Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-04-29
from the illustrated 15ndon News. April Il


England and II ussin.
If We look at the map Of Europe and consider the
pose What ought to be . grand confraterninity OF /
peaceful and united nations, cannot but be struck
with the instability which characterizes them all
Amid that vast assemblage of communities, more OF
less citiiized mbre or less powerful and humane
there afe but two whose institutions seem deeply
rooted, whose thrones seem secures and whose future
fate betoken influence, sp1endor and power the
rest of mankind. The one is England state an,
cient and FREE :-lustf5s for deeds alike splendid
in peace and in war whose name, whose LAWS. and
whose language pervades the farsst PORTIONS OF the
earth whose flag is the hope of the oppressed ana
in the permanency of whose dominion every nation,
that either possesses or aspres to possess the com
monest rights of free citizenship self g0yernm
is in the highest degree interested The other state
is in every respect its opposite. Three centuries a.
60 unknown even by to the civilization OF the
West, 1t overshadows at the present day all Europe
and Asia with the dark image of its rapacity and Its
ambition. The name of England is synonymous
with that of rational liberty the name of Russia
on the other hand betokens absolute and irrespons
bic power. The one is civilization the other IS bar
barsm The one presents the dignity, the other the
debasement of humanity. The represents men,
tai, the other physical power And these two, so
different, and ofsuch hostile principles, hold between
them the balances of lordship and dominion; and
direct, far merely human agencies are allowed
to direct the present and the future fate of the Eas
| tern hemisphere. America is beyond their reach.
and stands aloof in the proud self.suthcency and
vigorous majesty of that feels itself predestln-
ed, in the fullness of time to be greater and more
resplendent than either of them.
All else in Europe is utterly unstable and insecure
The most ancient state feeble and ehete as
if the breath of strong man could overthrow it
Austria is rotten to the and il not for the
aid of Russa-dearly bought at the cost of humila-
ton and dependence crumbe to pieces from
it's heerogeneity, with little power of cohe-
sion as the dry bones in the Valley of Golgotha.-
That venerable state worn out; and her motley
L,,kS,a ,r,Hor SION
ding each other, having no interest in common-no
bond of blood, of language. or of sympathy-have
not in them the vitality which could make them CO.
alesce or unite in the plest effort to govern them
selves. Germany is name, but not power on the
earth Her very boundaries are underlined, and her
professions to independence and the right to exist
are bywords of scorn to the most powerful preten-
sions who speak her language and move upon her
soil Prussia with all her bayOnets, is creature
of yesterday-an interloper into place that al
ready full and at the first breath of dssension in
Europe, would lose her identity, and merge into an
Empire. not of Prussians. but of Germans. Italy is
nothing but name: the victim of the stranger and
the oppressor, she scarcely darcs to hope and lin
gers on in impatient humiliation; forgetting
that she was once the glory, and resembling. with
burning blush, that she is now the shame of Europe.
| The other Monarchies whose places arc marked on
= the map are Monarchies shorne of their ancient
power They are but shadows of what they once
were. and live upon the memories of their de-
parted greatness. Belgium, Holland, Denmark and
Sweden possess few traces of their ancient renown
their history is that of the past and they exercise
no influence the fortunes of to-day. Spain.
once first rate, has dwindled into seventh-rae
and Portugal is almost of little note the Isle Of
Il Man. Turkey exists but upon suferance. She
troubles the waters where her wolish neighbors
make it their pleasure to drink, casts her mploring
eyes to heaven, and submissively awaits the nevta
BILE catastrophe of her extinction.
Russia in the east and England in the west thus
the sole representatives of the stability of empire,
well as of The great principles which, since the world
began, have agated the bosom of society. The keen
eye of Napoleon the Great foresaw the struggle that,
sooner or later, these powers would be compelled 10
wage against each other. Their aniagonsm is inhe-
rent and not accidental and would exist of necessity
were there questions of religion, of commerce.
OF territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and dynastic Influence 10
compicae and eXasperae it. The sagacitv of Napo-
leon so far al fault that he mag lined France, and
not England, to be the fitting representative OF the
great principle of the dignity of humanity and OF
sstanCe 10 arbitrary power His nephew and success
sor as thorough representative of ultra desposm as
the Gar himself-and, possibly, still more so, for he
POUNDS his tyranny the consent and suffrage of the
ignorant and blinded people-govens the only other
country IN Europe that possesses even the sembIance
OF power, apparently unconscious of The fact that
France is unstable as water under her present regime
and that she has no friend in the world unless she
makes a friend OF England. He has somewhat mex
pertly been endeavorng TO play the arbiter betwx
the two great rival States of the West and the East
udicous homage to his personal vanity, he has beer
striving hard to sap the foundation of his throne
Whatever, in the pride of apparent success, he may
think of the durability OF his dominion, its only pos
si5e guarantees the good and the maeria
interests of the brave and intelligent French people,
States and dynastes may toer and decay, but nation
like the French is ever vigorous and young, and ii
the day of fate and necessity will vindicate its owl
majesty, in spite OF its rulers, whatsoever they ma,
happen TO be, AMI assume its own place in the coun
=. ellis of the world. IF Louis Napoleon desires stability
for his EMPIRE he must learn to extend by degrees tn
bases of the popular rights which he has denied, g
4 nored, or taken away He must learn to know VIII
. are the natural allies of his countrymcn, and wba
States they whose aid would be destruction to him
# In the connections that preparing in Europe an
of which we all around us the signs and the por
tents the true place of France is the side of free
dom. Between Cossacksm and Consiitutionalism th
instincts of France will lead her right, however muc
Q her temporary rulers may strive 10 lead her wrong
and in that struggle, should it come the place
$ England will be in the vanguard of civilization: an
if States and dynases oppose her, the population tn
j. her, and bid her God speed. The star of her glor
$ has not yet eliminated Like Toussaint LOuverture
d she has great allies and powers that work fo
~ her"
l. The Vice Presidency Vacant.
The office of Vice President of the United States
now vacant, ard will remain so until the next cleo
# ton OF President and Vice President The PresiIer
|. OF the Senate pro tenn. (who is Mr. Achison {
g Mssonri.) is not Vice President by reason Of III
death Of that off1c Io Il q