The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-22

Rusaih mctinccS W incorporate all Europe Wlthlu
her boundaries, as the United States do the
American continent. The encroachments OF
these two powers seem to be natural results Of
Of their respective positions, and circumstances
would appear, in almost every instance, to favor
their extension by sort of fatality or destiny
that no human efforts can control.
AT Dresden, as at Warsaw, Austria, Prussia,
and the other German sovereigns, acknowledge
the supremacy of the Car, in manner too clear
TO be mistaken. He is now the dictator OF
European aiiairs AT no period in history hes
Russia welded such undeniable power.
Germany can no longer control the influence
of It's princes by mears of an Independent par
lament The old diet is in fact restored, and
with powers tending TO leave Germany even
less chance Of freedom than ever
Austria with all her States, and Prussia with
The independence Of Germany will disappear
under these new arrangements and influences,
and without national representation to protect
her. she must succu NIB Mt last under the guidance
Of her mean, sycophant, and unpatrotic mobiles
and princes. England and France will protest,
but secretly they will, and do, acquiesce.
There does not appear in the whole political
horizon chance for liberty in Europe. France is
by Legitimacy, Orleanism, and Comparison.
Italy, under clerical blindness and barbarsm, is
FAST demOrazing like Spain and Portugal, and
will in time be equally barren and dcnuded
Hungary will come to the same pass. Every
moral and religious principle that tends to the
exaltation and progress of man, is trodden under
foot by modern barbariaus educated in the
bigotries and brutalites Of ignorant and fanatic
Cloths and Vandals.
Russia, far-seeing and serpent like, profits
by the ignorance and the wickedness of this
class She is not of the same faith. She
would strangle the heresies of Rome, or of
Professionalism but she courts and patrorizes
the fanatics of both, that she may the more GER
tainy stfe them in the end.
Then, in good time, might she instil her own
interested doctrines upon conquered people |
She knows the aristocrecy would follow the
fashionable religiou-the faith of the court
whatever it might be. Time and severity would
overcome the people. There would be, as in
the old time, between Plagiarism and Christianity,
tumble and amalgamation; but the leading
principle would prevail. The Emperor would
become, as now in Russia, an object of worship
and alteration to European populations.
Of course, we are here supposing the triumph
of the Cossack. There is certainly another side
to the question-but the danger is most immi-
nent, inasmuch as the nristocracy of Europe
possesses, OF necessity, b. wealth and old asso-
citation, an immense influences and it is un-
quesiionaby favorable TO Russian views, and
strongly inclined TO Russian interference.
In questions of class existence, there is no
more patriotism than in questions Of money
making. There is hardly State on the earth
that has not been sold by its aristocracy of land
and money The danger, therefore, is immi-
nent There are inclinations towards Russian
despoiism, and strong sympathes, amounting TO
alteration, for n man, who, like Nicholas, wields
great power.
What, however, are the probabilities OF revo
luton in Russia itself? They are of two kinds
There is powerful party among the arstoc-
racy, jealous of the reignng family, and which
even considers it as existing by usurpation
And there is another class, well educated and
travelled, that associates, or has commercial
dealings with foreigners, which has mbibed
liberal ideas, and is ready TO second any con-
spiracy or movement in favor of freedom.
Hence, in great conspiracy which exploded
some years ago. and which extended through
out Poland and Russia, the point of difficulty
among the consprators was whether n republic
or constitutional monarchy should be pro.
claimed And strange enough, the Russian
party was the one unanimous for republic
Little aid could be expected from the Russian
people. Demoralized by having TO put faith in
falsehood, and by the alteration of their Empe
ror, they cannot be expected to have moral ideas
Of liberty. Like the poorer classes of most
other countries, they could be easily got TO put
faith in snv impudent mys'ifcation. Like 9th.
with heretics; and hence the moral power being
broken by their own teachers, they are almost
universally dishonest, unprincipled, and devoid
of any eevating thought or manly sentiment.
If, therefore, stop is to be put to Russian
encroachment il mnst be Gas Mt Athens and
at Rome) through revolution brought about by
the aristocracy and middle class of that great
empire.
F- The Queen of England, in her royal
speech, says:
al thank you for the assiduty with which
you have applied yourself to the consideration
Of a measure for the undue assumption Of &c
clesiastical titles, conferred by a foreign power
II gveA me the highest satisfaction, that while
repelling unfounded claims, you have mnih'
tanned inpiolate he religious liberty so h0ppil,