The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-30
THE WAR ASPECT.
Russian AnIIcIpaIIOns Of Gigantic
European HGruEEIe.

I :" n ~ 4ASEENAa
Russian AniIcIpaIiOns Of n Gigantic
European hGruEEIe.
From the Fturis De6atS, AuSLSt Is.
At the moment when the Prussian
( press is becoming calmer the Russian
I journals seem disposed to increase in
/ violence, not only towards Turkey, bnt
| also towards the nations of Western
! Europe. While the greater part OF
| those organs continue TO draw II most
| frightfuI picture of the crimes which
they attribute to the Turkish troops in
the Island of Crete, the Moscow Ga
<ctLe, representing the extreme Russian n
party. declares all Europe to be mem
/ aced with a terrible ConttsgraIionj here
/ France Is about to rush upon Prussia
/ 10 endeavor to destroy the consequences
| of the campaign of Bohemiu; there
twenty -four millions of Italians are
preparing TO fall upon Rome: in Ger
many the States annexed to Prussia
/ last year are about TO take up arms
10 recoDquer their independence.
Instead Of pointing out to MS the
means OF escaping from those perils,
the terrible Gazette calmly says:-"lf
| the shock is inevitable, why delay IL ?
The friends of peace themselves may
prefer an Immediate catastrophe to 80
lamentable stale of things" No
doubt II depends on Russia alone to
avoid all these disasters; but We are
not worthy of her intervention in our
favor. Already in the spring she kind
ly saved France from Il war which WAS
on the point of breaking out, and we
did not show our gratitude to her. mo
one has understood the greatness of the
sacrifice RUSSIA made in pacifying Eu-
rope, when a war on the subject of
Luxemburg gave her such good op-
porIuuIIy OF delIveriLg, without diff
Guilty, her CO. religiOnists in the East
whose deSttuies are SO Intimately bound
up with her own" To that sacrifice
Europe only replied by giving an
enthusiastic reception TO the Sultan.
Therefore Europe deserves no pity; aud
the Moscow Gazette consequently aban-
dons France 10 her sad faIe. a-a
French Reply 1G.L, e. rFussI"n AeeHsH-
From the Pats Temps. Aug1sS, 10.
In an article which has been exten-
sively copied, the Prussian print NORTH
Gei man Gdzette) raises the scare crow of
The old parties, and affects 10 represent
war as being demanded and desired by
the opponents of the imperial dynasty.
These are they who. Ii the Berlin journ-
al is to be believed are favnrlng II re-
sort to hostilities, while the Emperor's
Government has assuredly no idea OF
combating the principle of nationali-
ties, after kdUin1 been The first TO pro
clam II. The iusinuatiOn is doubly
adroit, involving as it does at once IA
menace aud tiAttery. But atthe same
time 1t would be difficult TO represent
with less fidelity the position of the
question and the state of public opinion
in France. If the Prussian writer
knew our country, he would be aware
that former parties exist now only in
the eleclioneering circular of the ad-
IDinistratiOn; he would understand
F,nri.,iIHy thuF desired
here by any one, and that The
apprehension entertained by enligbt-
ened men is precisely that OF see
ing the country engaged, without It's
own knowledge, in enterprises Tor
which it could not be responsible, mas
much as it could not prevent them.
Would The North German Gazette pre-
tend by any chance to place the Mexi-
can ex xpediIiOn to he account of public
opinion in France Does it think 1t
can insiDuHte that the opposition drove
the government into that undertaking.
Its language now, respecting the dispo-
sitiou OF France toward Germany, Is
not IA whit more sensible than either of
these suppOsitions would be. The Prus-
sian journal shows in still another
manner its Ignorance concerning us. II
does not admit that the internal condi-
lion of France can have any share in
the causes of the war which people an
tiripate. Nothing, however, is more
certain. At the present point at which
matters have arrived, after the re-
awakening OF public opinion, after the
Mexican disaster, after the struggles of
last session, after the hopes to which the
letter of the 18th of January gave life,
and which at present scarcely remain
hopes-Hiter all this, there is no exHg-
geTatiOn in saying that our government
finds itself between the horns of this
dilemmA-either TO sutlsiy the lRgiti-
mate demands of liberal opinion, or to
Impose silence upon it by the loud bru-
tai roar of the cannon.