Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-01-07
The Armed Peace of Europe and
America.
In several radical Abolition war papers
we have seen printed the following article
headed 'The Armed Peace of Europe"


we have seen printed the following article
headed ''The Armed Peace of Europe"
Some startling statistics exhibiting the immense
expenditure Of men and money in sustaining the
ARMED peace" Of Europe. have just been published
in report Of NJ Legoyt, chief Of the statistical bu-
reau OF the French Minister of Agriculture, Com
merce and Public Works. According to this state
ment. which from the authors position may be CON
sdered perfectly reliable, Austria keeps up an army
Of 467 900 men, which costs her $4,000 600 francs
France an army Of 574 O60 men, which costs 6ss,oo
costs her i5s 600 600 francs England an army Of 3OO
600 men, which costs 377 1000 francs and Russia
an army Of 5000 men, which costs 62s, ,oCo 900
francs. This Is, out Of the total budget Of these
States, expenditure Of thirty-seven per cent. in
Austria, more than third; thirty three per cent:
in France thirty in Prussia thirty nine in England
and forty-two in Russia. Let us also mention Italy.
where 329 00OO 900 francs are expended in keeping up
a force Of $4,000 men Turkey, with the number
Of 424 900 men; Denmark and Sweden, the hrst with
900 and the second with 81 men, by which their
budgets increased to thirty-seven and forty per
cent respectively. The other secondary States fol-
low in an analogous proportion. Switzerland is the
only European State that neither increases her army
nor her budget. Nj. LegOyt, adding together the ell
fcctiye Of all the European armies according TO esl-
mates which he considers rather below than superior
to the reality arrives at the fearful number Of 3Sl5,
S21 men, and an outlay Of $1,000 francs.
The foregoing statements by distin-
guished and learned foreigner should be
carefully read and pondered by every Amer
lean citizen. The radical Jacobin editors
publish them for the purpose of showing
how the people of the different European
States are ground to the dust, as it were, by
levies of their best men and by the payment
of enormous taxes, for the purpose of keep
ing in the field immense armies to maintain
what is called, as ifin mockery of primitive
christianity and modern civilization, the
"Armed Peace of Europe"
These radical Jacobins of the press know,
if they have learned aught from the expert
ence of the past, or have any clear insight
into the future, that the policy of their par
ty-the present policy ofthe Administration
they are now supporting-is preparing this
country to endure permanently the same
state of things as exists in European coun-
tries. If that policy should be continued
in the Administration of the Government.
and should ever culminate in any thing that
could. in any sense, be called peace, it will
be Europ can " Armed Peace" sustained
and kept by standing army, at least, as
large as that of Russia, whose institutions
it is now the fashion with our radicals to
admire, and at cost probably twice as
great. Thus, the country will be from year
to year drained of its able-bodied men; its
physical and intellectual vigor will be par
alyzed, and the mass of the residue of the
people be crushed to poverty and left in
destitution by revenue collectors and tax
gatherers.
That such is the feast to which the radical
vultures, now unhappily in the ascendency,
invite our countrymen, no sane man of in
telligence and candor can for a moment
doubt. The plan of subjugating the rebels
of the South and loyal Union men, North
and South, to radical revolutionary meas
ures, by prescription, fraud and force, will
require for its temporary accomplishment
even, to say nothing of its ultimate success,
an army to garrison the whole country, of
ut least million, if not more, of white and
black soldiers. For such condition as
this, the Abolition revolutionary Jacobins
are rapidly preparing the nation that once
prospered, under Democratic and conserv-
ative guidance, 'as no other country ever
prospered."