The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-19
p1.oI,,yood,e Maeazine,

The world. at this time, is Blackwood's Edinburg
Magazine. As the great exponent OF Iorylsm III
the ranks of periodical literature, it. has acquired
| and sustained reputation co-extensive with the
civilized world and its authority, in the high posi-
tion which it holds, must be regarded with respect
and consideration even by the opponents OF the ideas
to the support Of which all its great energy ana
ability directed. Thes mixing cause OF Conser-
vatism in truth, needs strong support to sustain us
lettering fortunes, and in Blackwood 1t has iouia
an organ to which every one must be Wiling 10
accord the praise of exalted literary merit AT TINS
epoch in the history of society, when old forms ana
dynastes are fading away before the breath Of
nonuIar impuIse. il is to be expected that all the
| subtlefies Of Tory logic and sophistry will be
brought to bear and accordingly we find that almost
every number of Blackwood contains an article
axnresslv appropriated to some Of the Continental
States which are now struggling to reform their
institutions In the September number we find an
article with the rather inharmonious title What
would Revolutionizing Germany be at7'' 1t is
written with the elegance Of diction and diuseness
of style which characterzes articles from the same
source; yet, notwithstanding the harmony and
meiluous flow Of its sentences, it can hardly con-
vince any one that the people Of Germany are not
right in the they are waging against the super
anuated institutions which should have passed
away with the feudalism Of the middle ages.
What would revolutionizing Germany be al -
says the author. g In spite Of all one sees and
hears, or rather does not hear, it is impossible not
to recur to the question again and again for, after
all, in Germany we are among thinking men, and
children they may be in political life, thinking
men they are y There is a kind of conceted iguo-
rance about this, which is very characteristic Of
the Englishman-an ignorance affected, because
unreal and conceited as it contains the assumption
very natural to the Island monarchiss, that in
parison with them the people Of all nations
children in political life from which it is to be in
ferred that, with nations with individuals, the
ignorant must of course defer in all things to the
instructions Of the more experienced, who assume
to point out the true path to be followed But this
would be rather one-sided bargain, and the Eng
lishman seems to forget that one can never learn
without at sometime making commencement; and
il appears to u.s. that the nations progress in
political knowledge the less will they be inclined
to follow the example of Great Britain. Yet not
withstanding his ignorance, the writer in the para
graph next succeeding that we have quoted, himself
points out one of the things which /" revolutionzing
Germany would be at" He says, CAL the Utopian
schemes-all the impractical theories Of all parties
who put themselves forward in the revolutionary
movement be their tendencies monarchiC, constitu-
tiona or republican, aspire them to the setting up
of an ill-defined idol of modern German political
lances-' German unity-one great and powerful
Germany united-one great united German EN-
pre- " This is the great bugbear which has af-
frighted the Englishman from his propriety, and
driven his pen to the writing Of so many cOnsecu-
tive sentences Of harm oniOus nonsense. 1t is not
German republicanism which he fears-it is not
German constitutional liberty that he breads but
it is the spectre Of the great and powerful United
Germany which weighs heavily upon his mind,
and tortures him with visions of the prospective
overthrow Of British power whenever it shall come
in contact with this great g German unity
The Germans are a thinking people he says, and
the admission is fatal to his argument They are
thinking people, and the result of their deep rehec
ton has been 10 convince them that only a combi-
nation of the elements of popular strength, through
the whole Of Germany, is necessary to enable the
people successfully TO combat their oppressors.
The ambition Of kings and princes, each of whom
seeks only his own personal aggrandZement may
for some time prevent the contamination of this
cherished project; but their resistance will only
precipitate their fall and hasten the triumph of De-
mocracy, and the establishment Of RepubIicansn
Even now the thrones of Germany are trembling,
and their occupants barely tolerated The spirit of
hereditary loyalty is gone, the people no longer re-
spect the name Of king, while the divine right of
princes 10 sway the destinies Of mankind is openly
denied The Republican idea, produced by serious
refection-for Backwood says the Germans are u
thinking people, is deeply impressed upon the Ger
man mind, and its effects are daily manifested by
nsurrection and revolt in every part Of the Empire
The barbados, the fortresses of democracy which
have so often of late arisen in the streets of Vienna,
Berlin and Frankfort, are evidences that only con
cert Of action is wanted to insure the demolition of
royalty. The calm, serious temperament Of the
German people, the advanced state Of education
which exists in many of the provinces, and particu
arly in Prussia, are guarantees that whatever
liberal institutions may be produced from the pres
enl universal confusion will be established upon
permanent basis. The writer in Blackwood has
asked a question, and we think we can answer it,
To get rid of thrones and kings and princes, TO
achieve the triumph Of democracy and the esab-
lishment Of republicansm, and 10 improve the So
ciaI condition of her people, these are the things
which revolutionizing Germany would be at.