New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-25
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va have sireaT, announced the cCnshunatoho! iiii
edict of the peasA'ry snronsn
ant the Austrian Empire The cOnyulsOnsN" i'io IN
,eued ,be promise of this important messare 'he 'P
n,ebsrdsa commissions of 1851 have secured rs Pr
formance Austria remsins despotisp' ous "i'O OI
ana 5esnot where there have hitherto been tneusaR\
TIE Kaiser is master OF lite liberty snd properly ou'
the arstocrscy can longer lord 1t over the 'oHI
millions hitherto known AS their feudal servants Nay
IL would seem that the emancipaed peasantry are 20
he nroyded With feeholds from the estates OF tneI
for rerlords for which they 10 pay by ns'aments
. moderate conversation and this payment is to close
ali claims of service or tribute from the hate vassas 70
their ex.masters The revolution, therefore is emf
rsp.lv 8 Social one with an anti-Rent aspect which
INNS. render il spoation and q on the Rights OF
Property in the eyes of our Conservative journalists
M matter how great was the constraint exercised
in the premises by the precarious condition OF the
Fmpre and the formidable financial as well as pot-
cal pers which environ it this is an event calcu
lated to elicit the congratulations OF friends of Pro-
eress throughout the world If such are the results OF
en- Imperial exgepcy, we may well pray that Other
despotisms be speedily exposed to similar dangers.
Nor need forget that in bis great Letter TO Hdse-
mann our own Webster officially spoke OF American
and Austrian institutions as follows;
Their ourl own institutions stand upon the brOaiest
pfirclles of Civil Liberty and believing these princi
PIES nj tie fundamental laws in which they
bodied to be emnenty favorable to the prosperity of
Stats-to be- in fact the only principles Of government
which meet the demands Of the present enlightened age
the President has perceived with great satisfaction that
in the Constitution recently introduced into the Austrian
Empire many OF these great principles are recognized
and applied and re herisbe sincere wish that they may
produce the same happy effects throughout his Austrian
Gsieys extensive dominons that they have done in the
United States
The wish thus uttered seems in part 70 have been
already realized; the Reforms SO nobly initiated in
l-S 20 deporably arrested in lSi9, again resum-
ing their riumphal march. Even Francis Joseph real
ICES that his Empire can only survive the storms now
impending by identity ing itself with the welfare OF the
People.
is it not melancholy truth, that while the rotten
and cruu bling despotisms of the Old World are gradu
ally recognizing and affirm ing the Right of Personal
Liberty, this boastful Republic should, alone among
Nations be doing its utmost to extend as well as per-
petuae that grossest form of Slavery which consgus
man 10 the auctiOnbock and sends and children
TO the whipping post for fault but refusal to work
for nothing While despOtisms because they must,
we grant you,) interfering the downtrodden
Millions do We hear of any but Republican Patriots
who sigh for Alabama plantations worked by we'll
foeged negroes Is the world irrevocably at cross
purposes Must we spare our Pierce and DOughs to
Austria to show her how to rule lmperally, and bring
over Metternch and FicquemOnt to teach our States
men the spirit of the age and the requirements OF
Humanity