Smyrna times., 1855-10-10
Peace VS.. Poverty.


f While all Europe is represented as being il
e the most unfortunate condition-whie with tn,
, exceptions caused by the demands from Ameri
ca business is slack, and while all its capita
cItlts are represented as being sunk in mos
uhenVla0le dulness we see in every part of oul
country tne most gratifying instances of pros
Perity. Our agricultural population, however
10 oiest Dy industry with large crops for which
owing TO the quarres of our "ioreign relations. -
they will unavoidably obtain fair prices onr
mechanics are we'll employed, business of all
sorts is looking up, our cities are brilliant with
!he evidence OF wealth, and though the burn
ing arrows OF the pestilence have fallen in all
tnelr terror on certain districts, their baleful
giare has served like beacon to attract from
alar the kIndest aid and relief We have in a
"ord' prosperity at home and peace abroad.
Let us Tor moment imagine that some of
our very enthusiastic friends abroad had snc.
ceeded IN drowing US into the vortex ofendless
CONFUSION and strife which is now BECOMING so
'erriDiy overwhelming, and which every steam
eI makes evident Is becoming a general imbro-
gnu wIlhout reason or a prime pe-where
! SHOULD we have been, and what should we have
gained We are told that in Europe the croDs
nave fallen something short-had it not been
ior the additional amount of labor which has
Deen expended, the same might have been said
OF our own. But where would the extra labor
nave come from if a military spirit had inspired
our people just at the time when they were
more no6ly inspired by love of sowing. hoe
my ana narrowing! Where would the genial
prosperity and the gay social aspect of our ci-
ties nave been If half the families in them were
thinKlng by night and by day of some one aware
That death i'll America causes a moro roaI
sunerlng than III any other country in the world
the reason being that in no country are peo-
PIE so generally acquainted. 1t would be i'm
possible Dy any accident to kill at random in
EUROPE twenty or thirty people, whose deaths
"ouiu cause any proportion Of the suffering re-
cehtiy witnessed among us owing to the rail
road casualty. What would be then the state
OF affairs, If Philadelphia, or any other Ameri-
can city, We're as London is nova grand
nome OF mournlng-where there is scarcely
iaihliy which has not since the beginning of the
war lost a relative!
II VIII be difficult matter, we trust, to per-
Nudue America that she has thus far acted in a
"eakly' cOwardly, or lrresOlute manner, in not
intervening IN foreign war which originated
IN an extremely trivial matter, and which ALI. |
ed nations maintain in order to subdue nation
winch, although terrible to them. has not cans, |
cd and never need cause any apprehension to
US we have-and the more thorougblv this
lS understood the better-great cause and equal
cause 10 dread the undue growth of anv nation. |
just as one tlsh has excellent reason for dread.
ing larger. When France, England, Russia. |
VI any other nation, gets the "stronq hand"
sue VIII use 1t, be her principles what thew |
may. '''ey
But 1t may be asked, " Is there. then. no
9ucn tnlng as national honesty or Justice !''-
Cuuoubtedly there is, and peace is more condu.
GIVE TO Its development than anv other cause
uhless nations become puiftd up by traditionary
Prloe' England and France have precip;tated
a war; fearing lest Russia might possibly OBJ
tam Preponderance of power in the East
llau they lett her alone, there would have been
a rapid progress in oriental civilization. and
the Russians, who are themselves RAPIDLY ad
Vanclng race, must have separated from the
central autocratlc stem as they progressed in n
knowledge OF freedom. As it is, thew have
been driven back into powerful Capitalization.
tne race which was tending by its mere weipht
OF civilization to break into frapments has
Oeen condensed and made by war not only more
compact but more barbarous. Without th4
refined genius of Rome, no race can ever ar
lulre Roman supremacy, and this genius Rus
'la had not-certaiEly not for war. But she is
lulck to learn, and if she ever turns success
ully as an assallant against the friends of con-
'tltutlona liberty, it will be because the latter
nave taught her how to fight and cast her back
INTO that combative state from winch sbe u,os
'apldly emerging. Meanwhile, let anv studv
he general aspect of affairs abroad, and the
agreeable prospects they present and then de-
;lde If, despite the sneers of Brother Jonathan
)tiskl, we have not chosen the better mart = |
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