The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1859-07-21
DESPOTIsM ILLUSTRATED

fS'tuCIo W huOH HOW lhcttcIuICH olhlN IL
lustracd the odious doctrines Of despo,isnr
on which Austria builds her power, and to
maintain and teach which he, hus;i.a'
greatest Prime Minister, gave all the cncr-
ges Of his long life aud the capacities ol
his great mind.
| We have such IN illustration in an a.ti.
Gle in u late number of the Paris Univcrs,
in which the editor gives a long account Of
an Interview he had with Metternch dur
ing the exile Of the latter ut Brussels in
1850. Tho following arc some Of the most
striking points:
t Prince Mclicrnch said "Thcrc il a
Frcnchman who did YOU an incalcuahlc
harm perhaps without any bad intention.
! mean Montcs1uieu, with his chimcra be-
cause in fact that which he thought lie
saw i'll England, and That which he led YOU
to admire and TO initiate, does not exist
there. He fgarcd to himself that there
was i'll England Il King and Il House Of
Commons. There never was in reality ;
| there is even at this moment, onlv an ar
istocracv. Eut there WAS and there still is
that which is not to hc found in France -,
that which alone can balance the action Of
the representative g"y.rnmcnt-I mean
that admirable political spirit, .hat a,lmira.
bic love "ttraditon, that sense Of duration,
wlli, have rs yet resisted the nobility of the
government of the tribune. But, behold, th.
! tribune intru'!es on tradition. God knows
how England will cx,,ic;.,c herself from
it! The balance ct power is philuso-
rlical utopia; all power is Of its nature
cncroacing and exclusive Of every lival
power. There may exist in Il country sew
cral orders whose force is balanced by a
! hierarchy carefully maintained, but there
can be put 'one power If there exists
two or more it is rot IN equilibrium that is
TO be looked on but rs struggle The
struggle cnsucs aud is fatally prolonged
! until one Of these powers has crushed the
other, and it frequently happens that both
'''''' WV ~ 'HC tOhIlIlcS WHICH cNIC-
riencc these terrible struggles.
= You know some HING Of
that, Yes replied, 'and antagonism is
orGau;z"L among u.s. ii will not Re cas- :,
continued the Prince, TO free Yourself
! from IT, Two formidable principles have
cn'!cI by taking root, if not in your man
ne's ut least in Your prrjudiccs
sentative government and minute division
Of property. Legislation reduces property
to dust, and representative government in
cessaMtlv raises storms Which scatter that
dust 10 IL dislnnce. 1t is the ruin of the
| social state. Matters arc better managed in
Ems sIad. The State is stable because fam
ny end"'r>. Family lasts because prop
eriy Is not divided into small po,tions.--
The father Of Sir Robert Peel possessed y
| considerable fortune: lie bc1ucathcd E5O,-
600 vcar TO his son; he left his second
son 10000 or e40,0oO a year, and to each
Of his daughters 4 fortune of f25 900. 1t
is thus that families are founded, and that
the blanks arc filled up which time never
fails TO make in the government classes. |
doubt that you will ever enjoy such wise
laws. | fear rather, for you and the world,
that . revolution, following It's course,
Will transform the Communist doctrines into
laws, as it has transformed scvcra! rcvo-
iutionary principles into laws. For long
time back order has been re-cstablisled by
means and with such aid as renders it al
most more dangerous than disorder itself.
The cXccutloncrs cannot destroy the
human Species and blood ovcrflows the
scaffold. Laws subsist: they destroy NOR
als-thcy sweep away society in an hrcmc
diable catastrophe"