New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-04
EUROPEAN NATIONALITIEs.

ma TWO OHc1tu Dy uihcIctht cVIPoIdtiohs VI
societies of Polish emigrants These papers
are couched in terms of the utmost devotion,
calling Louis Bonaparte the nitiator Of Europe
into brighter future. A distinct line is thus
drawn between by far the greatest part of the
emigrants and the true revolutionary elements,
which alone are capable of Installing new life
into the Old World. We deeply regret there
fore, this manifestation. We can well conceive
the intense sufferngs and the growing impa-
thence of the patriots to reach by the shortest
way, whatever that be, the object Of their
wishes. But we cannot admit that Louis Bona
parte is the man who is to solder their cracked
fortunes, or even to offer them any support
What is not in a man cannot come out of him;
the love of liberty is stranger to the Bona
parte blood
In our political faith the eventual restoration
of any or all Of the several oppressed natlonali-
ties, such as Poland, Hungary, Lombardy,
Venice, can only be obtained by reyoutlonlzlng
Europe thoroughly from one end to the other
placing it on new social basis, and constituting
a wholly democratic republican organization.
All this must he done under the revolutionary
banner, and this Louis Bonaparte will never
unfurl. Few may be able fully to understand
that national independence--the heart of nation
aity-does not at all imply liberal institutions
and the social freedom of the oppressed classes.
Thus France enjoys her nationality as do Naples
and the Roman States, Turkey, Russia, the three
latter ruled by a friend of Popes 1t is not
desirable that such state of things should
be established anywhere; and certainly not that
Europe should be fired with wars flames and
supreme effort made by millions of her best
children in order to establish it. Besides, no
war whatever, however successful, carried on
by Cabinets or sovereigns for sO-called diplo-
matico political ends can restore any of the
above mentioned nationalities, and still less
the Polish alone. POland's liberation must be
fought out between the Warta, the Niemen, the
Dwina, and about halfa-millon Anglo-French
bayonets are to act in the struggle.' But the
great majority of Germany-we do not mean the
Governments but the nationalities-will in the
actual state of things be hostile to such an at
tempt, and back her rulers against the Western
Allies. When Germany is rcvolutionzed to the
core she will assent to the claims of Poland, but
not till then; and then restoration of Poland
will unavodably be followed by the emancipa-
tion of Hungary and Northern Italy. This they
know too well in Berlin, Munich and Vienna,
and hence none of the German sovereigns will
countenance such Western movement. Only
with the destruction of German thrones, carry
ing with them the rickety seat of Louis Bona
parte, could such an idea be carried out
There is hO probability that in any way the
Municipalities in question can rise by themselves,
disorganize or impede the action of Prussia or
Austria, and open the passage of Germany to
French troops. Events are never reproduced,
and the position, the means, the strength and
resources of Poland are now wholly different
from what they were in 1880 and 81. Then
Poland was full of life; now she is Frustrated
and physically exhausted, and the condition of
Hungary and Lombardy is nearly the same. In
1880 Poland had separate government residing
in Warsaw, whose reins were seized without
opposition by the insurgents, and nothing new
had to be added to the working of the Admins
trative wheels. The same individuals with the
exception of the former Ministers directed the
Administrative business then as before. More
over the insurrecti0n found well-flled treas
ury, affording aside from private sacrifices about
sixteen million dollars in ready money to be
spent during the ten months of struggle. Now
every cent Of surplus is sent to ST. Petersburg.
HE insurrection too was commenced by the
National Army numbering about thirty thou
sand men, the best drilled, instructed
and armed In Europe. Now there does
not exist a single platoon composed of
Poles. AT that time there were scattered
through the land about forty thousand dismissed
soldiers, with officers of various Grades. all of
them veterans, mostly from the wars Of NapO-
leon. They were called in, organized in the
course Of four weeks, doubling the original
army and forming its principal strength. Be-
hind these forces new leyies were raised not ex-
ceedng forty thousand during the whole time.
wel-tlled arsenal in Warsaw Law easily ac-
cesslbie in one of the principal streets, and the
insurgents laid hold of it without any difficulty
at the start. Poland, or rather Warsaw, was
occupied only by about twelve thousand Russians
who were expelled the same night, no fearful
citadel commanding then as now. the city
which thus can be laid in ashes in few hours.
Russian troops, besides, are amassed by hun
dreds OF thousands in Poland; four newly
erected immense forsresses garrisoned with
Russians are now in the midst Of the country.
The population is wholly dsarmed, and scarcely
three thousand hunting or fowliDg pieces could
be mustered.
How in such circumstances can Poland rise,
4 appealed to by the Western Allies, by Louis