New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-10
syMpArmEs OF THE DEsPOTIsMs.


the American brsanis, who met at Offend. 1t
10 needless 10 say that We concur in the Sc
verest structures uttered by the Eoeish PRINT
upon the strocous doctru es of Mes,rs Buchanan,
Soule sbd Company. Indeed, they hsSbeen al
resdy more thsn anticipated BY THE TRIBUNE,
AID By the common sense aud honesty Of the
lager part Of the American peope. Oar read
ers, therefore, will scquir us of any sympathy
with tho PIercisn diplomats in what We are
about 10 remark on the argument of The Tunes.
Grant the doctrine of the Osteud Conference"
exclaims that journal, "and is 10 obvious taa. no
"such thing as political right can exist in the
"~ord; for tie test applied to ths condition OF
ga foreign State, and the sovereignty of foreign
dependency, is not whether the actual possessor
"is entitled to hold thing, but whether il suits
"the convenience of aoy body else to take it from
"bm." The Times con inues, in exposition Of
this doctrine which it declares to be the same as
that taught by Loui, Blanc a. the Luxembourg:
"If nv peace of mind is destroyed because my
neigbbor oveIlooks my gsrden-H my pret3nsions
to success in life ere opposed by successful
riva-or IT, III short, oytliDg occurs to Infringe
upon the golden rule Of SELF then, by every lsv,
human srd divine, accord.ng to these modern in
terpretefs of justice apd policy We are justified in
Wrestling the Objec, OF our aversion or our eupldify
from its o~ ber if We have the power. The old def
iiion of Justice ald he rights of property vas, CSC
nre,e tue ut aiiehun. non isfd, but the modern
iIfance Of this ancient ssw is, Use other mems
possessions so as to prevent them from IN
curing yourself We really exigger.te moth
ing irony and csricature would be out of
place. This is the deliberate opinion of the three
principal Americans chosen and sent by The Govern
OF Washington to represent its principles and 70
uphold its character in Europe, and we are oouni TO
that thew considerable
cla.s of opinions in the United States"
This Is true enough as to the general principle;
but let Us say, in reply to The Tunes, that it is
not peculiarly American principle. 1! was not
preached for the first time, by the wise negotia-
tors in Be GUM, nor does it represent as alleged,
Any considerable class of opinions in the United
States We must look for its paternity to more
ancient source. The august and exalted sover
eigns who control the political destinies of Eq-
rope are the modern authors of it, and not the
poor sovereign people Of the Western Continent
Messrs Buchanan and Soule are only mi seraole
imitators after all. The national robbery they pro-
pose 10 not original with them. They are merely
petit Larceny fellows, taking on the airs of some
magnificent Ferdinand Count Fa.bom or grea.
Mr.. Wild. Their real models are the despo.s Of
tuC lloIy hihhuSCJ ouu soiuC Vi INC SouohsuttVuh
Governments, as they are called, ia the old world
They recommend q Wholesale seizure OF Caba,
it 10 true, but what Is tina. email island to a whole
continent which the despots have seized AMI
msnsee2 What were tho political distributions
of 1915, for instance, when the people of Europe
were divided, with as much sang froid as State
Prison keeper ladies out bis soup into the kids of
Nos. l, . and 3, bu. an assertion on the largest
scale of precisely the same doctrines as the Amer
ican Ministers were foolish and knavsh enough
to asfert 1t was PARTITION of nations, in the
interests Of the partitioners and 10 entire disre
gard of the interests, the rights the wishes, the
ympathies or the traditions of the PEG pie to be
divided.
Tho representatives OF the crowned heads,
meeting at Vienna or Lsybach, said to each other:
" The continent Of Europe is ours; we reign by
" divine right, or at any rate, the smaller nations
" are troublesome; and here, Prussia, ysu take
part Of SaIopy-and you, Austria a part of
North Itsly-snd you, Russia, POland-and
"thu., let us have the whole thing between our
4" selves" And when Genoa, Denmark, Holland
and the rest of the nstions, came to protest
against this cool and off hand way of dis ossing OF
territories and peoples what was the reply
Why, that the interests of the Allies commanded
it-that, in fact, the people of tie con.inen.
were given to revo.ution-that they cherished
certain notions as to their rights, which endaa-
gered the peace Of neishboring StA.es-and thai
the Kings were not inclined 20 sanction such ab-
iurd AMI pestiferous novelties.
This was the position Of the Holy Alliance, and
III L =
been abetad, with uncomfortable exceptions, BY
the Cabinets Of England and France. It is, in
short, the established and universal doctrine Of
the political powers of Europe a! this day that
they have right to interfere with neighboring
powers, in order to suppress movements which
they conceive to be Hostile 10 their oxn Interests
or security. They have exercised this pretended
right on innumerable occasions, and whenever
thereby they could snub the progress Of freedom.
True, they have sedulously respected the rights
Of sovereigns to do what they please in their own
dominons in the furtbersnce of despotism; bat,
let TIE people rise in vlndica.on Of their Ilber-
ties, and instantly they interfere What were
tie late wars in spain-whst the ex.in ,sion of
Pc aLd-wbat the armed gunIan,hip Of .Ia'y-
what the overthrow Of the Huogadsns-wh,t
the subsection of Greece-bus so many assertions
of this rsh.! Or, TO como nearer still to our
own tneF, what is the purpose Of the existing
negotiations q. YieDns, but the assurance Of the
night Of the -Four Powers TO NEEDLE in the affairs
Of Turkey