The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-05-31
CINCINNATI, TUESDAY, MAY 81.
Ths Revolutlonary war in Europe.

''u''s. The war about 10 be inaugurated by q
battle on the plains of Italy, is essentially
''3s revolutionary war The popular ele-
ment Of modern civilization, is about to
be hurled against repressive conserya-
tive force in Church and State, repre-
US sented by the relics Of feudalism, still
holding organic political and ecclesias-
teal forms of power 1t seems impossi-
al BILE for those ancient dynasties whose ori-
gin dates back for centuries, to catsk the
III spirit Of the present age to identify them
llg selves with, that freedom of thought and
.-,-, action which gives vigorous expansion
to human power, and yet safely directs
.- its mighty energies The great powers
Of Europe including Russia, which is
still semibarbarous State perceiving
,ss1athat the preponderance of liberal ideas
has become the vitalizing impetus to ma
a tions, are preparing to accommodate their
81 & forms and institutions to this real truth
and life of the people. One State only
clings tenaciously to the ancient regime
which, governed by arbitrary power from
without rather than by the life within
Y ~ mankind ... = 0ta ..
Freedom must have logical ideas, intel
si ligent experience, and q clearly defined
&. practical beneficial result in view, before
a'si any merely mechanical force, like an
army, can operate advantageously in its
iss'e7 behalf Liberty at first is an aspiration,
aphope, a desire unembodied in any great
truths which afford leverage to physical
rq5 effort Popular outbreaks in Europe
heretofore, have been loose irruptions,
a1a with power to destroy, but without wis
a ais- dom to reconstruct society in suitable
EA4f forms to give scope and security to popu-
lar ideas and strength to ancient dynastic
monarchs, belong to an age rapidly pass
III, ing away; and it is the part of wisdom to
recognize those typical men of new age,
those representative monarchs-despots
5s, though they be-as most suitable to re-
strain and guard the enthusiastic ele-
ments Of progress and development, while
a they repress the retrograding spirit of the
past which necessarily, for long period,
finds an abode in reverence for long es-
a- tablished forms and in great interests,
which must give place to more general
diffusion of benefits
Napoleon the Great chained the tiger
-.-5 of RIGHTEOUSNESS, lust and impiety, Or
gauized revolutionary feelings and power,
and taught it to submit to the genius Of
order. Happy for Europe to have accep-
ted his solution, and submitted to an in
- evitable change gradually setting aside
''N' the old to give place to the new. Had
"a England been true to her traditional
yielding policy of reform, Napoleon III
'si1 would not now be swaying the revolu.
tionary element of all Europe, to the ter
~ ror of continent in arms Austria must
sfFH change radically her political and relig.
ions ideas, if she would escape dismem,
berment, or reduction to a comparatively
Insignificant power. Italy is wide awake
and obedient to order. Hungary slum-
.'bers only to arouse with renewed en-
',4s ergy. Russia has emancipated her serfs.
Sardinia takes nearly equal rank with her
powerful neighbors, and others pant for
opportunity to enfranchise themselves.
~ The wisest statesmen in Europe can only
speculate on the results of this reyolu,
tionary war. On the ambition and mod
s,ls GRAFTON of Napoleon depends the issue