Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-05-17
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F ShCI' 'Siu,Iy DOln against the \ AUSTRIAN troop
aud their Russian allies, it must be conceded
that Liberalism appears te be at length de
Ginning Ell over Europe, and the republican
spirit fast yielding before the desperate rcsolu.
ton OF kings and princes fighting for the pres
ergatlon Of their ancient power and hereditary
honors. We do not suppose the ultimate re-
eult OF things is to be altered freedom is the
destiny, because the natural last sage Of pc
lIiIcal progress of lhe race, and sooner or later
1t Will come but, in the meanwhile, the prog
ress is checked the way is lost there is TO
be longer wandering of the nations in Il C
desert, to punish the goldcn-calf sins and TO-
lies Of Red Republicansm and Europe seems
on the very pon, Of slipping back to the con.
dltlon that existed fourteen months ago-ius,
as if Louis Philippe had never been driven
out OF France--just as if the monarchs of
Prussia aud Austria had never been at the
fee! of their people, royal culpri,s, figh ened
penitent, quite willing to submit to any pun
ishment and degradation, which would still
concede to them the shortest respite of monar-
chic life, the smallest shadow Of kngly author
iy. Wndlschgratz, a Jellachich and
Radetzky have enabled the Austrian Emperor
to turn the table on his good people in Aus
trla proper, bohemia and Lombardy and
they will very soon all unite their forces to
.ecuce Hungary 20 similar submission. The
King Of Prussia, lately outraged and degrad-
ed in hundred ways, is now Emperor elect
of German Confederation, nobody hears any
thing now of the German Republic,) although
afraid 10 accept the honor, not resisted by re-
pub lean interests, but by royal rivals and
there arc no fighting or declaiming democrats .
in Bavaria, the Polish Prussan Provinces, or
even in Baden. One single blow from an old
soldier-and not by any meaEs the wisest
and ablest in Europe-has destroyed all the
illusion of Sardinian liberalism-ut,erly de-
moI.shod the Janus Of citizen King, Charles
Albert, who would have united in his person
the Incompatible roles Of prince and patriot
and taught his subjects fierce lesson of their
impotence and peril, in the blood of Genoa
The Sicilians only fight again, to be defeated
again Catania is sacked Syracuse capitu-
atos AMI nothing remains but Palermo and |
a long siege, or a short and bloody storm, 20
restore the ancient dcspo,sm of Ferdinand oy-
.r the whole island Il
The republic Of France s,il stands but its
iestlnics are in the hands of democrat bora
IN the purple,-a governor no. chief Sell
,ant--a man who, educated 10 regard Franc
IS his inheritance Gad the crown OF Napoleon /
is his hr,h right. had, twice in his life, raised /
he banner of the Empire to " hich he seem !.
> almost fairly called by the immense popu-
ar majorl,'s WHO yCt,d tUg him as President,
n preference to the really republican Cavaig. I
NC aud La ariluc-aud now uniles, with 2
ight royal grace aud instinct, with the Aus
ran and other monarchs TO settle the Italian
difficulties. Every thing seems TO in ica,c
hat the Prince President is tre1ding IA the
teps of his uncle, and acting in full eNpec;a
ION and preparation for a, change from the
Presidency to the Imperial dildem of France
nd that his Ministers and the majority of the
Assembly are acting with him in view Of the
anne expected conversion. The vultule has
roye the zeal republic Of France the people n
themselves seem looking complacen'ly, il nol
With desire, to a Tesl0ration-the Imperial
cs,oration--ln which the pride of liberty may
'e 5artered for peace, prosperity, and certain
protection from the rcd-handed philanihro-
lists and robbcr phosoph new fangl- i
d Nlarais and Auarcharsis Cloo,zcs Of the
lay WHO have done so much to injuTe the
cpublican cause in Europe 1t is the light
Iir that makes the low barometer and as the
Iir OF the continent has been over-iil oil with
he vapor of mems foiics, the column sinks,
Ind the clouds gather thick and fast.
Is republicansm, then, plant that cannot,
Iltcr ALL flourish in European soil 1t has
II least, maintained itself ami the glaciers OF
he Sv iss Alps for five hundred years, and
hdco as long, nearly, on the solitary Italian
ill OF San Malino, aud in the hollow vale Of
NHuolId dlNlal lNt WIN ht nlIl1 W lHc OItu- II
,can mountains The soil is good and the
eason propitlous. 1t is the husbandmcn on
y, or those that assume to direct their abors,
arc in faAlt The seed of the se-peut's
eeih produces in Europe, as elsewhere, the
isual crops Of armed men, ready to be organ
zcd into harmonious communities, or driven,
~ stones cast among them, TO tuIn then
swords upon each other This, however, is
rot an evil that can last forever. Experience
s gained by disaster and the popu'ar mind is
informed by fainre. IL dcspotism rises again,
{ rises onfeebled. Liberalism is checked u,
locs no, die All the thrones of Europe may
DC restored, bu, il will be only for a time
Const,utionalism, at least. is inevitable and
n that is the leavcn and awakening principle
,f the freedom 10 which civilized men will as
pitc until it j. a, lat firmly snd fully enjoyed