The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-20

end Transatlantic agtstons which have taken placs
snce the peace, yields some very intsresun in1or
In 1919 and 1920 the state of the continent was
what some Of Us remember. KOtzebue was CORES
popdiDg very diligently with the Gear Alexander on
cities Of Germany, where there were eyes Al rays
counting the number Of letters he sent OF, and
where there was one foolish young man who fsacied
be was doing patriodc act in numbering the let.
ter writer. All along the Rhine, for hundreds OF
niles, the people were suddenly appearing in the
Old German costume, and the Z" Great Song" OF
German liberty echoed under the palace walls
OF the princes In all their capitals. The princes
ties, and risings were tho consequence in all
the continental nations. Old Ferdinand Of
Naples was the Nestor of the council OF despots;
and he provoked the rising in Naples. The
French Bourb0ns were controlling the press, and
the Due de Berri was murdered The king Of Sardi-
MIA swan paper ducks In o wash basin, while his
minister's coerced Turin and Genoa to the point Of
SSS nap a the insuIrscton Of Alessandris Fer
which none or us forget, with their Lombard sub
iects; and Constantine Of Russia was playing Cali
ban = : arsaw, to the utter evaporation Of the
ornaments foi the Virgin, sparing Attention to
dictate the measures which brought on the rising
an In. .,- Riaro. Such was the state of the
continent precisely at ::ss 49,. time when some
extraordinary troubles arose in the United States
the despots) from European affairs. Russia had
always taken great interest in the Oregon
quesiion--ber territories lay 50 near, and her
sh ps conld keep watch so easily In Q sudden
and mysterious way tho Americans became so an
CRY about Oregon that, as ord Castereagh told Mr..
Rush in London, 'the condition Of the question was
such that war could be produced BY holding up
Huger." This was well for Russia, as far as It
went; but it was yet more important to embrod.
the Americans among themselves than with the
English; so the disruption Of the Union was en-
couraged to the very verge Of completion, BY that
outbreak Of proalavery agitation which occasioned
ever after called by. ordinary politicians (th,ugh
net by statesmen worthy Of the nancy tho saviour
of his country. because he invented that compY0.
c,x s now 5sp.d. By the r.:
Americans are again likely to be wanted in Eu-
rope.
Union was when the notification /" struggle took
place, when the entire energies Of the States were
occupied in preventing South Carolina and one or
two other States from breaking up tho Union by
their secession MI. Clay was again the saviour,o
carried but the brewing Of the storm, the prcpa-
ration for its outburst the breaking Of the water
spout at the critical moment by q skilful shot,
and the subsequent setting to rights, occupied
tooF to ' put down the Poles after their rising
In 1881, and to smooth down France under tho
Orleans rule, and to settle Belgium and Holland
after their severance; and to get nd OF the
Italy once more, and to snnb the Germans who de-
manted their promised constitutions, and to abaso
Turkey to the last extremity; in short to get the
troublesome affairs Of Europe Settled" Gas despots
call it, before America had time to look off from her
own business It can hardly be necessary to observe
that though the American trouble went BY the name
Of notification" tho Stateright question called
was originated BY and was bound up with, the ques-
Here were two Condolences" Thu third was
within tie memory Of the youngest who take an In
terest in the welfare Of nations While Europe was
" n istSs the patriots IA many countries were
we've they sbout3 They were doing what was be.
yond measure grateful TO the Czsr-passing moro
acompromise measnrss"-passing tho Fugitive
ssEs b T It, 70 ssn ts S IL q ~ s SnS
Union whenever It sha|l suit him to render the
Americans helpless. The Americans-not the PEG.
PIE, but their Representatives were passing the
overriding that Of several Of the States incur7ing
the reproach and pity Of their beat friends all over
the world, and preparing for the further struggle
which Russia has now, for the fourth time, been
question and it, collateral results have been ocsu
Pyirg the attention Of Europe.
We all know, from tho newspapers, il NOT other
wise, that Mr.. Stephen A. Douglas q United States
Senator, was the>chef actor in the passage Of the
Nebraska bill-the man to whom It's rapid passage
(too quick for sny efiectual popular oppositSon)
was mainly owing. Perhaps some Of u may not
have forgotten the curious incident Of the distinc
ton with which the Gar treated this Mr.. Douglas
at review Of st. Petersburg, before the Nebraska
bill was ever heard Of. Those public honors were,
as MI. Dous. - friends declare, followed up by
a private nfsttiew and long conversation. Some
light is cast on the business by . comparison
Of what tex place before and aftor this sdven
tue befa,liag TIE American tourist. Before he
Hungarian refugees. with whom he associated and
conyersed much In America, his sympathy being
al on behalf Of the liberal cause. After his Russian
adventure, :. endeavored to avoid the recognition
society, andwent home to carry the Nebraska BILL
just WHEN re Eastern question was ripeninQ to &
wal. OF tia bill the constituents Of the men who
passca y have said that IL was driven through tho
two houses by some disastrous power which the
people bad no time to restraint was passed. not
only without the national concurrence, but abso-
lutely egainst the national win. If 50, it may
repeal A tic LAW r usoo and ss' mischief . saa
they probably win do; but the process win
consume precious time, and wholly absorb the
national energy, during the crisis Of the
Fugitive Slave law are both most dangerous to tue
long continuance Of the Union; and they VIII,
therefore, diappear as the Missouri compromise has
disappeared before them. It cannot be that such
scenes as those 1t Boston. the delivering up Of
Burns, and throughout Massachusetts, on the Fourth
Of july, can be repeated without imperilling the
Union, and the repeal Of the obnoxious laws must
therefore be looked for With hope BY every friend Of
the liberties Of mankind But to effect that repeal
there must be new elections, conflicts of parties,
long debates, many yicissitudes, and slow calming
down Of the swell after the storm, before the
sympathy Of the American people can bs fairly
embarked In any Europcan cause. This 10 precisely
what suits the Gar. He 70 believed to have wrought
for this end, and he has obtained il.
The great question is, bow do the Americans like
all thisl How does it sppear to them when their
own case II set fully before them? They have had
some preparation In the discovery that the nsws.
accounts Of the progress Of tho war. Their truest
and beartieet friends can now tell them more. If
they do not like their position IN implements for
royal sport in the hands Of the most monstrous
his abominsble clutch. They must release them.
sslves as . nation (whateyer individual States may
choose to dog from the one despotc institution
which place them at the pleasure OF tyrants; they
must wrench ont and cast away the keen wedge