New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-23

force was collected on the frontiers of the
Electorate, which was actually entered by
large army, whose General officially pro-
claimed that an Austrian or Bavarian IN
ter7ention would be the commencement of
war.
In all these movements Austria and Ba-
varia cvinced clear determination, and
advanced straight forward to their end,
while Prussia was tardy and undecided
This was no doubt the result of mingled
insincerity and conscious weakness on her
part indeed she was necessarily in fear of
new popular instructions, but we have as
little doubt that Russian diplomacy had
share in her indecision.
The crisis having arrived, the Autocrat
comes in to end the whole dispute. He
summons the Representatives of Prussia
and Austria to a conference at Warsaw.
He dictates the denouemeat of the drama;
he informs the parties of his will; he issues
his orders; he commands the submission of
Prussia; the Confederation shall be re-
stored, and Austrian and Bayarian troops
entering Hesse Cassel unopposed, shall
deprive the people of the Constitution and
remit the Government to the Elector I'M
checked by the limitations of rebellious
1880. And, more than this Prussia must
cease the tacit support she had given to
the insurgents of Schleswig Holstein and
suffer them to fall again into the power of
Denmark,
All this has been submitted to; the heir
the Great Frederick, the creator of Prus-
STA, has obeyed these orders, as the Cor
poral of Russian platoon obeys his. Prus-
sia is Inundated, her independence abol-
ishcd Germany is to-day Russian de-
tendency.
And let US say, that all this is deserved.
Germany is politically two centuries be-
hind her own ideas. The stronghold of
the Reformation, the teacher of individual
independence and the right of privatejudg-
ment, she has maintained in politics the
doctrine of the middle ages and preserved
amid the science of the Nineteenth Cen
fury the political tyranny of the Sixteenth.
Safety for the future, as well as consisten-
cy for the present required the establish
ment of Constitutionalism in Germany two
hundred years ago. And it is only fit that
Prussia, having been foremost in this fatal
error, should be most severely punished.
That Monarchy receives no more than its
deserts when the heel of Nicholas is set
upon its neck.
We said that the end of Germany is &C
complished but this is not so. Dynasties
and Governments come to their end but not
great nation. German Princes are hum
bled. disgraced, but the German people do
not share the stain. They have not con-
scented to these outrages-they have not
participated in these crimes. The Ger
many Of thrones, of mobiles, of traditionary
authority is converted into a Russian pro-
vince but not the Germany which lives in
millions of Tcutonic hearts. They are not
Russians they never can be. The native
instinct of liberty and justice that ruled the
aboriginal tribes from which they descend,
still throbs within them and these events
only strengthen and deepen its latent vital
ity. It's destiny will be seenin the coming
Reorganization of the Continent.
And now that Nicholas has achieved so
much let him do more. Let him accom-
plish his purpose in France also. Let him
if he can bind the intelligence of Europe
and extinguish the ideas that impel this
fiery and unsparing age, Let him rebuild
the old doctrines and restore the old ODE
dience. For without this he is not safe,
and the wider his conquests the more
speedy his destruction.
For our part, with each new approach Of
Northern hordes and Asiatic absolutism,
we hear more distinctly in the future, the
clamor of the last dread battle field where
the final conflict will be waged between
Liberty and Authority, the God-given
Rights of Man and the self-assumed su-
periority Of individuals and Classes That
conflict will be ended when the power of
Russian absolutism is broken. We can
afford to await it with patience and con-
dence.
~ Our Telegraph dispatch from London to
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