The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-03-20
NO. 22O.
"EUROPEAN WORLD"


.San.olutism ON switzerIand-niso'on Piedmont
~. line between constitutional and absoluist Eu
IA be drawn-England and France protest
',,s, the gigantic scheme OF absolutist nggran-
,,neu,-The unfortunate effect OF the internal
addition OF France ON her power 10 resist the con-
mmation Of the purpose Of Nicholas-The phiios~
hy of the sham liberalism of England's foreign
,;cy and its effect on present afiairs-The deceP-
i've character of the confederation ayowals OF the
a,.oIutis,s Governments The monkey employs
,he naws Of than cat to get him the chest
England will do nothing. literally nothing,
towards the defeat Of the conspiracy, and why.
New York, March l6, 1851
T,Le Editor of the National Era:
As the Irish say, "the buttermilk is coming
ont Of the stirabout" The transatlantic ad-
vices reaching us on Friday last by the Asia,
dovelop somewhat more m entenso than was anti
cirated so early, the plans matured at the Dres-
den conference While public opinion was being
o-oused with the half concealed movements rela-
tive 10 the arrangement of the future confederacy
AZ Germany deeper, more extensive and vastly
more important plots were being concocted there
IN rrofound secrecy. These latter are becoming
known only by the preparations for the efforts
which are being essayed to carry them out. In
few words. it has been determined to prosecute
the reaction with all the means and men of the
conspiring dynasties, without awaiting the fiimsy
excuse of popular attempts at revolution.
The world is beginning to understand at what
Nicholas aimed when he put forth his remarka-
BILE proclamation, announcing his purpose OF
taking part in the war of Austria against Hun
oarv. He then declared that his mission was to
restore order in Europe.n 1t seems that these
were only other words to express his intention
of making war on human liberty over the Conti-
nent. He aims to strange it wherever 1t is to be
found upon his beat. His plans were laid with
consummate tact, though, if there is truth in the
maxim that there is many slip 'twixt the cup
and the lip he is to be foiled ere proceeding
much farther. Austria willingly obeys his be-
bests. while Prussia owing to the false position
in which she is placed by the ambition, weakness,
and treacher.y of her King, is obliged, without
veuturing blow, to relinquish the contest in be-
half of constitutional liberty which she promised
to undertake some months ago Her King abso-
luely cOnsenting, Austria has played the execu-
toner of Nicholas in Prussia, standing armed on
her frontier ready to shoot Down all who dare
even to qrumble at the baseness which Frederick
William has manifested in taking his orders
from ST. Petersburg. Not content with reducing
both Austria and Prussia to the condition of mere
appendages to his empire, Nicholas is already
taking measures to punish the smaller States,
which, not content merely to plot with liberty
after the fashion of Prussia, show signs of having
actually fallen in love with it.
Thus, Piedmont and Switzerland prove to be
conumaciously smitten with the disease of liberal
ism So it is proposed by Austria and Prussia to
"abrogate" all the recent changes in the Consti-
tuition of the Helvetic Confederation, and to re-
establish Prussia in the possession of Neufchatel.
Russia wills that Mazzini and his co-laborers
shall be weeded out of Switzerland, and not dar-
ing to force England and France to stand by the
Cantons, by openly essaying to do this with her
own troops, she is about to make the two Powers
sbOve-named do 1t for her The repossesson of
the principality of Neuchaftel, she reasons, will
satisfy the liberal Of Prussia for this prostitution
Of their arms in the cause of absolutism, as the
glory of q campaign anywhere was relied on to
reconcile the French to the late infamous inter-
ference of their Government in the affairs of
Rome. AS this enterprise has been arranged,
federal army Of occupation, TO which Prussia
and Austria furnish contingents of 80, 900 men
EACH Bavaria and Wirtemberg one of 10000,
and the rest Of the German States 10000 in all,
is being assembled at this moment to take posses.
sion of Switzerland. Austria is also concentrating
troops on the Ticno, and establishing magazines
and military hospitals at Pavia, while the official
journal at Vienna is denouncng the act of the
Sandman Government in permitting "revolu-
tionary proceedings within the limits of its au-
thority, as amounting to cdSus BELL. It is also
clear from the military orders which Prussia and
Austria have both issued, that they contemplate
a line military extending from Rastadt to Dus-
seldorf, Of which Frankfort and Mayence are to
be the central points. Thus, while the occupa-
ton Of Switzerland has certainly been decreed,
and while the Sandman frontier is menaced, a
military Gordon is being drawn along the Rhine,
from the Danube to the North Sea, to mark the
line of demarkstion between the monarchcal
countries of Europe and those which other rulers,
pretending to be in despair, seem inclined to aban-
don to the inroads of progress. They-the re-
suSctated Holy Alliance-will tolerate no popu-
lar encroacbments east of the Gulf of Genoa and
the mouth Of the Ems
AS might have been expected, the States where
In popular opinion is still sufficiently strong to
preserve constitutionality in their Governments
nave taken the alarm. Switzerland and Sardinia
tremoIe; than which they can do no more.
france and England protest but in their pres
en' condition 1t appears that even they dare do no
more than protest. the English Ministry lord
Iohn Russelps) have given place to parties not yet
known mere while it may be safely calculated
that whatever Louis Napoleon recommends in
Tue emergency Will be summarily defeated in the
chamber and plee versa These protests of both
hngand and France are against the movements
oil the Holy Alliance in embracing the Hunsari-
an, Scavonic, and Italian possessions of Austria
In the new German Confederation. The ground
OF the protest assumed is that the Confederation
was established in 1915 by the great European
rOwers in Congress, and can only be abrogated or
changed by their joint consent France, besides
protesting, has suddenly sent considerable resn.
.o'0emen's 70 her army in Rome, evidently with
we" 70 put IL on war footing. What more
C"n she DO IN the present divided condition or bey
'O Wv Nothing, alas, it is to be feared.
mere was time when an nsolent look from
1a YOU'D have hushed all internal bcker
Ds' III france in an instant, uniting all French
En'.o WOW, however, the chances are that she
wsS u'.risI VIII have, in Frenchmen, allies and
Pes Wisners Tor herself the Oldest foe Of France
ma pu IN MS late darling scheme, the Leeitimis,
ns,,io onahst bids fair to prove anything but the
pmrS os 20 REJECT the opportunity to aid the .ri.
mar P1 40 oi aGsolutst and Jesutical Austria. How
lay 'he oreanist be relied on TO contend win