The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-12

ans Erencn Revoiutien the Lyndon and
American Press.
The French revolution of 1873, aud the down.
fall of Louis Philippe, continue to be topics
of conversation and discussion, in the public
press and in private, over the whole of the civil
LIKED world. The magnitude and the impor-
lance of the results which must necessarily flow
from them, on the future history and well being
of the human race, entitle that revolution to be
enumerated as first in the great events that have
occurred in the world, and one that will open to
nations new career, which will change their
destiny and direct man towards that great ultl-
mate end which it is the design of Providence
he shall attain. Scarce q month has elapsed,
and the overthrow of despotism has marched
with sure and steady progress; and govern
ments formed by force. and supported by
oppression and fraud, are seattle red like
leaves before the autumn blast. Kings,
ministers, and courtiers, grant concessions,
or abdicate and fly, and the whole Of
christendom resounds with the cry of liberty.
Onward the principle of self-goxernment strides,
and ere many months are past, the whole of Eu-
rope-down-trodden, oppressed Europe, which
has for ages been the victim of tyranny and op.
pression-will be embracedi within the ample
folds Of republicanism, and the people freed
from the shackles which so long have bound
them.
We have already referred to the enthusiasm
and the demonstrations ofdelight with which the
intelligence of the recent revolution in France
was hailed in this republic, and the cordial
greeting which the people of the United States
have extended to their self.emancipated brethren
Of f. Of, Nd ot,,1a
ton was sincere and true; for the event which
called 1t forth brings to mind the long struggle
and the throes and agonizing suffering which
our own country endured to accomplish SINH
lar end, and free this fair land from the yoke of
monarchy. 1t is now our purpose to contrast
these feelings, and the tone of the American
press, with the sentiments and opinions uttered
daily and hourly by the press of Londos, and
other paris of England.
From the time when the startling and astound-
ing intelligence reached England, that the PEG.
pie OF France had revolted, and that Louis Phi
ippe had been compelled to abdicate and seek
safety in flight, disguised and whskeress, until
the present, cod, ungracious, sneering and
clubbing spirit has been manifested by the press
Ut that country. The slight disturb ances VIII ch
marked the three days have been msgn6ed and
paraded in their worst colors; the members of the
provisional government have been termed anar.
chists and Jewellers, and the course they are pur-
suing az one that will lead to state of things
infinitely worse aud more destructive than that
which the people threw off. This may suit the
taste of the upholders of monarchy in England,
from whom it would be unreasonable to ex.
poet sympathy for republicanism; but the peo-
f,ie nd ofA MI he -
a far different light. In the sense of decorum
and propriety which marked the people of Paris
during the three days-in the respect they show
ed for private rights and private property-in the
maintenance of order, and the absence of all
but wholesome excitement-the people and
press of America see every thing on which to
base the hope that the French are as capable OF
self government as their moderation, in the
hour of triu mph, has shown them to be worthy
of it. To be sure, few of the occurrences that
took place might well have been omitted; but
we question if the same spirit of heroic modera-
ton and self-respect would be exhibited by the
people of any other country, under similar cir
cumstances. The same may be said of the pro-
visional government, the members of which
have, thus far, at all events, proved themselves
worthy of the great crisis in which they find
themselves They may have done things which
1t would be better to have left undone,
and they may have omitted to do things
which they ought to have done but to expec,
that men charged in day with the conduct Of
affairs of great nation like France-wlth its
complicated internal and external relations, and
likewise with the formation of new govern
ment, totally distinct from that which had been
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government have done, is to expect too much
They are the admiration Of the world, and have
accomplished wonders, for which they are en-.
titled to the gratitude of the friends OF liberty
over the whole globe-proving themselves equal
to the task OF preserving the new born spirit OF
liberty until they commit it to the safe keeping
of the nation. The writer's for the press in Eng
land doubtless see in this French revolution an
omen of the speedy downfall of monarchy, and
the reorganization of government in their own
country. Despotism has virtually ceased to exist
in Europe, and tyranny, under the name of con-
stitutional monarchy, is destined to share the
same fate The spirit of liberty is abroad in
Europe; and the rotten, corrupt, and profgate
fabric of government in Britain must fall before
1t ere long. Despotism accomplished by force
what constitutional monarchy accomplishes by
corruption and fraud. The result of both on the
people is tyranny, and the spirit which prostrat-
ed the one will crush the other
The people and the press Of the United States
are the only impartial observers of the great
events now occurring in Europe; and to this
country the people of France, and other revolu.
tonary countries, must direct their attention for
an impartial verdict, aud when they deserve it,
a fraternal embrace. France being now re-
public, must expect to be the object OF the shafts