The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-09-11
whut EurOuc Is Doing.

In recent number of Northern exchange ap-
pears article on the present political condition
of Europe, which, as giving some insight into the
situation there, and being in itself both instruc-
tive and interesting, we subjoln:
The European journals are filled with r,lmOrs or
the revival of the Emperor NapOIcon's project of
continental congress to readjust the political re-
lations of the Old World, and definitely recon-
struct tho "Hap of Europe"
SO far, no confirmation OF these rumors comes
to from Paris and il is i'll and OF itself most I'M,
probable that the Emperor OF the French VIII
renew n proposition which he sees it to be likely
will soon be pressed npon himself by the very pow
ers which formerly declined it. 1t would DO the
most brilliant, if not the most solid, diplomatic
triumph Of his reign to compel Europe INTO
acknowledging the hOpcessness of any other issue
ont of her existing complications than that which
he originally suggested, and France i'll any CON
gress which the Emperor might now consent to
Join. would find herself more than ever tho mis-
trcss and arbitrcss of the European position
But if Napoleon gives no sign Mt present, tho
situation of affairs the continent abundnntly
accounts for the signs which are made in his namo
by all manner Of publicists, from London to
Vienna. In the expressive phrase OF frenc!,
diplomacy that situation il intensely "strctched.
Things cannot possibly go on long without all ex.
plosion in one or another quarter, which must
shake the whole political fabric, unless the great
powers set themselves seriously to work to solve
existing problems, and to provide against near
and impending peris.
The invasion inado by Germany upon the rights
of Denmark and the public law of the world, has
resulted i'll driving the two great German powers
into antasonism more open md u thre"tTning .c
s" shS Under as mi the control of her obsinuty visionary
king and his rcactionary ministry, insists upon ap-
propriating the territory wrenchct from the Scan
assent, declining to see Prussia elevated to the
rank of great naval power by the possession OF
Kicl, and put i'll the way of rounding" her
dominions, eventually by the incorporation of all
North Germany from the Russian frontiers to the
Rhine. 1t is true thnt the peace seems to be com
mandcd between these angry Stntcs-an the siic OF
ing government, and tbs side of Austria by her
financial Insolvency and the Italian ulcer OH her
flank. But each power has large army i'll the
field, and the possible unreasunabcness of ROYAL
and imperial pcrsonages is q force for mischief
which can never be mathcmatica!ly estimated.
recent semi fcial Austrian journal hints that
alton Of the Danish Ducllics by Prussia, if Aus
tria, i'll return, were permitted to ''rcctify her
frontiers i'll Sile,ia" by taking back part Of the
territory which she lost in that province to the
great Frederick, and to extend herself comfort.
ably toward the Black Sea by incorporating tho
Danuban Principalitics with her dominiuns What
could be more fair than an exchange OF duchics on
| the Baltic for principalitics Oh the Danube? Un-
luckily for tins otherwise admirable project, the
people of the principalitics and the other great
powers Of Enropc are not likely to consent That 1t
important transaction shall be carried out will
| an exclusive eye to the pacitcation OF Germany
and the mutual advantages "f the two heads o
the Tentonic eagle. Still something must DC done
, to put this matter mt rest.
| Meanwhile these Very principalitics arc weary
| ing of their connection with the Turkish Empire
and Il Pan-Sclavc hero has recently arisen, nrount
! whose name the dscontentcd races OF Eastern
Europe are concentrating formidable show o
enthusiasm. Driven from Montenegro by the OF
tonan forces, this panSclavc hero is just nov
suffering himself to be worslIippcl under the pro
lection of Russia, in Odessa, where liz awaits IN.
| favorable opportunity Ut making mischief on al
! extensive scale.
The Italians, though nearer their national unit
| than the Sclarcs or the Germans, are vet very fn
from being satisfied with the actual as pcct cithe
| of tho Roman tho Venetian question. They ar
pressing forward eagerly and nobly III the carec
of industry and material development opened t
them by the events of 1850, and they are naturall
impatient of the expenses and inconvcnenccS t
Which they subjected by the attitude of til
Pope toward themselves and tho French Emperor
and by the policy of Austria.
| Grave as are the problems which the civil WA
has imposed upon ourselves for solution, and sc
riously rs the necessity for solving them mus
ccnnc us for some time to come to i foreign pol
cy rather Of observation than of assertion, it
quite ns plain that the European powers arc il
volved in difficulties md straits ut least Absorb
ing 0ur own. The i'll temper of German mi1
lister, or the !.eath OF noribund old man, may q
any moment compel the Old World to choose pt
rcmptoriiy between Napoicous European COZ
gress and q chaotic, convusivc, and convulsin
general war, whereof no rational man dare prcdi,
the issues.