New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-28

hgvPmony was repulsiTe 70 the hheon, and was re-
sisted from the start Election was recognized as
a fundamental elDlaent. asd the Diet over which
Otbo /. presided, Is 10 principle the same as that
now dehberaptg a. Frankfort. Feudality, or the
feudsiEed Church. served then tn bind together the
Elective Emperor and the many political and na-
tional indisiduaties OF the nation Again; maRy
modern begemobists regret that some Of tue Ger
mar EiuperOrs did not undertake the work of ceB-
tralzatioa, or at least of fusion into uoit-the
same process performed 10 France and in other Eu-
TOpean countries. But fate was manfest IN tue
sboIthyed dynssties-she Saxon, the Francoulan,
and the Suabian or lIOheDstaufen; and the Haps-
buIgs, long a. they have been ou the Imperial
throne, have never succeeded in their repeated AZ
tempts. Very different elements existed in France
during the yeigu and after the extinction of the
CarloyingiaDs.
On the GallO-Roma substratum, new political
and historical structure, France and was erected
By conquest aud feudality. The numerous Da-
tOnaliaes sprIDgng up therefrem, had not d com
mon igin Of race, as had thu German trbes--not
even common language. TIE feudal lords, R-
posed by conquest, did not iocarnate the masses,
the various populations. Feudsl aud hereditary
laws vlone cemented society and maintained the
supremacy of the cOnquerOrs. Royalty was the
paran cunt feudal power in deed well as in idea
Royalty, thus firmly established, set TO work at
once, although slowly aud by degrees, to build up
it's preIogative, it's domain, its kingdom. After
LABOR protracted through centuries, out of
various heterogeneous tribes aud natioDalties
finally France was fuxed, fused, and founded
And this uOtWitbstandf that TIE feudal laxty
early reached in France It's utmost limits-limits
which it never reached in Germany; not even
during the epoch OF robbers aud Burggraves, nor
during the great intenegnum after the extinction
Of tho Hohenstauien, nor during the great part Of
the 18th century. All social, poluca, military and
civil resources we're called utO the field as agencies
to accomplish that fusion. CODquests, marriages.,
deeds, donations, wis, with occasional murder and
poison, backed the royal activity.
Hugo Cspet began this method Of royal hus-
baudJ--his dynasty continued it, aided by vari-
ous eminent patriots aud statesmen. So, under
Louis W., his friend Abbot Sugger preeminently
contributed 10 render the Church an ally OF royal
Unity against the centrifugal force OF feudaii'y.
Louis TX, beside absorbing the Septimang and
thus bringing royal France-already washed by
the northern waters--tO the Mediterranean; beside
securing Provence to u branch OF has house, Louis
TX, by bis pety aud justice, originated that
religious feeling Tor royalty in oil classes OF the Da-
ton, which aiterward became one of the strong
est .csments OF Unity. Philip the Fair aud No
gaIet transp planted papacy to Avignon and made it
Tor time ,ubserviSut TO the royal will and Unity
Louls XII destroyed the great feudatores Cath
erne de Medcis, Charles IX., by the horrible
Bartlolunew's night and Henry ILL.,, by his murder
of tie Guises, worked for Unity; as also did Hen
ry lV Richeheu and Mazarin. Aud Unity was
finally firmly consolidated by Louis XIV.
The house of Hapsburg attempted to cOnsOli-
date the Imperial power OF Germany, or to, absorb
at least some portions OF the country. 1t failed in
both attempts. Many reasons contributed TO bafle
CbaresV., the Ferdinands, aud tne Rudolpbs. The
peculiarines OF character and development of the
various independent indivdualities composing Ger
many, we're both too deep and too strong 10 be up
rooied on subdued. Hereditary sovereign families
lncarnated the original elements of tribes. Tue
The Reformation. AID 50 the Hapsburgs, al
though supported by SPAN aud Papacy-although
powerful by their hereditary poesessiOns-trst Bel
pium and tie Netherlands, then Bohemia, Hungary
sId Croatia, Ieemlng with rude and warhke popu-
la ions for centuries played losing game, aud the
sword of Waliepsten, ia the 18th century, was Of
as little avail the cunning of Caunitz in the 18th
During the last quarter of the loth century, the
direct line of the Bavarian house became extinct
iu the person Of Aaximillan. Maria Theresa, with
CGuuiiE, her Minister, and aittrward Joseph H.,
To get hold of the electorate aud incor
poIate it into the Imperial hereditary possessions
They first deDled the rgut OF succession to collate
rails, and then tempted them by the offer Of Bel
GUM, with the title of King OF Burgundy IN eK-
change for their rights in Bavaria. To all this,
German national feeling was strongly opposed
1 his feeling was on the side OF Frederick the
Great, who, to palsy these Austro- o-Hapsburg at
tcmpts at consolidation, orig nated the Fursten-
Bund-tbeleagu OF princes. The pridcipal prncesof
Germany entered It. 1t had no religious character,
smce tie electOr OF SaxOny, Catholic, sgned the
League, and the Duke OF Wurtemberg abstained al
tbosgb prince and nation, Protestant 10 the marrow.
This Buhd snow condemnedby yeninenthegemonists,
among them Scblosser, the historian aud patriot;
but no Teas eEineLt German minds, patriots, sa-
yans, aud statesmen, contemporary with that league,
proclaimed it to be the salvation OF German iade
pend.rce aud nationality. Germany dreaded ~ In.
crease the power Of Austria, to recognize or to
sanction any absolute or dehnltive supremacy in
any one State or dyDssty. Frederick the Great d