The daily union., 1856-01-20
PREMONIToRY SYMPTOMS.


PREMoNiToRY SYMPTOMS.
The conception and birth Of She AngloFrench alliance ia
of those mysteries which only developed the
of postery. Who its parent, who its accoucher,
will probably long remain secret as, according to all
appearances its ultimate consequences will confer great
honor the author Of that stupendous scheme for egua
ting the future destines of the Old and New Worlds We
must therefore, be content to look and wonder at the
sudden and apparently miraculous change in the policy Of
two great nations whose rivalry prudices and an,pa-
thies had for ages placed them in antagonstca position
which kept them in state of almost ceaseless hostility
and plunged Europe in perpetual
Had this cessation of hereditary rivalry been the har-
bnge of peace il might have been hailed by surrounding
naous the olive branch indicating that the waters of
dscord had subsidized and that the lion and the lamb
about together side by side in all future time. 1t
would doubtless be refreshing spectacle see great
nations which had been shedding each others blood,
and engaged in death-struggle for SO many genera
tions laying down their arms, embracing, and VOW
ing eternal friendship But, unhappy, this entente
dale though the herald Of peace and good will be-
tween the parties to the compact was the signal for
and devastation in other parts of the world 1t was
but shifting the scene; and the two nations shook hands
only that they might be at leisure to knock down third
They shut the temple of Janus at home TO throw it wide
open abroad and the bridal Of Great Britain and France
celebrated the Crmea by the sacrifice of hundreds
of thousands of victims So far from this alliance being
the precursor of universal peace it threatens universal
1t is based the assumption Of right TO interfere with
the progress of every nation which, in the present the
future may be object Of jealousy apprehension and
arrogany little less than the great attributes OF
overrung Providence II appeals TO the sword the
great srbter and according to its declarations makes
war only make peace afterwards Instead of wooing
the surrounding nations TO friendly association with
each other 1t is melting them TO war; and IL it attans its
objects win convert all Europe into field of blood
II has sought and is still seeking by its negotiations
its wheedngs and its menaces TO draw Austria Prussia
Spain Sweden, Denmark-ell western Europe in fact-to
contribute its quota the great Of blood and has
bribed the King Of Sardinia by douceur of million
sterling in the disguise of loan sell 25 900 of bis sub
jecs be butchered in The field perish by pestence
or cold in the bitter winter of the Crimea.
Surely 1t is be wondered that neither the peo-
pie of the United States even those Of any portion
of Europe have enlisted their sympahies in behalf
Of an alliance which thus aboug involve the Chris
tian world 10 and bloodshed They may attempt to
impose them by calling 1t of Christianity civil
izaHon and liberty but they know it is neither one nor
the other They know it is war of kings, and not of
the people--a war of ambition, of principle; aud
that so far as respects the inhabitants Of western Europe
its termination be what may will only load them with
additional burdens, and riyet their chains. - .a
Such being the case every indication that this cminous
alliance is gradually vcrgng to dissolution will be hailed
with welcome the harbnger Of peace That such ndi-
cations are becoming daily apparent must be obvious
Ill ~ oIa.n pr;tf
former Of which pesu ecto the sentiments Of tho
people Of England and the latter known to be the organs
Of the imperial viii Though still vaunting Of having laid
the great northern his back II quite evident
they begin to see very clearly that il will require new
loans new conscrptons and still vigorous efforts TO
keep him there The Emperor Of France who is no com
monpace politician without doubt sees that Il the war
continued in the Crmea Il must be by the soldiers Of
France and not Of England which incapable Of furnish
ing them the cooperation Of the allied fleets has
hitherto produced nothing decisive In the past and prom
ises lte in the future The blockade Of Russia Il mere
brayado and amounts little or nothing the trade
and resources of that empire In great
within herself
That the Emperor Of France should be inclined to
peace with the Gar Is think therefore, very probable
and this probability strengthened by various other cir
cumstnncea The tone OF the Iars papers u becoming
more modera,ehough must do them the justice say
they up to the savage grows Of the Brit
ish press in speaking Of the late Emperor Nicholas and
his barbarian sers These ferocious bu-terrers, after
having worried the Gar beginning show their
teeth the French Emperor and should not be in the
least surprised IL before the expiration Of the present, year
he should undergo another metamorPhoss and again be-
come "a perured usurper'
The London Timesthe great organ that plays many
tunes and which IL IL exercised the overpowering inhu
ence England and all parts Of Europe ascrbed to II by
some Of the correspondents OF Augo-Amercan press
would 20 near setting all Christendom BY the eerstho
Times or some other leading British Journal lately made
demonstration against Marshal Pelisscr for not having
been sufficiently active since the capture Of eide Of Sc
bastopo Nay II iudulged in something like odious
comparison Napoleon the First and Napoleon the
Third This very ungratefu in the Times seeing the
British troops have been so long under his protection In
the Crmes To this the Paris organ replied with grim
cyty but with evident suppression Of bile defending
the Marshal and the Emperor, Again II Ia rumored in 80