New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-03-21
The Evrut and Its Uses.


IL must be idle for some time to seek to win pup
Inc attention to anything else. The facts have
been fully spread before readers save that inc
incidents Of the last two days sfter the stoPpage
c( the Mails out Of Paris and the interruption oi tne
ssress BY Railroadsl are less clearly presented
than We coald have desired. IL does not July sp-
PEAR. by any or all Of the accounts which have
reached us. why Louis Philippe should lave lett
constrained to rcsign when he did. nor why the
Tuileries was captured easily and with 50 little
los, From the displacement Of an obnoxious
Minister to the surrender Of throne and the over
,hrow Of q dynasty is stride which can hardly
have been taken in a breath. We are not sbso-
lately certain that one Of the latest reports. aver
ring the burning as well as the ssckng OF the To-
ieries 10 inaccurate but We hope II is. 50 oil the
report that force was setting OUT rom faris
10 storm the castle Of Vincennes-we can per
esive no adequate motive therefor. But that
the arduous and doubtful struggle between the
Government and the People terminated In the
complete success Of the lstter-that Louis PM
ipps has abdicsted and fed from Paris-tnat
the attempt to transfer the crown to his grand
ann with the mother or uncle OF that grandson
"a Resent has fsiled-snd that France has
hsep declared q Republic, under the immediate
Guidance Of Provisional Government composed
Of number Of her ablest and most liberal states
nea--so much is firmly assured. That her per
manent form Of Government is TO be submitted TO
her own maturer and more formal decision IS
known. but We cannot consider this OF any pract'
cal importsnce since there can be no rational
doub, Of the issue. We trust that the People will
be summoned to vote in their several arrondisse-
men,s on the great question, and that ballots For
q Republic, For Monarchy under the house OF
Orleans For a Monarchy under the old bour'
oons and For an Imperial or consular govern
ment under the Bonapsr,es,' will be invited and
received Bat with anything like Universal SUI
frsge, the Republic viii beat all opposition at least
ten to one. snd with Freehold basis Of Suffrage,
the Republic will still far outpol all possible
shapes and shades OF opposition. We trust this
fundamental question will be submitted 10 no Con-
vcntion nor Assembly, bat directly TO the People
We abhor anarchy, bloodshed, and Government
based on force or prescription. Let the new order
have basis at the earliest possible moment and
WHIST basis more legitimate than direct vote OF
the whole People
But We purposed to speak rather Of the proba- |
bic results of this Revolution out of France than !
in it. since no man imsgnes that its effects can be
coufned to Gallo SOIL Whoever appreciates the |
pres ent condition of Germany OF Great Britain, OF
Spain, and more especially Of Italy, must have al |
ready anticipated the electric shock which the It'd
ings of this CONFUSION must already have created |
We have no belief either that the atrocities of the |
r eign OF Terror are to be repeated in France or
that general European War is to follow the proc
lsmaton Of the French Republic Evil and reck'
less ~ men are, they seldom reensct precisely the
gigantic follies and crimes of their fathers. But
who believes that Poland will hear quietly these
tdinss or Italy rest easily in the grasp Of Meter
Mich when the news from Paris shall thrill the
hearts of Milan OF Venice, of Rome and Of Ma.
plesl Remember that one OF the first and sorest
offences Of Louis Philippe was his acquescence in
the subjugation OF Poland by the Gar, after she
had revolted on the impulse of the Revolution Of
July. Suppose she now revolts again, and mo-
mensarily throws off the Russian yoke, can the
new rulers Of France, the creatures of the popular
will, maintain that cold and selfish attitude for
which they 20 severely censured Louis Philippe |
Or If Revolution first blazes forth in Austrian TIA
inevitably call for aid to the popular causel While
we cherish no fears OF a new Holy Ali |
.nce to act Extensively against Republican France
much less that Great Britain will again pour out |
her treasure and her blood in so unrighteous cause
we cannot but feel that the Peace Of Europe |
hangs by thread which the next breath may sof |
fee to snap asunder.
But the Moral OF the new Revoution--is it not
clearly this-that despotism has no longer bull
wark gains. the rssistless advances OF knowledge
and Op'nioni Bere was a government presided
over by askrewd and resolute King, counseled by
\ most able and personally respected Minister,
backed by Standing Army of -Four Hundred
thousand Men, of whom One Hundred Thousand
were concentrated in and around the strongly lorti
fed capital, thoroughly disciplined, equipped and
supplied with every munition of war. AL this Inn
ncnse array Of Military force has melted away be-
fore the assaults Of unarmed rabbe at first of
few thousands only, and at time capable of
meeting and beating ten thousand such troops in
the open field. Who shall longer hope to stay
the swelling tide OF Revelation Idle are for
resses, vain are armsments, since soldiers have
ceased to be blind butchers at the word Of COM
manu-, Hhu tciuhc W irc On TUG EtOptS WIZ slahN
for Liberty. We know this 10 in Paris who
shall say it is otherwise in Vienna, in Berlin or in
Dublin And If otherwise in either to-day, who
10 rash enough to insure that will be
or next day
Tho new Revelation is emphsticslly the work
OF the Masses-of men who know nothing Of in
trigue, little of ambition but who toll and struggle
for scanty daily bread. They had no leaders no
plot, no rallying point. Their weapons were main.
ly paving their defences overturned car.
riases. Easily rspuised and dispersed st one
point they a. easily and unwesriedly assembled
at another. Their apparent defenceessness was
in truth their defence; for the soldiers, not insens
Bile to the cry Of Liberty, hesi,sted to sweep with
grape and muske,ry streets and squares filed with
unarmed lsborers who sought but the restoration
and security Of public rights. Each day saw the
insurgents dispersed and driven from dozen i'm
portant points but the next morning saw them raj
he'd again in greater numbers and with more de-
termined spirit Each day too, served to diffuse
among the defenders Of the monarchy some farther
knowledge Of the questions at issue, and .oweaken