The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-12-31

The difference between them will, when the final
struggle comes, be just the difference between
victory and defeat-pOwer and ruin-disunlon and
consolidation. Such seems to US to be the In
evitable and irresistible tendency Of affairs In
Europe.
Revolutions in Europe are never common IN
winter. France has done most of her revolu-
tonary work In the heat of summer. Things will
be likely remain quiet on the surface till spring,
and then we shall see what the diplomatic schsm-
ing of the Russian cabinet has perfected.
If such be the tendency of European events, the
question arises is there no salvation for the South
and West of Europel We believe there Is-but
we restrict 1t to one thing. 1t is the new panacea
of natIons-the salvation of mankind. Il is in the
honest, bold, genuine democracy of the American
school. Nothing else can save Europe. Whether
there is vitality enough left in the purid carcass
OF Europe to generate so living, so lnvigorating
a principle, time only can tell The experiment
which is making IN France is final one for Eu-
rope. Socialism has been the only bane Of the
French republic; 1t has been the only danger she
has had to encounter, and it has well nigh proved
her rum. If she escape that, she is safe tor
the past has proved that all Europe cannot over
throw her when she is right.
1t amounts to this then, that the prophetic words
of Napoleon, on his solitary rock of st. Helena,
are verlfed-"Withln fifty years Europe will be
republican or Cossack." Europe has just reached
this tremendous crisis-how she will get through
The ordeal, no man can foresee. Monarchs princes,
popes and arstocracy can do nothing more for the
old world. They have tried their hand at it
for $500 years, and witness the result-so-
ciallsm, on the one hand, poisoning the foun-
tans of repubcanism and absolutisnl, on the
other, spreading Its dominion We hope and
believe that the force of the British empire will,
IN this great Crisis, be thrown in the right direc-
ton. Several things seem to be certain. The
only way IN which Louis Napoleon can save him.
self, Is, by standing firmly by the cradle of the new
born republic of France, and making it as near
as possible like that Of The United States. For
he must equally avoid the two perils that threaten
him-soclalism and monarchy-elther of which
would be fatal to him and to France. The one
is the Scylla, the other the Charybdis of the re-
public. AS for England, we are inclined to think
that her statesmen (and whatever may be the
shade of her ministry, wing or tory, they are much
alike), or in other words, her aristocracy, see at
last that their only salvation lies in favoring the
growth and development of republican lnsltu-
tons on the continent. Unless this policy is fully
and boldly adopted by the British cabinet, the
States OF Europe cannot hope much longer to re-
sist the all-poweriul growth of Russia Europe is
old-Russia is new. Europe is decayed, imbecile,
worn down with age, enervated with luxury, fee
bic, efete Russia is vigorous, manly, Injured to tot
and frost, young, stranger to ease, elegance and
prohigacy. In a word, as the ferocious millions
of the Huns, the Goths, and the Vandals (the
cestors of the modern Russians) once burst out
| from their snow homes and overwhelmed the ener.
waited Romans, seem their descendants to be
preparing another onset II socialism prevails in
| France and the South of Europe, chaos will fol-
low. II monarchy triumphs, slavery will ensue.
10 either case, Russia is the master OF Europe.
Nothing can save the States or the people of the
old world, but honest, straightforward, downright
American democracy.