The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-01-18

Extract 81 tiier dated South of Germany December is
1852. 10 Jflsnd Ia Ps,,asxi yaala.


II IS some time since wrote 10 you aud now your
kind favor OF the 9th OF November is before me You
can Imagine what great interest took in The election
ana 40 mol deny that the result has exceeded my most
sanguine expectations BY giving the democratic candi-
ua'e sueh majority, the Americans have shown 10 the
world mat democracy is yet alive aud moi expiring
as European despots would make people believe You
oush' 70 nave seen the long and wry faces the
tocfacy here made when the news OF The election OF
oeheta Fierce reached us. Their mental press had for
some ne explained that the Americans were tired
oiasmocaey that General Scott. who represented absor
usn a"a military and, consequently HoRarchical prin
cpss, hau iof That very purpose been put up their
candidate and would certainly be elected BY large ma
Jorty, when he would follow in the footsteps oil Louis
Napoleon, and make end OF the American republic
All those who acquainted with our national affairs
at such foolish talk; but the great of the
people, who are uneducated. at least not we'll read in
American affairs, began 10 believe that the United States
would also become the prey Of military chiefaia. The
ieaetIonary party s, therefore, in fear and trembling
One OF the first bankers in the south OF Germany
me short time since TO inquire what would be the
sequence OF the result OF the election, and If thought
President Pierce would openly assist the European
publicans with an army! This fact plainly shows not
only The imbeciy Of the called higher classes, but
also the fear they entertained, and the belief they
have, that matters cannot remain much longer in the
present state. That new revolution will break out il
certain; but some years will pass by before such
event can take place. Terror. disappointment and want
OF character have driven many in the ranks Of the
action that il would be downright madness 10 aitemp
anything like a revolution resistance at this time.
sorry say, but it is true, the great of The
Germans have proved themselves unworthy Of the
OF freemen they have been found wanting in those
qualities so necessary for free nation The hlame
however rests with their governments who educated and
brough, them up. not as rational beings, but more as
slaves, and with full belief that they could only bear
certain degree OF freedom--lha, they only born to
be ruled and governed by their princess whom the AL
mighty had for this purpose created of different clay
The principe,he divine right Of the princes TO rule
soute-is again taught in the German schools it is
ridiculous, but true that the word liberty" is longer
suffered in schoo-books arid all those States who
not monarchical represented in these books in
state of complete anarchy. What good can be expected
of such proceedngs The present generation will either
be brought up supplied hypocrites: in either
their princely rulers cannot depend upon them should
fresh peris aud difficulties assail them.
The election OF Louis Napoleon is viewed in Ger
many with different feeling the retrograde party,
in the beginning, hailed his becoming Emperor with
the greatest enthusiasm to them he was saviour
who was 10 denver them from the fear they had
of democracy; the Russian Car on one side,
and Louis Napoleon on the other, they considered
themselves now past all danger and in the hap
ny position to realiate on all liberals But several
speeches from friends OF the Emperor have cooled
their ardor They begin to realize that war will
sooner or later be unavoidable that If Louis Ma
poleon himself should be adverse he scarcely will be
able TO withstand the camoious demand OF the army and
the populace who both consider the Rhine the natural
frontier OF the French empire; and the Germans feel
now The danger which must naturally follow from hav
ing Napoeonite on the French throne Louis Napo-
leon in lsis not elected President for his capac-
ties bu. merely because he the nephew of the En-
perur Napoleon and Tor the same reason his
was approved by the OF 1851. and he also to
the same his election Emperor. The French
nation well its army, will therefore expect that he
will do his duty the heir. nephew, and successor of
the grea, French Emperor and they will not be satisfied
unless he restores France TO its former extent Louis
Napoleon will, therefore, in few years be driven either
into an aggressive war, be driven from the throne of
France To every appearance, the latter will take place.
and may live TO in France again the restitution
of republican government, when the days of the Ger
man princes may also be numbered but until then they
will rule and govern with absolute sway. Matters
must continue here from bad to worse and in fact al.
ready all over Germany there exists no legal govern
nent any longer, but this i-faed country is entirely
under military and police regulations,
Germany Ia very different from what it in is4o
freedom Of Speech either writing printing, does not,
exist any longer every is fearful to touch politice
and even the mos, intimate friends only ths
subject when they are IN Their own rooms, and only after
they have asceflaned that stranger in the house
Under such circumstances ought 10 imagine that the
German rulers would be the very best terms with one
another +; bu, no such thing Dogs and are more
friendly disposed towards each other They guided
by the most jealousy towards each other and
are only daecord when the suppression Of their subjects
concerned In his hey 90, like good, trained hoses.
all lengths happily together In spite OF the chickering's
of the Austrian and Russian govsrnments they fully
agree in everything tending TO destroy every liberal in
stitutiop and sentiment Willis, heretofore all their ami
mostly was directed against their subjects, they
now have extended it against all foreigners conven.
ton has been agreed upon between them and some Of
The minor German governments for the mutual control
OF all foreigners who in may into their re-
spectve counties An expulsion warning in one
German State has hereafter effect in all others; and
every foreigner the moment he passes the German from
tier becomes the subject of suspicion, and is under
the supervision Of some police officer, for which pu-
pose Wallets De place, holelkeepers, &c &C., to
be enrolled in the police as secret members. That
is nov the state in Germany, which. with the CON-
pe,e siagna,on OF all kinds Of business, owing the
uncertainty oil the future construction OF The Zoveeia
renders this country longer the pleasant place of
dence which II was heretofore.
Eha.+ ahh Yours truly, as ever, G.
3 SENATOR DOUGLAS ELEcrED--Hon. Stephen A.