The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-05-05
THE SHADOWS OF COMING
J EVENTS. .4.

NEVER since the termination OF the
great war in 1915 has the political hori-
ron been so gloomy and so threatening.
During our forty years peace, clouds
have no doubt, sometimes lowered; but
they never quite obscured the sunshine.
The danger always seemed localized, and
never portended q general disturbance,
Al fatuous obstinaey and wild ambition
have nnhappily conspired to change all 4
this Distrust rcignseYeryKhere. From
| the merchants conntiug-houSe 10 the
Minister'S cabinet it is MI the same. The
stock market throughout Europe, those
sure indicators Of public feeling. betray
the general anxiety not to say alarm.
Of the commercial world We mist con-
fess that we are not justified in attribnt-
ing this unhappy state Of things TO any
nnfonnded panic. Tie moneycd classes
lare toointelligent TO be duped by the
inaneuYers with which mobs are some
times captiyated Their judgments are
founded on the logic Of facts, and facts Of
leyii omen are just now rather abundant.
The rapprocheaIent Of Austria to Russia
AT first SO positively denied, and now
so entirely admitted can not be regard
led as very favorable to the peace Of EN-.
trope We ask the donbtors the men
i or little faith The meaning 81 the las,
] dispatches from Constantinople2 w,
learn that the Porte has appealed to th,
j Western Powers, and requested a treaty
!, OF alliance with them for certain emer
!. Egenciesn What are these emergencies
!. What are these complications Can II
be that any one is looking after the sick
mans possessions2 Has Russia offered 10
Z help Austria to get mp again on the back
!, Of Lombardyi Has grateful Austria, in
( return, promised to let her kind ally help
himself TO slice Of the Danubian Princi.
palitieS? "a. z 81, BIZ. IL .9 %.
t These are questions which the Sultan
I. can answer He certainly Is conscious Of
} o danger which threatens him; and we
ask. whence can that danger arise save
from the union Of Austria and Russiai
i But is there anything improbable in a
t rapprochemeRt so advantageous TO the in.
!, terests of both2 Would it be good
! policy IN Russia to refuse such an al
liance? Will she hesitate to revenge her
Eself so entirely upon the confederacy
. which lately so deeply humiliated her
a BY uniting now with Austria: she strike
r Sardinia, France and England at TIL
8 same time. Nor does the time for n deel
/. revenge seem very inappropriate. w
{ are certainly in no very warlike mood
b Has Russia calculated that while we wan
L our brave soldiers at home it is not likel
e that we shall send them again to rot i
+ Crimean bitches, in the maintenance Of
d hopeless quarrelg Have her. statesne
. judged our temper rightly Have the
b reckoned without their host in beiiegin
= that, by a union now with Austria, Russi
MI will gain all, and more than oil, that sh
81 has lost? II may be well to renlembe
r that il has been the character Of RUSS
e to reconquer in the cabinet what she bu
e lost in the field aud il her statesmen b
4, lieve that they have estimated justly III
le strength Of the Peace party in England
o. theY viii have well chosen their time f.
e a revenge at once bitter and complete.
ut Nor are the prospects Of Italy bettt
70 than those Of the Porte. The wild an
10 bition" which cloves to slide, not stand
ne and which prefers risking its neck
he FORTUNES ice,o is driving away Il
he friends who have been tried, and wi
I'd have been found true and steadfast. tt
10 treaties Of YilIafranea and Zurich tied U
IN the hands of France She was bound,
ct far as possible, to carry out the princip
OF Eof those treaties; but, above all thing
ed she was bound to abstain from any .
be lrangement which would subyert theI
to France may thus be placed in q situati'
lily where all hersympathies would be warm
lu- with Sardinia, although she might f
herself restrained from giving them etfet
we Sardinia seems bent on preserving in
up. course unjustifably aggressive, II Q
ty, revolutionary In its principles. y
on French nation might grieEe to stand
oe. and see the Austrian eagles once mo
10 flying in the plains Of LOnlbardy. 1t
sal possible that such an eyentuality may .
afe arise. Sardinia may still prove u