New-York daily tribune., 1859-05-23
THE FRUsTs OF WAR.


In o sort of solemn curse upon the King - Ssr-
dinia and the Emperor Of France which the Prince.
| Archbishop If Vienna has contributed as hi srst
| installment to the commencement Of hostilites.
he took occasion, to express the opinion thst,
after all, war is not the creates Of evils Quite
possibly, the Archbishop is rigtr In the multi
pcity and endless ysrety Of sufe nzs and caaul-
itie. to which poor humanity is exposed, il would
not he easy positively to prove that war Is the
greatest: though it nay he noted BY the way, that
in the original propmlga,On Of thss Go-pel OF
which the Prince-Archb-hop profes'e7 to be a
hnmbls and unworthy minister "peacs an earth
was placed somewhat ccnspicuously in the fore
ground The lying down tcgether of the lc~ and
TIE lamb spoken of by tsg proyhet might aao seem
IT,. convey the idea of 2 good time cOmir z, when
wars and ightings shall ne no more.
But though war is perhaps not the gres,-st OF
e7ils; though from theological point o. ylew,
whence the Archbishop might be likely to l2ok at
il, considered as a punishment Of Gns, it night
e7en be regarded a blessing; yet, looked a. with
merely lay and secular eyes, it does seem, with the
Arcbbisbop's permission, pretty fair comret
for the highest rank in the EJt of h9man caarlitleo
Already st the frst blast o. the trumpet, its eyils
are most serieusJ felt, not srrly ~ those actually
engaged in hostiitier but by others quite as MINER
GUS upon whom the fear OF being dragged INTO
them works aimest as disai arcps!y as the actual
reality Austria begins the WAY with new ous-
pension of spece payments, thus placing ir the
Wsy of the productive industry of her subecto that
L.t .f a fad and IRA
deemable paper currency. similar exPed,ens.
pushed to a s,;ll dangerous extreme, has seeo
adopted ~ Sardinia. Thus these tHo principals in
the pending hos.hties commecce operations not so
much by firkDg blows at each other as by iDiict'
ing most dangerous wounds on themselves. And
with wba. ruthless destruction Of the meane aud
facilities Of commercial and nooiai commune cstcn
does not he yra- be gin Already, before the coz
tending f,rces have done ary thing more thaa to
exchange Il few cannon shot, we hear of trade
structon of railroad bridges which cost milllcns u
dollers-one ho%T of incpent warfare thus destroy
ing wha. it took years and yelTS os patient ncnstEy
and say ing 20 provide the :Dea7s to build And
what viii soOa be the condition OF Piedmont, ooou-
ped by three hundred Thousand soldiers, the grow
ing gan consumed for forage, dy kes cut, villages
occupied br troops contributions imposedsYPOn
the inhabtspta, and ruin and devastation speeding
everywhere! 1t WAS perhaps the wish % make
the Sastinan territories instead Of their Cw2 the
first s.at of hostiiities, rather than ang hope OF
striking AM decisive blow before the fre.oh could
arrive, which piecipitate Ltte march o! che Aus
tri4no across the Ticino. Every step t;asn by the
tha &c -til
her imyoycrisbment eLi pecuniary exhaustion,
thus dealing her a SAB in what u. her most
vita. point In significant letter published a
day OF two since, addressed TO some Italian
patriot in New-YorR. the Count Csyour, the
Saziinian Minister, freely confeSses hat il is not
man that he wants, whether sOld,Sy5 or officers,
but ;he means wheraYith to suppct them-mean
which. with every step in advance taken by IT,
Austrians into tho Sandman territories, must N
seriously diminisA3d The ratiaaalc of the Aus
trian invasion Of Sardinia perkaps was, that siaee
the time had solae when Lon5ardy, if held ct I'll,
must be held against the coabined armies of Sar-
dinia and France, the most eiectual means af de-
fense, was 70 heglu with spreading throGgh the
adjoining Sardinian provinces that exhaustion and
desolatioa which would .lt them into the most
unfayorabe condition foT supporting aD& aiding an
invasion Of the Austrisa territory-sz object to
which the presence Of .he French auxiliary force
in Piedmont will contribute only las than the
presence Of the Aus.riAns there
Hu. not TO insist iPon the direct ga'sges Of war.
Ike operations, nor even upon tie new taxes a.
ready imposed and the new loans sailed for-siI.ce,
| perhaps, the Priace-Archbishop holds to the doc
,rine that national debt is national bessiug-stil
the depreciation which the war has already pro-
duced in Tie market yalue Of the shares of all the
great oint-stock enterprises of Europe IS well al
| in the funded debts of al the European nations
the doubt which il has thrown upon al msnufactu
ring snd commercial operations, tho dread terror
apprehension aud uncertainty which it has carried
into factories and counting houses, and the pecuni
ar ruin il has already caused to multitudes-thes
would seem quite enough, should the war stol
where il is, 10 entitle il 10 be reckoned among III
| greatest Of ralamitie. Where i will end, VIII
| knows
We. indeed, on this side Of the Atlantic, may fn
ourselves much in the condition Of him whor
Lucretius describes as sgreeably contemplate
| iIcm tic .hogC, willie Il: storm sweeps eYeT Il