The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-15
Probable War I'm EurOpe-The DynastIes
and Their Debts In Danger.
From Me Herald.

Probable War I'm EurOpe-The DynastIes
and Their Debts In Danger.
From The Herald.
Our latest telegraphic news from Europe
shows good reason for the war panic, of the
existence and prevalence of which we had been
previously informed. The situation is sufi-
GENTLY alarming. 1t will not surprise us if the
next message should inform us that hostilities
between France and Prussia have actually
commenced. Pluclly as ever, Count Bismark
is fully prepared and not unwilling to stake
the future of the new Germany which he has
so recently called into existence, and which as
yet is by no means consolidated, on the
chances OF war with France. Should it come
to an actual collision, it is impossible to predict
where or how matters will end. 1t is not France
or Prussia, 1t is Europe which is in danger.
| Disorder, in fact, is general. At no previous
| period since the birth Of the States system in
! Europe, has there been such general and COM
! plete disorganizatiOn as exists at the present
moment. For some generations, with the eX-
ception only of the period of the first Napo-
leon, a species of family compact gave at least
the appearance of unity to the various Euro
pean nations. That unity is no more. Dis
organization is the order of the day. Not only
are nations not agreed with each other, they
are not agreed within themselves Internally
and externally disorder reigns. Among the
various powers entente cOrdiatd there is none.
Within the limits of the various States, con-
tentment there is none. At the present mo-
ment, what European power of the first class
can be said to be in alliance with any other of
its peers If we except Russia, what power
can be said to have peace and contentment
reigning within its borders Take England
with her Fenianism and reform; France
with her factions and her army reconstruc-
tion schemes; Prussia with her newly acquired
but still grumbling Provinces AUSTRIA with
her various and conflicting nationalities; Italy,
with her eternal Church question and chang
ing ministries; Spain, with her stupidity and
her struggling but dying Bourbonism, to make
no mention OF the unfortunate sick man of the
East-and say which Of the European States is
at rest within itself. For all this disorder
there is but one possible cure-the nations,
one and all, must be made self-forgetful.
Their thoughts must be directed outwards.
Nothing can so efIectually accomplish this re-
suit as war. The needed ventilation can be
found through no other channel. If we may
Judge from the war clouds which now loom
portentously on the horizon, the requisite
, remedy may soon be applied
In the midst of all this disorder and confu-
sion it is felt to be a relief to allow the minds
eye to rest on the composure and dignity OF
= Russia and the United States. Like rocks
v in mid-ocean, they sit serene and lofty, un
, affected by the surging pillows which roll
in foam and fury all around them. Busy with
i numerous internal Improvements, Russia, will
n one foot on the Baltic and the other on the
Black Sea, looks hopefully towards CONSTANT
. nOple, and sees, IN the not distant future, the
e day when she win sit in pride on the shores o
If the Bosphorus, and when her flag will hoa
+. in triumph on the waters Of the Mediterranean
y The big pear which she has long been anxious
/, to pull is ripe, very ripe. Ii Russia will bu
Q have patience, il will soon, we promise her
/ fall into her hands, The United States, on tn,
"a other hand, so far from being on the verge o
le financial ruin, and about TO break in piece
.e from It's own weight, as some of our Old Worlc
H. friends would fain believe, startles the worlt
IN more than ever by the dash and bOldness of IL
pi enterprise. Not only not contented with
ca territory which certainly is large-some thinl
ne too large-but eager to obtain and able Il
81 ! utilize more, we propose TO purchase from
ot our big neighbor Russia that immense trac
at OF territory on the North American cont
nd nent which has formerly acknowledged he
or sway. what will we do with itP' some eagerl
nd ask. "Use IT,, We answer, "and turn II I
an good and profitable account" Thus the Unite
to states grows, and must grow more and more
IN until the entire North American continent
ir. with all that properly appertains TO 1t, come
70 under her authority. Our neighbors, how
TO ever, need take no alarm. We have no II
IN tention OF initiating the barbarous example
he Of the past, by making might the test
lst right. We wish TO hold our land by nobl,
tenure. We discard all idea of conquest. W
ms, mean to maintain and extend the great r
his public on grander principle. What v
of want we are willing to pay TOR; and what v
TO do acquire, we mean TO acquire by hone
ior means, and TO retain on fair and honorab
nen terms. 1t is fitting and proper, necessary (
lch the times, and worthy Of our history that '
lids should read to the world some such mob
the lesson.
,wn There Is one reflection which is irresistib
and from this view Of the political Affairs OF Il