New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-10-23

Zen Cavsirusc had demanded that the SUBJECT mould
"a Laid o the table or whs, the same thing that the
A..embly should pass the order Of the day bu-
winner desrngii possible 10 rciierae the vote Of the
o,b Of MAY offered resolution to the effect that the
Assembly psss % the order Of the day with the de-
are that the Executive should adopt the basis Of
the mediation between Austria and Italy, the complete
Emancipation Of the latter Other members also Of
tered similar resolutions but the proportion Of Gen.
Cavagnac had precedence under the rules Of the As
semby it was fret voted and adopted By majority
Of iH to $780,
This vote in fact disengsged the question from all the
previous pledges OF the Government and votes Of the
Assembly leaving the Executive perfectly free 70 fol
low the course in which in reality it had entered which
can only result in the virtual establishment Of the
Treaties. This precisely What Gen. Csyagnac had
desired but Representative came forward to inter.
fere with his satisfaction by demanding what consruc-
ton the Government pat upon the vote. ~ Basude
spoiled whole thing by replying tina, they did not IN
derstand the obligations previously imposed upon them
being in any re- pect removed by IT, This was put
ting the neck Of the Government under the rope again,
and laying up a reckoning hereafter Il viii appear IN
due time that the Government have acted without re-
gard 10 their obligations and then what will Il. Bastde
say
It's vain % hope that Europe be definitely settled
without war Reason aud experience alike show The
contrary Republcsnism and absolute Despotsm, pit
Ted against each other cannot arrive at peaceful set
Element Of their difference for It difference Of life
and death and neither will consent to resign IT, cNs
,enco for the benefit Of the other Il the party OF Re
,istence will not yield 10 privileges in single state
without the deadly Of Revolution It il not
likely that il viii gently and resignediy meet i,s fate
where whole Continent is at stake. The war which
i 10 come which must come. which cannot be avoided
i briefly the European Revolution 1t Is to the whole
Continent what the French Revolution, or the German
Revolution is 20 those countries respectively
From this point Of view it Is evident tina, the doc
trne Of non Intervention cannot be sustained, and the
ground taken by Lamartines Manifesto receives addit
ona hrnness The duty Of France is not to under
take the propagation Of Republican principles by armed
force she should send her armies into country
compel is people TO accept freedom Tor which they
are not ripe which they do not desire but on the
other hand it 10 her duty and mos, imperous duty,
neglect of which Is exceedingly dangerous to fly 10 the
assistance OF every nation that in the OF Liberty
inyokcs her aid It is her duty to come out from the
old league Of Kings and Despoh and planting herself
on the rock OF Popular Liberty to proclaim the era OF
Universal Emancipation she is not put At the head Of
the great movement Of these times IN order that she
NAV shrink from the responsibilities which that post
implies The aid which, from motives of mere self in.
terest she rendered to America IN the hour OF need,
she is bound 10 render from motives OF fra,eFna gene
rosiiy to italy TO Germany 10 Hungary, to Poland,
10 every appealing nation to which that AID may be
Of avail These nations are in some sort her child
ren-csIled into lie by her influence aud example, and
il ia treachcry OF the same hue though OF fainter
unce to allow them 10 be stranged by Absoutsm As II
would be to allow OF her own Provinces to be taken
from her by Austria Prussia The notion that they
are foreign nations and may be neglected Is relic Of
an idea happily growing more obsolete every day The
truth that in Chrstendom in Europe there are no for
eign nations but that all members Of one sister
hood of one commonwealth Is taking It's place.
These general considerations form only one aspect Of
the argument For France it is not only question OF
morals, but Of interest
The battle between Democracy and Absoutism, com
menced in Europe long ago definitely engaged in
% when the French Republic was hrst proclaimed
The Restoration was merely truce between the con
tending parties which the Revolution Of February
broke OF. On one side is France with the mighty
army of ideas and with her half million Of trained sol
diers-lorces that ii seems may fight together Her
people too are not only people devoted to ideas but
a
the cause OF Progress if need be, TO the death am
not lover of WAL but of peace. War is as hateful 70
me as the dircst form Of crime and destruction be
10 any one but believe that the world Is not yet Sc
far advanced that it may not be necessity and duty
In this view cannot resist the conviction that there
something providentis in the growth of this MARTA
spirit in the French nation. 1t is their preparation io
the last and most momentum. war in Europe, for The
hnal struggle between Despotism and Liberty
on the other side is Russia, Colossus ruled by one
man. the mos, absolute and perfect of despotsms Rus
STA can bring into the field such armies as the woriC
never saw From the immense plains that stretch from
the Baltic tar into Asia, the Gar summon forth
million Of Cossacks and Tartsrs warke ssvsges train
ed to war eager for the plumber OF Europe His regua
troops easily be raised to million soldiers in som
respects superior to any others to the French
Ills finances If not hourishing superior TO those
any other nation except France His ambition is vast
inherited from the great founder OF his dynasty from
the fierce and far seeing Peter. With him despotism
more than fact it is principle whose rule mus, q
extended lie aspires to reduce the world to the sa
very in which the seventy millions OF his own subject
are buried II France is the positive pole OF Europe
Russia is the negative the the dsydswn' the othe
blsekest midnight-the one lie the other death
in Prussia and Austria and through them all Germany
the whole course OF Russian Policy has been TO ress
the innovations Of Liberty in those countries and IN Italy
That policy was arrested by the explosion which FOL
lowed the Revolution OF February. The Government
of Germany were overthrown, the principles which had
guided them bsnished and German Republic threat
eued.
Was Russia idle at this crisis Not a; all for II was
crisis which did not her by surprise she had beer
waiting tor ii with that psen, perseverance, that labor
ths, watches and follows its end through long years
which seems to belong to Absoutsm. she commenced
At once 10 repair the damages which her ouiworks hai
inst suffered Prussia had promised the independence oil
her Polish Provinces and already Paris was alive Win
hope and exultaton The King OF Prussia was doubtful
a, Berlin and likely ooncede everything that the PEG
ME could wish for Against such contingencies Russia
At once opposed her Jesuiticsl diplomacy Posen was
crushed the Prussan Reaction strengthened snd en-
courased and Russian army stationed on the frontiers
ready TO intervene and choke liberation q, the instant
that ntrsues and frauds seemed hopeless Tor that pur
pose The people OF Austria had also sounded the Sig
nal OF Revolution and the bonds that Meternicn nai
shrewdly fastened upon them were rent Ike the
withs that bound the giant The agents OF Nicholas