The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-16

war with each other; for this armed peace
although II may breed fewer bitter enmities,
Is scarcely less grindiDgly oppressive and even
destructive than actual war.
This state Of things however, cannot last.
a change is necessary and imminent Europe
is on the eve Of great struggle. The strug-
gle will be for the mastery of the Continent.
Not Immediately, but at an early day, Europe
will be arranged in two hostile divisions. 1t
will be the Latin races against the German
races. Which will win cannot for a moment
be doubted. The Lstins have had their
triumph once. 1t was great and noble
triumph. Bat there can be no second Roman
empire. The empire OF Charlemagne great
as in some senses IL was, has not bsen called
success by history. Held together by one
strong will, it perished when that cohesive
force ceased to exist. Napoleon the First
tried to build up the oil edifoe, but it
would not do. In spite of all his skill
the attempt proved an egregrous failure.
The new empire perished and its architect
perished with 1T. The empire which shall
grow out of the approaching struggle shall
find its headquarters in the North, and shall
be controlled by forces born in northern
cline. The great German race is to rule Eu-
rope, and through Europe the Old World, ust
as the ADglo-Saxon race, an offshoot of the
same great stock, is to rule the New. We
shall have in Europe terrific copfic.s. Nation
will war against nation; race will war against
race. But nation will become less numerous
aud races will amalg gamate. Europe is doomed
to become great federal association; but the
centre of the new association will bs found in
the North, and the controlling power will be in
the bands OF the Germans. We have nothing
to do with fate. We speak only of force and
the history OF the ages and the aspect of the
times justify our judgment.
The United States and Hybrid Annexation.
From the ~ Y. Herald
few weeks since q number of Jealous
patriots in and out of Congress discovered a
nice job in ST. Domingo wild lands, mining
grants, Samapa bay speculatious and trifs
of a few millions in public debt worth one
or two cents on the dollar, and straightway
protectorate scheme was rushed into Congress
in the hope that the American eagle would
spread its wings aud carry it into a state of
hopeful existence. To the infinite disgust of
the iobbers the House could not see it in that
light, and the protectOrate scheme failed
almost as suddenly as it was born. The failure
was sscribed to the want Of skilful manage
ment on the part OF the nurses, and so the
bantlipg was dressed up in new suit to try
again if Congress would not adopt it. A
Hay tan red bandana kerchief was wound
round its criepy locks, a Cuba liberty cap was
placed upon its head bogus Mexican rattle
was put in its little fist, and it was then
wrapped in the striped mantle of American
script fathers in the shape of Joint resolution
that anybody who wanted to come into the
Union had only TO knock at the door, and it
should be opened unto him.
But the trick did not succeed. The con-
script fathers were in no mood to adopt new
bantliDgs, particularly of the hybrid breed.
They had recently been trying to bring in a
large black family as members of the body
polite, to which the Northern mind exhibited
uDmstakable signs of reluctance. The big
dose OF Southern niggers was yet to be swal-
lowed in the shape of constitutional amend
ment, and it was thought best to see how that
would affect the public stomach, If it could be
digested before proceeding to other measures
of hybIidation. So the joint resolution was
laid under the table to await the effect of our
own colored experiment, and to see if the
body polite could assimilate the large influx
OF black blood.
This is as it should be. We have no time
now, with so large a debt to provide for and
an immense mass of CORFU ption to purge from
the Government, TO foster petty jobs in hybrid
annexation schemes for the benefit of few
| sharp spectators. st. Domingo, Hayti, Cuba,
| Mexico, and Central America are all going
| through a natural process of ripening and rot
| ting, and in due time will come legitimately
within the pale of our control. The blood
thirsty blacks who have converted Hayti into
second Dahomey, the sparse, mixed popula-
ton that exists in the Dominican republic,
and claim the right to sell the malarious and
uninhabitable shores of Saman& and all the
other mixed and mutinous agglomerations
south of us dignifed with the name of nation
alities, are eating out rapidly the remains of
| the old Latin civilization in their midst, and
| preparing the way for the new era of steam
and electricity in the lands they now convert
| into deserts. The only point worthy the
present attention of the Government is
Panama and the Isthmus of Darien, where
our rapidly increasing commerce demands
immediate and permanent safety. II we can
save Cuba from the fate OF st. Domingo,
Hayti, and Mexico, it should be done; but the
country at large is in no mood now for further
by brid annexation.
BRANDY, WHISKY, WINE, ETC.