The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-09

MisuooSes, iachcys, or royni "ioois can nt
longer by word, or an impe Thence, chang,
the destinies of peoples or involve them in mex
tricable dissentions
The conflicts of the present day are between
royalty and democracy for sovereignty. Roys
brothers now for the first time combine to
gether and form intimate alliances In forme
days they were deadly enemies The Who'll
question has changed within fifty or sixty years
The revolutions Of 1880 and l84s--the move
ments in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Ital
the conspiracies in Pc land, Russia, and SPAN
the reform movements in Turkey--the rebel
lions against the smother" countries in Nortl
and South America, are indicative of an ap
proaching disaster for monarchy or for democ
racy.
The extreme violence of the reactionary mea
sures are unmistakable evidences of the dread
OF the old party. 1t is rushing on blindly tc
destruction by the very means it takes to save
ITSELF Increased armies, increased poll force
increase of places and patronage are raising up
an accumulation of debt that is breaking down
every throne. At the same time, the populations
are learning the art of war, aud will assuredly
turn their weapons at the seasonable time
against the general oppressors. Every new in
yention for the purposes of destruction is seized
upon with avidty, as an additional means of
safety, or as an instrument by means of which
the dreaded day may be averted
But the clouds gather from the four quarters
al nd 1nv nfx a.
and promised by, both parties
Monarchy no longer conspires against aris
tocracy. Its victory over these petty tyrants
has long ago been complete. There are few
OF them now, who claim any shadow of soyer-
eighty. Neither is monarchy contending for ex-
istence against the clerical project Of universal
dominion. That, too, has passed. 1t has main
tanned its ground, and cOndescended to protect
those it formerly dreaded. The last and
greater conflict has commemorative with the
middle classes and the multitude
AS may be naturally expected, portions of
the old privileged classes are to be found on
both sides; and many of those no have an in
terest with the people, take up with their OPP
pressors.
Kings can no longer call upon the people to
aid them in crushing aristocratica or clerical am
btion The people having learnt from them
how to estimate those two classes when out of
their element, weigh them all in the same bal
ance of popular justice.
OF late years, monarchy has been ardently
seeking to revive ancient sentiments of pride
among the nobility, and claiming with devotion
the aid of State churches to teach and incucat.
" submission" to their divine" rights Int
this conspiracy the more ardent and dogmaiit
of both classes have given in their adhesion
forgetting for time their own claims. And q
certain portion Of the middle class flattered, OF
interested, or morally perverted, have added their
unworthy support.
But on the other hand, the march of mind, the
triumphs of the press, the wonders of science
and the mechanical arts, have enlisted under the
noble banner of humanity host of the best
and purest minds of the privileged classes and
has so leavened the whole mass that there is
contention and agitation and echoes of liberty
even in the chosen abodes of reaction.
In these contests, despotism understands its
adversary less than it is understood by it. Ii
has been bred up in sort of religious terror OF
the people. 1t has seen nothing for sixty years
past but the horrors of popular vengeance, SO
long prepared by corrupt government in France
IL mistakes that aristocratic feature of a newly
liberated and demoralized people, for perma
nent and natural trait of democratic character
Hence, with fear and hatred in its BOSOM has il
been in fact preparing another outbreak of popu-
lar wrath-the more terrible, because the spirit
of Cancellation practised in lS4S, by the liberal
party, in accordance with its teachings for thirty
years previously, have been, since the last move
ment, entirely overlooked and contemptuously
rejected. The best men, the most amiable char.
ncters, the noblest spirits, and some of the
brightest ornaments of the day, have been treated
worse than common criminals and reckless
disregard of every humane sentiment has beer
evnced towards all liberals, without distinction
This madness, this blind vengeance, this IA
nntic phrenzy against modern civilization for
such II isis fast preparing the field on which
the ancient and modern ideas and principles are
TO contend again for the mastery.
What scene is presented to the world in the
aspect Of ItalyY Even the renctionist world
has been taken by surprise at the letters of Mr.
GLADSTONE, one of their own party
One writer says of Rome.
"A hideous sty of infection, misery, desola-
ton--where human beings are heaped together
like unclean beasts, in loatbsome filth and if
from some poor wretch despair EFFORTS too
sharp cry, hundred weight of iron is at
tsched TO his feet; but not before he has re-
ceived more or less severe scoprging on the
shoulders or the loins with sticks or rods.
This latter punishment, humiliating as it is
savage, is called the cnraietfo, and in the good
old tines was inflicted publicly on men and
'oornen naked. The squcamish decency Of the
present governors of Rome, no longer daring TO
make public show of this revolving cruelty,
pey make amends TO their sense of duty by
eonhning II to the recesses of the jails