The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-06-02

The European Troubles.
Just now attention is directed to tn
situation" in the -Atlanti
country. Our ncighbors over Their
have been for four years discussing il
otium cum dignitaie style, at the break
fast table, the features of the h0rrit
strife in America, but now the seem
will shift, and from present indication.
we here shall soon discuss the features
Of European struggle. Some woul'
say with seeming cxultation Thci.
time has come, and we Of the UnitcC
States can LAUGH if we choose. 50 We
nay, but, speaking foroursclf, we deep
~ regret the position Of affairs in the
odd world" We heartily wish, fDl
the sake Of the innocent who must SUI.
fer, that some means could be devised
to bring all the suffering upon the
ambitious leaders who are prccipita-
ting Il war for their W aggrandIzc-
incnt. The common people must SUI
fer. The poor man must be dragged
from his home, from wife and children,
to fight and die FOR a phantom so far as
he is concerned, but which political and
ambitious dcmagogues dcnominatr
principle. For a little slip Of country,
in itself Of no importance, a war ofaw-
full magnitude IS to be %inausuratcd, and
after Il Wholesale butchery Of human
beings, and total departure from the
original pretended objects Of the war,
society will be left in II worse condi-
ton than before.
And yet, from accounts which We
publish elsewhere in the Home Jour
nal, il will hc scen that all the ncccssa
ry preparations for a great wararc pro
ceeding with the utmost activity.
Things have got to that point that it is
quite Impossible for Italy to rcccde.
Whatever is to be the result of the
conflict at hand, she would most Ger
tainly be ruined if she did not fight.
The Government says it will not attack
by which it probably means that it
will not do so until war has begun be-
tween Austria and Prussia-but it has
placed itself in a position which it can
not afford long to maintain. 1t is rs
good rs bankrupt it has made cnor-
nous contracts for the supply Of the
army; il must have, at the very least,
100000 men under arms--perlmps more
if we include the CONSUMPTION for the
present year, which, it is true, is only
just called out and beginning to learn
its goose step. A correspondent ofthc
New York News says: . Enrolment of
volunteers, mobilization of national
guards, the half-pay rcgimcntal olli
GERS called on full pay, inccssant toll in
military workshops and naval arsenals,!
hospitals fitting up, army surgeons in
creased in numbers, private subscrip-
tons for the benefit of future wounded,
lapies scraping lint and volunteering as
sick nurses--in short, every kind of
preparation now goes on which is
usual when war is close at hand. 1.-THE
Government still imagines-as it very
lately seemed to do-that it is strong
enough, if war were not to be, to res
tore everything to the peace footing,
my belief is that it deceives itself, and
that the consequences Of such retroccs-
sion would be disastrous alike to itsc.f
and to the country
In relation to this impending strug
ole, we are amused ut an observation
made by some John Bull correspond
ent Of our American papers, who hopes
that the wal will be conducted on hu-
name principles, like the late American
war was. This wU amusc many of us
down South who have seen, "with our
own eyes," how Sherman, Butler, Shcr-
idan, Milroy, ct I'd omne genus, conduct
ed the war against us "rebcls." The
European correspondent has read only
one side. He v Travelled, as we
have, over the route Of Sherman across
Georgia and the Carolinas. O"r hole
Is that the European struggle, II they
will fight, may be exempt from the bar
PARTIES that characterized the struggle
here. We hope they will have no cit
les OF 10000 souls burnt to the ground,
and helpless women and chiIdeen cast
out in the cold, with no shelter to GOV.
er them at night from the dcws, nor
from the rays of the sun in the day
Such acts Of leaders may DO attributed.
by despots at heart, to military ncces-
sity, but victory won by such means
loses all its glory, if there be any glo.
ny in enforcing obedience at the point
Of the bayOnet. 1t pas glorious-th'
defence Of TherDopy|@ by brave Leon
das' band against the mighty host o
xsrxes, and this all will admit. Clio
Si"us also was the defence made by thu
"fsnsAs Of the South against numerical
49, ssd sseesas vas only wanting to
the defenders heroes
I'M. me eandAd must admit, even while
e0hasnn'ns them sos Ne ersps Of try.