The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-08

ing their object as ever. Their costlv dast
Of iron. .clads, 70 which so mHoh OF their pre.
vious success has been due, ia now useless.
The campaign has TO be commenced answ an
a totally different basis. Practically. bsvond
killing certain number OF Parseuayaps. the
Allies have done nothing whatever towards
the subjugation of Paraguay and the danosi.
tion OF Lopez during the two years of the war.
The Brazilians, at least, svow that NOTHING
short OF these two objects will satisfy them
and their allies OF the Argentine Republic seem
to have been easily induced to resume thar
old place as oatspaws for their powerful uei0b.
bors. But IL must be evident now To the mos,
obstinate as we'll as to the most saugnine
among the allies that nothing short OF tbs
determination Of the Psraguayan race can
secure for them the objects at which they aim.
Under these circumstances, it Is not surpri-
sing TO be teld that the dissensions in the
Allied army have eliminated in the resiuna.
tion Of both the Brazilian and Argentine geue
rails. The Marquis de Caxias, who has car
tainly shown both valor and determination in
his efforts to accomplish his never-endine task.
is succeeded in the supreme command by an.
other Brazilian officer. 1t is no wonder that
two years of fruitless losses and hardships
should have ended in mutual recriminations
between the Allied commanders. But the
simultaneous resignation of the two Generals
seems to have proved a particularly ipiudi-
cious case of changing horses while crossing
the stream. While they were quarrellinS
Lopez was fortifying himself far away from
iron-clads, and in the interior of his own
country.
Nothing in the history OF modern warfare is
more remarkable than the extraordinary aud
almost unparalleled devotion to Lopez dis
played by the Paraguayans. That singular
race, isolated from their neighbors by tradi-
tionary restrictions, accustomed to self-sacri-
fee by the austerity of their Jesuit training,
and proud of their comparatively pure ma
tionality as contrSsted with the heterogeneous
mixture of races to be found In the ranks of
their opponents, regard their President
General with something little short of religious
awe, and receive his orders, civil or military,
in q spirit of upquestioning obedience. What
ever faults or deeds of cruelty may be urged
against Lopez, it is impossible to maintain
that he rules by mere arbitrary power or ter
rorism. No personal government based on
such foundation could have stood the strain
to which that of Lopez has been subjected.
1t is to be hoped that the time for media
tion cannot be far off. The Allies must now
see the impossiblity of achieving their
object without simply destroying the Para
guayan race from off the face of the earth.
And even supposing they are prepared to
attempt and able to accomplish this, the
blood and treasure which they would have to
expend would be utterly out of proportion to
the stake at issue. Their honor must be
satisfied by the material triumphs they have
gained in the face of the most heroic resist
ance, and we cannot help believing that Judi
oious joint diplomatic action ON the part OF
any two or three powers might put an end to
most sanguinary and uncalled-for struggle.