Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1855-10-30
EUROPEAN Democracy.

kossuTM, MazZini and Ledru Rollin
have addressed monifesto TO the Re-
publicans Of Europe. They say that
now that Sessstopol has fallen The war
is inevocably ond indefinitely prolonged
that Sevastopol is the first word Of a
grand war in which the people Of Eu'
rope are 10 have tho last word. The
time has now come for action; unity is
the one thing needful, and they offer
themselves as the centre whence an init.
ative may spring. For Italy, Hungary
and Poland, revolution is war; they neol
allies and a favorable disposition Of
chances; for France and the rcst, II is
merely an; internal movement, and they
have but to be unanimous and to will.
Tho beginning Of The war appeared to Of
ler|hopo to the dismembered national.
tiles; the peoples were deceived by it;
now those false hopes are dispelled. -
This illconduc,cd war has brought TO
light the strength of the Revolutionary
party. In two years the French repub.
lie OF 1892 by the mere force Of q prin.
ciple swept France Of enemies and re.
bells. and transformed Ffonch society
from feudalsm to fraternity. Doring the
two years past Despotism and Conslitu'
tional Monarchy, allied, have shed the
blood Of on. hundred thousand men and
wasted labor TO the extent of 5000, ,000,.
600, with no resul. but making few
ruins on the shores ofthe Black sea and
the Baltic. Monarchs and despots are
weak; they tremble at the genius. devo.
,lon and strength which the Revolution
alone can call forth. For this they (awn
at the feet OF Austria, those feet which
tramplc on three CENTRALIZED peoples; Il
vision of the flag of the Revolution in
Podoia and Lilhuania has projected
Odessa and Riga. They abandoned the
campaign on the Da nube and the Prin.
cipalitics to tho Austrian invasion for
fear of awakening an echo in Hungary.
They dared not give Finland back 10
Sweden, and so los, her alliance; il was
TOO dangerous precedent, and might be
carried out by the Revolution. The 20.
vernments are now divided against them.
selves. The thought OF the Holy ALI.
ance only exists; the fact has disappear.
ed. The only force which could meet
The revolution of 1s40, the collective
force, is at an end. The enemy's camp
is broken irto four-the Russian, the
Anglo. French, the Austrian and the
Prussian. Each people has but a single
enemy. Russia is defending herself,
Austria protecting her frontiers, France
is drained by the Crimea and her men.
aced Northeastern frontier, and exhaus.
ted England is reduced TO accept the few
recruits offered by foreign poverty and
venali'y to supply her ranks. This is
the opportune moment; to. morrow it may
pass away. The Liberal party is from
this time forward responsible for all the
blood shed on scalfolds and the slow
torlures Of which Europe is the secre,
theatre, for it can conquer. 1t must feel
its strength and doubt not of victory; ii
is strong, for God and the peoples are
with it. Strong in its sorrows and its
sufferings; strong in the justice of its
cause and in the immortal instinct of Ii.
beriy; strong also through the faults and
the crimes of its oppressors. The sword
of the rising Revolution alone can trace
the map of the Europe of the future
Revolution alone can regenerate Italy to
a third life, aud say 10 Hungary and Po.
land--Exist! 1t alone can unite Spain
and Portugal into an Iberian republic;
create a young Scandinavia, give a ma.
terial existence to lllyria; organize
Greece, extend Switzerland to the di.
mensions Of an Alpine conlederacy, and
group in free fraternity and make an
Oriental Switzerland of Servia, Rouma.
MIA, Bulgaria and Bosnia. And it alone
can harmonze above this real European
equilibrlunl--sole guaranty oil peaceful
progress-the Two grand ideas which now
lead the world, and which are named
Liberty and Association. Unite, organ.
ize, dare--daring is the prudence of the
strong. Hungary and Germany cannot
to-day do more than enter the second
line Of the great battle; France has no
foreign enemy 10 conquer, and Italy mus,
assert her life one and republican. The
man Of the 81 Of December is the mur.
derer Of Rome. France and Italy,
Rome and Peris!--ths should be the bat.
tic cry.