The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-04-18
Peace Probabilities.

Powers there is now wonderful unanim-
ity-such unanimity as has hardly been
seen before in history. They are all
agreed on q common purpose and COM
mon declaration. These Powers are
England, Russia and Austria. Each cne
is determined to guard its own interests
with all its might, and to care as little as
possible for the interests of.any other,
and they are all equally agreed to shout
'shat their sole anxiety is, to protect Eu-
rope, to protect. political morality, to
stand up for the sacredness Of. treaty Oh
legations and the rights Of everybody:
Each one asserts its eagerness to .compe!!
other people to be Sirtnous, and each one
regards the indulgence of its own little
appetite az apart from the great general
rules it is prepared to lay Gown for the
government, of the world but the; dis
proportion between what they do and
what they declare is more apparent in
some than in others. Thus We hear
more Of Erigland's yirtuots .inclinations
thar, We do of, the Yirtlons inclinations
of the others-frst, because no doubt
|. England has more virtue o.declare than
other people snd more effective means of
declaring it. No person acquainted with
the facts can fail to recognize that Eng
land alone has more virtue than all the
rest of the world together; for England
has said so in a thousand ways, and she
ought to know. Just now, moreover,
England has the ear of the world--at
least of this part of it--in virtue OF COM
mnnity 81 language and the news system.
Her every word is reported to us, while
.from Austria and Russia we hear much
less distinctly and elaborately If, how
ever, q greater noise is made over Eng
lands Intentions we learn more of Rus
sia's acts, because for some time action
in the case has fallen mostly to her share.
But the issue of greatest Importance now
is whether the unanimity Of these three
Powers can be made convertible. Will
each Power accept as to the government
OF its own conduct the views formed by
the other as to what that conduct should
be-? With the views now held, modified
by discussion, they probably will. They
will compromise their differences-Rus-
sia will not give up the Treaty of San
Stelano for a substitute made by Eng
land; England will not abdicate her
Oriental pretensions and be left out in
the cold, as that treaty would provide.
Russia will make room for England /;
!, England will accommodate herself to the
exigencies of Muscovite neighbor. If
nod,ts vircndi is earnestly sought it
may always be found, sind in this case it
will be earnestly sought, because both
Powers have q wholesome dread, fear
even, of the war into which failure to
compromise would plunge them. Russia
would prefer to force her treaty down
England's throat; yec,, when she con-
siders how England might stretch out the
conflict, and how disastrous the contin-
ued drain on her OWE financial resources
would be, she sees the unwisdom of in
sisting too much. England also would
like to force Russia to submit in corner,
but the difficulty of surrounding an army
of half million men actually under
arms with an army on paper inclines
England to adopt a modest demeanor.
Hence, through the respective apprehen-
sions Of the parties as to war will result
in all likelihood the preservation of
peace. There may, it is true, be an ac-
cident. Russia has great army near
Constantinople, and the Ottomans, under
English inspiration and encouragement,
are organizing reviews 10 1alnt military
demonstration in the flce of the victor.
There is the British fleet in the Sea of
sMarmora also,1and from what was said
by Lord Derby on Tuesday il is believed
that the British admiral. has fighting
orders, to act on in a contingency. With
all this infammable material in near
neighborhood some trivial misunder-
standing may induce an act of war. But
if that possibility is excluded, if the case
remains in the hands of the diplomatists
till they have fairly done with it, they
will in all probability preserve the peace.
-New York Herald. !, $40