Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-05-24
Shall We have a War.

functiouary, is a matter that will lead to diff
Guilty beyond a doubt, and it now remains TO be
seen whether Mr.. Pierce and his old tosy
Cabinet will sustain their position before the
people. True it may be but a diplomats
war, hut even in that, there are victors and
vanqrished.
The ~internedling OF the British government
with our Central American affairs, show that
that government is determined on some bold
stroke to regain the position from which she
has fallen as the first nation OF the earth.
This is TO logger speculative, but positive
1t is evident to all clear thinking minds, that
the once vaanted mistress Of the seas has lost
the proud title she wore. The Crimean war
has fully demonstrated that England IS not The
nation the world-and even herseit-supposed
her to be. tTance, inothe same war, has de-
monstrated to the satisfaction Of tue worlu
that she is Ens'ant's superior In military
art and proves, and the on British Lion IN
stead o; debating 70 the powers of ErroHr,
and f%ancying Itself to hold the balance Of
power,' has fallen from its high estate, and
sunk in estimation in the eyes Of the Euro
pean World.
She trusts to the latterins professions and
fullsome Ia!dation> of friendship from Louis
Napoleon, but she relies upon a broken reed.
fcr the deadly iend If centuries between the
Ga,l and Saxon can never be removed. des-
pite the apparent 200! will Of the Emperor.
This man though much abused and VI iiiaI at
the outset Of his career as Emperor Of the
French, has shown to the world by his energy
and genius, that he is unQnestionably the
creates: man in Europe Of the present day.
and he is PLAYING 4 deep and desperate game
that will make him almost equal. if not
quite, to the first Napoleon. He has drawn
out the strength and skill Of England in the
Crimean war, AMI he now possesses al! the
Information necessary for him to know OF
Ensland's power and greatness. He has
seen her power in force the feelings of the
English people to their rulers; the wide DIFF
terence in the feeling between the .iriatocrat
and the p!ebians, and the chances OF a contest
are as closely and cuolIy calculated as any
object of his ever was before beng put intu
execution. He sees taa. England is trem-
bling upon a pinnacle from which she must
soon fall, and he will take advantage of it.
As in the course of men lives. they grow
up from inlanry to old age. with the different
phases Of position that belong to all grades
OF society. with and without distinction, and
die and give way to others. so is it
with the lives and progress Of Nations. They
all have their day and then die of: England
has had her day and must in the course the
Great Ruler has marked out for all things
upon earti,--individua1iy or collectively
pass away and give place to Others in turn.
as other> have given way TO her and another.
in the same career Of worldly ambition, looks
over her towering but lettering form, and
watches the suspicious moment to tread in
footsteps. and to exult over a fallen enc
my. Napoleon III is 10 friend to England.
will never be. He still looks forward
to the day when he can fulfil the oft cher
ished desire of the first Napoleon. of carry
ing war into that very city where he was
once un his poverty sworn in as a special
Constable to preserve the peS.f, and never
will remain quietly upon the French thron"
until he has accomplished that obj. ct: or ruined
in the attempt Coming events cast
their shadows before them, and these are full
serious and significant importance.
In the background of Europe, a power IS
that will, eventually, overshatow ali
others, and must ia that same destiny that
out national and individual prosperity.
all others, and become that which
las been held by so many successiveiy-the
of Europe. Although as but a ma
ion of yesterday, she has retired from a con-
with the two great powers Of ~t.urcre,
almost unframed, full of honor. and undis-
Her resources not yet fully devel-
,ped. can scarcely be estimated her extent
If territory; her power and influence over
Ter subjects; the skill of her officers, and
he courage and ~tenacity CT her fighting men,
,how forth in tones more !orcible than lam
,uage, that she is yet to he feared. Napoleon
was Iightthon2h no: correct in date Europe
viii be Republican or Cossack." and Cos
sack she will be, before the glorious light of
Republicanism can burn with such a fierce
and intense blaze as to consume the last
weeks Of European ieudaiiSm. That time
will come though it may not ie in the pres
ent generation. But we havsNandered from
our subject.
Shall We have a war with England, A
difficulty is brewing, and a war NAV, and to-
our t~hlnklng-verv probabIe-is IN ,he ve,oe