Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-21
War Brewing in Europe.


A most intelligent and capable Englishman
of the Liberal school, who has recently twice
trayersed Europe from London to Stamboul,
in private letter to the editor of the Tribune,
thus epitomizes the situation:
have made most attentive investigation
Of the state Of public feeling in Turkey,
Greece, Italy, France and Switzerland, and
will give you brief resume, on which you
may depend:
The Turks, Arabs, and all the Mohamme-
dan tribes, hate the Emperor Of the French ;
and no doubt serious war may be expected i'll
Algeria and along the whole of Northern
Africa.
The Greeks hate the Emperor of the
French; first, because he supports the Pope,
whom the Greeks think the greatest enemy
Of their religion; second, because the En-
peror has bullied them, and they have taken
entirely to the British alliance.
The Italians hate the Emperor Of the
French, with such hatred as only Italians
perhaps can feel: First, because, they say,
he gave money to Italian soldiers to shoot
Garibaldi; that brigands, dressed as soldiers,
paid with French gold, did the act of assas-
sination. l am myself fully persuaded that
they are right in that Second, because he
keeps their Capital (Rome) away from
them, and has done all he could possibly to
keep up confusion and brigandage; to disu-
mite and enslaye them, instead of uniting
them and iberating them. Third, because,
breaking his solemn promise, he betrayed
them after the victories of Monticello, Ma
genta and Solfsrino. Fourth, because the
Italians are republicans, and the Emperor is
the perjured destroyer of European republi-
canism. THE man is doing his best to be
now the destroyer also of American republic
canism.1
The Swiss hate Napoleon, because they are
republicans, and good ones, and know him to
be the treacherous enemy of liberty. But
what is more important than all the rest, and
it is, by the blessing of the Great Being, per-
fectly true, the French people and the French
army are heartily sick of Napoleon. From
long practice speak French nearly the same
as English, and had excellent opportunities
for acquiring information, both going through
France, returning, and again on my last
visit. l am astounded ut the state of things;
never could have believed it. On my say
ing word about the Emperor and Mexico,
peasants, farmers, bourgeois, private soldiers
| and officers 60 off into torrents Of invective
against the Emperor, such as could hardly
have imagined, and that in the presence of an
Englishman. Such days as those Of Louis
XVI and Marie Antoinette may not be so
| distant as people suppose. The French are
| only look on the Emperor as sitting on the
peak of volcano in imminent danger OF
eruption.
You will naturally want to know what the
French themselves put forward as their prin-
| cipal grievances:
l. For each Of the three last years the con-
scription has been 100000 year, the pre-
vious maximum having been only 10000.
2. One hundred thousand having been sent
to Mexico land the French hate sea voy-
ages,) of which only $1,000, at most, remain
alive.
3. That the regiments sent to Mexico
were selected as being the most Repub-
lican, the most Legitimist or the most Or
leaniSt, and the Bonapartist regiments kept
at home.
4. That Republican, Legitimist and Or
leanist officers were unfairly exchanged into
the doomed regiments.
D. That the luxury, vice and extravaganza
of the Court are beyond measure, and the
finances of the country are seriously suffer-
| ing therefrom.
6. That the turbulent policy Of the Empe-
ror is resuscitating the Holy Alliance, viz
Prussia, Austria and Russia, against France.
| There is no doubt this is quite true. The
French don't like to be brought, without
cause, into war, with three nations at a
time, and they think-I believe with justice
it with three, then with four-fearful odds
Also Italy that makes FIVE. Then the whole
Mahommedan population of Africa, with
Turkey, Ska very poor lookout.