New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-17
Republication in Europe Castles. II the


in Europe Castles In the
Air.
And SO Mazzini, the dreamer ofstrange fancies,
has issued his manifesto to the worlds democra-
cy, and declared in oracular tones that Europe
must be free! Impractical and visionary
jumping at conclusions without reasoning out
the means, and believing in the triumph OF Lib
erty because it is his desire--thus showing the
wish to be the father to the thought-this fervid
Italian is as little calculated for leader as any
we could name, with the whole trans Atlantic
world to pick from.
That there is still an organization in Europe,
and that wounded Liberty yet darcs to raise her
head beneath the threatening axe Of Despotism,
is circumstance of some moment, and may
lead those who have more blood than brains, to
augur therehom final, even if distant, con-
summation of their hopes.
That from amid the clouds of absolutism that
enshroud the future of Europe, one ray of light
should penetrate to enliven and cheer on the
friends of equality and fraternity, is matter OF
surprise; these vain longings, however falaclous,
may yet serve to keep alive the spirit of revolt,
and more we can not hope for.
Mazzini hopes on, hopes ever; yea, hopes
against hope.
From his secure asylum in hospitable Eng
land, he issues,his pronunciamiento, and with
the artillery of words seeks to infiame the revo-
tionari materials of the Continent.
The grand object is to make Italy free, and to
that end France must be dashed into the traces,
and smoky Germany be made to draw burdens
in the crusade against absolutism.
The Continent must be plunged into a war.
No matter about the means and the snews,
arms and ammunition, for they are an after
thought. 1t is to be "a war of the people against
tyranny. The unarmed people. with pixies and
daggers of lath, against the serried armies OF
Austria and the Autocrat, and against the
Eagles of France, victorious in a hundred fields
Truly, a fine prospect for the advocates of re-
volt, and one to be reveled in by the Spirit of
Carnage, whose chief delight
is to mount in a wagon of wounded men
And smile to see them bleedH'
After the experience we have had in the late
European staggers at RepubGcanism-atter
seeing France, republican France, level her mar
tial strength at the faint effort of Italy toshake
off her shackles; after seeing the power of the
Car with his Cossack hordes strangling the gal
liant effort of Hungary, and at a later day, the
So Nephew of his Uncle grasping at the purple,
it is matter of astonishmert that any sane man
should continue to agitate such hopeless pro-
iect as the regeneration of Europe.
All the greater powers are interested in abso-
lutism With Russia and the Emperor Joseph,
together with the Prince President and his
Eagles, the combination is invincible. And
against this vast power, we have Switzerland in
her domain of mountains and barren hills, Hun
gary covering under her late defeat, Germany
without arms, and Kossuth feasting and feting
on this side of the water, with his forty thous-
and crooked and unpaid-for muskets and three
hundred Cincinnati saddles Truly, small
pennyworth of resistance, to q most intolerable
deal of oppression!
Perhaps they may think to take a wider
range and marshal Il longer list of the nations.
But the Sublime Porte has enough to do to keep
off the Muscovite on the one side and to guard
his seraglio on the other. Italy, too, is busy
with her macaroni and the Pope's rock, and
must wait till the work of regeneration is done
before she can dare to strike. Perhaps Ireland
may be counted in the list of crusaders, but
that way lies despair .....
Liberty has but one home. Europe has but
one hope, and that is, to emigrate.