The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-10-04
Our London Correspondence.
LONDON, September Z, 1917.
The Great Struggle betvetw Despot,sm and DEM

The institution Of onarcby is doomed to disap-
pear from the face OF that earth which il has so long
deformed and despoiled. tits now making It's final
struggles all Its members on the Continent are in
commissions, and its head in these islands perceives
the end approaching. The rights of man are find-
ing both utterance and response the physical, as
well moral force of the mass, so long spurned
and rodden under foot, 10 soon to be rallied for the
completion of that sublime task which involves
its own regeneration and the destruction of its
enemies. The mere movement, indeed, seems un-
propious but it is the stiffness of such a time as
that IN which the storm nurses its elements into
fury-it il the awful instant after the match has
been applied, in which the buoyant ship rises
highest on the wave, just before an explosion of
the magazine has filled the air and covered ths
expanse Of waters with her shattered fragments
The people going through the rude course of
education, by which they are alone to be prepared
for those free institutions which are enjoyed in
the United States, and secured to France, but
which are utterly unk nown and mposs BILE in other
couDulss, without the same violent rev buttons. II
Rome has capitulated, and Venice, and Hungary,
they but fail 10 rise again the very morrow of
that disastrous dav upon which their liberties have
been eleven 10 the ground by the swsrd The pro-
pie of Europe have advanced an age since The
French revolution, and cannot any longer be held
In the dIseisceful subectlon 10 their masters and
mistit ssee, which the old cond iton of Il tvery
now become rs obsolete as the relation itself The
proofs OF this assertion are to be found, on every
side, on the Contineut-in The ardor aud ABILITY of
the newspaper press; In the devotion of martyrs,
the beTOlsm OF warriors, the Increase of popular
knowledge, The growing contempt and hosIilny to
KING, queens, peers, aud arlstocrats Regard the
commonest test OF national characteristic military
prowess-and where will you Tad, except IN its
catastrophe, more TO sustain hope and admiration
than ia Hungary, throughout the last Campaign
And the conduct Of the nation generally and of
particular corps OF the army, before and since that
| treason, has been sublime az the conduct OF its
barbarous assaIlants has been sneaking and SAN
guinsry. The historian Of that classic struggle
which delivered Greece from the Persian INVASION,
does not paint A scene which the Hungarians we
not reproduced. The defence of the hearths and
affairs Of the Thesis aud the Danube. has been al
most rep tItioD of The immortal deeds of Sparta
and Athens From the opening OF the war; when
kossu'h's aged mother. of three scere, and almost
four held up the national flag in the pubic sou ire
at Pesth, and called every man around her, eager
Ia own his zeal and vaor, I'LL the final hour when
that old lady has been crrled, royal pr -oaer TO
die IN The dungeons OF Presburgh il las been on
in The great matter Of the Issue that the Hunga-
risn tragedy does not emulate the Greek Even
Them .U has been surpassed for there was one
suryIy. 4 the three hundred who stood against
the M cradle hosts Of Xerxes, at the entrance
into zee. The last item of news IA, that the
bttle .rress Of Deva, in Trnbsy lvauis, rxl,is no
Longer. The three hundred Uungarians in garri-
con there, not willing TO surrender, blew up the
ma2nsne Inc Russians found the bncken.d
caIcsses at the foot Of the rock which rises to the
height 81 five hundred feet The fortress is COM
pleteY dtmolshed-nooe Of its defenders surren-
dere2 These men voluntarily subscribed in their
LIES blood, TO the great ssyiDg'-
"Tbe hour that makes msu slave
" Takes bait hts worth away"
-uDdto their immortal memory, and for the en-
courspsment Of those who are yet to follow their
example, preferred death to being Cos.sck priso-
Ders IL war Prose cannot appropriately CONNIE
crate the glory Of these namee-s, though dstin-
euished, soldiers and officers; but poetry will not
only rescpe their fame from oblivion-t will make
their deeds familiar 10 the fresides of the Uoed
States, France and England, as 10 the fresides If
Hungary, and repeat them, until they become
also the household words Of each new rrp.h-
lie, as II assumes the place rapioly preparing for Il
IN the European constellation The military
ecbiev, nis conducted by BEN. Demb.ski, Pre-
z.l and Aul,ck. may he compared TO the prowess
OF Cesar himself aud ter the genius, purpose,
vigor, wisdom and courage Of Kossuth, there has
YET but one msp only appeared 10 the annals of the
human race who GENES up To his standard.
