The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-08

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The "EtssnaI nlggsr" In America, ~aa
the ssDAek nan" ss ConstsntaDUplss
What the "etsrnal Niger" Is to th.' United
States, the "sick man at Constantinopl,vr is to
Europe; they both trouble from time to tiius the
even current Of affairs Bat there is in the ire
pressabie conflict and In the intense excitement
provoked BY these two troublesome emit nee
an essential difference The niger stirs up
especially before every Presidential election
the whole army Of his black republican friends,
and arrays against them all the Hceeaters Of
the South; but the battles between thses
legions Of politicians, wirepullers and shoulder
hitters are not very bloody; they are fought
out more or less comfortably in the wigwans
of the sachems In the temples ofreligion, In mass
meetings and hot Congress debates. No rifeA
oannous, no sharpened bayonets, no irou-plated
eunbosts, are called into deadly action; the
only weapons, II we abstract the twenty-t~o
lanoeoef old John Brown, are immense trua-
pets, nlown by the biggest bragadocios of this
big essntzy; and the only batteries discharged
are fun broadsides Of 6ery speeches aud derco
Newspaper articles, let fy BY the leaders q
the two contsnding parties. When the bon
bsrAhent 10 hottest, . spectator not initiated
into the character Of our political warfare
would be led to the conclusion that the whole
glorious Union would burst into Fragments like
an ovsrcharged air vessel, but for the fact
that host of reasonable. coolblooded men
usually interpose between the conflicting par
ties Just as a squad of constables dash in BE-
tween two gspgs of Sighting rowdies. Thee
peacemakers bear high the flag of Union. Of
common sense, and of common interest aud u
sudden change comes over the faces Of our hs-
roes of the political prize ring. They grads-
ally retire from the field; the big trumpets
cease 10 blow; but the walls of Jericho, which
they had apparently shaken to their founds-
tons, stand as strong as before, because
there was not in the brass of the divines sod
sachems the power of God, as in the trumpsts
of Joshua and his Levites. Suddenly the
eternal Niger" oollapses aud disappears fron
the stase the troubled waters again subside
into calmness, but the black spirit lies still be-
meath their surface, only to trouble them sgsiA-
when it seems useful or necessary TO make po-
litcal capital or coin money out Of its banefut
presence.
In Europe, the "sick man at Censtaatinople"
creates quite another kind Of excitement Al
for h. ~
an invalid bed, he is still powerful, not to do
anything useful or beneficial. but to troubls
many things When, for example, one of bis
half rotten limbs seems In danger Of falling of
bis old weakened trunk, the whole Of Europe is
thrown into state Of the most fesrfxl sgitatisa.
The entire political atmosphere seems to be ct
once infected BY the miasma emsuating from
his sick room. The fine barometer suspended
In the Exchanges of London, Paris and Bertha
sink some degrees, - before coming storm;
the great diplomatic physicians hasten from al
ddes to his couch; rough and stern Menschikof'
in his brown and closely buttoned up Psletot,
from St. Petersburg; sharp-nosed Leiuiogsn,
from Vienna; the trim French doctor, with his
golden spectacles, the Marquis de Lsvaleste,
from Paris, and old PANS family physician.
from London-are all busy around him; they
feel his pulse, suggest remedies, and seem
to be exceedingly anxious 10 save the dear
life and the shAky limb of the WORKOUT invalid.
Then follows private consultation, and diplo-
matte dispatches Hy over the Geographic wires
to the different cabinets. Every one proposes
particular prescription of his own; tbere d
no agreement possible between the consulting
physicians; and finally the quarrel between
them becomes 10 serious that they quite forset
the august presence Of their patient.
For the third act of the drama Il Of course
reserved the grand coup de theatre Tele-
graphs and official newspapers begin. To talk
Of European Congress to settle tho eternal
| question Of the persecution Of tho Oriental
Christians and the possession Of the key
of the Holy Sepulchre. But, before the expe-
diency Of Congress Is settled, rumors ay
about that Russia is arming; that Russian
corps d'oJseruation Ii moving towards the
Pruth, and that another corps Is conceatrsted
near Erzeroum- At last all Europeis stisred
up. Austria sends corps d'aynte to its east
em frontiers, one or two English squadrons
leave Portsmouth or Gibraltar for the DArds-
nelles, Egypt or the coast of Syria; at Toulou
and Marseilles all hands are set to work, and Ia
fortnight the whole Of Europe is under arms
nobody knowing exactly why, but vaguely
suspecting that II Is owing TO some new and
dangerous phase Of the Eastern question. Thi'
Is the position ct which matters have arrived
just now, and therefore Il IL advisable 10 inves
tigste closely the facts that have led to thi
fresh excitement about Turkey.
The FIRST evidence that the "sick man" va
again in danger was presented 10 diplomas
note delivered on the 18th Of April by Prince
Kallimaki, the Turkish Ambassador TO tn
court efvienna, and published il part by Ii