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TO punish the golden-calf sins and fOlles Of Red /
Repubicanism; and Europe seems on the very /
point Of slipping back TO the condition that texsted |
fourteen months ugo-just as ii Louis Philippe /
had never been driven out Of France-iusl as if
the monarchs Of Prussia and Austria had never
been at the feet Of their people, royal eulpnIs,
frightened, penilent quite willing 10 submit 10
any punishment aud degradation, which would
stll concede to them the shortest respite Of mon
archie life, the smallest shadow Of kingly au.
thorly. A WindischgraIz, JelISchich and
Radelzky have enabled the Austrian Emperor
to turn the tables on his good people in Austria
proper Bohemia aud Lombardy and they will
very soon all unite their forces TO reduce Hun.
gary TO similar Submission. The King Of Prus.
sia, lalely outraged and degraded in a hundred
ways, is now Emperor elect Of the Germanic
Confederation, (nobody hears any thing now Of
the Germanic Republic,) although afraid to ac-
cepl the honor, not resisted by republican in.
teresis, but by royal rivals; and there are no
1 fighting or declaiming democrats in Bavaria, the
/ Polish Prussian Provinces, or even in Baden.
One single blow from an old soldier-and not
/ by any meansthe wisesI and ablest in Europe
/ has destroyed all the illusion Of Sardnian lber.
alism-uuerly demolished the Janus Of a cit.
izen King Charles Albert, who would have uni.
ted 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 Sicans only fight again, to
be defeated again; Calania is sacked; Syracuse
capiIulales; and nothing remains but Palermo
and a long Stage. or a short aud bloody storm
10 restore the ancient despotism OF Ferdinand
over the whole island.
The republic Of France still stands; but il:
destinles are in the hands Of democrat borr
: ia the purple,-a governor, not a chief servan
IA man who, educated to regard France as hi;
inheritance and the crown of Napoleon as his
blrh.rghI, had, twice in his life, raised the ban
ner Of the Emplre-to which he seemed aImos
fairly called by the immense popular maiorite,
; who voted for him as President, in preference
to the ready republican Cavaignuc aud Lamar
tine-and now uneS, with right royal grace
aud instinct, with the Austrian aud other mon
: archS to settle the Italian difficulties. Every
: thing seems to indicate that the Prince PreSi.
dent is neading ia the steps of his uncle, anC
f acting IN full expectation and preparation for
b. change from the Presidency TO the Imperial dia
n dem Of France; and that his Ministers and IN,
r majority of the Assembly are acting with hin
e in view Of the sume expected convt r>ion. Tn,
i. vuIlure has killed the eagle; the Red Republic
' has destroyed The real republic of France; III,
' people themselves seem looking complacenlly
e if not with desire. TO resloralinn-lhe Imperia
# resloraIIon-in which The pride of liberty may b.
Y ba:Iered Tor peace. prosperity, aud certain pro
tecIlon from Ihe red handed phianlhrupisls ant
. robber phllosophcrS-lhe ncw.angled Marat
. aud Anarbharss ClooIzes Of the day-who hav,
. done so much to iniure the republican cause il
e Europe. Ii is the light air that makes The low
barometer; aud as the air of the continent ha!
= been overfilled with the vapor Of mems foes
n column sinks, and the clouds gather thick anC
n fast
Y Is repubicansm, then, II plant that cannot
!. after all, flourish in European sol It has, a
: least, maintained itself amid The glaciers of The
C Swiss Alps for five hundred years, and thrice a
long, nearly, ON the solitary Italian hill Of Sal
Marlno, and in the hollow vale of Andurra ami
the wild depths Of the Pyrennean mountains
The soil is good and the season propilious.
is the huSbandmen only, or those that assum,
I TO direct their Iubors, who are in Iaull Th
|" seed of the serpenI's teeth produces in Europe
7 as elsewhere, the usual crops of armed men
u ready to be organized into harmonious commu
. mites, or driven. by stones cast among them, I
: turn their swords upon each other. This how
y ever, is not an evil that can last forever. Ex
y perence is gained by disaster and the popuIa
mind is informed by IaIIure. If despotsm rise
. again. it rises enIeebIed. Liberalism is check
= ed, but does not die. All the thrones Of Eu
II rope may be restored, but it will be only for
e time. Conslilulionalism, ut least, is inevitable
- and in that is the leaven and awakening prime
" pie Of the freedom to which civilized men wi
" ~ aspire until it is al last firmly aud fully enjoyed
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