The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-12-29
Light Ahead.


begear at the foot Of, at least, one un-
friendly throne, and the prospects are
that the fast increasing troubles OF Eu-
rome. will so divert attention from our
own difficulties, that we can have the
pleasure of crushing the hydra headed
monster, secession, at our leisure. The
whole continent Of Europe has been turn,
ed into vast armory, and the thunder
bolts of war are being forged with an
energy and singleness of purpose, that
can admit Of but one conclusion. AS
long as foreign nations were at peace,
and engaged in the thousand avenues of
trade. our domestic tronbles, naturally
enough, excited good deal of attention,
from the fact, that they could no longer
enjoy an uninterrupted commercial in
tercourse with us, even, therefore, in
trigue plotting and specious promises
were resorted t., in order to embroil
themselves in our quarrel and come in
for share Of the spoils. But with the
grave events which have arisen with the
Polish question and the unrest Of Eu
rope, caused by suspicion Of the occult
schemes Of Napoleon, we can dismiss all
fears Of foreign Intervention with our af
fairs, for il is easy to see that the powers
of Europe have trouble enough to attend
to at home. without mixing up in our
concerns. And although it may not
look very neighborly to smile at the mis-
fortunes of others. yet we believe that
the present turmoil in which European
polite States and Conventions are plum
ged, can be looked upon by us as the
first ray Of a fortuitous chain Of circum
stances, that should be hailed with The
most unbounded pleasure. No NOR,
Foridas and Alabamas will be fitted ou
in English dock yards to play upon oul
commerce, for their mechanical ingenu.
iy and warl'ke propensilies must now
be exerted for their own protection
while Napoleon, the head of great and
war-lke na,ion, will be compelled tc
withdraw his tllibusiers from Mexico
and exert the whole of his vast authority
10 retain the Pope in his seat, at Rome
European politics are too abstract, and
complex in their general propositions, te
be readily understood. but we believe
that with Congress or no Congress
which is organized on the basis that Ma
poleon's wishes must decide that Europe
viii be too busy to interfere with us fol
months to come, even if peace continue
They have many delicate questions tc
settle, in which variety of interests are
involved, and the probability is lha
hereafter We will be let alone to worl
out our own salvation. And with this
assurance, with the comforting rehec
ton, that for the future the contest is t
be left to ourselves, and the hated form
intervention" forever banished from
our sight, will the coming work in whicl
we are about to engage, have an objec,
From the commencement Of the REBEL
ion. the one grand darling and only hop
with the Southern leaders, has been in
tervention OF the bitter disappoint
ment they experience, when they fnt
that all those schemes are to be frustra
ted we can form no adequate conception
uutll we read DAVIS message, and Their
where the arch consprator unbosom
himself, we can see how much the Con
federales expected and relied upon in
taryention for aid. Even the most radi
cal Of them never supposed, for an in
slant, but what diversion in their IA
vor would be made by some one Of tn,
European powers, and now, with thei
territory gone, their armies melting
away, provisions falling, negroes desert
ing them, and their strongest fortified
posts in danger of capture, they feel tina
their case is well nigh hopeless. Thei
army is nothing bVt-a mob of disorgan
ICED conscripts, who have been draggee
reenllessly forth from every town and
plantation, who must fight with the con
seriousness that they are struggling fo
something that will never succeed w,
have it from unqueslionable authority
and rom the pen of as brave a man al
ever left the State Of Iowa, and who il
COW n prisoner, tina. half Of the Southern
army would enlist to-day, and fight fo
the Federal Government, if they coult
do so. They are sick, ragged, dirty
and half starved, receiving no money
and with no prospect Of over getting any
while their families at home are ia a still
wors, condition than they. The write
also adds, that everything in the way Q
food is up at starvation prices. Boot