The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-19
Aspect OF Anairs In Europe.


Aspect OF Affairs In Europe.
From the London Times, June IL
The principal states of continental Europe,
which have been shaken to their foundation by the
consequences of the revolution of February, may
now be said to have reached the second act OF the
eventtul drama OF their political regeneration.
The time is arrived when the promises vouchsafed
by soverelgns in hours of alarm and danger are to
be fulfilled and the concessions obtained are TO
be finally accepted by the people. The time has
arrived when the temporary connexion between
the friends of free government and the enemies of
all government must be dissolved, if the results of
this revolution are ever to assume the shape of re-
guar institutions and established laws. The time,
IN short, is arrived when reaction must take
place, not in favor of the old and extinct order Of
things, but In the name of freedom itself, and
against anarchy. To the disordered minds of
certain number of Missionaries and adventures,
common In such times as these, revolution itself
presents attractions; but to the immense majority
voution is but the perllous and distressing transit
ton from former evil to future good. The great
question is,-how that future good is to be reaz-
ed, and how 1T is to be protected from the unreal
sonable and inconsistent exertlons of empty
lutionary excitement. The most formidable enc
mics of the new liberal constitutions are those who
but few weeks ago. were their most strenu-
GUS partisans,-for they are the first to denounce
the very concessions they were the first to de-
mand
In this respect, the position of the National
Assembly OF France-of that now sitting at Frank
fort, in the name of the German people-of that
and Sardinia, is everywhere the same Those
bodies have been called into existence for the pur-
pose OF founding the constitutions of their respective
countries on more or less liberal principles; and
they are regarded by those nations as the natural
repositories OF the supreme law, and the consti-
tuted protectors OF public order. 1t is worthy Of
remark, that almost all these legislative bodies
were simultaneously attacked or menaced on the
same day, the 18th of May, in the different CAPT
tails of Europe. At Paris, the hall of the Assembly
was, entered by the mob, and a daring attempt
made to dissolve the Assembly and proclaim
another provisional government. AT Berlin, a
large popular demonstration was made against the
Prince of Prussia. At Mayence, disturbances
broke out, which, if they had not been suppressed
by the Prlssian troops might have threatened the
security Of the Assembly, In the neighboring city
OF Frankfort. AT Vienna, the imperial family
were induced to quit the capital by the demands of
the mob, headed by body of students, who re-
CURED that the terms of the constitution granted by
the Emperor. should at once be modified, by the
suppression of the Upper Chamber and the estab-
lishment of one sole democratic assembly. At
Naples, on the same day, the Lower Chamber il
self seems to have preferred the same unreasonable
| and unconstitutional demand The King resisted
and adhered TO the conditions already stipulated
with his people An attack was then made on the
royal troops, which commenced with the signals
common to all these propagandsf insure tions,
and unhapply cost vast deal of bloodshed before
II was put down.
Ourreaders can hardly fail to be struck by the
extraordinary similarity of all these occurrences
On the same day, under the same pretexts, and
with many analogous circumstances, an attack is
made by the revou, ouary party in several parts of
Europe upon the constitutional bodies recently
called into existence No doubt such events are
not unnatural, when there are everywhere the
same conflicting elements in presence of each
other but at the same time we entertain no doubt
that all the machinery of the revolutionary propa-
ganda has been directed from Paris to every part
E,urODe. method
reign sympathy and general disorder have ever
been two OF the principal objects and means of ac
ton OF the revolutionary associations and the
history of the last three months would disclose an
extraordinary command and combination of the
resources of these societies.
Nobody, in fact, can doubt that there exists in
every country In Europe certain party, more re-
markable for its daring and its violence than for its
| numbers, witch is the avowed enemy and assailant
of all constitutional government and of society it.
self. The free institutions of England, and even
the republican novelties of our French neIghbors,
are just as obnoxious to their luminosity the des-
potlsm of Russia. Under all forms of government
alike, they deny the stringency of rights I'd the
authority OF law. To buy off their hostility by
| SESSIONS is but sign of weakness. Whether we
| are living under monarchy republic, So
clety must defend itself against such men as
Blanqui or Mitchell by the penal code, the consta-
ble's staff, or, if not by them, then by the bayo-
net. Happily the great bulk of society, intent on
the cessation of disorder and on the enjoyment
OF Its promised liberties, is deeply interested in
the suppression of these attacks and the mid
die class, which may be the ally OF the populace
TO obtain freedom, must side with the govern
ment IN order TO preserve 1t. But II must be pre-
pared 10 take part in two-fold contllct-first
that OF the people against the old form of govern
meDt, and, secondly that OF the new form of GO
vernment against fresh class of popular enemies.
That Is the stage at which Europe is arrived.
The attack has everywhere been made, but happily
| II has everywhere been repulscd. The period Of
danger rs by no means passed, and our foreign cor
respondence Is filled every day with accounts OF
| the harrasslng duty discharged by the National
| Guards and the troops in Paris and elsewhere,
| in the field They will still have to endure many
scorchng watch, and in all probability many Sc
we're contest, but their existence, the existence
OF their country, and society, depends on their sue
| g ss for a revolution demands infinetely more
courage and self-denal and endurance TO defend it,
when made, from the excuses of its sown artisans
than were required on the 24h of February to raise
| the barricades or TO march upon the Tueries. We
are not surprised that changes which purchased
| by such enormous sacrifices, and accompanied by
such losses of ease and prosperity, should fall very
tar short IN the end of the expectations they
| cited. To many states Of Europe constitutional
government itself is an experiment of easy ap-
pcatlon or certain success but the first condition
for the trial of that form of government is TO
| tabsh thorough respect for the laws. based on
the VIII OF the nation, and defended with firnness
against more daring Innovations.
Political Intelligence.
Observation-Disclosures Dewey, of Wisconsin,
submitted his message to the legislature. on the
9Th inst. 1t is a very well concocted document, of
reasonable length, and is devoted to useful hints in
regard to the necessary laws, funds, public conve-
niences, &c, required by the new State, in order