Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-05
MEMPHIS, TENNy SATURDAY. JULY s. 1878.


lent to attackFrance anew, and to crush
and dismember, so as make of her a
second Poland, before directing the
hordes OF Won Moltke TO st. Petersburg
Tor u might prove dangerous to at
tack tne east before having quite finish
ed with the west. "We must not -
exclaims a German writer, s1allow
| the French tiger to iuunp over
| Germany when she has her back turned
| away" But suppose that Russia, after
the capture of Khiva, having become
every day more formidable on the Black
sea, and having opened through Asia
her way to Constantinople, intends to
capture the Bosphorus, the key Of the
old world? In such an occurrence Ger.
many must very likely take up the
gauntlet at the risk Of fighting at the
same time France and Russia.
We are thus induced to admit that the
consolidation of Russian power in Asia
would surely be the precursOry sign of a
European war. Berlin should protest
against proceedings which would
threaten, on the east side, the capital of
Turkey, and an army of political he'll
NETS should walk toward the Russian
frontiers of the Baltic. At the same
time France would arise as a single |
man in order to reconquer Alsatia and |
Lorraine with greater chances than |
ever, the German military power |
being divided. In that prodigiOus fight |
Austria might disappear forever from |
among The nations. No one could assign |
a certain result to such a war, but ii |
would not be presumptuous to put aside /
the actual map of Europe, as Pitt did /
after the battle of Austerlitz. Most Ger
tainly great changes would happen, for
the vanquished would have been so far
exterminated as not to be able to oppose
the designs, however mOnstrous, of the
victor.
The peace of the world depends upon
Russia; that is to say, upon the results
Of the war just begun at Khiva and to
De continued on the shah's dominions
The hOstilities may be postponed for
awhile, but they will surely burst out one
lay or another. The present armed
neutrality offers no other guarantee for
he maintenance of peace than the
interests of the powers, and no ground
Iftords less stability than political
interests, subject to a change almost
very day, according to circum-
tances. The peace of Europe, in 1873, ,
nay be justly compared to a castle I
haue WIFI pay yluB-CdTuS, take one OF !
hese cards out and the whole building
alls. Russia is that card. Her future at =
itude il Asia will decide the question of
'eace or war for the old world. Theonly D
bstacie to the consummatiOn of Rus
las manifest destiny"-so far as Asia
: concerned-can be Persia, which mot "
o mention weak Afghanistan) will |
tand up alone, after the capture Of Xiii
a, as a strong, independent State, be- ]
ween Russia and her powerful antago-
ist, England.
According as the shah's alliance is 4
18th the British lion or the Russian
ear, the course of things viii a
e, and the secular plans of the I'm =
erial ROmanoH house may even yet
e frustrated, at least for a while. To
ecure the narrow friendship of Nasr- Ed Oh
lin, absolute sovereign Of Persia, and p
DE master of her influence, treasures "a
nd army, to dispose in favor of whom 81
e pleases, is then a most important N
latter, a capital object for the great r
Dwers so intimately though differently
with the ripening eastern
lestion. This is the only explanation n
r the exceptionally brilliant festivities e
dered in St. Petersburg, Berlin and
Ondon in honor of his imperial majes-
: the "king of kings.n "a