The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-29


clubs On papers There would be no executive, in
fact Lamartine and Lsdru Rollin for a strong
executive to act eiectuaiiy ut home or abroad and
upon their own responsibility subject to answer for
their conduct And it is little extraordinary that
the two men who have been most pitted against each
other and whose heads the public in danger
of dividing should adhere to each other firmly and
upon the first division be found side by side sustaining
carrying their opposition great of the
committee Of the National Assembly 1t speaks well
for France and the patriotism these celebrated
men. do not wish to be understood spprecia'ing
alike the two men yet the manner in which Ledru
Rollin has sustained himself and Lamartine sustained
him has given me more favorable impressions than
first had OF him. OBSERVER.
PARIS, May II, 1888 o'clock, P. NJ.
The NeW Government The Foreign Policy of France
The supreme Executive has been chosen Arago
725; GARNER Pages 7l5 Marie 7O4 Lamartine 643;
Ledru Roin ass ArsSo stands there at the head Of
the Lamartine lost his position by over
throwing his particular friends in their report
tanning Ledru Rolln The vote has taken the public
try The report upon the foreign relations has been
called for, and will be made on Monday The debate
war; against the remembrance Of Lamartine. The
mail closes at o'clock. OBSERVER.
Our Berlin Correspondence.
BERLIN, April IA, 1913.
Ylews in PrussiG-What uiH be the Result Of the
Recent Political Increment?
The day of judgment seems to have come ut last,
and tho very graves yielding up their dead to rise
in accusation against the tyrants over nations, and
the trammelers of human mind and human rights Tho
dungeons Of Silvo Pellico and Baron Trenk, are no
longer peopled by the cadaverous victims Of royal ty
ranny and the sub-aqueous cells Of old Venice sur
render to the universal cry of open sesame, and hui
man souls that for years have languished in living
graves, breathing the very atmosphere of death
come forth to be greeted by the winged lions of St
Mark, bearing the proud emblems of liberty to
kind, and justice to all Revolution rolls onre
vouton, in unceasng tide-and comes like vivi-
flying showers in the spring time of human freedom;
each one swelling and expanding some new bud, or
giving form and symmetry to some new flower. Mill
tary despotsm is struggling in the commissions of death
and every effort Of rulers TO conquer their own people
by and bayonets has only served to convince
the people Of their strength and induce them to de-
ma nd aud tako what they have until humby
prayed for. The bust of Louis Philippe is dragged
about the streets of Paris the csy of Metternich is
hung a gallows in front Of his own palace in the
Imperial City where the Nestor of diplomacy thought
that the hearts blood of every circulated but at
his bidding; and the King Of Prussia has been
burned in efgy in of the cities of Germany Sic
transit gloria The last monarch has been more lucky
than his contemporaries, inasmuch as he has been
suffered to remain after dshonorably and
promising to turn revolutionist himself. His game
looks very unpropitious although few weeks ago
his chances were the brightest of any monarch in
Europe. Had he and his ministers had the political
foresight to lead the movement for the regeneration OF
Germany instead Of allowing themselves to be driven
into it, at the point of the sword Frederic William
would have been the elective emperor Of the grand
the streets of Berlin still rocking with the blood OF
his Victims together with his proclamation about his
determination to place himself at the grand German
movement. and lead the country on to glory and to
happiness, has been received by the other German
States with scorn md contempt and they tell him. very
the present moment must be confessed that he is in
fair way to become simple MIR. Frederick VIM Hohen
zoern This unfortunate state of affairs stngs Prussia
to the quick her population alone equal to that
the German population ofa the remaining German
States put together and in air fight she could stand
oil 4c
march has made her mam halt and blind and her posi-
ton altogether subordinate These circumstance alone
most difficult task although the whole country man.
is coming up to the noble work On the first of May the
men of the old fatherand are to rise in their strength
rom every quarter of this great country and she is to
be represented in conventional parliament in Frank
fort on the Main. The time honorcd city of tho old
German empire is now destined to be the cradle OF
dawning liberty, and the glorious patriots who for
years have been despiscd, prosecuted aye, many Of
them imprisoned for daring give uttcrance to their
principles. called upon to assert the inacn-
able rights Of man, and perform the last ceremony at
the grave Of despotism in announcing that forty mil
lions of men, the slaves Of yesterday breathe the
atmosphere Of liberty. The prelminaries for this par
lament have just bsen settled by convention in
for fifty thousand The right of suffrage is placed
the very broadest basis and all classes to be
! elections have been fixed by the convention-the
particulars are left to the individual States.
There rs noweveT "a. committee Sd, Of ~, MY IN
which have just been obtained. This committee pro-
tested few days against the election of lis dele
gates by Prussia the basis of existing before
the revolution Prussia annulled the election, and
threw it into the hands of the people, who will elect in
short time. Thus sponta neous convention of the
people is debating to sovereigns with vengeance
The grand object of this parliament is to consolidate
Germany into federal State-one hag-one army
one navy-one system of customs-one post office de-
partment-one coin-one weight and measure-onc
representation abroad and finally to have chief
elective monarch clothed with all the powers
patble with the rights Of the individual sovereigns
The thousands upon thousands of the great and minor
connected with the particular sections of the
country ut present almost nsuperable obstacles
to the accomplishment Of this glorious object, and
nothing but the purest patriotism and greatest sacr
fees will lead to victory of troubles is sprnging
up at home and abroad. Prussia, the most powerful
of the German nations claims the Presidency ut which
Austria flies into passion, traces its right back
to the house of Hubsburg, whose blood still Rows in
the veins Of its rulers; and on the other extreme,
party in Baden is endcavorng to do away with these
difficulties by proclaming the republic and routing
every sovereign with horse and foot and Dragons.
do not hesitate to declare that tho proclamation II
the republic now would be unspeakable misfortune
for Germany it would involve the country In anarchy
total bankruptcy, and most cruel civil war. The
people mass have ne political education nor tho
remotest idea of the exercise of political liberty They
have been long governed like the mcrest child that
to throw them suddenly on their own would
be to commit the cruel act of injustice towards
them. There must be probation, and the change
must be gradual, the CONFUSION will be powerful
that the body polite will sink under it This is the
and of all the great and liberal minds that have
sacrificed their liberty, their happiness and their for
tunes to raise the country to the elevated position
which she Is assuming among nations.
| Outward dangers rising in every quarter; the
newborn fraternity of the Parans is driving out all
foreign workmen from Paris; and the poor Germans
make the best Of bad bargain marching by thou
sands to the Rhine consoling their empty stomachs
with the idea that they will proclaim the republic on
their arrival Germany is sending troops to greet them
aAtrends. if they come peaceab yas enemies If they
persist in trying to force the people what the people
do want Bands of armed peasants plundering,
maraudng, burning and numbering in every direction
the people of the country flying to cities for pro-
tharh hon rio
in flames behind them-and the inhabitants of city
flying to another, in the vain hope Of finding rest
| ing place; but this exists where in Europe now
from Iecla to Etna the cry is revolution war blood
shed Satan himself to have takcn possession of
portion Of people liberty to be the right
to do whatever the most excited passions Of the
may give them desire for On the north there has al
ready been slight battle with Denmark. As Germany
has taken up the cause of her revocd provinces, her
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