New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-13

europe. If these two powers can agree
upon policy of acquisition which will
not conflict in any particular, but which
will widen as it grows in strength, their
an1icable relations may be maintained for
years. Russia covets Turkey and Asia;
Germany seeks Belgium and Denmark.
AS there is no conflict of interest in these
ambitions, why should not the cabinet at
st. Petersburg, and the cabinet at Berlin
strike bargain that each will support
the other in thus rounding off its posses
sions? This seems to us the natural drift
of the Russo-Prussian policy since we
know that the Gear seeks Turkey, and
that Bismarck covets Denmark.
In another respect, France is not the
proper ally of Russia at present, because
she is physically and financially incapa-
BILE of being aggressive, and since for her
to espouse the policy of Peter the Great,
is to awaken the enmity of England
which is the last thing she desires. at this
time. Any combination against Turkey
at present, and this is the only common
object that can bind Russia and France
together, must consolidate Austria, Ger
many, England and the Ottoman empire
in a common defensive alliance. Russia
has no other ambition than to enter Asia
over the PROSTATE form of Turkey, unless
she has changed her policy; and is now
seeking Moldavia and Wallachia. This
would be design against which Bis
lnarck and Won Beust would unite; but
we do not see how France could assist it,
for she is as inimieal to the spread of
Russia in Europe as she is to the growth
of Prussia. England will take no part in
opposing the, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of Russia
in the south of Europe, since her only
apprehension is that the Gar will bend
his efforts to sever the East Indies from
their present possessor.
What assistance could France render to
Russia that the armies and navies of Eng
land, Prussia and Austria would not de-
feat ? Her own governments notin a con-
dition of security against revolution her
armies have been defeated so thoroughly
that it will require years to re-establish
their self-esteem {; her generals have been
tried and found incapable; her domestic
policy is unsettled; she is burdened with
debt, and demoralized in her industry
Italy regards her with suspicion as intend
ing at some future day to interfere in be-
half of the Pope she anticipates war
with China her navy proved its useless
ness in the late war; and her treaties With
Russia have never produced any good eff
feet at home; she has been the most
determined friend of Turkey nothing
has occurred to interrupt her relations
with Austria. Under these circumstances
it seems unreasonable to suppose that
she has engaged with Russia in an alli-
ance which can only end in disaster, for,
with the immense armies of Austria and
Prussia dividing her from her ally, what
could she hope for but humiliation be-
fore she could form a junction with the
Cossacks? While the Russians were skir-
mishing on the frontier of Prussia, the
veterans of Won Moltke and the armies
of Austria would overrun France and re-
monarchy, which would at
once make peace. England has probably
attempted to organize such an alliance as
that of which the telegraph reports; but
all the probabilities are soidly against it.
NJ. Theirs is not mad yet.