New-York daily tribune., 1849-08-07
The Retrayer. Of Liberty.

4h. Half Million of invaders now closing IN upon
then, from three sdes but such result is hardly
within the compass Of rational probability
should It be realized, the heroism which achieves
their triumph will fairly take rank IN the worlds
history With that Of the Creek conquerofs ol Aerx
a.. or with Pfassas successful ressisnos under
Frederick the Great 10 Russia, Austria and France
combined 10 dismember and destroy her. That
single chance OF the discontinue Of Hall MiiIoh
veteran troops. backed by the resources and ofea"
oi two great Empires Wondering Ninety mhHohs
OF People, by Nation Of Ten Millions At most oi
whom nearly fourth are Unaffected and snother
fourth Indifferent il all that now lett to free-
dom With Hungary subdued, Italy becomes
rsssively Austrian. Poland remains hoPeiessy
Ros,iap. republican Germany kneels TO the ssber
of IN. King Of Prussia. and France-is there Tor
her q lower deep Of degradation II there - soe
s.sms clearly doomed b explore It
For the present. we may regard the Republican
osuse AZ lost and it is but right 70 inquire hor lost
and by uhom One little year ago, Europe seem
ed on the very point Of shaking herself Tree from
kipgly and aristocTatic dominatIon-Just about 70
hunt Royalty away from the homes Of c'Vin]e'
men 70 filter haunts In somber scythsn forests Of
amid Turkish ruins One litto year sgo-and
now how changed And changed by whom
That France has mainly done the evil worR,
no one seems inclined TO dispute. That the hus
sian. Austrian, aud Prussian monsroh' should act
in concert Tor the suppression OF the spirit OF LID
er,v s but natural and was 70 have been expect
ed. You might as well quarrel with troop ol
wolves Tor their partiality 70 mutton Inc hi"s
oi Prussia deceived nobody when Tor season ne
auailed before the democratic resolution oi MS
people last year. He meant only that he was m
difficulty, snd must get Out as easily as possOie'
but get out at any ratio. The Austrian Court has
acted with more Aagrant and glshng peridy t.
Hungary than Frederick did to Prussia, because
IT'S difficulties have been more complicated and ITS
psr was more imminent. The C,T has prom
issd nothing, because nobody has dared or been
able TO demand anything Of him. But monarch,
though personally humane, trothiul and Christian
will dissemble and lie to preserve his power
Trained to regard the preservation and exten
sion OF his sway as essential to his proper dignity
and glory he does not scruple to resort - any
amount Of dissimuaton and trsachery rather than
Surrender his scepter Charles l. oil England
Louis XVI. Of France and many other examples
might be cited 1t would be absurd, therefore, TO
expect anything OF kings but the most lavish
outpourins Of blood and treasure to uphold and
fortily their own power. Their education is 80
psrvenss aud binding their minds 90 warped and
narrowed. that monarch who prsys deyouty
ooniesses regularly, and is in belief a Christian
will order thousands Of his people TO be NOW ed
down with grape shot for merely demanding the
common Rights OF Man, and never doubt that he
is doing God service. Alas, that the keepers OF
kings consciences should teach them no better
Blu, France is IN form a Republic, by far the
most powerful in Europe aud bound by every con
sderation of interest and honor to uphold the cause
OF Popular Freedom One consideration alone
should have withheld her from entering the lists
directly ss a champion OF the struggling Nations,
and thai is the desire 10 leave TO each country the
adjustment of its own Political Constitution. But
this consideration is overruled 10y the advance o.
the Russians into Hungary, and again by her own
proceedings in Italy. IL Ia too late to plead non
f. intervention in the case OF Germany and Hungary
for France has ntervened IN Italy, but on the side
of despotism' The force employed 10y her 70 crust
Roman Liberty would have suthced to drive the
Austrians and their blood sucking prlneely alice
entirely out OF Italy and established IN their stes'
aFederal Republic OF Twenty-Five Millions Of Peo
pie Her moral support to the Republicans o
Western Germany might have given quite ano
ther complexion to the late struggle IN Baden
rpresding the Repsblicsn fire from the Rhine t.
the Niemen. Had her rulers frankly said u The
Autocrst II you interfere In the Hungarian quar-
rel on the side OF DesPotism, YOU will compel ii
.to dip into 1t also. but on the side OF Liberty
even Nicholas must have hesiiated on tue verge @
the abyss thus opened at his feet But they de
nothing Of the kind and the consequence OF thei
trsschery t. Freedom is a Cossssk domination
over Europe.
How is this treachery excused
In Europe the organs OF the royaisi coalition
now misruling France do not affect to Keep ,ermi
with Freedom. They belong TO the great parry
Of Order. whereof Emperor Nicholas is the
head, aud Theirs aud GuiEot the fingers. They
openly sxult over the downfall Of the Roma
Republic snd oi the Republican manifestation II
Germany, which last Minister De Tocque'iuS
characterized in the Assembly as OF the Red
or Socialist school, and so utterly out of the pale
OF Moderate ympsthy-But in this country
the champions Of Moderate rule are driven by
public sentiment to deploFe the late disasters Il
the Liberal cause IN kurope, and to charge them
on whom think yoal Onthe Red Rspsbllcds'
and SectaIl.fs These say the Herald aud
more family some less Infamous deismers OF tie
sincere Republicans in FrSnce) have arres the
Government into its present Reactonary course
have compelled 1t to acts Of tyranny repression
&c such Is the excuse now set up for Loai'
Napoleon and his traitorous advisers Is there
any foundation for it Look back through the
annals Of the last ak months ana consider
The pivot Of the more recent history OF France
10 the expedition Of Oudinot 10 Rome Dad tbs
Socialist Democracy instisste AGt Have they
ever IN any manner melted or countensnced |.
Ths, expedition stamped beyond mistake the
character OF the present rule in France 1t show
cd that Louis Napoleon was not in heart Repub-
hcan but secret hsnkerer after Royal state and
power, and that his advisers were Of the same
school How could earnest Republicans be ex
pected 10 conhde in him alter that
The Elections came on and the Social Demo
crscy succeeded beyond sn expectation. They
elected some two hundred Members Of the Assem-