Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1849-05-02
From The Nc,o York Tribune.
THE WEAR. 0F-RLOOD.

ilSCItOe iSSH Ieuly oUluc "oliu auho'S
as the Year of Blood. Already has its
first quarter been sigualized by two despo.
rate conflicts in India, two disaslrousiy DO.
cisive struggles in Italy, aud no man can
soy how many murderous encounters in
Hungary. II such is the beginning, ere
the Spring has fairly opened, &hat may
we fairly expect Of the Summer and Au.
lumn? We hear already Of The hnmineu'
renewal OF the hostifties between Den.
mark and Prussia, between Sicily aud
Naples, and we know that Rome and
Venice are soon to be attacked and DIVERS
bornc-who can say that they will sec-
comb without struggle? Meantime the
dark legions Of the Aulocrat overshadow
his more civilized frontier. and thousands
of them have been pushed forward into
Transylvauia and Hungarylo 10 aid 10 crush.
ing the free spirit now awake III those
long ,ramped naliors. Tho gold and the
steel of Russia-and no other empire can
afford 10 he so lavish of. eilher-are al.
ready at the service OF The Austrian Arls-
locracy; they are doing its work royalty IN
The East and virtually OF the plains. OF
Italy. Unless The new Emperor Of Ger.
many-aud who eau have confidence either
10 his capacity or his heartiness !-shall
place himself al the head Of the Liberal
movement Of the age, we may sadly ex-
pect to see The work of 1913 completely
undonc. and scarcely vestige left next
December TO tell US Of the grand Uprising
of Nations, before which the haughtesi
Kings uuailed on their thrones. while Met
lernich, Guizo,, Louis Philippe and their
compeers fled in .stealthy igGominy from
that lairer half Of Europe which they had
80 long troddcn down.
We cannot hope much--who coulh!-
from the good offices oflhe King Of Prus,
sia; he may seem TO favor the Liberal
cause, but he cannot be cordial in his adj
hesion to The cause of the People against
The Kings. Prussia is to-day Democratic
her thirty years Of Common Schools
have settled ,hat-bul her Ministry. her
Army, her Magisracy. are still, with her
Arislocracy, hostile to the cause OF Popu-
lar Freedom: And suppose the nowly
chosen Emperor should endeavor 10 inter.
pose the arm of Germany TO stay the ad.
vance of Russian baltallions into The heart
of Europe. how is he to be. supported? Can
Hanover, Bavaria, Baden, be relied on for
men and money whercwilh to resist the
plo,s of Absolulism? The more closely
this new Empire ofGermany is considered,
the more misty and unreal it must appear.
No-,he proper reliance Of The European
Democracy is not Germany. distracted as
Germany unhappily is, bul France, and
where to day is France! With a weak
and pronigale adventurer in her Execu:
live Chair, surrounded by Monarchical
Ministry, and looking for his support 10
the classes and interests most hostile 10
Universal Freedom, what is to be hoped
from her? Wherein does her presen: po-
g sqs GsEo am !has shs hslS su,'aR .es
Louis Philippe? With constitution
hardly yet sworn TO, the first representa-
tives not yet elected under it, we have
seen it already twice flasrantly violated
iu The suppression of The Clubs and The in
crease of the Presidents enormous salary
aud its spirit and objects incessantly
warred upon. Can we nationally hope
that The career Of this new Napoleon will
be better than its outset? or that they who
daily plo, and strive 10 crush Liberty al
home will make sacrifices TO uphold il
abroad? No! il were madness to expect
it. The weight Of France is thrown into
the scale Of Despotism, there to remain.
whatever may be the outward semblance
until the not distant day when another
election or another revolt shall give he- a
Ministry sprung from and sympalhizing
with her People. When that day shall
have arrived, whether The Russians are o
Cons,anliuople or at Turin, anew era
will have opened, and the struggle for
Freedom will recommence under auspices
far more benisnanl than the present.
We do uoi; will not believe that France
is moi at hean Republicans for when we
say France we mean thinking, intelligent
Frenchmen. That The mnney. changing,
shop keeping classes sigh for return TO
the flesh. pots of Egypt, we quite under
stand; that a great portion Of the rural
peasantry and their untaught hireliuss
scarcely think at all. we also understand.
We see that a Fictitious combination Of
these have made Louis Napoleon Presi-
denl; we do mol see that the. coincidence
can be perpetualIy repeated. On the
contrary, we lrustth The present year will see
the People electrified by some great event
which will dissolve the Fictitious coalition
Of Cunning and Ignorance. and place
France once in the vanguard Of European
Democracy. Then may helpless, pitiable
ireland once more life her head thea may
British CharIism once more be terror TO
eviI-doers. UHtil then Night broods sadly
over Europe; Heaven grant that it be moi
long 10 Day.
From RIO JANErKo.-By the bark 81.
Joseph, the following intelligence, dated
Rio Janeiro. February II. hasbeeh receiv-
ed al New York:
"On the night Of the 9th inst, report
from a reliable source, reached this city,
stating that the Buenos Ayreans had eu-
tered the city Of the Rio Grande, the pre-:
vious night, and commilled excuses Of the
most revolving character. Several robbie
rios took place among the weallhies, clas-
ses, houses and stores were plundered and
set on FIRE, and the number Of inhabilaots