Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-07
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The following highly important article
appears in the Journal des Debats of the 10th
ult.; fs,,.
Every one endeavors TO deny that a
Buropean contagration is possible, and vet
1t cannot be concealed that every one fears
1t. Europe has rarely found herself in such
a singular position. There are FIVE or six
powers which know hot whether they ought
10 act with view 10 war or to peace, to vote
| railways or armaments. Who holds the
thread of SO many complications Whence
can arise this general war, in which no one
believes, but every one appears 10 expect
Between what adversaries will it first burst
forth, Il it does doso2 Who will be enemies
who allies what is to be fought for2 This
state OF rtainty is more particularly
striking in NAf country of eternal uncertain
tles-Germany, In spite Of all the rumors
which clash with each other, notwithstand-
ing the territorial notifications already ac-
complished, and those which may be brought
ABOUT by the success of Garibaldi, Europe is
neither disposed to seek adventures, nor con-
ylnced that she is about to be precipitated
INTO them. But she is uncertain; scarcely a
State can be found which is secure Of its
policy and of its alliances, because there is
hardly one that can say what tomorrow may
produce for it. If such state of things Is
still equilibrium, II is the unstable equilibrium
Of politics. In order to find another example
OF this absence of fixed principal, of this in
decision of alliances, and of that kind of
moral dissolution of the European system
which we now behold, it would be necessary
to go back to the first half of the eighteenth
century, when the friend of one day became
the enemy of the next. All uncertainty
produces an uneasy feeling, and we desire
that the present uueasiness should not con-
tinue. i'qdla6 l'u lmia T'-T -
The Paris correspondent of the Morning
Star states that the annexation of Belgium
and the left bank of the Rhine is now rs
coolly talked of in Paris as though it were a
matter OF course; and the optimist writer.
who generally laughs ut the rumors of war
which disturb the world, now tells lis that
we are on the eve of great changes in Europe,
OF which the transfer of Belgium to France
may be one. Moreover, he and the people of
rarls are now becoming fully alive to the fact
that the Eastern question is to be reopened
Dy Russia, probably in conjunction with
France, for the affectation of interest in the
"unbearable position of the Christians in the
Fast" is only regarded as shallow pretext
for a fresh assault on the possessions of ''the
SICK man." The only morsel of consolation
recently afforded to the Parsians is derived
from the fact that the Emperor Napoleon
PAID visit on Saturday to his model farm at
Motto Beauvron, for they asked "What dan
ger can there be of war while his Maiesty's
mind is engrossed with such peaceful piIr-
sultsY' The Parisians forget that his Majesty
is an adept at concealing his intentions, and |
that his purpose is, perhaps, accomplished by |
inducing them to believe that he is now pro |
foundly absorbed in the encouragement of |
agriculture. I.9 I'1''' ~ -