New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-12

A.. ~ :. wo,ayloo the finishing blow, and
then boupd The Imperial Upstart to lar rock IN
ths troricsl ocean. there to be slowly devoured
NV the Vulture Of his own sensations
This strength TO master the dtsnt, Ehsianu
-, I'm her freedom The Continental States
s.'S,s an Despotisms. One after the other they
I'm before democratized France. Napoleon
hid of the Revolution welded its fiery rigor TO
cru,h the old Tyrannies. His own new one he
set up in their stead. he cheated France OF her
revolutionary earnings. In exchange for che gold
Of political rights he gave her the gilt copper OF
military glory. Her people were again efaced
before bis will. She became a new Despotlsm
amid old Despotisms She was shorn Of half her
new strength. England was the only great ma
ton where the people were for something IN the
State Like Austria aud Russia she had made
war upon Napoleon for selfpreservstion bat IN
like them, she never saccumbed to the Despot
But for her they would have been his subordinate
fellow Despots In her the feeling Of national in
dependence was kept erect by the breath OF free
dom. Napoleon,-who would that no one had
will but himself, who hated any and every man
liberty, who strove 10 center in himself all posl.
cal vitality who sucked the French nation dry OF
its liberal juices,-felt that England, the only
home for freedom in Europe, was his most dread
foe He struck at her with bis whole might but
her might, nurtured by liberty, was stronger than
bis, poisoned by slavery. Thus his very power
became his weakness. In his prosperity ne had
absorbed into himself the blood Of France; In
his adversely he found himself the head Of corpse
The Emperor of Russia takes the place OF Boz
naparte in hatred of England. Russia would rule
Europe through despotism; national rlvalrles are
not barrier enough to check her. Austria as
state has the most TO dread from Russia, and yet
they are, through the paramount necessities Oh
despOtism, fast allies.
In the struggle between regal governments,
backed by autocratic Russia, and the governed,
or more properly the misgoverned, led by France,
aristocratic England must back the people, and
this, not alone smbtiously to thwsrt Russian am.
biton, but from the deep instincts Of her national
being whose health and strength spring from the
democratic element in her constitution. Ihls
makes her the natural enemy of Russia and Aus
tria and at the same time gives her the power to
withstand them The intensity Of life and the re-
sources of nation are in proportion to the pollt'
ical participation OF the people,; therefore 1t is
that in Europe England ranks first Ia wealth and
power; therefore the United States-who left be-
hind them in their nest the impure political prln-
ciples, the monarchical and the aristocratlc and
carried with them only the pure principle, the
democratc-have grown with such astounding "a
pidity that already, within three generations, In
intrinsic resources they take the lead of England,
their European mother and who alone could have
been their mother. la this conflict between the
people and princes, between rights and wrongs De-
tween light and darkness, should it become neces'
sary for democratic America to intervene other
wise than with the daily influence of her principles
and her example, let the strongest beware.
By the having achieved larger liberty than
has yet been enjoyed, we march in the van OF all
the nations of the earth. With US humanity IN
folds itself in broader, deeper strata Liberty
cannot but purify, enlarge, invgorate. 1t hsrbors
an inevitable, an involuntary virtue. Even mar
tial conquests it transmutes into benehcences.
Thus, where we conquer we emancipate; our
taking possession is not an enthrament bat de-
liverance we cannot subjugate we must elevate.
$50 morbid Is their condition that IN European States
there are two divided cOnsuentsthe governing and the
governed the privileged and the despoie1 Only 10 the
lser-ha IT, the abOrer, the re multitude, as N rhefs
calls them-is applied the generic term, the People
With us there is but one constituent-we are all People