New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-11

The United States have had their Congresses legis-
htiBg for Slavery. But for the Federal indepepd-
ence Of the State Legislatures and Of the States,
Slavery would perhaps BY this time have acquired
the right Of citizenship all over the Union. Ger
mary passed through very gloomy epoch between
1915 ssd 1919. The tendency Of the larger states
in the BuDd was to impede, if not wholly to sup
press the free manifestation Of thought and moro
liberal instruction. The Austrian Government was
oppressive in those portions Of the Empire be-
longing to the Bund than in her hereditary posses
sions, Ike Hungary. But what was suppressed or
obstructed in one region or State of the Bund found
in consequence sill more freedom in other States
principally In the smaller Ones-aDd this even dur
ing the duration of the inquisitorial tribunal in
Nayence and after the publication of the celebrated
liberal and mind. obscuriDg decisions or DEGREES
Known under the name Of Carlsbad, the spot where
absolutism met, soDeocted, and issued them. All
is relative. Prussia, even under A.enstein and
Eiehhorn, was more liberal than Austria. Bat
Prussia, Bavaria, and Hanover were oppressive
when compared with Saxony, Wdrtemberg Baden,
Darmstadt and the free cities, in which free word
could be uttered and printed, when in the former
States il was imprisoned or crushed. And if the
smaller States were sometimes obliged to persecute,
il was done mainly under the pressure exercised by
the larger once, enjoying thus kind Of hegemonic
influence. The meeting Of the German patriots in
the Spring of 1S4s, in Heidelberg, was revolution.
airy in it's character Private citizens cOnvoked the
whole nation 10 a convention in Frankfort. Such
gathering was possible enough in Baden but would
have been at once suppressed in Prussia, Hanover,
OF even Bavaria. We see that in all emergencies
the German nation has been benefited by the non
existence of legal, positive hegemony. If Ger
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cial political solution, most probably it viii be ac-
eomplished without political concentration. Nor.
NAL sctOn, whether material, Intellectual or moral,
does not take place in virtue Of any compulsory
power superimposed and not derived from the vital
activity ITSELF Such are some Of the causes hstor
cal and psychological, which explain why all the
various attempts to establish unity, or TO bring the
nation under fixed Leadership, have failed some
times even after an ephemeralsuccess. All were made
by ambitious individuals, by the SOyereigns and
their devoted councillors by patriotic theOrecars.
The German mental and intellectual union antago-
nistc and destructive to any political hegemony-
and the Standing, exist, flourish, blossom, and bear
fruit for the good of Germany and Of general civil
izston. This Standing and Union the work Of the
German genius, Of the German people. t.l
But it is not the Standing already gained in the
history Of the human race which constitutes the
xatobuor1 &c tho orosta. If Garypap nrooress Not
mental advancement, scientific development, nor
even broad and liberal Institutions are specially
comprehended therein; it is the action upon other
nations, the influence and work Of Germany in the
political and diplomatic affairs of Europe, which are
10 constitute the Standing to be reached, or. a.
most of them assert, to be reconquered BY hege-
mony.
Ardent as well as more moderate German pat
riots sigh for Barbarossa. Legend, fancy, poetry,
and history have hung wreaths around this medi-
eyal personality, and surrounded his name with
halo. He is the incarnation Of the German Stand
ing in the worlds history. His memory is held up
TO the national worship, and bis temperance Il
Ierveuuy Iu,vAe0. ana 1iis al, bot 20 mucn NC
cause Barbarossa eurbed the reeklessness OF the
barops, or of the great feudatOries like Henry the
Lion, or Guelph nor because he disciplined feudal-
ism and put stop to domestic feuds. He Is held
Ill honor principally for having reproduced in the
German name the unity of the ancient Roman En-
pire; for having repeatedly led German hosts into
the fertile plains of Italy, and for having watered
German horses in Ausonian rivers. Not so much
for having held orderly Diets in Germany, but for
having been crowned King Of Provence at Aries,
and King of Burgundy at Vienna; for having kept
German imperial camps or diets in Besancon and
in the fields of RoDcaglis; for having dealt In the
affairs Of Poland, Naples, and Sicily, and spread
the authority of the German name everywhere be-
tween the Rhone the Vistula, and the Abruzzi. 1t
is forgotten that be trampled down tie communal
and municipal liberties Of Italian cities that ne saw
apely demolished Milan, and made thousands Of
families beggared and wandering outlaws for hay'
ing defended their sacred rights and their nauon'
atty 1t ia forgotten that Barbarossa overPo"ered
and took prisoner Arnold Of Brescia, and that he
delivered this antagonist of Papal civil power, this
early forerunner Of the Reformation over to the
Papal mercy. II s forgotten that Arnold was burnt
alive and his ashes thrown into the Tber by the
completely Of the Kaiser with the Pope. Barbarossa
did precisely what Francis Joseph would now do if
he could toward unfolding the Papal supremacy.
Such an Emperor is held before the German peo-
pie by many writers who would arouse, influence,
and direct their feelings and opinions. Cultivated
as is Germany, she has legiOns Of them. If not a
BaIburossa altogether, some reyerberaton OF the
German prominence of bis epoch is invoked. Such
or similar comprehension Of the Specification OF
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