Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-06-05

great American experiment OF gov
eminent by the people
certainly implies a higher aver
age civilization in the Old World
that there is probably no country in
Europe in which public man could
venture to-day to utter such savage
and brutal sentiments as this OF
Thaddeus Stevens, which, bad as il
is, has been repeatedly rivaled by
the language Of other prominent men
of the same party speaking on the
same subject. But the present po-
litical condition of Europe reveals
the formidable ascendancy on that
continent, also, of the same spirit Of
violence which just now domineers
over the West. Three years ago
the Emperor Napoleon III. expressed
his fears of the progress of that
spirit to the grd pr European cabi-
nets, and urged it upon them to con-
vene a general European Congress,
in which the European questions
then pending might be settled by
diplomacy. England defeated this
appeal Of the French sovereign by
her refusal to take part in such
a Congress; her statesmen, accus-
toned to policy of temporizing and
evasion, having convinced them
selves that it was better to run the
risk of a general European confagra-
ton than to have France acquire an
absolute and visible predominance
in the councils of Europe by carry
ing through to a satisfactory settle.
ment all the vexed questions of
the hour.
All that Napoleon III. three years
ago foresaw and feared has already
come or is fast coming to pass. Cen
trail Europe, from the Baltic to the
Adriatic, has been suffering for
months past most of the worst fnan-
cial and moral mischiefs which actual
war could impose; and the London
journals which three years ago
pooh-poohed the Imperial PROPOSE
tons for congress of nations, are
now uttering doleful cries over the
prostration of commerce, and queru-
lous complaints ofthe brutality which
insists upon fighting over questions
which diplomacy ought to resolve.
Meanwhile, every day which
passes weakens the hold of reason
and law upon the public conscience of
Europe, and strengthens the passions
which lead directly to the worship of
Force as the arbiter of nations. |
Great armies are marching and coun-
termarching; the uncertainty of
all things, political and financial, un-
settles mems reasons and excites
their emotional nature the pride of
blood and the traditions of national
glory are evoked. In Prussia an
energetic and INSCRIPTIONS premier
sees his golden opportunity dawning
IN Austria high-spirited and vehe-
nent young monarch, chafng under
,he memories of the last war with
France, grows daily more impatient
1t the provocations addressed to him.
'elf and his people by his Prussian
'ival on the one hand, and his Italian
enemy on the other; in Italy the
passions Of a whole race are aroused
o complete its triumph over a heredi-
AIRY foe, and to crown its newly con-
'tituted unity by the redemption of
'very acre of Italian soil to the pro-
ection of the Italian banner. To
Keep the peace of the world in the
midst of such instigations and such
chances of strife is probably task
beyond the reach of diplomacy and
IL signs conspire to indicate that
europe is entering upon another
Battle Summer" not less terrible
han the memorable season which