The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1850-09-04 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SECOND DAY'S SITTING.  FRANKFORT, Aug. 23.—The proceedings of yesterday's sitting must hare left a strong impression, since the attendance at St. Paul's was much greater to-day than on Thursday. Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P., proposed the first resolution :—" That the standing armaments with which the Governments of Europe menace one another impose intolerable burdens and inflict grievous moral and social evils upon their respective communities; this congress cannot therefore too earnestly call the attention of Governments to the necessity of entering upon a system of international disarmament, without prejudice to such measures as may be considered necessary for the maintenance of the security of the citizens and the internal tranquillity of each state." The Rev. Rabbi Stein, of Frankfort, who was received with general applause, said; I thank God that he has per. mitted me, the teacher of God's oldest revelation, to live to this day to address this large and honourable assembly. Could our persecuted fathers rise from their graves and hear the precious word "peace," they would extend the hand to this union, formed of all the nations of the earth. Now that the ark of thought is come to rest on the top of the Ararat of our time, will we send out the dove of peace. Germany may at this moment have no voice to raise for the aim for which we strive, but do ,not believe on that account that her sympathies are not with us. Germany whose fields have been so often heaped up with the bloody bodies of her children. Germany cheers you on. A people which arms against itself appears to me like a man who plants himself before a mirror and strikes his own reflection. The standing army is perilous to freedom within and without. Not only government, but also representative assemblies, are called to abolish the policy of an armed peace. Peace, at any price, the cabinets demand. Abolition of standing armies, at any price, is the cry of the people. Let the iron of the hills be no more converted into instruments of murder to divide the people; let it be forged into rails for roads which might connect distant countries. Never do I look upon the panting engine on the railway vomiting forth its steam, but I think of the cloudy pillar by day and the fiery pillar by night. I second the resolution with all my heart. M. Joseph Gamier of' Paris, exposed the fallacy of the idea that one nation can be enriched by the spoils of another; the welfare of a people required that prosperity should prevail around it; the riches of one nation became by commerce the riches of another. One of the causes why wars were tolerated was the character of the education now given to our youth. The educating influences must be diverted from the work of destruction. The children now saw, on coming from the school where they had been reading of glorious wars, a regiment of soldiers parading through the streets with exciting m usic, and thus they received lively impressions of military life, as far from the reality of that existence as the latter was prejupicial to the general welfare. The tremendous evils of war ought to be impressed on the young mind as soon as it could receive such impressions. The scriptures had commanded peace and union, and for that purpose they had met that day to hold out a friendly hand. M. Emile de Girardin was received with loud applause. He would call attention to the cost of war during the last fifty years, which reached the stupendous sum of thirty-five thousand million francs. With this sum what might not have been accomplished in peace? The great problem of labour, of public morals—the problem which was then exciting the anxieties of European society—might by this time have been solved with such a sum. Of that vast heap of treasurenothing wasremaining; in buyingpowdertoshoot ball, and like unprofitable expenditure, the whole had vanished. The armies which they recognised, with which they would conquer the world, were labour and freedom. The gua . antee of liberty lay in the disarming of the military powers. The voice of the people demanded the discharge of the enormous armies now on foot. The French had an army of the Rhine—where was its glory ?—what purpose did it serve? The treasury was emptied, the Bourse raised its discount, the people were impoverished, How many pounds of bread might be bought with the money which is blown into the air with every discharge of a canon? Peace would lead to freedom, and freedom conduce to peace. (Great applause.) The rest of tnelproceedings will appear in our next.