Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-12
Gen. Wedell,s Mission.
The correspondent of the New York
Tribune has the following

The correspondent of the New York
Tribune has the following:
Gen. Wedell was not sent to Paris to enter
into an alliance Of any kind with the French
Government, nor is it the intention of Prussia
to enter into an alliance, if she can avoid it.
The object of the mission was, first, to show
the impossibility which existed for Prussia TO
come out of position of strict neutrality
and, secondly, TO endeavor 10 find basis for
peace negotiations between the contending
parties, into which she could enter as a party.
In regard to the first proposition, Gen.
Wedell urged that, no matter whether the
war were long or short, if Prussia should
declare in favor of the Allies, she had every
thing to lose and nothing to gain that Prus-
STA was now prosperous in her neutrality her
people, which are the most intelligent IN
Europe, comprehend perfectly their true
position, and appreciate and applaud the Ell
forts of their Government in sustaining that
position; that in case war were declared against
Russia, the country, with her frontier exposed
and no allied force to aid her. would be de-
wasted in a short time by the Russian legiOns,
her army of 100000 valuable, intelligent
citizen-soldiers destroyed, the resources of the
country paralyzed and at the end of the war
no return made for it, The General assures
the French Cabinet that if the Allies had, in
the commencement, marched an army OF
three or four hundred thousand men to the
German frontier, and then said to the German
States, "ChOose between us ~ these States
would have at once chosen the Allies for
friends, because then they would have had
aid to protect them against Russia; they
would have had powerful army to fall back
on in case of need the war would have been
of comparatively short duration, and the
German States would have come out of the
contest without material damage.
As it is, however the Allies have exhausted
all their powers, and employed all their forces
at an inyulnerable point of the Russian terri
tory, and at point far removed from the
German States, and where the latter can re-
ceive no support whatever i'll case of hostili-
ties with Russia One has only to look at the
geographical position of Prussia and her ex-
posture TO Russian invasion, in order to under
stand that under existing circumstances il
would be moral impossibility for her to ally
| herself with the Western Powers. Her people
see and know with certainty which does moi
admit of argument, that she will have every
thing to lose and nothing to gain by deser-
ton of the policy which has thus far directed
her councils that her prosperity, perhaps he
very life, depends upon her clinging to thai
policy. 1t is thus that the Government o
Prussia, until within eighteen months unpop
ular with its people, has now become highly
popular, and receives the sympathy and sup
port of the whole country.
What do the Allies propose to give Prussia
as compensation for her sacrifice of the i'm
mense national prosperity which she is now
enjoying? Positively nothing, except tho
chance that she may aid in securing the in
dependence of Power which she is only re
motely interested, and the certainty that sht
will secure her own immediate destruction
instead of destruction in the future. Will
the powerlessness Of the Allies to infic
serious injury upon Russia, as exhibited in the
Baltic and the Crimean campaigns, Prussii
feels that, to enter into an alliance with those
Powers would be foolish unnecessary anC
gratuitous signing of her own death-warant
and she is determined to resist any such ALI
ance to the last. These are the views which
Gen. Wedell is urging in defense of Prussia
conduct in maintaining her neutrality.