New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-29
EUROPEAN INTEBEsT I'M OUR GBBAT
sTErGGEE.

! EUROPEAN INTEBEsT I'M OUR 6BBAT
sTEUGGLE.
"What the Americans call freedom, but what
Eve call democracy" Gays The London TINES,
in its remarkable leader of the 10Th copied into
our last " does not show to advantage at this
critical time. The theories attributDg i'm
50 measurable superiority to republican forms OF
"Government have all been falsl6ed in the pa n.
"est and most striking manner" And The
Times goes on to state that it is the fact that
American institutions have been e1traysgautly
and persistently lauded, and commended for Brit
ish imitation, by John Bright and what ie called
the Manchester school Of Radical politicians who
I" did actually succeed 10 impart Dg now oud then
! ga transatlantic smack TO the policy OF the
| British Government" which barbs the arrows
now so pleDtifully sped at us. We DO not rpeak
of this in o spirit Of complaint 1t is oil IN the
way of business. The devOtees OF Monarchy and
Aristocraey have been bothered for q generation
by the growth and greatness. stiil more by The
security and order Of :" tho Model Republic"
This country has presented al example Of gener-
al tranquility as well ss general prosperity and
llenty of gat taxes, small public debts repeated
ls paid of, AID nearly every thing else calculated
to gravel champion OF hereditary rulers and
| legislators. VITA scarcely the skeleton of on
Army, with no State.poid priesthood, 10 Pass.
port systen, with no Police but in cities, and
none Of much account even there, We have en-.
jjoycd very geGeral exemption from seditiOus md
an utter immunity from civil wars fornearly seventy
years. In short, we have enjoyed more liberty
at less cost, and eyinced uore general Thrift aud
contentment, thsn any other great na'ion OF
modern times. And, as the spectacle of our
Revolutionary fathers freedom sud equality had
much 10 do with lighting the frcs Of Revolution
in Bourbon france, whose sOldiess carried home
q love of that liberty ttey had aided US 10
achieve, so our triumphant example vas silently
bat irTesstibly Winning over Europe TO cOnvIc
tion of the essential and practical excellence Of
republican institut!Ons.
In a few mouths as by Ioagc, al 10 changed.
4 great rebellion Transforms our quef iSto coh
vulsoD, our security into apprehensios, our
prOspersas inGRtry and thrift into siaSDation and
widespread bankruptcy. Ours has suddenly
ceased To- be " the Model Republc;" ID has
become gigapdc chaos a land scOugped by
treasOn, black with cOnh6sPatiO and smoking
with bloCd BrOt3cr il in arms against bcO.Aer,
neiahbor at deadly leud with neghbOr, oFer an
area of thousands Of square miles. II QUO ee'f-
sompacencF and p,idc have been excessive, their
.bastlsemert is signal and emphatic. heger
before was Il great nation SO suddenly brought
low: mover was the patriotism VI pcople ez-
posed to o more sea5ching Ordeal.
That the champions of Pryiisgr and Caste IA tho
Old World should take or s.tlatiOn as a tot and
rreach from il very different sermon frOD that
which has been 90 often dinned ptO their reluctant
ears By tberadical cJtemporaies, is as natural as
lie. Why should they not do ~ Why shohd We
take olense at their doing IL True, it is not the
democratic but the arstCcratic stement IN oarinSti-
tutions-ths. dead fly in our oiatInelt- that as
subjected US TO our manifold db0sters and huDlia-
tons, but this is no part Of the case Of ule pnti-
sans Of Euzopean g Order ond they feel n0,ebliga-
tCn to recognize it. And be1ideq If they lid, they
would stl triumphanty ask, "Whers is the
Strength the inherent en9rgy, in Your boosted
"institniiOns, TO put down treason and armed re-
"bellionl Admit III that yOu urge as othe ortti1,
"tbe responsible cO,se, of your troubles, vby do
"you rot fan on the rebels in overwhelming force
"instead of allowing them 10 outaambcr you ON
"eyegy battlefield ~ TO all whcA we can as yst
only answer, "Wdt"
Lctus distinctly understand, tAsn, that eyery gos-
eroment aud every interest that either breads or
hates the progress Of Liberty and Equal y sym,
pathizes with the rebels in our liie.and.death
struggle. DespOtism, whether political or other,
understands that JEFF. Davis d Co. are fighting
its battle, and heartily desires his triumph. In
diyiduais are often better than the organizations
to whieh circumstances have attached them; but
whoever really and intelligently desires that the
shadow should recede on tao dial Of Human
Progress--who sigbs for the good old times when
the poor were uneducated and believed as they
were required by their betters--when the masses
were but counters with which kings and mobiles
played their gallant game-when Religion was an
afair Of State and tho Rights Of hsn unheard