DISUNION: DEGRADATION WITHOUT REMEDY. . FROM THE “ EEVUE NATIONALS.” The civil war which for two years past has divided and devastated the United States has produced its .evil consequences, in Europe also. The scarcity of cotton occasions great suffering. The workmen of Bouen and Mulhouse suffer no less than the spinners and weavers of Lancashire. Whole populations are reduced to beggary, and have no resource, or hope of sustenance during the winter, but private charity or aid from the government. In such a cruel crisis—in the midst of such unmerited sufferings—it is natural that the public opinion of , Europe should be unsettled, and that they who prolong the fratricidal war should be charged with culpable ambition. Peace in America, peace at any price, is the urgent need ; is the cry f thousands of men among us who are pinched with hunger, the innocent victims of the. passions and resentments that em- brue in blood the United States. These complaints are but too well founded. The world today is a compact of mutual interests and obligations. For modern nations, therefore, who live by industry, peace is a necessary condition of existence. But unfortunately, if it is easy to indicate the remedy, to apply it is almost impossible. Until nowj it is only by means of war that we could hope to reach the end of the war. To throw ourselves with arms in our hands between the combatants, for the purpose of imposing a truce upon them, would be an enterprise in which Europe would exhaust all her resources, and to what end? As Mr. Cobden has justly said, “It would be far cheaper to feed the laboring classes, who ar.e now starving in consequence of the American crisis, on game and champagne wine-”
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