vast empire-though enervated by an
over.grown and half starving population, by
non.intercouse with other nations, by perpetu'
al intermarriages, by their peculiar religion aud
manner Of education, and by clImate-these
people, though physically unable to cope with
one. fourth their number of persons belonging
to any other country, are nevertheless fighting
among themselves with an mpetuosity, des-
peration and ferceness that shows they are
impelIed forward by frenzy whose flames are
kept alive by the fuel of fanaticism. The ma
jority of the Chinese, like the belligerents of
Turkey and Russia, are engaged in what they
consider holy religious war. Whatever may
be the ambitious designs Of the projectors and
leaders of the contending parties, the people
themselves are struggling in behalf of the
creed OF their fathers-they know nothing and
care nothing about territorial extension and
personal aggrandizemeut,-they alone think OF
the "faith of their ancestors" The war in
China is religious war of races-a war Of
the descendants of the ancient Chinese, the
subjects of Confucius the founder of their
empire and religion, upon the comparatively
modern Tartarc dynasty, which is understood
to have encroached upon their religious tenets.
No matter which party may eventually gain
the victory, it is doubtful whether the result
will prove of any immediate advantage to 9TH
er nations. The revolutionists however, are
understood to entertain more liberal views than
the imperialsts, so far as relates to intercourse
and traffic with other people, and have there.
fore enlisted the sympathy of the generality of
mankind.
Passing over the petty disturbances among
the Arabs, Moors, &C., we come to the great
theatre of war on the Eastern edge of Europe
bordering the confines of Western Asia, and
extending in greater or lesser degree to eve.
ry country in that quarter of the globe. All
are Immediately and intensely interested in the
result. 1t is struggle for nationality, for re-
9igion, for all that people and rulers hold dear
and sacred. The great Russian Car, holding,
iu the palm of his hand as it:were, the greatest
empire that ever existed, occupying nearly one,
sixth of the inhabited globe, finds his limits too
creumscribed and is desirous Of more territory
Though his dominions extend over surface
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