The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-04-29

Nthe fros,s of70 winters, flying from Paris; the
old and beartless and cunning Metternich
scampering from his palace in Vienna, the Olym-
pus from which he had Numbered his DEGREES
for nearly forty years; ferdinand of Austria
granting his subjects whatever they demand;
Frederick William, of Prussia, anxious 10 do
every thing his people had the heart to require;
and the mediatzed Princes, the Kings, the
Dukes, Potentates, and other rulers throughout
the Germanic confederation suddenly relaxing
their severity and becoming obliging TO the last
degree, are scenes which must employ the
pens of historians, philosophers. salrists, and
bards, and give birth TO chapters of prose and
cantos of song such as have not hitherto de-
lighted the minds of men. In this grand and
varied scene the King of Prussia plays con-
spicuous and ludicrous part. There is no pro-
clamation or record so marvellous as that he
signed in "the night between the lSthand 18th
of March, lS4S." In this remarkable paper he
exhausts all the affectionate and smooth words
in the language. After many such honeyed
phrases as ''my beloved citizens" ''faithful and
beloved citizens" he says: "Your afiectiOnate
Queen. your true mother and friend, who is
bent down with severe Sickness. unites her
earnest and fearful prayers with NINE" What
a scene The king of Prussia on his knees
pardon him, imploring them in the name of a
sick queen to forgive him, for employing his
soldiers, who had been kept about the palace
10 guard that musty and dingy old precinct of
despotism, to put down their insurrection.-
BeseeChing them TO forget what has happened
''for the sake OF the great future, which by the
blessing of God, is about TO dawn on Prussia
and Germany" The pathos OF this proclama-
ton is such as is wholly unequalled in the an
nails of imperial rhetoric. Thus impored, of
course the fiery Berlnese make truce with their
terror stricken King, the soldiers are banished
from their presence, and they are granted great
triumph.
Thanks to Frederick William for that lesson!
The Prussians will never forget it, They will
never again become the slaves of despotism,
10 its knees. Hereafter when they want reforms
they know how TO obtain them.
Is there no Aristopanes, no Moliere TO
paint the scene presented OH that memorable
night, and to give 1t permanence in comedy,
such as it is destined to enjoy OIL the tablets OF
the graver muse of History!
The king OF Belgium acted a noble part
His conduct became him as man and true
sovereign. Leopold instantly acknowledged
the supremacy of the people of Belgium, and
ordered his ministers TO grant whatever they
asked, not even excepting his crown. He
freely acknowledged that the Government was
the rightlul property of The people, and added
that, if they desired republic, they should
have it,
The philosophic historian will be called on
to trace these grand and glonousevrnts TO their
causes. He will find that, during the long
protracted peace of Europe, the people had en-
joyed time to think. War is the greatest OF
all the disastrous calamiiies that aifiict man
kind. Its destructive infiences OH the mind
are more wasteful than its sacrifices of life. 1t
is and always has been the leading agent i'll
producing despotisms of church and state. Un-
der the shadow of peace all those sentiments,
affections, and doctrines grow up which bless
our species. Let Europe maintain peace, and
henceforh reform will follow reform until
the political millennium dawns on happy
world.
Above the cracking of thrones, the SILVER
ing Of sceptres, the .umbling down Of old and
rotten dynasties, and the mighty huzzas OF the
people, one glorious truth rises in grandeur and
celestial beauty: 1t is demonstrated that the
radiant form oflberty need not be baptised in
blood before temples and shrines can be erected
in her sacred name and her devotion becomes
the lawful worship of the heart. Long may
her affairs exist and her temples be undesecrat-
ed By scenes of anarchy, if the people are wise
enough to abolish war, that great device of the
devil for the enslavement of the human race
SANTA ANNA's FAREWELL ADDRESs.-Santa
Anna when on the point of embarking from