New-York daily tribune., 1854-03-15
THE WAR IN EUROPE.

The die seems TO be cast Ihe long fePose OF
Europe and the generous c1nseqaences sprrging there
fom will in Ell ,r liability, cease For several cen
tures Europe las not enjoyed Such Protracted peace
n from tie cenclasion OF the NaPoeonic wars TO this
tine. Tie wars Of Spain. 1'aly, Greece Turkey. PO-
land and Hungary carried on upon the outskirts
of Turopean civilization concentrated ia Germany,
France and England. Ia these countries progress in
the main was steadily ward. II liberal ideas failed
IN shane society 10 the extent Of the wishes Of ardent
1bjlsnthropsts there unquestiOnsby distinct sd
vance in arts and humanites slowly through the cen
turies But in regard TO tie war now bursting FORTH
according TO present appearances the end and object
seeu equally obscure affecting civilization ani pro
prer-progress even viewed subject as it has been to
temporary reaction But the interests Of the aboring
and productive classes will surely be sacrificed in such
contest: and low is the to be ended regards
balances OF political power
While economies have been applied to the arts OF
peace they have been wanting to the arts of de-
struction if railway carries civilians it equally
carry soldiers; if steamboats, bear business
men and pleasure seekers they can equally
transport regiments and their arms. So, too, she
sane ingenuity that has made single saws and plOws
do the work of many saws and plOws Of former
I
destruction to an equal degree in their terrible ma
chineTy The strategetcal movements OF large bodies
are also vastly facilitated over former operations in
that way. The infantry does not carry on its back
such heavy burdens as it once did, and moves with
rspdity unknown TO the of the early part OF THIS
century. II is besides armed with rides reachng
with deadly precision further than once the ordnance
could send it, sixty times heavier balls. The held
artillery instead of being chained TO the slow step OF
tie foot soldier, is mounted trains, ri7allDg the
cavalry in speed but not losing thereby steatiness aud
precision of aim. ConhagratiOn and death are
poured out with one shot in various ways and shapes
shells, bombs ncendiary rockets are now more de-
structyoy than ever a part and parcel of the game.
On the sea, too the means of ruin are immensely in
creased Vessels running against winds and waves, with
a repidity deemed chimericsl when Napoleon and the
Institute pronounced Fulton dreamer and charla-
tan; vessels loaded too with unin1ented during
tie revolutionary aud imperial eras; with Pai1han
guns huriIg projectiles of immense size to immense
distances single one of which is sufficient to destroy
the largest ofwar crush the rocks and walls OF
fortress All these refnements of q civilized epoch
will now serve and support the dire action Of savage
ike lates betwxt colossal nations That nation which
csn sacrifice most heaps OF human bodies aud inhuman
eoId Will carry of the CORY prize Of triumph
In the great battles of the first fifteen years OF our
century il was calculated that scarcely one single mus
ket shot in two hundred took effect Even the fire of
artillery was not more surely directed. Napoleon
mentions battles in which the French ordnance fred
one hundred thousand shots In the present state of
perfection in firearms of every kind, few shots in
comparison with those lost in former years may be in
is atlad tha raefa { hu
life which will thus occur on sea and on land.
Not less mournful, however, will be the influence of
prolonged and general war on the State of society
determination and poverty materially aud man moral
Iy will be brought back to rival the ercest of brute
creation and the sparks Of individuality and dignity
which begin to warm the bOsoms Of the masses viii be
extngushod All lofty aspirations Will be suspended
for alway mpoyerish the popular mind aud sink
it into abect ignorance aud servy, and their results
are to create the viest heroworship in which stold
generations wallOw dead to the calls Of eleyating ge
MUS Whole nations thus become the despised tools
Of individual pride and ambition, styled captain sOv-
ereign-not that such character is great butthat my
riads Of men small Wars, in fact alone rear des-
pots Without them, all men would be free Neither
castes in Asia, serfs in Europe native slaves
in Africa, and their derivatives in America, could eX
ist without wars. When huge Murder bares her arm
and strikes down the strong of nation the others,
and chiefly the women, become slaves. The American
savage with whom war is the rule and peace the ex-
cepton treats q slave; and the howl for
nexation and war in the United States comes from
among the masters ofslaves.
In the big war upon which Europe now verges,
zee havoc and tears and desOatiOn but its promises
rfp nd fralia of
ty, where are they