Apollyon and the Reaction of the Slavonians; With a Review of the Political State of Europe Under the Action of the Contending Principles (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...and inherent in both, and so timely displayed, is to be attributed its success, and to these alone. No country in the world would suffer more from the horrors of war, and none have suffered so much, as Austria and Russia; and it must be forgiven them if their reigning family, amiable as they are in every sense of the word, did shrink from the consequences of a possible collision, and renewal of those sufferings, the wounds of which are scarcely closed, but are still felt by the present generation of statesmen, who watch over their destinies. The sensation in Germany was decidedly against war; it was unpopular; there was no visibly exciting cause; and the sympathies of the people, however obnoxious the French are to them, might have been momentarily in their favour. Nothing better could elucidate the feeling which existed in Berlin than a representation at the theatre. The words, " Wasgehen uns die Ttirken an?" were received with rapturous and unbounded applause. In Vienna the current of feelingwas acquiring strength against it; so much so, that the imperial court threatened the prime minister with dismission, should he call on the country to arm. Nothing but the decision of the English foreign secretary, and the signal and brilliant manner in which our fleet carried out the orders consigned to them, --their rapid progress in the work of demolition of Egyptian rule in those countries, --saved Europe from the shock of a collision. Thousands were ruined of all classes at Vienna by the sudden and continued fall of paper. At Paris also the panic shook the credit of many, and sent to irretrievable ruin more. The extreme sensibility of public credit throughout Europe, in which the existence of so many thousand families is involved, should make statesmen...