Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-04-13

tests ofsdespotismsdeali With these matters
with what paEnssthsy !. select words wbfc
darkeu knowledge" tomyatify still firth.
the great world of humanity in dealin
with the simple question Of right an
wrong. The question is in its first ince1
ton, at the first blush, a simple one
wrong perpetrated on the part Of a rule
of resistance to it on the part of the people
But in the present age, ,iand dealing wit
the network orsHeb that diplomacy weave
on all sides, the Soldsfashionel appeal +
force and endurance is not allowed to set
tie the question, but it is thrown into tn
Congress of Nations; it becomes subject /,
the law of nations = it must furnisl
matter for Convention between othe
Governments. Meanwhile the poor NAL
contents who are in the field for thei
sights have no more chance left to them 9
controlling their own destinies than hay,
straws ia the EedaRiotipg currents Of ,
mighty river Of directing theirs. Onl,
after much blood split, much suffering en-.
dured, the people find out that somehow
they have not succeeded; that they are
still epslayed and taxed and ground into
the dust by some grave sanction Of those
who have deliberated SO long upon their
destinies.
let ls vigilance at the famous des-
patch Of the French Government (Louis
Napoleon BY Drouyn de L'Huys) to other
cOurta as 9 specimen of the style observed
observed in,dealing with these matters ac-
cordiug to the stilted forms of modern
diplomacy:
DEspATCH TO TIE TRB8oH AGENTS ABROAD
"PAR1s, March u.
w hen ths present roubles, broke outin
Roland, they had merely the character of
an act OF resistance to measure of inter.
nal administration adopted under the ah.
normal conditions The uneasy stats in
which the country had long been no tlopht
augmented the gravity Of the crisis. II
was, nevertheless, purely local before t6c
signature cftthe Conventio1s 6etveen ET,t,sig
and Russia. Bat when it became the object
of an International act the question chaH0eR
ats nature, AID the Cabinets were called Ip-
on to appreciate these arrangements. We
were speedily made aware of tteiviews of
the British Cabinet by the speeches of the
Queens Ministers in Parliament. and a
commuutcaEionf from the Court of Austria.
regarding Ter attitude in Galicia. led M ~
think that fte sentiments Of that po,oer mere
not tcidsig different from our own. It.an.
peared to g, however, that an understand.
ing was delirable before taking any official
step in regard to the Prussian G Government.
We were pursuaded that obseryations
which the three Cabinets might agree to
thinking fright and useful to make sepa-
rately at Berlin would be more right and
more usetql still if made esimultaueouslyin
similar tefmsl; that an opinion presaa4I
ted IN that form would be of more
sttss3I1 81 sapa hat, moreover, the }verv
.tsszsts=<so,I,y sernrel.
to the IDEAS of the three parties would 81 at
guarantee tormoderation and impartiaIitv
The Goyprnment of Her Britannia Maiesty
has not adhered to the step which we were
disposedIto take. Austria, on her part.
while adopting our view, has not thought
herself distilled in officially blaming q con-
yention With which she had from the first
declined solidarity. In this state of things
the Government of the Emperor has no fur
ther result to give to the proposition which
supposes an agreement. However, We have
reason tolhope thatthe effect produced by
the signing ofthe Convention; Of St Peters,
burg Billnot be entirely lost, and that the
two contracting Courts will duly appreci-
ate the unanimity of the observations
which these arrangements have occasioned.
For our part, we shall continue to follOag
these epelts with, the degree of interest
which they are calculated to inspire. Our
duties in this respect concur with those
of the osber great powers placed in the
same petition as ourselves. The efforts
which We have made to subordinate any
proceedings of the Cabinets to previous
concert, testiGes, moreover, to the senti-
ments which We feel in an affair which
involves On our part neither private policy
nor isolated action.
'DRouYN DE L'HuYs.'
Now, how much are the people of Poland
their wishes, OF hopes, or fears deferred
to in the foregoing2 and who, on reading
it, is made to think of them, and the brave
struggle in which they were engaged y
Read it as carefully as one may, and not a
line betFays the anxiety the rest of the
world felt as to what they were. doing, as
to what they1might accomplish in the In
terests of freedom; and when we reflect
that zoe, even toewere to be made the sub.
ject of the same grave formalities when the
question of our national existence was
sought in the same way to be taken cogni.
EGncss 6y thoie iatefmeddlers, whose anger
is not kindled at the presumption thus In
dplged. and who does not resolve never to
permit the nationality to be. made the, sport
of such caprices! -
In conclusion, let all determine that
tbenceforth aud forever, these presnmp-
tuous foreign powers, these experts in the
the game ofEdipIOmaoy shalt eonfine tteil
practice their own side of the water
They may deal with Poland, or Greece, ol
ItaiySsor Hungary for these nations, diSi,
ded or crushed, or manacled by their arts
Il f,s.E