The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-09

tuehhe empire OF teusSia-We have news that leads
to the profoundest reflection and exeitss the most
powerful passions Of the soul. Aud notwiihsland-
ing all the wan that are waging-in spite Of the
vast armies that are already marching into battle,
and the still vaster bodies that are preparing for
the contest--never has there been so great unity
in European affairs Jas at the preseat time. Not
even when Augustus closed the temple Of Janus
for the second time since the founding Of the Inn
perial City Or when Charlemagne and his Peers
conquered and made laws for all the kingdoms Of
the West or when Catholic monarchs and mobiles
marched towards the East in order to drive ihe
Moslem from the Holy sepulchre, was Europe SO
truly and emphatically one in It's civilization and
in its prospects as at the present time. Never be-
fore were the interests Of its different States so in.
terlaced and combined as they now appear to be-
Nearest 10 our own country, in position, in laws
and in civilization, stands the French Republic
for we leave out of the account the British Islands,
isolated as they are from the rest of Europehy
their social, religious and political institutions
And what are the last accounts from France
We are told Of a singular demonstration which
large body Of the Partisan people made on the 18Th
Of June last Some call this demonstration an out
break-an insurrecion-a violent rising of a por-
ton of the people against their legally constituted
officers and rulers. And these officers and rulers
have, in their good pleasure, chosen regard the
demonstration Of the 18th as a fehellon-an at
tempt al revolution. They have called ont soldiers
with swords and bayonets, and cleared the streets
Of their fellow citizens, who had met for the sake
Of making certain representations 10 the Govern
ment They have planted cannon in squares and
public places that they might NOW down the in
offensive and unarmed men who were quietly
walking towards the palaces OF their President and
Of their Representatives, in order to complain Of
certain grievances aud ask that France might be
relieved from the ignominy Of attacking republic
cans struggling for liberty and independence A
glorious victory, they say, has been achieved in
the name of law and order; the lorcible feeble
conduct Of an insane and suspicious government
has been magnifed into a triumph of the Barrot
Napoleon policy the principles Of the firm and
decided republicans Of France. To US, the PaFi-
sian events of the 18th June convey but one mean
ing. They tell US that the French people disap-
prove Of the course their Government has taken in
regard to the Roman Republic, and that the Presi-
dent and Ministry Of France wish to smother, if
they can, the cry Of anger and Of shame which
escape from the lips Of their indignant constituents
The 18th of June tells US that in the great struggle
which is approaching, France will be found on the
side Of Hungary and liberty thai coalition with
Austria and Russia will be repudated by the en-
tire mass Of French citizens and French soldiers
And what do we hear from Rome Oudinot
repudiated the convention Of the agent Of his Gov
ernment called out his armies and assaulted the
walls that have withstood for ages the shocks Of
time and Of hostile barbarians The Romans vet
resist; and viii not their courage rise and their
energies be exalted when they hear that it is only
Government, and not nation, with whom they
are contending When, on the 4th of last month,
the French from Monte Mario crossed the Tiber,
and faneied that they had last gained possession
Of the Eternal City, the Romans ran out the can
non from the embrasures Of the castle Of San An
gelo, and drove back the invaders who so rashly
assaulted their wallis and dwellings. Think the
spirits Of these Romans will sink when they hear
that these same French soders are not the patriot
soldiers they took them to be, but the mere msrcs
naries Of President who has betrayed his trust
and Of a Ministry which has exceeded its powers
Butt is hardly around the walls Of Rome or
along the banks of the Tiber that the question Of
Italian liberty and Italian independence is to be
decided. The Roman patriot follows with interest
the cavalry Of Garibaldi which sweep over the
Campagna and cut off the stragglers of the French
army but if he is at all aware Of the state Of af
fairs in Central Europe he looks with far more
Galicia. 1t is towards the valley of the Danube
that the Romans are to look for deliverance from
their French enemies. It is in the valley of the
Danube that has already commenced the struggle
that is to determine in some degree the fate Of
every country in Europe. Will the French soldier
remain in the Roman territory, fighting against a
people in whose cause he sympathzes, and wasted
by the pestiential airs which palsy the arm, and
dim aiyrbf nd MOO han tho srrif ,oflar
the opportunity of meeting his old foes, the Aus
TRANS and the Russians, on the old battle fields
which have so often witnessed the triumphs of
French valor and French genius And while
the Austrian is fighting for his own existence in
the plains near Raab, or mayhap around the walls
of Vienna, all Italy will join the Romans, and if
the French have not before Withdrawn from the
peninsula, United Italy will drive them behind the
Alps or drown them in the waters Of the MediteT-
ranean.
As we before said never were the destnies Of the
European states so interiinked and inseparable
from each other now and ii is in the valley Of
the Danube that congregated Europe stands It
is there that the battle between Asiatic despotism
and European freedom has begun; and it is there,
as the reports by the Canada inform Us. that has
been achieved the first victory in the present
struggle of right over power and authority. After
the circular Of the Russian Government, and the
declaration Of faith and opinion lately made by
the Russian Emperor, which we publish in to-
days paper, is itpossible for any people in Europe
to remain neutral in the war between Austria and
Hungary And which side will the great Ger
man Empire take Let the people Of Berlin and
Dresden and Leipsic and Stuttgart and Baden
answer, if their are not sufficient res
ponse to the inquiry. Let the Frankfort Parlia
ment and the Prussian Assembly answer.
As to the result of this contest must, we think
end in one of two ways. Either the Russian armies
will again entel Paris and spread their tents in the
gardens Of the Tuileries, or the Tartar hordes win
be driven behind the Ural mountains and forced
10 hide themselves in the forests of Siberia. In
the one case Europe will become Asia,ic in i,s
habits and institutions in the other, it will bs.
come American and democratic Ia this slrpggla
between the East and the West, the Past and tbe
Future, Rstrogression and Progress, Slavery and