The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1861-03-08
From the ". Y. Metropolitan Record.
DR.. Cahill's Third Lecture in New York.
The Balance of Power in Europe"


Power in Europe There were quite
number of the reverend clergy on the
platform, and the audience was numerous
and most respectable. During the progress
of his discourse, the Rev. Lecturer dis
PLAYED his intimate acquaintance with
every point aud all the bearings Of the
subject, aud the assent of his hearers TO
the positions advanced by him was given
in an er ,h,sias,ic and unequi, ocal man
ner.
DR.. Cahill commenced ~ saving that
Monarchy or official Kin g>hp has been.
like other depar ments of urorean civil
zation, advancing through the past cenu
ries to civil aud constitutional eminence.
The first description of monarchy was bar
barrie monarchy. the mi itary chief, the
successful warrior was raised to the throne
by the accIamation Of the soldiers lie
could be deposed from his barbaric pre-
eminence by the same voice that elevated
him, and reduced to the mere fighting
leader in single day. This description
of monarchy ruled society with waving
custom up to the tenth century. The
military kingship was succeeded by what
may be called 'feudal MONARCHY" In
this scheme of government the chief was
raised to his kingIy office by the votes of
the Barons Of the feudal system. This
plan was called elective monarchy, and il
this development the Barons ruled, or
commanded, or deposed the monarch, for
grave offences or incompetent. legislation.
This monarchy ruled mankind from the
tenth century till the establishment of the
constitutional monarchy > in the six
teenth century. Constitutional monarchy
can levy taxes, hold a standing army,
make war or peace, have fixed revenue,
or transmit the succession to the throne
ny hereditary right. In return for these
high privileges and rights this Constitu
tional King raised permanent House Of
Lords, an elective House of Commons, and
named Privy Council and Cabinet, to
whom he confded the administrative af
fairs of the nation. Thus we see real
monarchy has been gradually advancing
from dependent position to independent
power; from selected head. without
fixed army, without power of domestic
finances, to almost uncontrolled military
power, and to almost unbounded wealth
Kings, therefore, have been insensibly &C
quiriug power over the people in their in
divdual capacity till at length, in 1915,
they completed their strataeem byforming
a combination of Kings in the holy ALI
ance, by which they have attempted to
treat the population of all Europe as n
schoomas!cr rules his scholars, by foging
men into school dicipline, whenever these
unruly men dare lift their voices for taeir
palpable rights, or to inter their indigna-
ton against uncomfortable oppression.
Having shown the progress ofmonarchy
in Europe, from its early and feeble begin
nings, up to the period of the treaty of
Vienna in 1915, when the Royal Allies
prescribed as it were the limits of nations,
the Rev. lecturer turned his attention par
ticulariy to an exposition of the diplomacy
and policy of England on the continent,
1t had been, he said. her object to strength
EN- herself by family alliances with the
various courts the Co5urgs furnished
husbands and wives to the reigning houses
VI uCdiI1 CfCi udtioH III l<uiopC. tu iHCI
they appear to have perfect monopoly in
this respect, for no other petty German
pri'cipaity had the slightest chance in
contest with them. One great thing in
their favor was, that religion never stood
in their way, as there were two branches
in the family, Catholic and Protestant.
They had, however, never been able to
gain an entrance into the Court of Spaiu,
for the Spanish branch of the Bourbja
family never gave them any encourage
ment in this direction. The present Ma
poleon had no sympathy with them, and
apart from this fact, it was his policy as
it was his interest to weaken, and eventu-
ally destroy the power and influence Of
England in Europe. He had already par
TALLY effected this, by rendering France
paramount in European diplomacy and
the Rev. lecturer gave it as his opinion
that he never would be satisfied until he
had circumscribed that power and influ
ence by the limits of her own seaeirt isle
The French Emperor was well aware that
it was England's wide spread commerce
and gigantic navy that gave her such a
commanding position among the nations
of the earth, and he had determined to
raise France to che first rank as a mari
time power. He had already constructed
navy superior to that Of Great Britain,
not onl in its numerical force but in its
efficiency and dicipline .,1.
The British Government were struck
with alarm at the gigantic strides made by
/ France in the increase of her navy; and
in constant dread of an invasion from her
pov neighbor and uncertain ally on
the other side of the Channel, she was
obliged to augment the naval force requi-
1 ed for the protection of her own coasts
Notwithstanding all her professions o
friendship for France, she was in constan,
dread Of her old hereditary enemy; and
TO show how much she trusted Napoleon
and what Faith she put in the Anglo
French alliance, she raised large army
of volunteers to repel the expected Frencl
invader. Napoleon we'll knows that sh,
has few friends. in Europe, and believe
that her downfall would be received will
universal rejoicing The Rev lecture
expressed his belief that England is nov
| in most precarious condition, that she il