The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-24
The Threatened wnr in Europe.

The Threatened Wnr in Europe.
Ii seems to he generally admitted
that a great European war is extremely
probable if not inevitable. France and
Prussia, the principals in the prospect.
i've struggle, are understood to be max
ing gigantic preparations for the fray.
All communication looking to peace
full solution of their difficulties is said
10 have been suspended, and both Coy
rrnments are carefully manoeuvering
for the advantage of position in the con,
test. There IS no doubtlthat France is
brushing mp the artillery arm of her
service, and reinforcing and supplying
her outposts upon the German frontier.
The French Government has already no
titled the reserves of 1868 to prepare for
immediate service and the impression is
that they may be needed during the
coming month, 10 supply the place of
such troops as, should hostilities. COM
mencr, will at once make All advance
upon Prussia. BISMARCK, who may al
most be said to constitute the Prussian
Government. is putting forth all his en-
rrgies in military preparation for the
impending struggle, and is leaving no
means nntried that may consolidate all
the GerAan States against what is rep
resented as the aggressive policy of the
first NAPOLEON, Inherited and adopted
by "the nephew oS his uncle" As ex-
planning the nature and causes of the
threatened war eappend the follow
ing extract from the Philadelphia Age !:
As an interesting portion Of history
connected with this Luxembourg EN-
broglio, the Paris correspondent of the
Pail Mall Gasette declares that 1.-THE pro
posal to sell Luxemburg to France did
not proceed f"om the Tuileries, but
was made to Napoleon by the King of
Holland, as a private speculation"
This, may be true, and gthesspendthrift
monarch may desire, to replenish his
private purse id this manner; but q
aursory glance at the history of the
puchy will show that Napoleon has
other and stronger reasons for rpucha3ing
il than filling the Golfers of brother
potentate. In the fifteenth century,
iouis the Fourteenth of France took
possession Of the south portion of what
il now called the Duchy of Luxembourg,
and united it to his home empire under
the name OF Luxembourg Francais.
The rest of the Duchy, consisting OF
about l27 square miles, with upwards of
Poi, 900 inhabitants, still remained Ger
man. and constituted part of the Ger
man Bnrgundian country. The Duchy,
however. lost its sovereign, and was
afterwards generally under the domin-
ion of Austria. Then came the French
Resolution, and the whole of the
Ducby was incorporated with France;
and the Luxembnrgers remained French
until the Congress of Vienna, when in
Isis. it was decided to take Luxembourg
away from France, make it once more a
German Duchy, and hand it over to the
King of the Netherlands as hereditary
grand ducal dependency of the Nassau
sovereignty. In 1880 Luxemburg join
ID the Belgians in their revolution, and
together with Belgium tore itself away
from its Dntch sovereign's dominion;
hut at the London Conference OF 1882,
the Grand Duchy Was DIVIDED between
Belgium and Holland.
y. Now, when il Is remembered with
what bitterness Napoleon spoke of the
''dstested treaties OF 1885, and how pa
tiently and persistently he has labored
to wipe out the stains of degradation
put upon France by tho allies who
framed and contaminated those treaties,
his action with reference to Luxembourg
can be seen in its proper light. One af.
ter another the powers that lhumiliated
France. after Waterloo have felt the
hand Of French retribation. The Cri.
mean cainpaign avenged Moscow, and
at the same time reduced England to
third-rate power, with no continental
repatation in a military point of view.
The Austro- o-Italian war, ending at Sol
ferino, laid the mine by which Austrian
pride and pretensions have been hum.
bled in the dust. Nice and Savoy have
been!added to the territory ofFrance and
1916 blotted out i'd that directions. Prus-
ala still remains, with the memories OF
"butcher Blucher' and his numbering
dragons at Waterloo. Luxemburg and
tbe Rhine are standing reminders of a
debt ancaffeelledE in. that portion OF
Europe, and from the Hotel Des lnva-
lides n voice is constantly calling, and
.hadowy hand pointing Rhineward
With such q mission to accomplish
With the ssdetest treaties Of 15l5p to
still tiore effectually blot out from the
history, of Europe, Napoleonwill accept
the Luxemburg controversy as part oi
his destiny, aud stimulating the natien-
al pride by the memories and wrongs OF
the past, lead on his armies to a conflict
with the only power which III has IS not fell
French vengeance for the edoings of 1915,
This is the true meaning of the Lufern-
burg ambroglio.,bSila vohn,w lLa l
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