The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-10-10
The Impending warm Eurspe

The Impending war in Europe.
A great war in Europe is inevitable.
Those who place the slightest trust in
the assurance Of peace which tho rival
governments are continually making.
forget the MAXIM Of Tuilcyrnrd, that
the use Of speech is the conceamcnt of
thought. Those who choose TO take
the word OF French or Prusslan min.
lister, forget that truth sthe oncspecial
virtue which continental statesman
can not afford to practice An great
wars in Europe have begun with proc
lamations ofpcace, 50 thai the very
phrase of"it icrnatioIal amlty" sounds
like the report Of gun. The nearer
the war the more earnest arc the pro-
testations ofgood viii; and tho govern.
mems remind us Of prize fighters who,
just before thoy beat each other to Jelly,
Sx.hange the warmcst hand. .shakings
and most cordial smiles. We have had
M ore than one instance IN tins gcner-
alton Of royal rulers Congratuiating
their subjects upon the prospect Of
Iong and happy peace ut the very mo.
mont when tCey were prcparclng
their armies to invade somebody elves
territory.
France desires peace; all her inter-
esls are bound up in undisturbed COM
nercc, manufactures anJ art. Snc will
make any sacrafco TO avold war"
! This il the manaer in which the En-
pclor talked ut .Amiens. II have
crossed France with Tie Empress from
Strasburg To Dunkirk, and our hearty
and sympathetlcreccption every. where
has filed ~ with the hvelicst graft
tude. Nothing perceive with rlcas-
urc, can shake the confidence which,
for twenty years, the French people
have placed inn They have cstima-
ted at their real valuo the difficulties l
have had to surmount. The ill.suc.
cess Of OR policy across the ocean has
not diminished the prestlgJ Of our
arms, since everywhere the valor of
our soldiers ovcrcame all opposition.
The events accomplished in Germany
have not caused our country to depart
from a calm aud disnified attitude,
and il relics with justlccon tho main
! tenahcc ofpoace" Yet all this rci-.
ance upon the pcrpotuity of poaco did
not prevent Napoleon from buying
ironulad war-vcssels IN America 20 in
crease n navy already superior 20 that
Of England. Nor dill IL put stop to
tho unusual activity ia reorganizing
drilling and armlng every branch OF
the military service. Tho camps Of
France are as busy rs her manulacto-
rics. Immediately after tho trump.
of Prussia, measures were taken to or
game the army upon n bnis Of 500 600
m'n Ptu s,A, cqhlIly emphatic in her
prctestatlons, l'N been us significant IN
her actions. The avowrd policy OF
BlSmark is tho consolidation OF the
North. German States into one great
military power, Of which Prussia shall
be the head, und il is notorious that
his schemes have for thoir immediate
object the detaching of the South. Ger
man ST. tcs from the inAa.nco of Aus
tIia,
France IS arming; Prussia is armlngi
the heedlr-eun is to be met with the
Chassepot rife. Austria is sacrafcing
tho hereditary policy Of the House of
Hapsl urg TO gain--what she has ne7
or had--the effective support of Hun
gary, and an assurance that Hunga-
rlan troops could DO depended upon in
n battle. Italy; and even Switzerland,
are adding to their materials of war;
while that vast and semi -barbaric pow
er, which overhangs Western Europe
like threatening cloud has already
announced that tho Sultan must revo-
lutionize the whole system OF hIs Gov
ernment. Every movement of Russia