Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-07-09
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Prussia and Austria. We are not so re-
mote as to remain unaffected by il, and
there is not a nation on the continent Of
Europe but breads while it looks forward.
and not even the most sagacious can see
how the angry Inflammation Is to be dis
persed, or what may be the ultimate effects
Of a rupture upon any and all the nations
within the sphere Of its influence. The
very suspense cannot long remain, for it is
killing, More than a million Of men in
arms. concentrating, manGuvering and
threatening, beget ar attitude in which
none Of the countries concerned can re-
main long. The expense alone is ruinous.
The plan for a Paris Conference was the
wisest, and perhaps the only resource
except war remaining. Few. however,
believed it would avert the madness Of the
hour. All feel that matters have probably
gone too far and yet no one can see in
what way the clash Of arms is going to
afford better grounds Of peace. The old
method OF treating Group was by bleeding
the patient to utter ~faintness and prostra-
ton, and the hope was that then sometimes
a new and healthy action would set in
with his reviving strength. Now the wise
physician husbands the strength and con-
sutu,ion Of the patient TO endure until the
local evil can be overcome. Napoleon's
proposal would seem to make him master
Of the si,uati: n-the consulting physician
for all the ills of Europe. 1t lets him into
all the family secrets Of the nations, their
strength and weakness, their passions
csprices and prejudices, and these rules in
the respective Cabinets more than right,
more than reason, and even more than
self. interest. Yet he is committed to
nothing. He can, if he pleases, exert his
good Offices as a mediator, and compose
the differences if they are to be adjusted
peacefully, or he can at any moment
throw his sword into the scale and cut the
Gordon knot, il he cannot unite it. He
can even stand still and look on, If he
pleases.
In fact, the immoralities Of Prussia and
Austria have made him at this moment
the arbitrator of the destinies of Europe.
He cannot and does not pretend to be a
better mar than his brother monarchs, but
he certainly is more s~agacious looking
always to the glory OF France. and this
grati6es the French people. He may not
make fewer mistakes than others, but he
at least is among the first to find them out
and slip from their entanglements, before
the rest of the world is awake TO their ex-
istence. Should he now be able to mol
lily conflicting passions and maintain the
peace Of Europe, he will gain much in
reputation, more in power, and in the end,
probably in territory.
The great lesson Of the present European
CONFUSION is, that the immortality Of ma
tons is their weakness. The quarrel
which now threatens to embroil all Europe
vas originally a dispute between two
plunderers about the division Of part oil
the spoil Of another State, which they had
combined to appropriate. Austria is re-
ally not the aggressor in the present quar-
rel, but having gladly taken part with
Prussia in the war on Denmark, finds
herself so UNANIMOUSLY treated by her ally
that she either has to endure an unjust
disgrace, worse than she joined in infict.
ing on another, or fight. This opens W
her internal weakness, which is fnghuu
through her corruptions and ages Of abuse
which her present monarch has not beer
able to corrupt. Prussia, on the Other
hand, derives all her real greatness ant
strength through the education, such as i
is, of the masses of the people. Her weak
ness is the despotic usurpasion Of ths
Government upon every right Of the PEG.
pie, and her naughty ambition to become
a great maritime power. In the pursuit
Of this she has seized. in conjunction with
Austria, Schleswig-H olstein from Den.
mark, and now wants to cut a canal tina,
shall give her command both Of the Baltic
and Of the North Sea. For this she i,
ready to fight Austria and let all Europe
NEE, in arms, setting all the principles o.
the Bund, which unites the Germanis
Confederation. at utter defiance. And
yet all the world beside can see that in
this she deies right and risks everything
most precious to a nation at one and the
same time. Russia does not want to see
Prussia great at sea. Austria is not YET
quite dead to honor. The Germanic Con.
federation will not, if possible, submit to
such a dic,a,ion from a single State, how.
ever powerful, and the people are ready
to rebel to secure liberty.