Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-03-22

This news, brought by the Africa, Is of the
highest interest, in every respect The pres
.ent Car, Alexander, is said to be an amiable,
but not an energetic man. 1t would be idle
to speculate on the probable changes which
nav be produced in the condition of Europe
by this sudden appearance of the King of
Terors to claim his share of influence on
the destinies Of nations. We should feel
grateful that, in our country at least, the great
questions of peace or war are not dependent
ON the life or death of any one man.
On the death of ALEXANDER and the renun-
citation Of Constantine, NICHOLAS succeeded
to the throne, Nov. 10, 1926, and was crown
en- at Moscow. Sept, 81, 1926. For nearly
thirty years, he has been the most conspicu-
Gus figure in Europe and we believe that the
Earl Of Derby was right, when in recent
speech he declared that the Car was truly
great man. If the world must have despotic
sovreigus, it is some comfort To have them
men of genius and energy.
We have never joined in the abuse of NIGH
oIAs as tyrant and an oppressor. He had
his post assigned him by circumstances in
the grand drama of human events, and he
filed it we'll That post was to guide, with
a firm hand and honest purpose of heart, the
march Of a semi-barbarous people towards
civilization. Contrast the Russia of 1925,
with the Russia Of 1855, and the credit due
~, . . iii L. m, aas,,r.a1 nv tho amount
of Improvement 1t would have been mir
acle if the Gar of Russia had admired and
approved republican institutions for his own
people. but he was, in his way, the friend cl
progress, and did much 10 prepare his nation
for liberal principles and those democratic
forms. of government which are destined to
mould the Sclavonian race into the highest
types of humanity.
Order is heavens first law, and the sovereign
who can teach sixty millions of uneultiva-
ted men 10 obey it, is benefactor ofhis race.
Order is the pioneer of well-regulated liberty;
it is the hanSiti0n-sta!e of humanity.
The most philosophical of American states
men. in language worthy Of the thought, has
expressed the great political truth which
forms the justification of NICHOLAS.
Liberty is a reward to be earned, not..a
blessing to be CONTINUOUSLY lavished on all
alike "a reward reserved for the intelligent,
the patriotic, the virtuous and the deserving
and not a boon to be bestowed on people too
ignorant, degraded and vicious, to be capable
either of approaching or enjoying it.
Nor is it any disparagement Of liberty
that such is, and ought to be the case. On
the contrary, its greatest praise, its proudest
distinction is, that an all-wise Providence Ia.
reserved it, as the noblest and highest reward
for the development of our faculties mora
and intellectual. A reward more appropriate
than liberty could not Ire conferred on the
deserving nor punishment inflicted on the
undeserying more Just than to be subject Il
lawless and despotic rule. This dispense
ton seems to be the result of some fixed law
and every efioit to disturb or defeat it, by M
tempting to elevate people, in the scale d
liberty, above the point to which they are Ell
titled TO rise, must ever prove abortive and
end in disappointment. The progress of 4
people rising from lower to higher poin
in the scale of liberty is necessarily slow and
by attempting to precipitate we either retard
or permanently defeat it,