The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-04-17

tai war cannot take place, in which one or another
oontending Government will fail 10 attempt 20
take advantage Of popular sentiment and sympa-
thy. And he knows, too that everywhere, out of
Russia, that sentiment is now entirely devoted TO
civil liberty. In case Of war of the Governments
the one proclaiming its aspirations to be for the
reestablisbment Of popular rights will have an
army, armed, equipped, and ready to take the
field to aid her in the heart Of every country of
the Continent | here refer to the popular mass.
es Nicholas is too well informed not to know
that, with such a watchword as civil liberty on
their banner, England and France might. in
campaign, snap in twain every chain he ard his
minions have mended or forged within the last
twelve months. So he will, on no account, risk
war, but will pursue the stealthy policy of strik
ing down Liberalists and popular rights, one by
one-picking out one obnoxious man to-day In
Rome, tomorrow at Geneva, on the next day at
Berlin, Sc next, lay ing down rule for the guild
snce of Piedmont, which deprives the citizens of
that country of come long-enjoyed right on the
following day, doing as much for the inhabitants
Of Hesse Cassel, and afterwards for those of the
Holstien; yet taking due care to proceed 80 by
degrees as never to do sufficient wrong in any one
place at any one time TO excite the people to rev.
olution. This is evidently his willy, and, so far,
successful scheme
The last feather" you will remember il was
according to the old adage) that broke the cam
cps backn So will Russia proceed through her
instruments, to inhict outrage on outrage upon
their respective peoples, until the mine cannot fail
to explode under their feet When the time
comes, England and France, despite the efforts of
their respective aristocracies must Join in the con-
test on the Liberal side. Every effort on the
part of the French reactioniss to drive the people
under the Republic) into the commission of afro
cities such as might result in the establishment
Of the monarchy, has signally failed The Re-
public is now nm fan dce0mph there and whenever
q general cause of excitement arises the popular
will is sure to rule the policy Of the Chamber and
Government, do what the reactionists may. That
will must preciptate France into the next gene
raj contest with comet speed and force, come off
whenever it may.
England has apparently escaped the immediate
general appeal to the people, 80 imminent, accord
ing to the advices arriving three weeks ago. The
aristocrats Of her National Legislature have re-
turned to the support of the Russell ministry, to
escape the Ito them greater catastrophe Of gen.
eral election, which must infuse into the British
Government double the amount of radical liberal
ism that now pervades it. Their reprieve is but
temporary Russell is aware that, though they
support him on the Ecclesiastical Titles bill, they
cannot support him upon all the many questions
which the reformers are forcing on his Govern
ucnt Tue eAClee tdxcSj Tue NoouS anu iofce1
question the newspaper tax, retrenchment and
reform, in thousand particulars, &c. The mo-
ney to support the Government, as it has been
carried on Tor SAe iasr quarter of century, Is
not to be had, if the lsboring masses are not re-
duced, by taxation, to the point of very general
starvation. Their stomachs will triumph, and he
will fall Then, within the next two years, will
come the general election, to infuse into the Gov
eminent a new element Of sympathy with the
cause Of the peoples Of the Continent which will
force Britain into the next contest, care not
how much that policy may be opposed by the
people
Just now the case of Miss Talbot referred to
in my LAST is the wonder of all England. The
fact that, as the law stands, the church of Rome
will clutch her eighty thousand pounds sterling
in year or two, enabled Russell to carry his
Ecclesiastical Titles bill by four to one IL will
also cause the enactment Of some statute to fl
the case, to prevent young girls, disappointed in
love, from making Roman suttees in England
from killing themselves, at least to the world
Bishop Hernden, Roman prelate, under whose
thumb the girl is protests that she became a nur
of her own accord. | fancy that if she had moi
$4,000 to give to the Church, the bishop would
have taken due care to keep her out Of the con-
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