The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-19
HOW TO MAKE PEACE.
Plan for = Division Of the opofls-Eng-
lish Opinion OF the Csnssquences OF
the Conflict.

Plan for = Division OF the spoils-Eng-
Iish Opinion of the Csnssqusnees OF
the Conflict.
From the London Timss, June I'll
If ever there was chance for diplomacy
to step in with good effect between the ranks
of the combatants, it will be afforded now by
this inevitable pause in military operations.
The idea ofan eventual, however remote and
. conditional, cession of Venetia has been en-
tertaned by the Emperor Francis Joseph,
and it has found an utterance in the moder-
ate and dignifed notes and manfestoes which
have won so many partizans to the Austrian
cause. Austria, we understood her to say,
would not yield to threats she would stand
up in yndication of her rights she would
maintain the prestige Of her military power.
1t is only after battle and victory that she
could afford TO be magnantmous. All this
has come to pass much sooner than could be
expected. Three days have barely elapsed
since the declaration of hostilities, and Aus
tria has already fought her battle and won
her. victory. Enough has been done to graf
ify her pride; enough to soften her heart
towards those Italians whom she has found
upon experience to be no contemplate enc
mics, and whom, she must be aware, it is
always in her power to turn into very etaunch
and very valuable friends. By merely open
ing negotiations tor the cesson Of Venetia,
Austria would detach Italy from the Prussian
alliance, and be enabled at once to move
from South to North two hundred Thousand
of her best German troops with an immense
amount of material. All the successes
achieved by Prussia in Northern Germany
during the last week would be more than
counterbaianced by this sudden and enor-
nous accession of strength to her rlread v
powerful adversary Indeed, Prussia would
at once find herself in the presence of such
fearful odds that it may be questioned whether
she would any longer feel equal to the con
test
The settlement of the difference between
two of the belligerents would of necessity
bring the third to terms. Prussia and Italy
only ventnred on hostilities on the assurance
of each others co operation, and paci6cation
with Italy would not only free Austria from
the necessity Of fighting in the South, but
even of maintaining an army or o feet there
The squadron OF the Adriatic would be
thrown into the scale against her adversary,
and Prussia career of conquest in the Bal
tic would suffer check. Whatever leaning
the German people may show towards one or
tho other Of the two great powers, however
staunch to the Bund they may be in the south
or partial to Bismarks scheme of national
Parliament in the North, one feeling has been
hitherto universally evinced by them all, and
fratrieidal war. And the war has hardly
begun; hardly one drop of German blood has
been shed. Nothing has been done that may
be considered irretrievable. Should an ar
mlstice, with view to peace between Italy
and Austria, convince Prussia of the hope
lessness of a single handed struggle, nothing
would be easier than to settle the German
question on the ui possidetis principle. The
vicissitudes of the brief and hitherto blood
less contest have. brought the two contending
powers to that point at which they might
have arrived after seven years struggle, to
that frontier of the Maine which will, in all
probability, forever divide the North from
the South Of the Fatherland. Germany is
too vast a country, and with all the Austrian
dependencies, too powerful ever to be one ;
and it viii be a happy day for her and for
Europe when the duaism which has for more
than century distracted her councils and
neutralized her power comes to be estab-
lished, once and forever, on a sound and in-
tellgible basis. Let Prussia have the North,
and her ambition will be at peace; let Aus
tria have the South, and her compensation for
Venice win be as ample as the most loyal
Austrian can desire.
1t is true that in these specu atoms we
have not considered the six and thirty mem
bers of the Bund. But whatever other re-
suits the war may have, it will be sure to
accomplish the work it has already carried to
such an extent-the extinction of the minor
States. Hanover, FHesse and Saxony are
already dethroned, and we find no great
sympathy evinced in their cause. either
among their subjects or their neighbors,
either in or out of Germany.