New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-18
THE EUROPEAN TRAGEDY.

All the worlds theater, and just now tbss grand
division that is called Europe the stage, and the
rest Of earth the auditorium the peoples Of which
looking on in eager expectation of the ensu;na
scenes OF the tremendous tragedy about being
enacted-the diplomatic orchestra having played tn.
opening overture and the curtain having risen upon
the area Of action. Heating and co5,aptng by their
own crowded contiguty, the whole Writhing mass
of European multtudes are working ssemselves into
state Of fermentation and have alreaay efervesced
at point and it will doubtless spread and con.
tinue until the conyusive action shall throw off the
elements Of dsquietude that disturbed 5he country,
and it returns to condition Of peacefuiness. The
Alpine vuture which, the fable runs, locked down
from her icy eyrie the skyward peaks Of Switze1
land, in the days of Napoleon the Great, upon the
hostile myriads Of France and Austria which black
ened the fertile plains below, and calling her fedg.
l1gs around her pointed out the signs beneath and
told them that they were an nfalible indication that
the vutures would soon feast the flesh of the hu.
man animal, q creature which periodically became
animated by peculiar species of insanity, and as
senlblng in great numbers, as at that time dashed
themselves against each other that the vulturs, by
this dispensation of a wise Providence, might feed
on the carcasses OF the dead shattered by the sock
that strewed the field of senseless fray-that same
knowing old carrion bird flor vnltures are said to
live an hundred years. may again gather her brood
around her and point them to recurrence of the in
sane stof the malignant and venomous biped crea-
lures which crawl the earth and slay each other and
congratulate them upon the approaching feast Of
human flesh which is promised The funereal.winged
cenenarian that tore ont the val of the grandsires
on many bloody battle field, may now prey upon the
warslan bodies of the grandsons and will nd as of
old, the Austrian copses have the shotholes in their
backs, until, probably, Waterloo shall close
the played out tragedy in grand finale of mortal
fireworks, quenched in the rivers OF blood they she'd
Thank heaven for the ocean which shuts US off
from the stage and prevents us from being drawn into
the bloody business our part is to look on and ap
paud our favorite actors in the tragedy and hiss at
others besides, have to take care with mercenary
coolness that the fighters pay roundiy for the meat
and bread and other necessaries that supply them
Tor " those who dance should pay the fddler,''
whether 1t be war dance or any other sort of
iroc which takes men and nations from seEsupport-
ing occupation and renders them dependent upon
others more discreet The hardest terms and highest
prices which we can extort from their necessity,
though, will not make amends for the injury done
lis by the disruption of trade relations and its sagna-
tion in many channels and departments that would
result from general European war, the occurrence
of which would be direct injury to the whole world
and one against which every civilized nation of every
continent should join in protesting. The conflicting
Powers will be, however, themselves such severe suf
ferers that their own il-dong will carry an adequate
punishment with it, and sovereign and subject noble
and slave, will for years mingle their lamentations
over broken fortunes and broken heads until those
shall be mended and these shall be forgotten when
the senli-centennial period of bloody insanity will
sweep over Europe again, and the vulture's brood
again hold high and dainty carnival.