The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-14

| We have received our 6Iea Of Eneli1A and
French papers by the last steamas, and tfoceed
to extract from them such articles Of interest a
have not been anticipated by tho telegraph
! THE MORNING NEWS or THE HOLY ALLIANCE
The Ns,os of the 9th has powerful article
on the late movements Of Russia, Austria and
Prussia, from which We take few passages
that will be interesting to readers on this side OF
the Atlantic.
The Emperor of Austria as all the world
knows, holds the kingdom Of Hungary, not jure
diuino, but by the grace of the Gear. Russian
not Austrian armies, subdaed the people OF
| Hungary, and re- committed them to their hered
itary jailor Of the house of Hapsburg The Gar
has just been paying visit 10 his imperial vas
sal; Of whom he is said to have taken leave
with patronizing promise Of the continuance
of his countenance and support OF course the
promise WAS qualified by the understanding
that it obligatory only SO long as the i'm.
periaI vassal 80 conducted himself az to merit
the protection of the Gar.
From Vienna the Car had proceeded TO Der.
lin to visit another of his modern dependents.
The king Of Prussia has done something very
like homage for the territories he holds-and
with more Of ostentatious publicity than the
Emperor Of Austria. At solemn banquet
from the time of Tacitus it has been the Ger.
man custom to transact important public bust
ness once drunk and once sober-t.ie king of
Prussia pledged his over lord adding the prayer,
"God preserve him to that portion Of the world
which he has given him for an inheritance, and
to our epoch, 10 which he is Indispensable"
The monarch whose ancestor, by assuming
proprio motu the kingy title, commenced that
rebellion against the German emperor, which
h,o lad hu avtinnuiahiprv knt IL
empire about the same time that the parlia-
ments of England and Scotland transferred the
British crowns from James H. to William Ill.,,
did not blush to proclaim in public that the
territories and peoples subject to the Russian
sceptre are the property Ct the Gar and that 10
the kings of Europe he is indispensable. To
sec Prussia--the natural leader of northern and
protestant Germany--hob nobbing with the
Gar, excites very painful feelings.
The triumvirate Of the northeast of Europe
do not confne their attention to their own do
minions. They ASSERT right to dictate to the
rest of Europe. They assert, in correspon
dence recently made public. right to dictate to
France its form of government, and to impose
a sovereign on it. They maintain that the
treaties of 1914 and 1915 are still in full yigor
and that by them Austria, Great Britain, Prus-
STA and Russia, are pledged to maintain the d.
vine hereditary rights of the house of Bourbon
In the first place, they declare that these
crowns pledged themselves" on the goth of
November, 1915, ito maintain in full vigor the
perpetual exclusion Of the Bonaparte family
from the throne Of France" in the second place
they intimate that they have connived at what
has happened of late years in France, simply on
the understanding that it was transient inter-
ruption of legitimate sway, to which France
itself would in time put an end and, lastly
they proclaim that there already exists French
dynasty and so long a Bourbon is found when.
ever French crown is shaken off, to him it ap
pertains.
The would-be resusctators of the Holy ALI
ance forget, or affect to forget, few facts that
are of some importance. They forget that Mr.
this country, finally and unequivocally withdrew
Great Britain from the entangng alliance on
tracted in 1915, when she called the new world
into existence to redress the balance of the old"
They forget that Russia, by destroying the ma
,ionality of Poland, has of it's own act set aside
the treaties of 1915, and disenabIed itself to
insist upon the fulhlment Of any OF their stipu.
lations. They forget that the leading sovereigns
of the German confederation by falling to fulfil
their promises to confer representative consti
tutions on their suhjects--or by resembling such
constitutions when granted--or treating them
rs dead letters--have equally forfeited all title
to insist upon the enforcement of these treaties
They forget that by the recognition of the EN-
pre of Brazil and the republics of South Amer
ca--by the recognition of Louis Philippe-by
the creation of the kingdoms of Belgium and
Greece-aHd by acquiescng in the new settle
ments of the crowns Of Spain and Portugal
they have been parties to the introduction of
new system of international law throughout the
states of the European civilization, that has re-.
pealed and superseded the servile doctrines upon
which the treaties of 1915 were based. These
treaties have become, like the pragmatic sane
ton, and the family compact are matters of his
tory-old almanacs.
The doctrine of Legitimacy is to
the old doctrine of the "divine RIGHT al kyus"
what in England conversation is to t,ryism-
has been practically disowned in England,
France, Belgium, Holland Sweden, Spain,
Portugal, and Sardinia Tin the Swiss rel ublics,
and in the new made kingdom of Greece. it is
unnecessary to state, it never could be admit.
| ted0 and throughout the whole of the American
continents. The doctrine of Legitimacy is an
exploded and obsolete theory throughout
Christendom, except in Russia, Germany, the
Ausra domhions, Denmark, and the greater
pa'L OF l'aly
1t is too late in the day to renew the abortve
conspiracy of kings of 1915. Any attempt on
the part of the three kings of Cologne to re-.
subject the people who have repudiated the
treaties of Vienna to the pretentons of the holy
alliance must be made if at all, by force of arms
by foreign aggression; and, with all the AFRO
gance inspired by their trumphs over the revo.
lutionary movements of l848. they are not vet
so blinded by success as to dream of such an
undertaking. They know that the discontents
of Germany have been senced only--not ex-
tinguished.
They know that the armies of Austria are
smarting under the reproach that the aid of
Russia was necessary to enable them to subdue
the Hungai ans; that the army of Prussia feels
Itself degraded by its kings recognition of the
suzerainete ofRussia, and chafes under Russian
dictation as angrily as it did under the dictation
of Napoleon. The people and armies of Ger
many compelled their cowardly and reluctant
sovereigns to rebel against the French emperor,
and any attempt on the part of the present
sovereigns of Austria and Prussia to fight the
battles of the Gar against constitutional En-