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

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If reform and the abolition of liberty 20 d
aanoerons hostility to existing institutions
tbyeatenipg destruction instead Of wise
change and peaceful experiment; the he
nnblioan form preserved rather by the nu-
tnal hatred of its antagonists than by the
majority of the nation; all minds aaoat az
e. the immediate future, each day racked
by new anxieties and agitated by uncer
tsinty still more doubtful. Even the rotten
ness of the Orleans period was more re-
spectacle in appearance, while the intla-
epce of Russia at Paris is now far greater
than it was then.
If this is the case with France, what
should be said of the other great powers OF
the continent, Austria and Prussia Alas,
they are great powers no longer Austria,
the ancient counterpoise Of Russia, the
barrier between Asiatic AbsolutiSm and
Western Europe, now owes her very eX'
istence to her rival. Austria is no longer
a State by herself, but mere satrap and
outpost of the Muscovite, retaining noml-
nal independence only, because policy does
not dictate her absorption. With her rich
est provinces ravaged by war, their inhaolt-
ants still breathing rebellion, and waiting
for it's opportunity, her various tribes and
races hostile to each other, and distrustful
Of the Central Government, her Treasury
exhausted, to degree unheard of In the
annals of National Bankruptcy, it needs no
prophet to tell us, that though Austria has
past, she has no future, and that the page
of her historyia near its close.
Prussia went stronger into the crisis and
has come out stronger, but that is saying
little. Her finances are in state Of ex-
treme disorder and the revolutionary ele-
uents still ferment within her. Ruled by
man at once restless and obstinate, by
nature dilettante, by education and habit
tyrant, Prussia has passed from bureau
cratic absolutism to sham consitu1lonall8m
without establishing anything except the
weakness and depravity of her monach, the
patient ignorance Of her people and the
power of her army. In the eyes OF Ger
many and Europe the barren inconslsten'
cies of her policy have made her ridiculous,
while at home the fckleness of her govern
ment and the extremity of it's rage against
every form of free speech demonstrate it to
be pitiably feeble. Though not yet, like
Austria, an appendage of Russia this King
dom is not remote from that condition. 1t
there is anything to which the Prussian peo-
ole and the Utmost wishes of tho Govern
ment at Berlin were fully pledged during
'-l8 and 40, it was the support OF the
Duchies of Schles wig Holstein, the sea sur
rounded, the sole hope of German naval
: importance in the contest they were waging
with Denmark. Russia, on the other hand,
: was bent on the Duchies being fully suhu-
: gated to Denmark, and that with view to
her own naval power The diplomatic
struggle was long one and submission
was hard but finally, at the dictation Of
the Gar, Prussia signed, in the name Of
Germany, the treaty with Denmark which
left the Duchies to themselves to carry on
an unequal war in which Dnnmark, or
rather Russia, was sure to triumph. Is
any more proof needed as to who controls
the Kingdom of the Great Frederic?
While Absolutism has thus been outward
ly gaining on every hand, the Democratic and
Social Republic, though defeated and every
where practically suppressed, has also been
gamer, Its gain consists in the enlght-
eminent which these two years have confer
red upon the nations of Europe. In our
view this compensates for all the miseries,
failures and suferings of the contest. It is
almost incalculable. Estimate if you can
the difference between the mental state of
France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Austrian
and Prussian Poland Of the present day and
that Of three years ago. How much clearer
and more positive the ideas Of men now as
to political and social rights and duties,
how much nearer they are to state of pre-
paration for genuine self-goyernment. In
truth we cannot regard the two revolution
ary years, replete as they were With bloody
and soul-rending disasters, as in any sense
lost. They were dreadful in themselves,
but necessary to the education of Europe.
, In this sense there was no failure in the
, case. The Democratic and Social Republic
was not ripe, not ready to come into exist
ence: even those who called themselves by
its name sometimes did SO only to disgrace
il by moral and intellectual incapacity, and