The New York herald., 1870-12-03
Russia Accepts an International Coniere.ee

Russia Accepts am International Conference.
Our European dispatches, published this
morning, announce fact Of paramount i'm
porsance in the history Of the time. Russia
having, by policy equally vlgilant, wise.
far-seeing and firm, called the attention Of
Europe and Of the world to the unfalrness Of
the Treaty Of Paris imposed upon her by the
triumphant Apglo-French alliance successfully
sustaining Turkey in the Crlmean war, and
having secured strong adherents by the JUS
tice of her cause and the sklful as we'll as dig
nided course of her leading statesman, Gort-
chakoff, suddenly, but in the most adroit and
timely manner, shifts the whole burden Of
| final settlement upon the cosignatary parties
to the obnoxious Convention.
France 10, for the moment, powerless In
this matters Great Britain has beheld her
Queen exasperated, her Cabinet convulsed,
and her entire body politio thrown into
sickly tremor by the apprehension Of imme-
diate war; Austria has quivered like an ASPEN
leaf under the shadow Of the uplifted arm
of Panslavism animated by pro- Russian
sympathies; Turkey has resounded with the
din of hasty and confused preparation; Prus-
sia has grimly smiled-a military Janus, seated
in the car Of triumph, with face of peace
turned toward Russia and face Of war toward
both France and England The whole Cont
mental balance Of power has felt the shock and
the thrill, and, just at tho critical moment,
when word from st. Petersburg would have
| turned the scale and set devastating fleets and
armies in motion, the Gear speaks only to
accept conference Of all the Powers united
In the treaty of 1856. This conference granted,
and the just, legitimate point for which Russia
strives is gained! The preponderating Powers
| in it will perforce be unfavorable to anything
that might prolong warfare that is found to
be practically rdinous, not merely to the coun-
tries directly engaged, but to all others coter-
minous or holding direct business relations
with them. War in our time is a hideous,
| goblin haunted dream of o shameful, wicked
past, and the rulers who love il are Ambitious
FOOLS" or men in whom the old barbaric fero-
city Of darker and unhappier times still turks.
| Now, neither those who direct the destinies Of
Britain, nor the Gar Alexander, nor the EN-
\
Aziz can be accounted such. They UNDER
stand the real spirit and the genuine sense Of
practical age, in which the limbs and hearts
and lives and property of human beings are
deemed Of value, and the tinsel trumpery Of
| legalized murder deceives no man of modern
ideas and true Christian nurture. The senti-
mentallsm Of the 'spomp and circumstance"
which call the filth and carnage Of the battle
| field, the groans and anguish Of the hospital,
the debt that grinds millions of toiling men
down into the dust for generations, and fills our
| jails, our almshouses and our lazarettos, by
the false name of "glory" is discarded and
abhorred by the statesman and the patriot and
by the nations whom such man fitly repre-
sents.
| Hence Prince Gortchakoff, cordially echo
| ing the whisper of his imperial master Alex
ander, and sagely trusting to the conscience
of modern Europe-nay, Of mankind-just rea-
wakened by the frightful war now crying aloud
to heaven from the breast Of gasping, bleeding
France, accepts an invitation to discuss the
rights he firmly claims for his country In the
presence Of the assembled Powers. This
is concession worthy Of great empire,
ruled by great mind and a good
heart. We predict that, unless Europe be in
deed doomed, this act will bring its bless
ings. The existing conflict will be arrested
and further struggle avoided. Reason and
right will prevail; Christianity, commerce and
freedom will be vastly aided in the East, and
grand precedent will have been set by the
light of which the nations may begin to dis
arm, the number Of non-producers, and conse-
quently the burdens of labor and the crimes Of
penury may be diminished, and decency, jus
tice and freedom, at last, go hand in hand
with what we often prematurely term ''civiliza-
ton"
Russia, in setting this splendid example to
the world, will not fail to profit by her moder-
alton, nay she will win more than the expen-
diture Of thousands Of lives and millions upon
millions of roubles in stupid and wicked war
fare would have cost her, and future historians
will record the intellectual and moral victory
thus won as the grandest achievement In Mus
covite annals since the days when Ivan the
Great delivered his people forever from
Mongolian tyranny. Thus imposing is the
latest attitude Of Russia!
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polygamy, as given to a visiting HERALD
reporter and published In our columns ycster-
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