New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-06-19
rmportant Diplomatic Revelations.

Under this caption the National Intelligeneer
notices q statement that the Powers Of Russia,
Austria and Prussia have united in league
against the supposed designs of the present
Ruler Of France The statement was originally
made in the London Times, upon what was an
nounced to be g the best authority"
The sum and substance of it appears to be
this. The Powers named are determined to
revive and adhere to the Vienna treaties of 1914
and 1916. No one is to claim or maintain I'M
perial rights as the successor of Napoleon, or to
attempt to perpetuate dynasty under color of
his name and pretence of his blood Louis
Napoleon will be recognized as Ruler of France
de facto, not de .iure. If Louis Napoleon was
permitted to gain the power he now holds, it
was because these Powers were so much en-
crossed with domestic affairs, and the state of
Europe was such as to render their interference
unadvisable if not impracticable. Therefore,
under the circumstances, having permitted his
success thus far, they are willing that he should
continue Ruler for life. They are willing even
to permit him to take the empty title of En-
peror but if he attempt to transmit imperial
power to heirs or successors, then the rear of
cannon would re-eeho through Europe, and the
glitter of bayonets, and the emblazonry of hos
tile banners would be seen upon the fields of
France. The Powers will not consent to admit
that a de facto can become a de jire Govern
ment; that so long as a descendant of the
Bourbons lives, there can be any other leneal
claimant of the throne of France.
All this looks to us like grave nonsence. we
are astonished that so many respectable jour-
nails should have FASTENED to copy at length this
article. Cossacks do not rule Europe: and
whilst the Gear may be safe and quiet in his
power at home, the last groans of slaughtered
insurrectionists yet live upon the air which floats
over Austria and Prussia. and the first sound
Of the tramp of Cossack cavalry would be the
signal to their friends, relatives and sympa-
thisers for an instruction of hatred and ven
geance. The issue would be briefly made upon
Buonaparte's celebrated prophecy, that all Eu-
rope would one day be Republican or Cossack.
The statement gravely gives this as one of the
arguments of the Powers
"If that nfracton tolerated in 1913 (such is the
argument of the Cabnet the is that the powers
occupied with their affairs that the treaties
called into question in Germany itself; and that
ainty into the midst of which the Presidency of Prince
Louis Napoleon ghded almost without being notced.n
184S, in the progress of years and the history
of nations, is but what the last hour was upon
the SUMS dial, and if &c Europe was then in q
situation full of peril and uncertainty the
peril and uncertainty were in the feelings of q
generation not yet extinguished by the sword
the bullet, disease or natural death-witll
which the echo of revolutionary songs are IA
miliar things; with which the rallying cry Of
free struggle are now words yet whispered as in
prayer, and to whose eyes the signal-fre of up
risings seem yet to blaze along the hills.
Despotism can not march an army through
such material, any more than man may carry
alighted torch through powder magazine II
it make war upon Louis Napoleon whilst the
Ruler of France, Austria, Prussia, Italy and
even Poland will soon be in blaze of revolu-
tion, and Gallo legions will march reinforced
with the reyolutionists of all Europe and gain
ing numbers at every step of their progress,
And then, government de tacto can never
become one de iure! What are we but q gov
eminent of revolution, and one dc .facto, which
these surly powers, in every punctiho of diplo-
matte intercourse, recognize as also one de jure,
and which will beard the proudest of them with
scorn! There were instructions yesterday in
Berlin and Vienna.