Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-12-06

Meanwhile the half crazy Elector of Hesse Cassel
determnedto abrogate the Constitution OF his coun-
try and entered upon the experiment whose features
We have had occasion so lately to detail He was
defeated and fed before the moderation and legal re-
sistance of his people. AS matter OF course, he
resorted for aid to Austria and Bavaria whose agents
had favored if they had not instgated the outrage
he had thus failed to carry through. His people
having steadily favored the Prussan plan OF Unlon
and being united in defence of their Constitution
and of the constitutional principle naturally looked
to Prussia for support in this extremity as did the
entire Constitutional Party of Germany And Prus-
STA made show of answering their expectations !;
preparations for war, were set on foot; powerful
military force was collected the frontiers of the
Electorate which was actually entered by large
army whose General officially proclaimed that an
! Austrian Bavarlan lnterYentlo1 would De the
commencement OF war.
In all these movements Austria and Bavaria eVin-
! ced clear determination, and advanced straight
forward to their end, while Prussia was tardy and
undecided. This no doubt the result OF mingled
insincerity and conscious weakness on her part in
deed she was necessarily in fear of popular in
surrectons but we have 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 Repre-
sentatives of Prussia and Austria to conference at
Warsaw. He dictates the denouement of the drama
he informs the parties of his will he issues his
Iders; he commands the submission of Prussia the
Confederation shall be restored and Austrian and
Bavarian troops entering Hesse Cassel unopposed
shall deprive the people of their Constitution and
nit the Government to the Elector unchecked by
the limitations of rebellious 1880. And, more than
this Prussia, must cease the tact support she had
given to the insurgents of Scheswig Holstein and
suffer them to fall again into the power OF Denmark
All this has been submitted to; the heir Of the
Great Frederick the creator of Prussia, has obeyed
these orders, almost as the Corporal of Russian
platoon obeys his--Prussia is Inundated, her indie
pendence abolished; Germany is to-day Russian
dependency.
And let us say that all this is deserved. Germa
ny is politically two centuries behind her ideas
The strong hold of the Reformation the teacher Of
individual independence and the right of private
judgment, she has maintained in politics the doc
trlne of the middle ages and preserved amid the
science of the Nineteenth Century the political tyr
amy of the Sixteenth Safety for the future, a.
we'll consistency for the present required the es
tablishment of Constitutionalsm in Germany two
hundred years ago. And it is only fit that Prussia
having been foremost in this fatal error should b.
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 accomplished
but this is not so. Dynasties and Governments CONF
to their end but not great nation. German Princes
are humbled dsgraced. but the German people d.
not share the stain. They have not consented t.
these outrages they have not participated in thes
crimes. The Germany of thrones of nobles of ira
dictionary authority is converted into Russian pro
vince, but not the Germany which lives in million
of Teutonc hearts. They are not Russian the,
never CAN be. The native instinct of liberty ant
justice that ruled the aboriginal tribes from which
they descend, still trobs within them, and thes
events only strengthen and deepen its latent vitality
Its destiny will be seen in the coming recorganiza
ton of the Continent
And now that Nicholas has achieved so much lie
him do more. Let him accomplish his purpose il
France also Let him if he can bind the intelligenc
of Europe and extingush the ideas that impel thi
fiery and unsparing age. Let him rebuild the oil
doctrines and restore the old obedience. For wthou
this he is not safe and the wider his conquests tn
more speedy his destruction.
For our part, with each approach of tn
Northern bordes and Asiatic absoutism, hea
more distinctly in the future the clamor of the las
f dread battlefield where the final conflict will
waged between Liberty and Authority, the God-give
Rights of Man ard the self-assumed Superiority Q
Individuals and Glasses. That conflict will be end
ed when the power of Russian absolutism is broken
We afford to await II with patience and conf
Idencn