The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-10

dwell fully as long upon mems tongues
as that of Grant, and his fellows of the
field and camp.
ENGLAND AND EASTERN EU-
ROPE.
The peace Of Europe is again dis
turbed by war-like troubles in her
eastern provinces. The children of
the United States have several pretty
severe military conflicts to chronicle
but they can thank their stars they
are not kept in the continual hub-bub
that forever stirs England and Europe.
Whether it arises from the superior
lack of perfect civilization among the
jewellers of Eastern Europe, the peace
OF America is peace and far enough
ahead of the peace of Europe to be
called angelic tranquility. As long
as the British Lion thirsts for gore
and is not content with the generous
sized bones fate and fortune have
thrown at his feet there will be war
in the camp and an eternal discord
that must naturally end in the down
fall both of parliament and people.
The classes that inhabit Eastern Eu-
rope are not of the kind to surrender
an advantage to the potent power of
Victoria S realm without a great deal
of hard kicking, but there is way
they can become at, probably to the
permanent establishment of pcacea-
Bile relationships. Ignorant of the
laws of State, ignorant of the creeds
of life, brutal of heart and careless
of soul, they need rulers who will lift
themselves occasionally above petty
social and financial arguments and
devote some time to the education
and elevation of their subjects. If
these dusky brothers Of Austria and
Russia and the covetous squabblers
of England could see themselves as
others see them at distance of three
thousand miles there would be a re-
formation so universal that over the
whole land through the balance of
time would be spread the wide white
wings of peace.
The discords prevalent in the lands
of her sister nation have taught Amer
lea a lesson she nobly profits by. For
twenty years the hands of her sons
have been unstained with the smoke
of battle; for twenty years the hearts
of her rulers have ceased to covet the
rewards of carnage, and in the CEN
turtles that line the future, even if
they be million, it is greatly to be
hoped no silly contentious may arise,
whose bitter results would bring
tears to the eyes of our Goddess.
The duties of the European govern
ments are many and great, and it is
difficult matter for those who perform
them to keep the affairs of the num-
erous side issues in the way of an
Albanian instruction, Servian mob,
or Turkish embodiment under the
wings of quictudc. But there is a
certain moral force, peculiar intel
lectual pcrsuasiveness which could be
used to great advantage in the set
Element of these affairs. Unjust GER
tainly be CALLING to the heart of
Queen, whose years are beginning to
be numbered, to contemplate leaving
the land of her long sovereignty in
the same restless, bitter turmoil that
has been its lot since the pilgrimage
of good St. Augustine. 1t was an
evident intention of the Gladstone
policy to some day embrace the
whole of Eastern Europe under the
one almighty sceptre of England; if
this idea is to be carried out by his
successors, then farewell to any de-
gree of serenity in the land of tall
towers and ancient chivalrv-it would
be move attended with no more GER
tainty of success than would be an
attempt upon the part of America to
extend her dominion over the epicu-
rean tastes Of the natives of West
Africa. Still we hope to see the tide
of years yet allotted to the English
government flow on smoothly grandly |
and unruffled to the great sea Of Alb
solute Empire-:f that empire when
established extends to its supporters,
the people at large, the warmth of
a noble generosity and the freedom
of thought and deed due every sin
Cerc and earnest posscssor of a soul |
THE Meridian Miss ! IL,yr,/yr saws