The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-29
Napoleon and England.

An lntelhgent public sentiment based
upon distinctly defined nationality-it
must be evident to every rejecting mind
Is becoming potent element of European
politics. 1t is the corner stone of the
Napoleonic dynasty; it is the foundation
of the claim of the house of Hanover to
the throne of England. The Stuarts and
the Bourbons both justly forfeited their
positions as Monarchs, by rigid, stupid
conservatism, which endeavored to arrest
the development and practical applicatio>
of this vital principle, to the everyday
life of great people. 1t is, in truth,
everywhere the starting point of rational
revolutions; it is the common sense and
instincts of humanity, well directed,
that only can overthrow the mere con-
ventional arrangements of arbitrary and
irresponsible authority. The recognition
of the fact, that the good of the people, is
the legitimate end of government, and
not the personal aggrandizement of
family, or class, is of itself most power
ful ally of CONSTRUCTIVE revolutions.
Wild, DESTRUCTIVE, mobocratic power,
was the first manifestation of popular dis
satisfaction in France at the close of the
last century. The great Napoleon grasped
with mailed hand, the broken scepter of
concentrated authority, and chained the
tiger of bloody revolt He became the
true representative of organized reform,
and but for the indomitable energy of the
English oligarchy, which made common
cause with the feudal sovereigns of the
continent, and overthrow the greatest
captain and civil administrator the world
ever produced-the first act of the drama
of revolution might have been different.
Napoleon, instead of being the scourge
of Europe, would have been William of
Orange. The restoration of Louis XVIII,
the reign of Charles X, and the revolution.
and the reign of Louis Philippe, proved
the fallacy Of the doctrine that a ruler
and government can be forced upon
nationality despite its will. This costly
lesson, as it appears, has not been thrown
away upon so practical character as
John Bull. A little of the old leaven is
still left, however but on the first collision
must succumb, as we see, to the new re-
cognized spirit Of the age, the true genius
of re.orm The Derby Ministry, which
cherished the remnant of the expiring
feudatory sentiment, of deceased his
torical era, in its Austrian proclivities,
has been swept away as by an avalanche
of popular common sense, Peace, ever
dear to civilization and christianity, is
now sought by uphoIding a policy which
halls as legitimate the voice of intelligent
nationality, and denounces the reign of
force and sovereignty by the grace of
God, irrespective Of all other considera-
tions. Who can doubt, that if Napoleon
be true to the great principles enunciated
in his late proclamation to the Lombards,
(and to Europe, y from Milan-the supre-
macy of moral influence new epoch
has been inaugurated in continental poll
tics which will claim the submission of
the champions of the old regime, as their
only ark of safety in the future. The
popular will mas, of late, been invested
with majesty and dignity, by the govern
ments of England and France, that sane
tilted revolution and consolidates an an
tagonism to divine right, 80 called. The
revolutionary spirit of the continent, has,
apparently, cast off the hull and husk Of
its first stage, and it is to be hoped, will,
hereafter, present itself in so comely a
garb, as to be received into the company
of established States, as legitimate in
strument of justice Di
The fitting and huttering of such
ephemera as Mazzini, exasperating with
out enlightening the people; in filling
them with wild enthusiasm akin to in
sanity, instead of instructing them by the
teachings of calm, christian philosophy
to be reduced to practice by apersevering
energy, will now subside, or be lost in the
dream of more effulgent light than the
torch of iucendiarism, the heretofore pre-