New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-27
The European Revelation i.

Nobody can suppose the present quiet IN
Europe tobe more than truce between the
opposing elements. That there must be
another breaking up is palpable; the only
question is what will be its nature and
where will it commence.
AS to its time there can be no definite an
ticipation. In world Of disorder the Prov
idential laws which rule the movements OF
men and things appear as chance, and some
triHing accident may set off a great hlstori-
cal crisis before the hour specified in the
most carefully arranged programme. we
must regard the best prediction as stating
only what is probable or possible, the drama
being on too mighty scale, with compEca-
lions toovast and far reaching to be clearly
apprehended before hand.
But with regard to the nature Of the COM
ing atruggle there can be no doubt. What
ever it's character at the very beginning
and on that head we will presently speak
and whatever its successive developments,
it must be war; not as has been said of
opinion, bat rather of principles and of ex-
treme, ultimate, intrinsieally opposed prin-
oiples. There will no doubt be other battle
cries and other antagonists in the field, bat
the real oombatants will be two only, and
all others must fight for one or the other,
whether Intentionally or not. These two
antagonists are Asiatic Absolutism and the
Democratic and Social Republic, and one
ofthem will have the victory. There can be
no third oonqueror.
In truth these TIVE were the only real an
tagonists in the struggle just ended, and
each Of its events told by fatal necessity for
one side or the other. They were in pre-
sence on every battlefield, and met hand TO
hand beneath the walls Of each beleaguered
city. The one watched by all insurrec'
honary camp fires, the other marshaled all
Abe leeions sent forth for the restoration of
order. They were French soldiers that
marched on Rome to destroy the right of
selegovernment, but only Russia and Alb
solutism pro6ted by the crime; hungary
fought fox her ancient Constitution and the
lust deposition Of race Of perjured and
perfdious Kings, but it was the Democratic
and Social Republic whose electricity throb-
bed in the living periods Of Kessuth and
Numbered in the cheers Of her indomitable
hussars. Everywhere no matter what the
special question, this great issue underlay
the debate and doomed above the quarrel,
II could not be otherwise ; Absolutism and
the Social Republic are the only forms OF
Society embodying complete and final prln'
ciples; oil others are compromises between
them, containing sometimes preponder.
anoe of the one, sometimes of the other ele-
ment.
In the contest Of lS4S-9, it is remarkable
that Russia alone gained any increase of
power. Every other important State on the
Continent lost greatly, and came out Grip
pied in finances, diminished in influence,
and every way in condition of less appar-
emit stability. In fact, each came out after
having submitted to tuscan alo OF husslah
dictation, or else after having employed Its
strength in the establishment, more or less
complete, Of the Russian principle. France
disgracsd herself and spent her money In
the Roman expedition, a direct service to
Absolutism, from which she gained nothing
but the worlds contempt. At home she has
lost all respect and confidence by the OK
hibition of weakness scarcely matched in
the history of any great nation, except at
the moment of ruin and dissolution;
Government without affection among the
people and without confidence in itself,
driven by che sense of its own insecurity to
the enactment Of absurd, rcpreasive laws