New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-23
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER %
F;uis Germnniae.

The fateful words of the great Pole rise
spontaneously to the mind as we read the
last news from Europe. Yes, the end OF
Germany, too, is accomplished. The
Northern Autocrat IS as supreme on the
Rhine as on the Neva, and the ashes of
Cbarlemagne, and the bones of Martin Luz
tber lie within the boundaries Of Russia.
And this is only the logical sequence of
all that has been done in Europe for the
last thirty months. Everything-since in
the Summer of AZ, Cavaignac abandoned
Italy to Radetzky, and France deserted the
cause of the people abroad as she had done
Of bome-has enured to the benefit of Rus
STA. The policy Of every cabinet,the move
ments of every army have strengthened
Russian influence and aggrandized Russian
power. And this for a two-fold reason.
Russia alone has acted upon thorough and
everywhere consistent principles; Russia
alone has had the courage earnestly to back
her policy with her military force. Other
powers have shrunk in alarm before the
danger of a European War; Russia has
boldly confronted that danger, and 1t has
vanished like phantasm from her path
Austria is her vassal, Italy her outpost,
and now Prussia and all Germany with her,
resigning everything but the merest show
of National Independence, acknowledge
her will and add themselves to her domin-
ions.
The nature of the events Just accom-
plished in Germany, is too palpable to be
misunderstood. OF the revolution of l848
not relic remains to the German people,
and even the traces of 1880 are almost eft
faced. The Confederation, which for so
many years strengthened the dynasties,
and kept the nation divided and power
less, and which in the Days of March the
popular fury most Justly sought to destroy,
is at last restored to all its pernicious au-
thority
The promise of German Unity, 50 dear
TO the heart of the masses, so long the
catchword of the Courts, is extinguished,
and with it the constitutions and all the
guarantees of public liberty which Princes
have sworn to, and the cheated people con-
fided in. The Prussian Monarchy, long
since faithless to It's own subjects, has sealed
the consummation of its falscness, impo-
tence and folly toward the rest Of Germany
Our readers will remember that little
more than two years ago, the King OF Prus-
STA proclaimed himself the foremost IN the
movement for re0rganizing Germany as a
Constitutional Federal Union. How that
movement came to naught need not be here
recapitulated; enough to say, that had the
courage or fidelity of this King to his word
eoualed his ambition, that movement might
have proved something better than pitt
able and disastrous farce.
When the Frankfort attempt failed, Prus-
STA could not abandon the scheme of a Ger
man Federal Union. For she was pledged
to it, and earnestly desired its realization,
not only from large ideas of national policy,
but because her sentimental and romantic
King longed to flourish in the gew-gaws and
grandeur proper to the head of such a
Union. Accordingly new Parliament
was assembled at Erfurt, new Constitu-
ton concocted, and a new Union launched
into existence.
The party which had supported the
Prussian interest at Frankfort also sup
ported, though with abated confidence and
doubtful hopes, this second union. We
mean the German Constituencies, body
powerful in wealth and numbers, and count
ing in its ranks some of the ablest men in
the nation. And thus Prussia, though its
Government had again and again trampled
upon the Constitutional principle at home,
stood as the great representative and pro-
tector Of that principle in Germany,
Austria and Bavaria, on the other hand,
jealous of the professions of Prussia to be
at the head of the Federal Union, utterly
refused to accede to this new plan or even
to tolerate 1t. And finally, as the safest
means of putting an end to the whole bust
ness, they determined to restore the old
Confederation, such as it had existed from
1915 to 1848. Thcessential difference, belt
understood, between this Confederation and
the proposed Federal Union is that the for
mer is managed solely by therepresentatives
oftheseveral Governments, whereas the lat
ter has in its Parliament Lower House
representing the German people. What