The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-10-10

sighted enemy Of genuine liberty which the
triumphs Of February in Francs and Europe have
produced. He took Sstomayeg's case in hand, and
developed it into very bulwark to keep
cut enthusiastically . battery against
it. That depends upon the events Of very
few days, and the sagacity Of the American
Secretary of State. Lord Psluerston summoned
the kindred spirits Of the diplomatic corps,
With the first aggression upon Cuba foe topic,
and, besides that, the startling precedent Of oar
interference in. Hungary, as the ssgument al
homiHew. the Foreign Secretary soon demonstrated
to the satisfaction of brunow, Eunsen, and Drsuin
de Pkiuys, what was foregons conclusion to the
Spanish snd Austrisa ministers, and probably to
the resthat the dancer to their RESP ectve systems
was from our principles an example. 1t did not
Afterwards require much eahortatien to arrive q,
an agreement to take the Geld against US. There
is no doubt that the csmract Of az Europe, from
which the sAtimatum of England and France is
coming, was of that Eplace and dSte and if no.
precisely developed in the order We have givcn has
both the origin and rlhe object wo attribute 70 it.
The occasion has offered to put t4orward, and very
soon it it Is to be aiS before the srthor the letter
10 Husemann-the present distinguished Secretary
of State. France takes, seems TO take, the lead
but it ispurely "a executive measure, Of which
neither tho people nor the representatives Of the
people have said q word, and to which there is no
doubt they are both adverse. At all events, it is
vital consider alton tAat the French government, in
all its branches, will in May next, become emf
.nently friendly to tn, United Ssstes-thorovghly
Democratic President Bonaparte enacts his part
in the matter both upon his instincts and his
interests. He is naturally inimieal to republi-
can governM ent-a prince out Of pOstion-and
his hostile feelings have been expressed to-
wards us. He has SAID that if he went to war
with any power, it would be with the UEited States
His interests lie in the came direction. He must
usurp or die. As his cogsin Matlde often says 10
him:-"You will not give rs a coup ddatf Then you
must 20 to Clchey (debte-'s PRISON. or charsnton,
(lunatic asylum,) in 1882 He has NC election
that can lie called an election self preservation
demands usurpation. And II lie only by fattering
the martial spirit of the people, and by the confu.
sion, expense and passions Of war, shat he can re-
tain his hold on power. AL his friends among the
crowned heads Of Europe would assist him in such
an enterprise, as hostility to the United States and
the consequent proloDgation of his term is indis-
pensable to their own existence President Bona
parte, however, is a puppet in British hands. He
is phlegmatic, and shallow and vicious enough to
have descended from the Borgias or the Bourbons.
England has great and obvious motives for using
such an agent. While fossil politicians are fol-
lowing the Old milhorse round of times gone by,
she lets them babble of the balance of power in
Europe and the jealousies Of Russia's advances in
the East. She knows that those are things not
now worthy of moments attention. She is posted
up. She sees that the spectre of republicanism is
leaving the questionable shape, and raising its
almighty hand to crush her, along with all the
other monarchies. Like Louis Napoleon, selspre-
servaton is her stake; and to ensure it, she must
embroil the republics of France and the United
States. She will thereby get rid of rivals, enc
mics, superiOrs, and hopes to her prosperity
If the two great free governments should harmo-
nize, there is an end Of her system. And the time
presses, for she cannot afford to wait for the cleo
tiors in France. She knows not what the next
spring may bring forth; and she has made up her
mind to strike now, and put her life on the hazard
Of the de-
Tie cause of free institutions all over the world
10 put critically in the scales. It remains to
be seen whether American diplomacy has 80 far
degenerated - to lose in wisdom what the growth
of an unexampled confcder of States has added
to its authority The question is, whether France
and we shall fall on each other at the bidding, and
for the benefit Of England, and that European Goa
ition Of which she is the head.
The mode of dealing with the emergency is sim
ply to use courtesy, and not take the smallest Of
fence at the idea, nor its mode of execution. 1t
will be easy to foil the whole object of the proec.
tors, BY protracting the discussion for six months
longer. France viii then be landed firmly at the |
side of the United States-another republic in re-
publican hands,-and England will become as alien |
to her as she is now to us; and must undergo the |
final change of institutions which conducts to an 1
era Of self government, there Is well as elsewhere,
by the dismissal Of her presen. rulers, and the |
Emancipation of her hundred millions who now suf-
fer suffered, and from the same hands, all the
evils Of colonial servitude.