The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-05-28
The War in Europe,

The shadow Of war unparalleled since
the days Of Napoleon the Great, hangs with
its vcngeful frowns over the whole continent
of Europe, and nowhere can be found
throughout the pompous pageautry Of its
many kingdoms, the welcome symbols OF
unity and peace between nations. From
the news which we publish elsewhere, it will
be seen that the tocsn of war has been sound
ed, the torch lighted, which will be far more
likely to destroy than strengthen the thrones
of absolutism. To maintain European
order," the probabilities are that all the
great powers of the old continent,will be-
come involved; in which event about four
millions of men will be brought into the
field, armed with all the fearful improve
ments in death. dealing instruments, and the
prospects arc that the fairest portions OF
Europe will soon be deluged with the blood
Of thousands upon thousands Of @our fellow
beings. The struggle will undoubtedly be
brief and destructive. Looking a, the con-
fict, from this distance, it seems nothing but
a war between contending factions of abso-
lutism. The American people can see no
good likely to emenate fromth issue unless
Hungary, Poland, Italy and Germany, under
the license Of general war, rise and pro.
claim universal freedom. Wehave no faith
in the assurances, that either France or
Emanuel Of Sardinia, are DESTROYS of giving
Italy her independence, and can, therefore,
have no sympathy with them in the issue
The terrible results Of the continental war
so lately inaugura.ed, cannot be easily fore
told-but We trust in the Ruler of the Uni
verse, that whatever else may befal, the ter
mination of the conflict, will not be found
to have crcumscribed in the least, either the
civilization or the political freedom Of man.
kind.
Says the Cedar Valley Times, zone good
result, however will spring out Of. the war. 1t
will be the means of driving to our shores a
large number of Industrious and intelligent
citizens of Europe. They will come, though
many of them poor, with a hearty abher-
renee Of despotic sway, and seeing the
beauty, and equality, and prosperity of our
government, they will forever be ready to
battle in the cause of freedom"
Should this war be general and protracted
III q commercial and pecuniary point Of
view, the United States will reap incalcula-
BILE advantages. All the large grain raising
countries are likely to be more or less III"
volved, and their pruning hooks and plow-
shares will be turned into swords, bayonets
and lances, and sowing and reapng, for the
time being, will become one of the &C lost
arts,'' and some more fortunate country
will have to furnish them supplies. On
this subject, the Chicago Press & Tribune
speaks pertinently
"The cultivation of the soil will be large
ly intermitted in France, Germany, Italy,
Austria, and perhaps in England and Russia.
The ports of Austria will be blockaded, and
the large export trade which finds its outlet
through the Danube, will be suspended.
Nearly all the large grain producing coun-
tries OF Europe Will become purcha ers 10
a greater or less extent in the American
markets. Prices will 90 up unquestionably,
in the degree that the war seems likely to
be general and protracted. And nothing
apparently, but failure of our growing
crops, can prevent speedy return of the
prosperous times Of 1866.
Nothing in the elements of the strife, or
in the condition Of the world elsewhere,
suggests the ideuvs5 of single man or a
single acre Of decen, soil in the West. Un
the contrary, everything calls for strenuous,
careful, and unceasing labor in the broad
fields of Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin,
Missouri, and Minnesota.