New-York daily tribune., 1849-04-20
Tho Year Of Blood.

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,sdlv NJ, the worlds annals Is the Year Of Blood.
Already bss its first quarter been signslized BY
two desperate conflicts in lodis, two disastroos'y
dscisiye struggles in Italy, and no man can say
how many nurderous encounters in Hungary. II
.ncb /. the beginning. ere the Spring has larry
opened, what may we fairly expect Of the sum
saer and Autumn' We besr already Of the immi-
nent renewal Of bostlties between Denmark and
Prussia. between Sicily and Naples and we Hno"
that Rome and Venice are soon to be attacKed
and oyerborne-wbo can say that they VIII Sue
cumb without a struggle Meantime the darh 'e
,ion. NJ the Aotocrat oyershsdow bis more civil
ized frontier and thousands Of them have been
uusbed forward into Trsnsyvanis and Hungary 70
Aid in crushing the free spirit now awake 10 tnose
long tranpled nations. The gold and tne s'ee' u
Ro..ia-and no other empire can afford 70 De 80
lavish NJ eitber-are already at the service OF tne
Austrian Aristocrscy; they are doing lts "O'h
,ov.IIy in the East and virtually on the plains OF
I,.,v Unless the new Emperor OF Germany
I'D vho can have confidence either IN his capacity
or his heartiness shall place himself al 'ne hes"
of IN. Liberal movement Of the age, we may sadiy
expect 10 see the work Of lS45 completely undoue,
and scarcely a vestige left next December 70
tell u, of the grand Uprising OF Nations before
which the haugbtiest Kings qusiled on tneir
thrones. while Metternich Guizot,l. Louis Pbilppe
and their compeers fed in steathy ignomIny from
that fsirer half Of Europe which they had so long
trodden down.
We cannot hope mucb-who could d'-irom the
pood offices of the King Of Prussia; he may seem
10 favor the Liberal cause, but he cannot be cordis
-; nj. adhesion TO the cause Of the People against
the Kings. Prussia is to-day Democratc-nef
thirty wears Of Common Schools have settled that
but her Ministry her Army, her Maelsuacy' are
stin with her Aristocracy, hostile TO lne cause o'
Popular Freedom. Aud suppose the newly chosen
Emperor should endesvor to interpose the arm o'
Germany to stay the advance OF Russian osital
ions into the heart Of Europe how is he to be sup
ported1 Can Hanover, Bavsris, Baden, be relied
ON for men and money wherewith to resist the
plots of Absout,m The more closely this new
Empire of Germany is considered the more misty
and unreal it must appear.
No-the proper reliance OF the European De-
mocracy is not Germany, distracted as Germany
uphappily is, but France, and where to-day Is
France With weak and prohigate sdventurer
in her Executive Chair. surrounded by Mo-
narchical Ministry, and looking for his support To
the classes and interests most hostile to Universal
Freedom, what is to be hoped from her Wherein
does her present position differ from that she held
daring the last struggle Of Poland IN the first years
OF Louis Philippe With a constitution hardly
vet sworn to, the first representatives not yet
elected under IT, we have seen it already twice
asgrantly violated-in the suppression of the
Clubs and the increase of the Presidents enor-
mous salary--and it's spirit and objects necessarily
wared upon. Can We nationally hope that The
career Of this new Napoleon will be better than It's
outseti or that they who daily plot and strl'o 10
crush Liberty at home will make sacrihces
to uphold 1t abroad No! it were madness to
expect IT, The weisht OF France is thrown into
the scale OF Despotism there to remain Whatever
may be the outw ard semblance, until the not dis
tant day when another election or another revolt
shall give her a Ministry sprung from and sympa
thIzing with her People. When that day shal
have arrived whether the Russians are at Vienna
at Constantinople or at Turin, new era will have
opened, and the struggle for Freedom will re
commence under auspices far more benignan
than the present
We do not will not believe that France Is no
at heart Republican for when we say France
we mean thinking, intelligent Frenchmen. Ths
the money changing shop keeping classes sigl
for a return to the fesh-pots OF Egypt, we quit
understand that great portion OF the rurs
peasantry and their untaught hirehnss scarcel.
think at all, we also understand. We see that
tactitious combination OF these have made LOU
Napoleon President We do not not see that tn
coincidence can be perpetually repeated. o.
the contrary, we trust the present year will se
the People electrified by some great event whle
will dissolve the Fictitious coalition Of Cunnln
and Ignorance, and place France once more 1
the vanguard Of European Democracy. Then ma
helpless pitiable Ireland once more litt her head
then may British Char;ism once more be tern
to evildoers Until then N'sht oroods sadly owe
Europe Heaven grant that itbe not long to Day