The southern press., 1851-10-25


Ing revolution. Men are called upon en- mssss
to do the fighting, and they will do il thousand
times better, il they are called up en- 0a1sse to
the ballot box after the battle, To choose and be
chosen for Office When the separate States are
organized on universal sulira ge, and on the Am
erlcan model, then thG German confederation can
be constructed without any difficulty. There is
nothing To do but to transplant our federal sys-
totn into the heart of Europe. Germany has the
same dyersities Of soil and climate, of tongue
and race, of creed and school, as the United
States. She is divided into several nationaities,
intersected by rivers and bounded aso By seas.
and lakes, and mountains. She Is AS wen
adapted as we for the system OF confederation,
of sovereign States. and universal suffrage.
With such political system, Germany would
soon realize the social reforms, and become
study aud manual for other nations. She would
be the strong and great--but infinitely more
free, and enlightened and happy Germany, which
outlived the Roman empire, and has contributed
in the middle and subsequent ages so much
to civilization. The same theory applies To Eng
land, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain, Russia,
Austria, and Hungary. Few know how much
ut all admit, that the foreign emigration has
given much TO the success OF democratic insti-
tutions.
We are deeply indebted to the sturdy strangers
who seek our shores They furnish 900 souls
day by emigration alone to our numbers at the
single port of New York. and the total influx
ID nearly half million year. This is an in
valuable tide Of people; but when we consider
that each one brings with him, and will have ac-
cumulatcd during his life, a fund of two hundred
dollars, we have one hundred millions annually
added 10 our stock of wealth; perhaps as much
as one-siyth the product Of our land and labor
hot nd half Of all mn annual aypnytx
The vast public works which meet our eye eve
rywhere, artificial levels of stone and iron, and
earth and water on which man outstrips the wind,
and mutiplics his natural powers of iocomotion
and transportation, are, for the most part, their
trophies. They have blessed the land with their
labors and they have seated themselves on that
share which belongs, by honest acquisition. to
themselves and their descendants. They adj to
the comforts and the enjoyments of life. They
discharge public and private functions WE'LL
Their children are competitors for the foremost
places in the State, and in society. Their sons
grapple with all the professions; and their daugh-
ters grace the circles of usefulness and amuse-
ment A most valuable and Indispensable pop
ulation are the foreigners, especially the Irish
and Germans. And now then, we must remem-
Der, or if not, they should remind us, that by
the diversity of origin and habit, we are no longer
a homogeneous, uut nave UccOuio u HilAtu anu
most peculiar people, who, from that circum.
stance alone, arc bound to duties of a more gen.
oral and Responsible character in the family of
nations than any nation under heaven We are
what we are il is true, by virtue of original and
wonderful political institutions; but also by
the new processes of emigration. settlement, and
naturalization az much almost as by own
increase This is totally novel and grand and
triumphant experiment crowned with perfect
scccess. The Union is more than contedera
ton of ordinary States; it is Congress Of all
nations, in most liberal sense This is without
example, and requires that the old circle of
tonal duties should be enlarged. Ii we were a
homogeneous and alien race to Europe, II would
still be the duty of over twenty millions OF re-
publicans to promote repubcanism throughout
the world by precept and example, by all and
sympathy but that duty is made i'm erative,
when, in addition to numbers, we consider the
mixed nature and origin of our people. Millions
of them have fled from oppression; and their
dearest relatives have suffered from the lash and
the scalfold for political offences, or pine within
| prison walls, or on prison bounds--now, alas
made coterminous all over Europe with the from
| tiers
There is a permanent conspiracy Of nonarchs
against the people of Europe. They mark State
after State, city after city, for destruction. They
have destroyed Poland, Hungary Italy, Germany,
and Hamburg Waachia Moldava. They are
in the act of crushing Lubec and Bremen The
holy alliance under the Gar, have declared them
selves in perpetual session at Warsaw, and their
audacity has got to such pitch that ey pro-
pose to attack, next spring, the republics Of
western Europe, France and Switzerland The
object of the attack is not so much men az in
stitutions. Their adviser and treasurer would
not like to diminish her customers by whole
sale destruction of the human race; but Erg
land knows full well that her own existence is
at stake. Nothing can prolong it, except the
destruction of the principle of reprt!icanism in
France, and upon that destruction she Is decided
She lends money and gives counsel and courage
TO all the external enemies of that great republic,
while she is fomenting within it the most losth
some and infamous conspiracy-her minister 1t,
head England thinks to dig the grave of re
publicanism in France, and so get off from her
own speedy destruction, by launching with her
fee into copartDershp Intervention, and possibly
a war with the United States, about Cuba. She
hopes much from the violence of such struggle
| IL England does not get rid Of France and the
French republic, within twelve months, her own
fall will be immediate. Phe inheritance of the
British crown TO the Prince of Wales is worth
about ss mpch as that of the Count de Paris TO
n crown of France. The principle Of republican
ism in our day, having become fixed fact in
both henspheres, by the revolution of Paris in
ls4s, is new the target of the crowned heads OF
Europe. The question foT US to settle is, whether
we can or ought to allow repub!icanism to be
destroyed. | reckon that /, n controversy be
tween in6del 1stioHg seeking to exterminate the
religion Of Jesus and his Christian followers, the
United States would count for something on the
right side, no matter how distinct from the thea
ire of actual war. | should be ashamed of my
age and country if could possibly think other
wise,
Nov, then, our mixed population is the one
best adapted to a confederation of republics
aud while 1t makes us 30 strong, Ii calls upon
us TO help our own kinsmen who are every
waere oppressed We nave arrived at a juno
ture when there exists a combination Of mon
archs, ayowing their hatred and contempt OF
the people, and bent on destroying free institu
tons in Europe. What shall be done Al
least, tue american policy of receiving and
adopting all strangers is unprecedented and
sulme. II IL The sequel fro she same foun.
ders of the republican system of the United