Grass Valley telegraph., 1856-05-13

.sGRrM VIsAGED WAR" viii ich, for the last
two years, has brooded with such dismal pres
ence over the fairest portions of the European
continent. has now q smoothed his wrinkled
'front.'" and the glad shout of Peace is already
heard il The dim distance The smoke of
battle has been rolled aside, and soon green
fields will wave and lowing kline will tbrone
where eTst vas seen nothing but trOwning
battleraeuts and rrmed men. This consum-
nation is most 5evoutly to- be wished. The
time has gene by when civilized nations may
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aggravated aud long continued aggression.
War, Roru being ap hoaored and princely
pastime has come to he considered demo
MAC exhibition of human passions. Some
writer has thus forcibiy painted it iG its true
light 80 a hundred thousand mad animals
whose heads are covered with hats, advance
to kill or be killed by like number of their
fellow mortals covered with turbans. By
this strange procedure, they want to know
whether q tract of land. to which none of
them has any claim, shall belong to certain
man whom they call Sultan. or to another
whom they call Gear, neither of whom ever
saw or ever will see the spot so furiously
contended for, and very few of the creatures
who mutually cut each others throats.-
From time immemorial this has been the way
of mankind all over the world. What an ex-
cess of madness is this !-and how deservedly
might the Supreme Being crush to atoms this
earthly ball, the bloody nest of such ridicu-
lous murderers !"
A war of aggression or aggrandisetrent be
tween civilized nations can not and will not
be suffered by neighboring peoples. So inti-
mate has become the Intercourse between ma
tions that every department Of industry, not
only among beligerents, but also among neu
trails is more or less affected by shock of
arms anywhere upon civilized territory.
The recent war in Europe has not been
war of principle. 1t was the fear that it
would become such which, more than any
thing else, has fually driven the belligerents
to terms. The masses began to be affected
by the horrors of war. Increased taxation
and general depression in business had began
to stare the people in the face. and a univ err
sal cry went up from the masses every where
for Peace-peace on the best terms upon
which it could be procured. Had the rulers
of Europe failed to listen to that cry, anoth-
er shout would have gone up such as wonld
have shaken the very thrones upon which
they sat-it would have been shout for
Freedom! That cry is yet to be heard. 1t
may be soon, it may be late. Wisdom and
discretion on the part of rulers may avert
much of its accompanying terrors but the
time must come when the masses Of Europe
will step forth from their thraldom Of ages,
and assert their dignity as men. and their
equality of rights and priviledges. The
heaven horn sentiment that call men are
created free and equal " must eventually blot
out the divine right of Kings" and every
other oppression that grows out of a supposed
natural inequality of man. 1t had been suppo-
Sed by mahy. that that time was already near
at hand, aud that the recent commissions ei
Europe were but the beginning of the end
which should eventuate in the establishment
of Republicanism throughout Europe.
There is yet however, more preparatory
labor to be expended. Education and moral
elevation have nor yet done their appointed
work. A Kossuth and Mazzini, with their
soul stirring eloquence, may plant the germ
of liberty. but there is no one yet to water
and the soil is lot yet generous enough tc
warm iuto life and give increase to the holy
principle which they have scattered broad
cast over the land. It will bide its time
however, and the day Of increase and full
fraition will surely come.
GEORGIA ANB HER RATLRoADs.-Georgia il
nearly chequered by railroads, and yet Sht
stands before the world with debt of only
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