The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-08-10


ls2O, which, in Italy, Spain, aud Austria, intro
duccd a state of thiRgs which has since been at
tended with continual convusions. Since that
period there has been little rePose in Eu-
rope. Italy, from time 10 time, has lifted
her mangled aud bleeding arm to level one
more blow upon the breasts of her spoilers.
Spain has been CONFUSED by a succession of
political earthquakes, which have wet her fair
est plains and most beautiful cities ia humln gore
Portugal has been the sport of fortune; and the vast
empires of bo,h these kingdoms ia South America,
have been wrested from the parent crowns, by the
inevitable and irresistible progress Of democratic
principles Germany has successfully been con-
vulsed by similar movements. Prussia has, from
time TO time, had TO contend with the same strug
Cling elements. Even Russia has been obliged 10
bend the yoke still frmer upon the necks of her
almost countless millions Poland did not cease
TO love liberty after the death OF Kosciusko; and
when she made her last unavailng effort for free
dom, and her banner was furled in blood and de-
feat under the walls of Warsaw, it was but another
proof that brave and gallant kingdom, which had
enjoyed liberty for eight hundred years. would not
willingly give up It's last hope, even when driven
into its last fortress. France, too, has from time
10 time struck for freedom. In 1880, cowardly
aud perfdious monarch was obliged TO flee from
his palace, 10 give scope to the irresistible tide of
democratic revolution; and, had it not been be-
leved, when Louis Philippe came forward as the
" Citizen King" TO protect, as he pretended, the
liberties of the French people, saving only some
Of the paraphernaia of royalty, that the soul of
liberty would be transfdsed into the new state, no
other king would ever have sat upon the throne of
the Capets.
We need not speak of The European revolution Of
1913. We have already traced its progress, and
seen portion of its results. We have no fear of en-
countering any fair argument to dsprove our asser-
tlon when say that at the present time, with all
the discordant elements ahoat which are likely
ever 10 threaten our glorious Union, that is, AT the
present hour, more permanent, and more hrmly es-
tablished in the opinions of mankind, than any
other government in existence. European capital
s,s when they seek for investments for their COL
lossal fortunes look TO this country. Although the
stres and animosities which have disturbed our
domestic tranquility to certain extent during the
last few months, have given rise at home, among
patriotic and national men, to some degree of ap.
prehension and alarm, these causes are not con-
ceived by foreigners to be sufficiently well founded
in fact, to give place in their minds to any consde-
rable degree Of appre he nsion. The world cannot
believe when they calmly look upon the uninter-
rupted march of this country, which now embraces
in its gigantic arms thirty republics united in one,
that any human cause can, for long period, dis
turb our federal tranquility 1t has been, there
fore, it will be, a matter of more surprise ia
Europe than in this country, that We have passed,
as a federation of republics, with so much calm
ness through what would have been, in an empire
composed Of as many provinces, almost a sure
signal, particularly in our excited and electric age,
OF general, and, perhaps, a destructive convul-
sion. The experiment has never yet been worked
on earth but once, satisfactorily at least for
purposes, Of holding together an empire, whose
provinces stretched across the enormous area of q
great continent, which began with the sunrise fom
one ocean and closed with the sunset on the other
Ii is not an old and wel-tried experiment to hold
together, by the force of popular opinion, the
augmeniing millions of such a continent as this
and, God he praised, if we fail at last, we fail in
attempting impossibilities. We are in a new age
in the worlds history. We are attempting new
things and we can afford TO fail, if fail
we must in making so magnificent an expe-
rment. What sort Of work would Europe
make now, in attempting 10 unite the inco-
hesive elements of the various races and coun-
tries which are found, from John OGroat's TO
Calabria, from Lapland TO Gibraltar, from the
PyTenees TO the Ural ! And what work would she
ever have made in attempting such experiment,
even after the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF the Roman En-
pire IL is too late in the day for monarchs to
talk about the instability of republics. Too freshly
within our recollection, have they fled, like
"irighted ghosts" from almost every capital on
the continent. But lately have they been COM
PEELED, at the sacrifice OF every principle OF national
independence, personal pride, TO band themselves
together to save their sinking fortunes When the
Monarch Of the Bauicades cannot " sleep nights"
In one of the damasked chambers Of the Tuiercs,
with "dream guard" of $50, 900 picked meo, he
may talk about the instability Of republics. When
not even Pope dare sleep the throne OF St.
Peter, with his "IIoly Water Guards around
him, but chooses TO fly from the Eternal City, in the
disguise Of a despic able vale,-de-chambre; whsn
even an Austrian Emperor for his lite from the
Italian cops, that were kept for many years for
a show, in their beautiful uniform, with their fiae
glossy boards and musiachios, at his gates. and
must run oil in the night, like a sheep-siealer, from
his "impregnable" capital when the son OF the
Great Frederick IL compelled to grant a consiiiu-
tim TO his people; when every poor house prince
in Germany-and God only knows how many there
are Of them-is shaken from his bed by the march
Of democracy; and when even the invincible
Autocrat Of the North is obliged to depopulate his
frontiers, and exhaust his fortresses, TO gather
his ftrocous Croais 10y the hundred thousands, and
launch them upon the south Of Europe-and all
this to put down democracy should think the
time had about come that these sccptered, mlired.
and crowned gentry could "hold up" spell in
their jokes. and allow us plain republicans a
chance TO say something. fthe last three years,
say ing nothing about the last three thousand, have
not taught the princes Of Europe and their Subjects
the instability Of despoiism, we beg them to read
the history Of this country; and IL they cannot un-
dergo painful and laborious process, to glance
occasionally at any Of our newspapers, to see what
democracy means, when the real thing is applied to
the real test.