The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1856-04-03

"o"'uS1 u ueciues no.ntDS, turu winch way
it may. The liberty of the world will not
be essentially forwarded or retarded, WHISTLER
the Russians or the Allies gain. Even in
Turkey, the government will be about equal.
ly despotic. The utmost difference it can
make, is whether the few millions of Persia
and the circumiacen. regions shall be allied
to England or to Russia, an influence IN eli.
iher case equally arbitrary and selfish, and
in either case administered through much
the same forms. What matters It 10 the peo-
le of those regions which has the upper
hand, and if not to them, much less to the
rest Of the world.
Quite clear is il that changes are awaiting
Europe, compared with which all the present
contests raging are are Just as nothing. The
masses must rule far more than they ever
have done before. The example of Amer.
can liberty is working and must work out
new era OF things, and those now in power
can only retain its semblance BY yielding
gracefully 10 what is irresistible. And wheth-
er they retain the forms of power or moi mat.
tiers but little, whether there be oulbreaking
revolutions by the dozen, as in Paris, or
peaceful, quiet changes of Ministry after
Ministry, as in England, the principles of
liberty must extend, and the nations OF Eu
rope then take their rank, not according to
their armies and navies, but the intelligence
and virtue of the masses of their people,
which, alas is very small.
Those nations which cannot abide this test
must and will perish in the struggle. In most
cases, too the selfish and sectional preiudi.
ces of the small territories into which Europe
is al present divided, will lead 10 innumera.
Bile clashings of large standing armies, that
are curse to the people and 10 liberty. Mill.
ions of expenditure will impoversL all; op-
preston and resistance will come, till worn
out with the struggle and the burden, the
masses emgrate or sink, as the descendents
of the old Romans have done, 10 the brgand
level.
And what as 10 the future Of Americaa II
is certain that no real revolution in our prin-
ciples of government can take place. On
all these questions which must agitate the
rest OF the world, we are safe. Quite posi-.
BILE j, is, that were the love of foreign con-
quest to enlarge materially our domain, by
destroying lie present balance, two or three
republics might spring ou: of one. Blu, all
OF these must retain the same principles,
were they ever 10 take place. The whole
American continent is essentially republican,
and must ever be. The extent OF these re-
pnblcs, their success, their power, ihem re-
speclabili,y, will, of course, depend on the
virtue aud intelligence Of the people but
the great fact of this coniinsnt is that here
the people must rule, whether fl, for it, as in
the United States, or destroyed by il, as in
the petty sovereignties of Central America.
This hemisphere, a, least as far south as the
equator, is, and ever will be republican.
That which has got 10 be the problem and
result of all present contests in the res, of
tho world, is already settled fact with u.s.
Our institutions and growth are formed up.
on basis homogeneous with the destiny of
the age before us and all mankind. But the
institutions, the prejudces and the history OF
all The nations of Europe and OF the world
are heterogeneous, and opposed TO their man
fest destiny. They are certain to come
somewhere, sooner or later, in conflict with
The age. Hence this continent must rise,
while the res, of the globe is gradually de.
cning, and our true policy is not 10 hasten
events prematurely, least of all to anticipate
them by wars, which cannot effect anything
but the destruction OF virtue; and therefore Of
repubcanism, but rather 10 wait patiently
and peacefully the development of those
great natural laws upon which our progress
and our power depend.