Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-05-03
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1856.
PEACE, PEACE.

The latest news announce the satisfactory
termination OF the Paris Conference.-The for
mality OF proclamation only being wanted TO
the complete re-es,ablishment of Peace. Dame
Rumor, very much latigued, with her recent
efforts at making noise in the world--and
very red in the face, wthal-si,s back painting
and exhausted in the lap Of patient History
and with languid smile at the frothy corners
OF her hundred mouths, murmurs dreamly of
Peace e-Pcace-or relapses into faint quota
,ions of co;ton-and incoherent whispers Of
Royal Marriages. Every thing all over the
world, except Kansas and Gushing wears
placid look Swec, Peace and gentle Spring
have come together hand in hand singing
duct of odor-laden melodis, and charming down
with their spell the rage Of winter, and the
fierce passions of men-in Divine Harmony
of sublime self-abncgaion. A Rainbow spans
the Tuleries and from the disparted clouds and
the opening blue and on the soft south winds
a VOICE comes, melting down the sunshine into
the hearts of men, speaking Iut one word--the
word that came with Christ, Peace, and good
will towaid Mrn-an then, just as the calm
came and the buds were bur: ting on the Champs
a Elgsces, and the nations stood apart with
Lalf-avcrted looks, waiting for the signal of
complete rcconcilia,ion-a Babe was Torn for
Z sign TO thrm-an omen to Europe and Joke
to Punch-'an innocent wee thing" to be sure
"a mere trilc to lacetious journalists. 'Na-
theless,'' that Blessed Baby--born to the En-.
pirc of Napoleon-destined perhaps to wear the
crown of Clovis and Charemagne, is not mere
ly one more pulling brat to be suckled and
wiped and spanked and sent TO school. A throne
is his cradle-his nursery is an empire-he
is chrstened in blood, and the world is his spon-
sor. The "rat,le" of musketry will amuse his
crowns are his toys, and the map Of Europe
his play ground. Nations are superstitious-
and such child swaddled in such splendid
destiny, will seem born to inaugurate the epoch
OF concord and to embody 1.-THE oracle's re-
sponsc to Europe assembled at the Tuilleries--
sign and prophecy for the future. The spirit
of Peace is the guardian angel Of his des-
tiny and they will see in this gift to the French
people at this time, not coincidence merely,
but the pledge of Providence-God's ratification
of the compact of peace in Europe. The
great nations want repose-and they have
earned it. France has satisfied her national
vanity of glory and the egotism of dynastic
ambition. England has satisfied her conscience
and secured her material interests. Russia has
satisfied herself that she "can't come in" that
the time has not come for Vandalizing Europe.
The fall of kars has assuaged the humiliation
Of defeat, and she wishes TO regain by finesse
wha, she has lost by arrogance and lust Of con-
quest. Even the querulous and domineering
pride of that ferocious parrenu of nations
Young America--has caught the bland iniec-
ton of the general pacification, and the conta-
gious magnanimity and forbearance Of the
Great European powers subdue even the cap
tious petuance Of Gushing, and the peevsh r.
ritability of Pierce. There is something in
ahe very grandeur Of a generous deed. like the
recent act Of Palmerston, in sending to search
for the lost Pacific. which awes down even the
chronic spite and ungenerous malgni,y of such
Cabinet as ours.