ITO kpsw him 10 To love him
To name him, Is to praise"
It's a pity that the peet who rrvellrd in the
darkest hut the highest tribuations of the sou
Byron hsdD lived Out halt bis DAVIS that he mi Int
weu his inspiration to the elocmi-st and loftie-t
passages of history IN Italy and Europe What
a h'mr Tor his love OF Independence and heroism
-hs scorn 81 bas~nrss, and his hatred OF tyrants
bsps greater, poet IL u not in the ipioiie good.
Dess and providence Of God, who cba-tises the
objects At his love, and while he scoprpra exats
the fufieref. that tie modern passage Of nations
across the Rcd Sea Of d'livrrance, fed from tbs
veins 81 Blum, Of Bassa, and Kindred spirits shall
BE- either unsuccr ssful or ubcelebrstrd When the
tho,eB of heaven have passed over dry shod, and
the earcrsbs Pharoehs, with their imp GU crowns,
scsp'rss, chsrots and horeemen. sink forever from
mortal sight, m 'h~ grand song ~ popular gratitude
snd pisise come voice, rising above the rest, will
record the Jurlnent forever.
IL upon The ", opr of Europe, at last that the
pcnds rops arch of despotism PROPOSES From its
Two foundations AZ either ~nd-,n England and Rus
sia-th~ red line at the fabric is traced upon the
ground: but the work is Impasible The people
thsmsekes have bee, me unfit materials for the
csIrices al queer czars and aristocrsis. On the
Continent. they have not only ascrrisio-s their
strength w actual conbats, bst they have before
them all the whr. the pxanpl, at the United
States WHERE the people snd the government are
Identified with d.uocrH'ic progress, and also the
example az France, where the constitution will
coon btng the peoclr up,,ermost and coercr the
government itself. however III disposed Indeed,
u " felt here 10 he utterly impossible that the
obgsrchy can maintain itssf any longer, in pre-
sence OF the French republic. " thst republic
should stsrr sloof from interference or hnsttties
In spite ~ bad government and gorgeous viol,-
tons ~ polio, ana the constitution. France should
be REGARDED IN the United Stairs as nor ouy secure
IN the republican system. but us irresistible pro-
psRstor |; md every sfurt should he IN ,de there
u sssist her IN working out this mIssirs You may
feelrRret, or even indignation, ~ her ally Pres-
dent end his dIserscrd cabinet; and YOU may
doubt the capacity ~ the people for self govern
nept. because there nsppen to rxlst ve-tiges Of
legitimacy but you should observe that. with uni
verssl suffrage and universal eligibility tn office,
tee constitution " paramount. AID the govern
m.ni viii be soon replaced and a. to the hank -ring
for monarchy. that had brief existence with por.
nous OF he United States, after thu revolution
France has now prodipious Of strength, general
prosperity, and good fortune. She has a steam
navy that can ~ any mement bridge the British
channel She has IN her half a million ol Disciplined
sodefs, h'ty times ~ macy troops could be
rrH"p from watching India, and Ireland. aud
canada, to reset her; and The scope Of Engl,nd
have hr'p all dssrmed -ince the battle ~ W..
tefl"o, 81 as to neih.r have weapons. nor know
anything shout the use IL them--ap art ~ which
every frsnchnan. since. ~ well a. before that
baltic, spends hIs best years IN mastering. From
shore To- shore ~ TWENTY-FIVE mites, and from Paris
IT, London = matter of twelve hours. by steam. on
either land on water. You perceive that Will.
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