New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-14

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fulfilled. They never yet have been carried ont /;
they have served only to be trodden under foot
oy the Russian party in reference to boundaries
DC wen as IN reference TO the political and legal
oasis oil the period which was to be the coRstitu-
H0ndf period or legal government BY the majority
and by pubic opinion. For with that war.cry
g. the tyrant," Napoleon Bonaparte, was conousr.
ed by Europe. Is the Legitimacy Of 1915 nothing
else .han hereditary monarchy" or is it rather
constitutional RgORareAy Hereditary mon.
arches in 1915 were transformed me- legitimate
or constitutional ones. Up to that time they
were merely by the grace of God then they
were to be sanctioned by law, or to become le-
climate"
! Even legitimacy is a creature Of the Revolution,
and Talleyrand, is bishop, baptized it,
Such is the state ofpubIic law in Europe. Who
has trespassed against it ? The three hereditary
monarchs of the Continent. Who therefore Is
hors Ia ioi Ia ielon) according to his own law
and to the law of Europe Those hereditary mon
archs Ard it is adding insult to injury for the
blood stained Emperor of Russia now to come for
ward and appeal to the laws Of Europe.
Yes, the laws of Europe have been broken
wheresoeyer the order of the multi has taken the
place of law, voted by duly elected parliaments
that is to say wheresoeyer the Russian Interpreta
ton the treaties by the bayonet and the scourge
have been ADOPTED, And the violation ofthe laws
of Europe must be punished by public and SOL
emn verdict again the criminals. They, them
selves appeal to those laws woe to them If they
come to be applied
The maintaining and carrying out oftle treaties
of 1915 means calling together an Amphlctyonic
council, impeaching the hereditary mOnarchs for
high treason during forty years and 1t means III
PRODUCING constitutional government, viz the
enactment Of laws by majority. 1t is clear, that
now, after bloody counter-revolution, the autho-
rty of the law is the doom of the oAenders,-the
law of the majority, applied to these hereditary
criminals, is the Republic
The Emperor of Russia should not have appeal
ed to the treaties. A rowing thief may tri-
umph for while, but he does not appeal to the
jury.
Now. England is a guarantee for those treaties.
England does not understand them in the Russian
sense What is the duty of England and her Al
lies!
OF her Allies! Has England any remaining,
and if so, who are they?
Is he who despses all treaties and laws, even
his owns the Czar an ally of England to aid IN
maintaining those laws!
is the beleaguerer of his own country, the En-
peror of Austria, who with one hand gave, and
with the other burnt the Hungarian, the Austrian
Constitution, and all his own enactments, an ally
of England to aid in maintaining the laws of Eu-
rope!
Can that wayerng King Of Prussia, who from
the very commencement, played with oaths and
laws who was thentossed about by the Revolu-
ton and now has become play ball of the Courts
of Petersburg and Vienna, be an ally of England
TO aid in maintaining the laws and treaties of Eu-
rope? Can England, in carrying out the treaties
OF 1915, insmaking the history of Europe deyel-
opment of law, Join those who fight with fire and
sword against the very principle of those treaties
and against the principle of all Legality and mo-
rality question: which is quite the same as if
we were asking Can England join the sworn enc
mics of her own principle, the supremacy of law
Can she join the enemies of her life and glory
No. never Even the Tories cannot join that
holy alliance of pure violence against the laws
Europe and the rights of all nations. Who then,
aIe the Allies of England!
We shall know the Allies of England as soon as
we know England herself
England nowadays is the English people and
the Allies of that England are not the Princes
and their Ministers grown hoory in forty years
crime: the Allies of that loyal England are the
nations themselves, struggling for their laws; the
nations who with the dearest of their blood ac-
oured those treaties, who then by treason and
violence were robbed of the benefit of those laws,
and who now are gathering new strength in order
to reacouire their lost rights and to bring the
criminals to justice. The party of crime and the
party Of law cannot compromise. The existence
of the one is the condemnation Of the other.
Such is the difference between English and
Continental Constitutionalism. In England hered-
itary monarchy is egitimate, on the Continent it
is LOrs la loi," what they call "aboye the law"
lust as every successful criminal will call it.
"And the free men on this side of the Channe
! should take up arms in order to defend the magma
charta of Europe and to realize the treaties Of
! 1915. while the people Of the Continent in their
| indifference allowed one piece after another to be
tom away from it. Do the people really exist in
tbe shape Of Nations And is it certain we should
have their alliance! or would they not rather
abandon us if we should act in their favor as well
as thev abandoned all their leaders and flung them
either upon the scofold or upon our shores y
That question seems to be put with Justice
! The people of the Continent were indeed the most
dangerous enemies Of their own freedom and vel
fare cut the question is really putyery cunnngly.
For indeed not the dreaded weakness, but the
dreaded force OF the Revolution it was which in
| duced the English Government to support the Rus
sian interprt tation of the treaty Of 1915 in Hun
gary and Italy, and has ndsced the English Press
to oppose the Constitution of Germany, an4c
euentlv the accomplishment Of the peace 1918,