The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-04-02
From the New York Times.
The European Reaction


The political condition OF Europe is ia the highest de
gree satisfactory The propensity OF Frenchmen for reyo
luton al present swallowed up in curiosity France is
passive because the whole popular attention is absorbed
by TIE antics OF the strange performer who succeeds in
dvesfyng his performance by effects so grand and start
ling, that II is impossible 10 recall speculative attention to
the agitation of political theories II has become trte 10
say that Italy is slnmberns volcano Radetsky, who
like death, pauses 10 whet his blede had hardly
completed the human harvest, begun in ls4s before he
has been called TO as fresh and fair one The affair OF
Milan, which we have Austrian authority for believing
TO be no more than street riot is sending throngs TO the
gallows. The Madiai remain in their Tuscan prison
Terror regns with unparalleled violence along the Apen
mines. So up on the Danube-as the enormities prac,
tsed at Pesh testify Oppression, taxation, confscauon
death, are everywhere the ordinary conditions OF popular
existence. There afe mitigating circumstances The
picture is ensemble of gloom and desperation The
state OF things is satisfactory.
For, until all foundations OF happiness and hope are
eectuay broken up, and the cup OF cruelty and wrong
has been filled 10 the brm, society will not turn success
fully upon lis oppressors Patience must be worn out
Such shelter passive ssbmsson such outlets of
cape emigration affords. must be closed against the
wretched people before the requisite pitch of desperate
resolution be attained To common wrongs the masses
are indurated by centuries of custom The knou must
be applied more frequently and keeny; the gallows mus
have lis mob at a meal the hres OF persecution must
have their holocaust. before the people Of Europe
shall be maturely ripe for revolution. All this is
the work of kings aud Of the people. Tyrans, not
patriots prepare and accelerate revolutions The EN-
peror of Austria the atomic d.spotsms OF Germany, the
Pope and King Bomba, doing that Tor the regenera-
ton of Europe which patriotism could not accomplish
The seed reach the extreme OF decay before be
quickened And ia for this that the true thinker
will look with satisfaction at the suicidal policy OF king
craft and expect the revuson. When the fuel is ready
spark will kndle it. The abuse of the centurcn's
daughter the smallest OF the evils the Romans
groaned beneath, but occurred opportuaely, and Tar
qun was the last OF the kings.
The times and the seasons of the European resurrec-
ton are matters OF especial Americans Are we
not apt to forget how largely that emigration upon which
the population OF vast unoccuped territories depends
depends in it's turn upon European msgovernment Mr.
Everett, in his recent mastery Speech neglected. in esii-
mating rapid national development, this essential
constituent OF the sum Let US suppose Germany, Hun.
gary Italy, transformed from debt encountered despot-
isms into thriving commonwealths conceive Scandi.
navia in the enjoyment of freedom and self-governmen
Ireland released from that perncious system which has
blasted it, and restored to busy life, industry and pros
perily are not obliged 10 presume that emigration
under such circumstances would instantly flag, and
eventually cease nearly or wholly Are we sure there
would not actually be return tide The questions are
deserving of thought They may help TO qualify
that appetite for annexation which pushes some OF us
along quite wildly; for what do we want of new
territories which we cannot people, and protect ex-
pensively, while we have unodden empires still to fill
and which centuries will scarcely fill without the aid OF
the emigrant The era Of European regeneration will
therefore be equally notable in our own history
We naturally interested in tracing the signs OF its ap
proach.