The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-10-12
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT
Revolutionary Movements In Europe
1.-The Gathering Of tho Storm.

Revolutionary Movements I'm Europe
1.-THE Gathering Of tho Storm.
BY the Quebec steamer yesterday, we
have two days later news from Europe.
The intelligence is of the most startling
character. The Papal question has assumed
gigantic dimensions. The Piedmontese
forces are in full march npon Rome. Carl.
baldi and his army, flushed with victory and
strengthened by Neapolitan accessions, can
not remain idle, but are before this time,
without reasonable doubt, en- route for the
Seven Killed City. The Sandman troops
had already taken one of the Pope's garri>
soned towns, and sent the commander of
the Holy Fathers troops prisoner
to Turin. These movements had been
strongly disapproved of by the great Pow
ers-France, Russia, aud Prussia. The re-
lations between the Sandman and French
governments, heretofore of the most friend.
ly character, are now said to be critical.
The French garrison at Rome is to be in.
creased to ten thousand men, and Gen. Guy
on is to be sent from Paris to command it.
The Emperors of Russia and Austria and
the Prince Regent of Prussia, are to meet
together at Warsaw next Monday. Gen.
Lamoricere had concentrated his troops at
Ancona, where be undoubtedly intends to
give the Sardinians battle. The Paris
Bourse and London Exchange are fiat. The
English opinion that the revolutionary tide
in Italy is so strong that it will overwhelm
Victor Emanuel altogether, and that the
Emperor Napoleon will stand by quietly
and let matters take their own way. AS a
matter Of course, there could be no such
thing as wide spread revolution in Italy
without its extension to Germany and Hun
gary. Even now Kossuth and Klapka are
at Turin, plotting, no doubt, another ris-
ing OF the Magyars. A repetition of the
revolutionary scenes of 1S48, which began
In Italy, seems inevitable.
The present aspect of European affairs is
indeed critical one. The Papal question
is not the only one to be settled. The old
battle, often hotly contested, but never en-.
tirely won--the conflict between liberalism
and absolutism-is to be fought over again.
The question as to the present Pope and
his temporal power is only an excuse for the
reminding OF those fires which burst out in
France in 1889, and in Italy in l84S. Vic
tor Emanuel, a good King, but better
soldier than statesman, seems to be in the
position of Louis XVI, before the Reign of
Terror. 1t was the intention of the French
King to give his people all they could rea-
sonably desire. To carry out his purpose,
he caused the Three Estates to be sum-
moned, and with the aid of moderate men
like Mirabeau and Lafayette, it seemed
probable that the Kings party would
weather the storm. But the Jacobins
swept everything before them, and deluged
France with the blood of Frenchmen. To-
day Victor Emanuel is Louis XVI; Carl.
baldi is the Lafayette of the hour. The
Jacobins are the red Republicans. They
have their secret clubs all over the cont.
nent. When the tocsin sounds sanscmlottes
by the hundred thousand will spring to
their arms. War, rapine, carnage and
anarchy will rule the hour.
Let US look for moment at the field. As
our reader are already aware, there have
been the most serious difficulties in the way
OF the statesmen who are endeavoring to re-
construct the governments of Italy and to
mould them into homogeneous Kingdom,
over which Victor Emanuel hopes to reign
as constitutional monarch. Austrian inAu-
ence is still potent, and gold wins passage
where the bayonets failed. 1t is clearly the
policy of 4he great Powers, excepting Eng
land, to keep Italy hopeless and disorgan-
lied; for the moment that Italy is free
Hungary rises in revolution, and all Europe
is plunged into a general war.
Thus the signs of the times point towards
great events in Europe. Thrones are al
ready totteriDg, and Kings will soon fall !;
old systems will be swept away and new
ones gradually rise from the wreck. The
statesmen who have taken the Papal ques
ton in hand will find that it is one of the
least of the difficulties which they must
meet. 1t is, however, the match wherewith
the train which has been laid these sixty
years and more is to be fired. When the
conflict does come, it will be dreadful. 1t
may be postponed for time, but as things
look now it will be precipitated We may
look for the intelligence that the flames of
instruction have burst out over all South
ern Europe, by any arrival, however early.
Meantime, our people, in state of profound
peace and prosperity, will watch with eager
eyes and breathing hearts for the denoue
ment of that grand drama in which the des-
TIMES of Europe are to be replaced by bet
ter and purer forms of government The
struggle will be a fearful one, but that its
result will be favorable to the oppressed
that freedoms battle will be eventually won
and that the right triumph-is beyond per-
adventure. Truly, as Calico said, the world
does move.--N. Y. Herald.
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