Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-11
THE IMPENDING WAR IN EUROPE.
FOR rHR NATIONAL 1srELL1oKxcER.

Ill., FOR rHR NATIONAL NrELLIGEEcER ~.
Messrs. GALES SEAros: care we to have warp
This question has been few days since, echoed and
echoed from all Sides but now longer query it is
fearful reality and the most extended scale ever
presented to anxious humanity. In the present case
Europe would have been army sleeping its
post and ready the tap of the drum to rise and fly
arms rushing action reckless Of consequences In
the United States of North America the consoling
and salutary precepts those securing the nation from
entangling alliances long they are wisely OBJ
served In Europe, with the history Of the world open
before them France and Great Britain have allianced
against Russia and commenced Have they provi-
ded in what mode they to make joint separate
peace Have they decided in the usually varied opera
tons and fortunes Of war; carried their joint forces
of victory, which begerent is to have the glory
or of defeat which is to bear the blame have
they opened vast theatre Of and calculated
uniform success? Are they to have ealouses dv
ded counses? The hstorySof the world teaches tina,
peace and war alternate, and REPRODUCE each other
with regularity and certainty of sequence which
very few persons suspect and yet when historical
evidence is consulted and duly weighed events are
found to rise from and depend innate principles
enduring as human nature ITSELF and invariably have
and eyentuate in effect when and where
is ready for action Though we not from the nature
of things able to definite lines Of separation in
gard age, mankind is divided into three classes by
respective ages First youth early age infancy
second maturity; third senility AS peace and war
the main objects of inquiry, we in the case
hand only concerned with males We with
definite date in order to be- in deductions, def
mite as in power. We assume date and set out
with the current year 1854 which is peculiarly appro-
prate being the date of very remarkable declara
ton Of war; after rather protracted age of peace and
consequently the existing male youth in far the greatest
number know little of Such is the barbarous ma
ture Of that appears congenial to the human
heart Of all human merit that appertaning to mill
ry confers individuals the and extended
reward.
Now to proceed to the application of theory. When
peaces concluded ending long war, the rising youth
advance usually some years EDWARDS and many reach
manhood during the pause 1t is in the stiffness Of this
calm that the male youth receiving their edncaiOn
many Of them at military schools and intact after
successful war, the whole nation to whom they may
respectively belong is made military, and all schools
are made emphatically military schools In such a
condition was the United States Of North America
after the close of the last war with Great Britain,
and since the close Of which male youth have risen
whom would fall the duties dangers horrors and
auctions Of who perform in far the greater part
the abors and duties and who indulge justly the hopes
of life The mature class here alluded to is pressed for
ward by the s rising and eager third that Of youth
whilst both daily becoming and forgetful
and in small degree dsdanful of the consequences
| actual war.
Let any person duly reflect on the premises herein,
roughly they may be- laid down, and wonder will
in that mind why long peace is amongst those Injuries
out of the reach of rational hope. The victories and
triumphs Of the fruitful parents Of another
Reader look the past half century in the mirror
of history and you will foreshadowed the coming
FEB. %, 1854. WILLIAM DARBY.