New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-18


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In every p,ge Cantu tepoea the destruction of the
Catholic Religion by Philosophy bot impartial, a.
historian should he, he exciaims: But pm lcsophy,
"whose creed conslis in the nights Of and
goal is tie progress of humanity, proves that these
" authorizations its esn work and growing self
"sssfed IL became more abs"lut-, AMI laying aside
"every doubt held aoft borner opposed to the past
"on which was writ. tie words Reason and PkiI1n-
"Aropy. And what appears go strange to "a s 70
"see Europe covered with reigpng philosophers who,
mot imae ming for momen, the political changes
(Which these ideas would effect among the people Of
Europe assisted IN their propsg alton Charles ILL.,
"of Spain, King joseph Of Portugal, Frederic III. Of
PRUSSIA Catherine OF Russia, Joseph II. Of Austria
card even Pope, Benedict w. Tne reforms, the
institutions, the ears and the new state Of their do.
mIIicns ale related by author Two serious facts
were completed in tins epoca by common accord
the suppression Of the Jesuits, woeh Cantu in his
tenderness for them bitterly laments, and the dis
uemberuent of Poland, "one of the most heinous
crimes that history records"
From Europe, the historian parse. to the Colonies,
and dwells with special pleasure on those Of Great
Britain He details the character Of each discovers
the germs Of their future union and distinguishes them
accurately from the colonies Of India, Of Mexico, OF
Peru, of A frica. gland, he writes, " had
religious establishment which, from its earliest
origin, proved civil liberty to be inseparable from
liberty Of creed. In fact religious liberty existed
"there before religious tolerance was practiced in
Europe" He shows how rapidly democracy, i. e.
the sentiment Of equality, diffused itself; how the
number and powers Of the colonies increasedi how,
original in ideas and institutions helpers in war az
the free allies Of England they began to feel that they
could dispense with their dependence on the mother
country. Which if useful during :her infancy,
had become onerous, because the national
genius which makes of every people an independent
individuality was matured because the previous wars
had taught them dscp pine and tue extent Of their own
strength. Then commenced the series of expressions
on the part Of the English Government with fresh
taxation; an open resistance on the part of the
coloDies-tbe declaration of nghts-fnaly the struI-
gle the enthusiasm excited in Europe the victory,
and the ackr owledgment of their independence by
England. The author concludes the narrative thus
Sedition suppressed, and enemies defeated, Wash
ington sunenders hls geDerashp-gu guided, not by
ambition but by pure zeal for liberty and love of
" country and retres from power to bic seat at Mount
" VeInOn-to a quiet more honorable than the throne
" of Napoleon. No hero of antiquity, but virtuous
man; absorbed by the idea of duty, he fulfilled 1t
" unpreendiDglyi modest and patient, be did not
aspire to rule men, nor to make display OF himself
" in order to win their admiration, but preserved
perfect equanimity whether administering his prop
" erty on ruling the Cestines Of America"
He then resumes the thread of European affairs in
his sketch Of the reign of Louis XVI, and of the other
European States passing in review all the manifesto
tons of human activity, he feels the approach Of the
French Revolution, which must o! necessity change
the protagonists of history The rest of the fret
volume is devoted to the Revolution and to Italian
literature commencing some time before IFS out bre ak
TO the state Of the popular mind TO tue peoples par
cipaton in that event; to the first wars of Napoleon;
To por ION Of the second to the last years of the Re-
public to the Consulate, and to the Empire up to the
Congress Of Vienna.
He then details the emancipation of The negroes IN
the English Coonies-their cruel usage in America,
prey ous to the abolition Of the slavetrade (which,
he saws "has in some degree diminished the barbara
~ of the Shareholders who find it more difficult TO
procure FIRE ssh slaves" lie passes in review all the
possible methods of cpation and concludes that
the only feasible one is absolute and immediate emanc
patton in all Colonies which he predicts will happen
sooner or later Strange indeed, should this not be
the case in this glorious Republic, when eventhe Bey
of Tunis in 1896 abolished the slave-uade and eman-
cipated all the negroes in his dominlons
He describes the religious movement in Europe as
a reactonary movement against tue skepcism OF the
preceding school. On the one hand the restored Pa
pacy strengthened Itself materially by series OF Com
by the writings of DE Ma'stre, 30
mid and Lamepnais which FEDERATED throughout
Furope. On the other hand the Protestans and the
Bible Societies redoubled their propagandrm Mean
while the German rationaliss subjected Christianity
To critical examination and by the mouth of Strauss
that Christ was not real parsonage but
an idea-humaI ity-that the human race is God,
made mapthe son If the visible virgin and the nvis-
lille father; l. e. Of matter and of spirlt-the Savior
tho Redeem er the sInless-who dies, is reborn and
sscends 70 heaven Believing in this Christ, IN his
de ah and resurrection, man is justified before God.
In these relations vemepts the author discerns the
germ ot nolitjcsl movements-ths Revolution arrested
fer moment III It's continues It's course towards
liberty. The struggle for CONSTITUTIONS commences
in Europe. The author examines the existing COn-'l-
tutions coDfronts II EN- with the French, ana SHOWS
their phueuce-tbe anomalies o!the regime establish
ed by the Holy AllaLce in the armies, the e1pendi-
ture the beaurocraces, III the press, and IN educaon
hence the desie Of the people for emancipation;
heIce the secret societies and Instructions co nmenced
in Portugal in 1879 in Spain IN 1870, In Italy IN lo-V
and 1921, all betrayed or repressed, but not so
liberty, that Wandering Jew, who presses onward
" ever never arrives, and yet never despalrs.
Here he nauates the origin, the character, the va
rious developments of the instruction in Greece;
sketch es the history of the Turkish Empire, AMI gives
a complete pcrue Of its organization, its decay anu
its present condition. Tie history of Greece touched
with Infinite tenderness ssddens the reader as he sees
the succo,ing powers sterlze ibose glorious efforts
all that berosm reducing its results to the indepen-
der ce Of Mores, of Livadia which in derison they
cal Greece.
The fury of European war passes TO the American