The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-01-16
NO. Oil.

ofGod' ,Jbsn Napoleon ventured back from
prove, ,,.,,;an I'LL becoming alarmed, in common
Elbl, WL,i continental monarch, held out to his
with e't ~ no his class fatal promise OF full
eopH,,,;onai liberty if they would ont rally 10
oons. Iscns of Kngcraft. Believing In the integ-
inc nc. - their monsrch's word, ana trusting thN
II-isrberg could compel It's redemption, 'hey
llrienoSS; H., ant of his difficuty-only, however,
%" OrN ~, i', ,bey had been grossly and cruelty
to lea l.s For uardenberg and Liberalism rap
Ground. until in 1918 the present King,
liy T Reactory court, obtained the virtual
0d'AeI d the policy of the Government. His
eOn.iv' r,s evidently to bring about return in
ry1o' 80 cbnrch and State, to the medieval and
s .'iJ condition. This policy was resisted on
ituu"l 90 chose who had learned to love liberty,
tle PI;,ation began in the universities, backed
aud as'' 80 Those familiar with the continent
Oy ~. Of that era will remember how rapidly
81 n's'y r.os of Henrick Luden, Fries, Welcher,
n' Jabu. Joseph Goerres, and f. M. Arndt,
ui 100 d;stinruished ln 1919, Sands, KARL the
aaon student, stabbed the Russian spy, kotz-
az, a. Mannheim which induced the Government
Ou ;1a,itnte severe measures against the growing
s;r;, If liberalism ending IN the discovery that
= ,yas rapidly inooulating the whole people, and
;aancin0 conspiracies among students, patriotic
ir'-a nd others, who were severely punished
I.faa
- for the time being apparently crushed the
~ movement As might have been ex-
P,otpoJ this perfdy on the part of the Govern
P r,on,s generated another regularly organized
Ill movement on the part of the peoples
tbreatenin0 vastly more serious consequences to
" nrivileye Inv the Grace of Godn | here refer
% what Is known in history as the "party of the
Rlsck. Red, and Golden Flag" with the Unity
and Liberty of Germany for q watchword,
which saw the light first at the Festival of Ham,
Lack. in 1881. That was grand meeting held
der the old ruined castle of Hanback,, in Rem
M Bavaria, not far from the left bank of the
Pbne, which was attended by the leading Liber-
,sofall the thirty States of the Federation, the
aggressive policy of the three great Powers, Rus
s5 Prussia, and Austria, as demonstrated in the
final destruction of Poland, las Government)
having aroused all with hearts in their breasts TO
the danger with which the little liberty enjoyed
by the masses was threatened. The unsuccessful
attempt at revolution at Frankfort, in 1892, was
| the legitimate consequence of the formation of
this great German Constitutional party, which
numbered among its active members every prom
meat opposition man in the smaller States, and
| had Count Schwerin Fodr, Van Vincke, Weick-
er Soison, Suvson, and Gagern, for its acknow-
| lodged leaders. The conspiracy Of Vienna
among the Princes was, in turn, the legitimate
Offspring of this popular combination.
The famous METTERNIcH, as President of the
ouncii Of their Plenipotentiaries at Vienna, in
,rson superintendent the formation and execution
| the schemes of the Princes to counteract the
beSej fr-ss nj the day. The basis OF taetr &C
| ion, it should be remembered, was written
ledge, binding each to support the other against
be common enemy, the Constitutional party, by
be suppression Of what Of constitutional liberty
| he smaller and weaker States of the federation
Nassau, Saxony, Baden, Wurtemberg, Bruins
|wick Bavaria, and others had been forced to
accord to their respective subjects. This treaty
remained a profound secret until in 1915, Welcker
himself discovered a copy of it among papers of
| bis deceased friend Klueber-when it was pub
| E:Aed at length at Strasburg Up to that time,
the leaders of the opposition looked to the possi-
| bility of compromise between the conflicting in
| terests Of the people and those of their mas.
tiers But their confidence in the German Gov
ernments had been so often betrayed, by their
'never.failing perfdy, as gradually to have chang
ed the Constitutional party into the present Ger
man Democratic party, leaving the thirty German
States divided simply into the two great camps of
Reaction and Democracy. The masses had be-
come not only Democratic in their entire sympa-
thies but Republioan-D through the
influence of the German philosophy of Kant,
Fichte, the new Hagetians, and Of the ideas Incl
dent to the French Revolution, which, together,
generated the foundation (elements) of the party
which in l74S undertook the well-remembered
revolution of that year, in the course of which it
became apparent that social radicalism pervaded
not only the working men and students, but the
learned. Of Germany, in almost all branches of
literature and science.
This state of the popular mind extended itself
to the Church, wherein Kantian and German
ntonalism and philosophy began to display itself
10 so great an extent that the King of Prussia set
himself to work TO censure the religious ministry
Of Lis King aoa account of these heresies which,
as he correctly maintained, were founded on
naught but political Democracy. 1t was then that
Gustavus Adolphus instituted bis Society of HUI
mauitarians, who rejec ed the dogmas and forms
Of the day, and John Ronge commenced his soul
stirring abors against the supers.itious abomina-
tons Of the worship of the holy coat at Treves
which ended in the organization of the celebrated
German Catholic Communities,n the second
Lutheran reformation, which, like its great pre-
ieCessor, had it's foundation in simple schism in
the bosom of the Roman Catholic Church AT
this moment, the followers of Ronge, whose origi-
nal purpose was only to purify the forms of their
Church service, are among the most advanced
and reliable Democratic Republicans of the Con-
tinent As early as the end of 1916, they had or.
glniEed several thousand Of their Communities;
but since the revolution of lS4s, they have gone
ahead" with vigor and success almost unparal.
elled in the religious history of the world 1t is
now apparent that religious and political move
ments in the States Of the Federation 60 hand in
hand, and that the main dependence Of kingcraft
IS in the influence of the Church of Rome over
the hearts CT moiety of their subjects-an inse-
cure staif-or there il no reliance TO be placed on
history oftaly for the last three years. wherein
Tue Church, with people far less advanced in
me science Of civil liberty found herself literally
without reliable political support, when it was
supposed that her yoke might be shaken off.
AS matters now stand, privilege" has lost the
eouhlenance of the class, commoners of wealth and
thr,Vng business, which indirectly put down for
II The revolution Of lSls
France, glorious Republican France, has al
ready IN great measure worked this change in
'aelr minds, their hearts having generally been
night from the start. She has proved to them that
society In Europe is not 80 constituted as TO make
hepuoiicanism an impracticability Her people
are not only the most volatile on the continent,
nut also least subject to moral and religious re-
Straint he most utopian ideas Of the "rights of
man perVade her masses, and indeed they are
iar less htted for at once entering upon rational
republican career than the German populations
nevertheless, the permanent Republicanism in
Their Government is az fdI accomph Despite the
Efforts OF her various factions Of Royalists, and
despite those Of her leveling -downwards Radical.
ls's' her governmental experiment has succeeded
50 well as to have satisfied the business interests
o. The Contenent that it may be safely tried else.
where ''-'N '''0-
lhe consequence is seen in the sudden change of
sehument on the part of those who represent bu-