The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-11

49, snsn,so 10 Do offered by event in Ray which,
here at least, DO doubts Will result IN favor OF the
a. Ss.sS to .ne b.s,s Of mediation nothing Is knosa
no, much that IL Is rest se''et DIT heosnso IN
OF France about exclusion Of Adstfis cai
sy and toat Eng and and recently those OF Prussia
in re. ard of 1916, render thcut 70 lay
he o. down. II Louis Napoleoo is orced 10 ate up Nmf
bey oDd The Italian question, he viii make h ca'a ~
Jay that lac mol toe bfst nos aud had sever %
,be Bst 10 plscs his foot ON The treaties II lSlb On
Other occssion has not been Srsnce bn, Europe
bat hiss done Beyond this he does to enter
tam the aspirations Of the old Empire.
These communications are worthy Of attention
not only for the sources from which they come,
but also for the ideas which they contain. They
prove that the Europe o. to-day is more practi-
cal, and more practicable Europe, than the one
of fifty years ago. She wants no more coalitions
Of the dynasties, such as tina. which drove the
iirst Napoleon from power; and Louis Napoleon
sees very clearly that he cannot carry out the
unbending aims Of his uncle. On all sides
he dypssties have come to recognise the
growing power of the people and the new
exigencies it creates, and to admit the
mperious necessity OF conforming terft
torial arrangements to the requirements OF
satisfied nationalities. This conviction GA toe
part of the European sovereigns renders feasible
the pacific solution, not only Of the questions Of
new territorial arrangements In Europe, but
also of those in America, conforming them to the
popular necessities and the popular desires. asNo
one of them to day is disposed to take arms to
prevent Louis Napoleon from restoring popu-
lar government In Italy, any more than they
we're in 1922 to prevent the French Bourbons,
through the Due d'Angouleme, from driving
popular government out Of Spain.
For these reasons they do not wish to oppose
Louis Napoleon SO far as to drive him to despe-
ration; and having little sympathy with the
selfish and treacherous House of Austria, they
are willing to see it shorn of its appanage in
come degree, by the creation Of a first class
power in Italy. They will no doubt also consent
70 revision and remodelling of the treaties of
1915. so far as the exclusion of the Napoleonic
dynasty from France is concerned for
'hey well know that if they undertake to impose
upon Louis Napoleon the fate they dealt
out to his urcle, they will force him TO embrace
'he canse of revolution, and such step would
overturn every throne and deluge with blood
every nation ia Europe. There is reason, too
TOR their counting upon moIeration in the aims
Of the French Emperor. He has the experience
of the first Empire before him, and th At will
teach him wisdom. There is ground to believe
the efore, that diplomatic efforts to prevent the
war from spreading beyond Italy will be made,
with fair prospect of success Surprising thar
the great Powers concerned are willing to waive
in come degree, and in favor of the interests of
peace, the strong Interpretation of their respec;
i've previous declarations, there will only re-
main the obstacle of the noisy desires of some
Of the smaller German Powers to side with Aus
tria But tbese-sucb as Hanover and Bavaria
are the more noisy In proportion as they are
least prepared. They are like our own speech
making politicians, who are the most clamorous
in proportion as there is less responsibility rest
ing upon them. Before men burthened with the
responsibility OF the peace Of Europe they will
be of very little account
Two Epochs OF War-Progress OF Public
Opinion In the Interval.
The commencement of the present war fiuds
Europe in very different position from that
which it occupied previous to the campaigns Of
the French Revolution. Then, public opinion
was confined to number of distinct centres, each
limited in its operation There was no Supreme
Court of Appeal, like that of the copoint mind of
the two hemispheres, which absorbs into its
generalizations national as well as local senti.
mept, and erects for itself standard of judgment
from which there is no resort.
The forty -four years Of peace which have
elapsed since the wars of the Republic aud of the
Empire have done more towards the formation of
this immense corrective and guiding Influence
than the twenty spent in sanguinary propagand.
ism. The latter undoubtedly did service in the
overthrow of slavish ideas and prejudices, which
nothing but force could have overturned but in
ITS results generally it has had less influence On
human progress than it has received credit for.
1t is to science and literature that is in
reality to be awarded the honor of
having worked out the great changes which have
been effected in the condition and prospects of
mankind within the last half Century. Willis.
the benefits won by the sword have been lost or
arrested by the ambition and faithlessness of
those Who bad constituted themselves the cham
pions Of human liberties, the victories achieved
by more enlightened and disinterested intelli.
gsce remain to attest the superiority of peace
full over forced progress Thus, steam nayjpa.
ton, railways and telegraphs are increasingly
scattering the elements of improvement and civil
bzation; while the press, rendered universally
potent through their fundamentally, is fast es
tablishing between the minds of the nations a
community Of sentiment and opinion which will
do more to prevent the frequent recurrence Of
war than all the skin that diplomacy can bring
to its aid.
One of the direct causes that led to the first
French Revolution was the effort made by the
aristocratic classes to crush out the spirit
Of free inquiry which had been revived
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