Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-28
The State of Europe.

The Newburyport Herald (Massachu-
setts) says: O. -.-.-5s.1
Though no open war disturbs the con-
tinent, there is anything but peace, and
so it will be while Bonaparte is in pow
er This second Nano-
leon, who has succeeded his uncle to
power. seems to have been an heir to his
great and his bad qualities, as likewise to
his destiny as an agitator. He has power
with the sword but no moral power with
the people There is scarcely man in
the world who trusts his word or credits
his purposes. He is the incarnation of
selfshness, and would remorselessly swim
through an ocean of human blood to at
tain his purposes. While he lives there
can be no well founded peace, for no one
knows what madness may seize him to-
morrow. England is his ally; but Eng
land, fearing his alliance, goes armed
from head to foot, nor does she allow him
to look in any direction but she follows
him. He fights for Italian liberty with a
seeming generosity of nature, but the
Italians distrust him, and while applaud
ing, they whisper that he is a liar and a
cheat. He is the patron of the Pope,
and his arms uphold the Pontifcal
throne; but the Pope prays God and
man to deliver him from such friend
He is one of the powers which support
the Sultan; but the Turk feels himself a
prisoner in his hands. There is no trou-
bic in any part of the world, but he is in
it, whether he belongs there or not. He
fights for the Ottoman in the East, for
Sardinia in the South, against the Moor
in Africa, in league with the English in
China, and by the side of the Spanish
in Cochin China. At the same time, he
watches the English in Egypt and at Per-
i'm, sends an expedition to Madagascar,
interferes with the Principalities, promi-
ses the Hungarians, threatens the Belgi-
ans, and overawes the Portuguese. -a-l
If there is any war to be declared.
there Louis Napoleon's voice Is heard; if
any terms of peace to be made, he sits
down at Villafranca table, and makes
them himself; if any Congress of nations
to be held, he names the place, and his
representatives dictate terms; if any trea-
ty to be formed, it is written on French
paper and with Napoleonic pens. Lord
Brougham said it was a sad sight to see
great nation like rance in the hands of
a single irresponsible despot, who could
involve her in war and make peace with
out consulting anybody but himself and
the interests of his family; but how
much sadder to see all Europe in the
hands of this modern Ceser-this ire
sponsible Nero; so that not a statesman
speaks in any country without knowing
that his words are to be examined in
France, and his Government held ac-
for them not an editor writes
in all Europe, without endangering his
people, if his words be not such as would
pass the censorship of the press in Paris
not country sends a regiment of soldiers
or ship in any direction, without in
quiring whether it will destroy friendly
with him at the Tuileries; not
a king or queen turns over in bed, for
fear that the ghost of Frecnh invasion
will stare them in the eyes. .-
The sketch we have given is not imag-
mary. Look now at his hand in Moroc-
co. The Spaniards have trouble with
the Moors at Ceuta, a penal colony on
the opposite side of the straits from Glib
raltar, that the Spaniards have held, with
little interruption, for almost three hun
dTed years. What is that to France p
Clearly nothing; but the French are in
the fight, stronger than the Spaniards.-l
So in Italy, he allows no peace. The
whole country is disturbed He stopped
his war with Austria, when, as he said, it
was about to assume proportions ineonsis-
tent with the interests of France. That
s. he did not wish war with Germany.
But he gave no peace to Italy, for his
purpose had not been accomplished, and
therefore his armies are in the Duchies
and at Rome, and Garabaldi is calling for
a million muskets that look to the over
throw of the temporal sovereignty of the
Pope, and the determination of the
Bourbons at Naples. If we could look to
the bottom of the Italian troubles. we
should see that the storm is kept up by
the influence, the arms, and the money
Of Bonaparte. just the same is it, prob
ably, in Turkey. The Ottoman empire is
falling to pieces; conspiracies are in the
capital, threatening the life of Sultan
Abdal Midiid, and treason in all the
provinces. Seven years ago, France re-
used to divide the "sick mans" estate
but to-day she makes terms with Russia
and Austria, for the reconstruction of the
map of Europe. He wants Egypt, to
make good his dominion over Northern
Africa-all of which must be done in less
Than quarter of n century and to Eng
and, the only power that would object to
the robber play that would dispose of
Turkey as Poland has been disposed OF, !
he says in the insulting language of the !
Paris Patris. ~
There are solemn hours in the exis-
.ence of nations, which decide for long |
lime their power and their destiny. 1t |
seems to US that England is on the eve of
,ne of these critical moments For |
iome years past, this nation, which has |
become strong rather by diplomacy and /
than by force of arms, seems to |
nave had consciousness of a gradual de-
Zine. She straightens herself up in
Iain. F- s4 E-. .t.'s8f-.E ~.
s"The virility with which she crushed |
Europe from 1915 till the glorious re-es-
of the Napoleonie dynasty, /
he no longer feels within her. Thus we.
Zee her to-day uneasy as to the present, |
till more uneasy as to what tomorrow is /
preparing for her; she seeks, full of leal- |
,us doubts, the route which will bring /
Ter back toward her former strength.-l
From this proceed vacillations, weakness
IS without number, which astonish the |
world, and take statesmen themselves by |
urprise. England, formerly so decided
md so precise, no longer knows her own
mind. The memory of her traditions es-
ape her. Her chagrin absorbs it, and
BECAUSE she will not acknowledge her de-
,line she sinks" =
How long will this be endured? The
irst Bonaparte talked continually of his
lestiny the second is fatalist like him;
le tells of his s'star." But to all things
here comes an end; destiny is fuiflledl l