American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1866-11-21
VOLUME 8.
a General Balance Ut P0Wer.

may appear to tDe pfactical hi'"N' VI No.
IN this Country, the happy family OF
European States begins to be deeply con-
.erped at the growing and apparently re-
iS;.tIess power of the American Union'
o,rt;cularly since our Government has
: len to embracing and caressing the I'm,
nnstial system of the Russian Car, receiv-
;,o in return much more than compound
interest of batteries and promises. Our
late imposing display of naval and mill
Jar; efficiency; our possession OF ex-
toustless material our evident superior,
;tv Of construction and Invention in YEA
mons and armameuts; the warIlke and
patriotic spirit of our masses; our, to
them. amazing financial elasticity and
tho altered tone Of our diplomacy, which.
f,o,r subserricut humblenes5, begins to
oboooe to firm self assertion, have filed
iha monarchical ana reactioaary camp
with real alarm. This raw American
youth of yesterday. has become sturdy
and somewhat noisy adult to day,
~FnIi of rough oatbs and bearded Ike pnd,"
ia,lous of his honor; re*ertiu Of atfront,
and determined in his ambitions aspjra-
t;ons. Possessing every species of skill
and material at homo, he is shaking off
mercantile, manufacturing, agricultural
and monetary dependence, and sttidna
gorth into the arena to contend for thr
very highest prize held out Tor National
prdwess.
grter the downfall of HE First Napo
Icon the old fashioned politicians of
ropo, desperately striving to re establish
t,c order OF things which he had so ter
,hly disturbed, invented the phrase and
th. system known as "tho balance Of
Lower" by which the different Empires
ehd Kingdoms were so distributed as
sinrly aud conjoint|y to hold each other
in check, aul thereby preserve that i'm
Inability that il 50 favorable to mouarch
;.ol forms. But IDEAS are rs sab:le as
electricity, and propelled hy steam they
have given the "btlanco" some rude
shocks during the last half century, the
very worst Que occl riu3 in tue Summer
5f the current year, when Prussia lcap-
ed from II to an influence over 80 mil
lions Of sturdy Germans.
But the wise putr.archs Of ly gone
heoriss have not sYccumbcl ], Pursuing
;ncir veil known p'aa Of suggesting icti
tioui d,ogsta and stirring np chimorical
sa-ms, they are now busiIy cngagod in
asi;aliug the mind of Europe with the
phaatlsm of a terrible Rn,so American
conspiracy, and making this their = ason
for advocating combinations to bring
about universal balanca Of power, that
is to say, an alliance, offensive and dcien,
sive. of the remaining States, 20 force
America also into the iron bondage of
some circumscribiny and rcprcssive poIit-
zeal limit. Drcamcrs !-as though the
bonl which even the shryelled limbs of
che dccrcpit monarchies have burs. asun-
der on the Danube and the Adije, could,
Tor an instant hold the members of the
young Republican giant, whose burning
ardor the broad Ocean can scarcely re
strain Singular, nay, almost insane as
such proposition may seem to American
intellect, it is, nevertheless, crayely an'
tertained, and the new French Ministc.
of Foreign Affairs, La Valette, in his
much talked of circuIlr to the agents and
ambassadors of the Empire, has very
broadly hintcd at the comprehensive
change which recent events have brought
about in the relations Of National.ties an /
Governments Western and Central Eu
rope, including Great Britain, now see
confronting them on the East the colos-
sal despotism of the Cars, numbering
already 75,00o,000 souls devoted to their
creed, their Emperor and their fanatical
belief in their future conquest of the
Cont nent, and on the Westera hOlizJn,
but only too near with the aid of iron
clads aud monitors as we'll as popular SYM
pathies in Ireland aud Germany, the
United States with census of 10000
900 ready for 1870, aud superabundantly
rich in everything that makes Nation
formidable. These TIVE mighty popula
tions, although SO diverse in their politi-
cal theories, are now seen shaking. hands
With mutual assurances OF firm alliance
and reciprocal support in case OF certain
grave contingencies not, by any means,
80 unlikely to occur as most folks may
imagine.
Ere the lapse of another generation, at
no moro than the present rate of increase.
these two Powers would number 300
100000 of population, welding s,iertfic
and material acquisitions bewildering to