The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-08-25

hnu UONeInHlenb DOhnLies. ~ Nhc no iohso'
fancied that a sturdy peasantry, their eountry's
pride, when once distracted, could not have
their places supplied. No; we re)oiced, and
shouted for the exodus And how has it left
us? In situation to make labor the dictator
of hours and wages There is no blinking the
fact The employed are now, to great ex-
tent the employers of the capitalist. There
are "Strikesn in every mechanical trade, in
every hired service, in every farm and factory,
in every quarter Of the empire; and the prac-
tice is rapidly spreading till it will embrace
the working population, the operatives AZ they
are called ~ and it will need but Louis Blanc
to centralize the WHOLE and impart to the ag-
gregate mass consistent form and unity Of
action We do not mean to sound the tocsin OF
alarm ON this head but no one can prohtably
study the politics of the age and the prospects
of futurity if he shut his eyes to the sure
march onward and prodigious alterations
which this imminent movement is Fastening TO
fulfil
The new political casting of nations, as 1t
were, is another phenomenon, out OF which
mighty events must be evolved The antago-
nistic principles of absolutism and freedom are
more unequvocally pitted against each other
throughout Europe than they have ever been
before, though the latter is unfortunately too
much bound up with secret associations and
conspiracies But the conflict approaches and,
after terrible struggle, when it does raise its
front in open day, there will be nothing able
to stand against it.
The most favorable symptom is the evident
desire for the preservation Of peace, which
uuites so many Governments, with necessarily
diversified views and interests, in the effort to
curb the mad development of Russian ambi-
ton On the issue it is dangerous to specu-
late, when ten days will put us in possession Of
the climax. But it is as difficult to suppose
that the Gar will retract as it has been to
ina CINE that he would venture 80 far. |. is
clear that the time was not SO ripe for the at
tempt as he presumed; though there we're
many things to induce contrary belief. His
recent services to Austria in Hungary--tbe
Montenegro collision and difference between
that Power and the Portfolio French coup to
obtain an advantage at the holy shrnes--and,
above all, the establishment of military des-
potism in France, rendering any cordial ALI
ance with constitutional England improbable,
were all suggestive of the lucky moment. But
the calculation has, SO far, turned out to be
erroneous; and the grand question now is,
Will the naughty Autocrat humble himself,
without a few blows, to march out of the Da-
nubian provinces on compulsion, and exhibit
picture of bafiled injustice to the grinning uni
verse If some expedient cannot be devised,
apparently to break the fall and gild the dis
grace, we can hardly persuade ourselves that
Nicholas will be induced, with 10000 men, to
March cross the Pruth,
And then march back again.
His proud stomach will, we think, rather risk
a war, especially if that war assumed passive,
or defensive, or still continued diplomatic, in
stead of active and offensive operations against
him, from the Black Sea to the Baltic. Persia,
with Schiraz destroyed, with the loss of 600
lives, and suffering other calamities, might still
seize the opportunity to shake off a painful OPP
preston, and the brave Caucasans would re-
cover lost ground. Under all circumstances,
it is not strange that peace or war should hang
on an almost equally poised balance.
The state of affairs in China is also exceed
ingly interesting and important at this period
The insurgents, protesting n mongrel Protest
antism, and adopting the ancient Jewish prin-
ciples in warfare, of cutting off man, woman,
and child, of the Tartar races who oppose
them, have got possession of Nankn and
Annoy, where they protect foreigners, and do
not modest the Chinese people in the midst of
their massacres of enemies. In the mean
while America visits Japan, and British India
invades Burmah. The days when the fiowery
empire could be held as close corporation,
are gone forever; and the access OF this vast,
rich, and populous quarter of the earth to the
great family of nations, is an event, the i'm
portance of which cannot be over-estimated
Merely repeating our mention OF the mar
vellous restoration Of the age of gold, an en-
| CINE of itself capable of producing wonderful
| changes may we not ask whether or not we
have, even in no cursory manner a. our limits
permit, demonstrated that our lot has fallen on
an extra ordinary epoch, and one pregnant
with events to be born within the next fifty
years, perhaps more astonishing than those
which have made the first half of the nine
teenth century romance unparalleled in the
history of the human race.
Rev. ELLINGTON. Of our exchanges
make Ellington Reverend We understand
he does not claim to be minister of the Cos
| pei, but does claim TO be member OF the
| Church SO we have an example of one heir
of Christ attempting to make another heir of
Christ his property Who can wonder that
there are in6dels ?-Indiana True Dem.
The time fixed for the trial of John Free
man, who is claimed by Ellington, is Monday,
the 2sth instant, at Indianapolis; meantime lie
is charged three dollars per day for the hire Of
guard, to keep himself from running away.
The marshal d. l.. Robinson) is strongly GEN.
sured by the Indiana papers, both Wing and
Democratic, for his scarcely disguised efforts
in behalf of the claimant. This case is work
ing revolution in the public setimont OF In
diana, in regard to the Fugitive Slave bill. 1t
has attracted public attention to the enormi-
ties Of that Infamous enactment That Free
man. if he has half a chance, will be able to
prove himself to be freeman in fact, as he is
in name we have no doubt The claimant and
he marshal have already outraged law and
decency in endeavoring to consign freeman
to Slavery, and VIC shall watch their future
proceedings with much interest
The FREE PREsBYTERIAN.-A new volume
of this paper has commenced II will be pub