Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-04-26
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The news received yesterday by the
Saxonia and Arabia is OF the most
important that has come across the
Atlantic for long time. For thous.
and wears Europe has not witnessed
such a crisis 40 to-day combines to
throw everything into one mans
hands.
In England we have dissolution of
Parliament, and an appeal by the min
istry to the people, which dcpr :
the present government Of Great
Britain for months to come Of much Of
its moral strength on the Continent.
The military monarchies are continu-
ING their vast preparations for war,
talking all the while about Congress
TO settle the pending difficulties, but
which no one believes will settle any
thing. Austria is on the verge OF a
financial crisis. All the other powers
-Pnssla, England and Sardinia have
negotiated the loans they had applied
for but the Rothschil1s had given mp
the attempt to place the Austrian scrip.
Russia is hand in glove with France.
Germany is divided, and under the ac-
ton of divis on OF opinion she will
follow, through Prussia, England in
her course OF inaction. Thus the House
of llapsburg is brought between The
two millst ,nos, France and Russia,
AID the interests of three hundr 4
mill rs Of civilized people hang upon
the wills OF two men-Alexander on
one side, and Louis Napoleon on the
other,
But it is the latter that is more par
ticularIy the master of the situatlon.-
Ills position is one that knows no
parallel in history. Absolute master
Of thirty-six millions of men in the
highest state Of intellectual and in
dustrial development !; with navy SUI
perior in numbers and weight OF metal
to that Of England. and first in the
world; possessing railroads crossing
his territory in every direction, and
fleets of steam TRANSPORTS at commaL d
upon the sea ; his empire furnishing
and almost virgin in its financial re-
sources England, the only power that
could possibly close the paths of the
ocean to him, his friendly ally, Napo-
leon Ill. Yields to-day far greater
power than ever did Napoleon |. in
his palmicst days. Add to this that
he is not bound by the treaties that
bind the rest of Europe, for France
was ignored at the Congress of Vienna;
that he has no dynastic ties such as
bind other royal rulers and that, with
the most INSCRIPTIONS brain in Eu
rope, his sole aim is to create not to
follow preceIcnts ; and we have the
secret of that triumph of diplomacy,
backed by bayonets, which makes him
the arbitcr Of the European world.
lie has, too, the gift OF silence COM
bincd with tenacity of purpose, in a
remarkable degree; and when he
speaks it is more frequently for the
purpose of dise using his intentions
than Of announcing them. lie said
"Thc Empire is peace" and straight
way made war with Russia. Every
where he proclaims England as his
best ally, and SO fort,ics Cherbourg
that every Englishman looks upon it
as standing menance to England
With the sottcst assurances Of peaceful
views upon his lips, he arms France as
France never before was armed, and
10y SO doing brings half the time worn
monarchies Of Europe to the verge
of bankruptcy, by forcing them to fol-
low his example, so that they may be
prepared to meet him should he as
sumo to take offence. Thus on the one
hand he wcakens his enemies, while by
the exercise of an astute diplomacy he
puts them in the wrong, andforceathem
in self defence to becomethe aggressors.
This Is precisely the position to
which he has rednccd Austria. lie
has forced her to such immense cxpcn-
ditures in arming her Italian posses
sions that she is on the verge of a
financial relapse, from which she can
escape only by war, and resort to
measures that only a foreign war will
enable government to impose upon
its poop . In this state of things he
talks OF negotiation, and seeks an III
ternational Congress. But all the while
he continues his own wa,iike prepare
tons to such degree that Austria
cannot in any way diminish hers
Thus delay becomes more dangerous
to her than war itself. She can escape
from domestic CONFUSION only by
the breaking ont of hostiities, and she
must commence them IN selfprescrva-
ton, But the first gun that Austria
fires upon the Ticino isolates her from
the sympathies of the rest of Europe,
md leaves her to cope single handed
against her powerful enemy.
Then comes what Louis Napoleon
intends, and what the first Napoleon
longed for. The alliance with England
makes the Mediterranean a French
lake. 1t was Nelson who prevented
the first Napoleon from using the naval
power of France in his Italian wars
Now Louis Napoleon can freely pour
that power into the Adriatic and the
certain capture of Venice and Trieste
outflsnks the Austrian armies in the
Lombardo-N enetian kingdoms. Such
a movement revises the treaties of
Vienna, if their total destruction can
be called revision. This 10 what
Louis Napoleon aims at, and what he
will attain. His diplomacy triumphs
by threatening war, backed by his ad-
mitted power to make it and in war