The New York herald., 1862-03-26
Effect or the American Civil war Upon
the Governments OF Europe.

the cotton States.
Effect or the American Civil war Upon
the Governments OF Europe.
We have news from Europe to the l4th
inst. by the Nova Scotian, and among the
most interesting items is the intelligence
that Mr.. Rost, the Confederate Commits
sioner, had arrived in Madrid, but the
Spanish government refused to receive him.
Here is another evidence of the terror inspired
among the crowned heads of Europe by the
vigor of the American republic, by the success
of its arms in quelling rebellion, and by the
formidable army which the speedy termination
of the war will leave without employment
The European governments will henceforth be
very civil to the United States.
But though this policy may save from the
vengeance of our arms those who, imagining
that the republic was 80 imbecile as to permit
its own dismemberment without struggle,
exulted with premature rejoicings at the sup
posed dissolution Of the Union as fortunate
event for kingcraft throughout the world, it will
not save them from the natural and inevitable
consequences of our civil war. 1t is well
known that the success of the American Revo-
luton of l776 gave birth to the French Revolu-
ton, whose ideas overthrow monarchy in
France, shook the thrones of all Europe, and
have continued to operate in favor of human
at the Congress of Vienna concluded that they
had snuffed out the principle of self-govern-
ment propagated by the first French Revolu-
ton, and had re-established the divine right of
kings But the second French Revolution Of
1880 exhibited to the world the futility of such
calculations. The revolution would not go
backwards. Louis Philippe believed himself
so secure, by the possession of large standing
army and by mighty Notifications around
Paris, that he tried his hand at the game of re-
action in 1S48. The result was, that a bonfire
was made of his throne and he escaped into
exile in the disguise of wig and a sailors
peajacket Again all Europe was rocked by
revolution, and the shock of the political earth
quake is still felt. Under the influence of the
democratic ideas, rendered triumphant by the
American and French revolutions, even
the English oligarchy were compelled in
1882 to make important popular conces-
sions; for the nation was beginning to
inquire whether there was any use in
the House of Lords as it formerly inquired
whether there was any use in king except to
cut of his head by way Of example to other ty-
rants! BY the same influences, Canada and Aus
tralia extorted immense concessions from the
mother country.
The consequences resulting from the success
of the arms of the American republic in the
present civil war will be as momentous as those
which flowed from the war of independence.
The English nobility, who put into operation the
causes which led to the rebellion, and led to
the war which is so soon to crush it and all the
minions Of despotism in Europe, calculated that
the death blow was given to democracy, and
that not only was monarchy safe for all time to
come, but that absolutism would be restored
and the old manacles be forged once more for
the people. And there can be no doubt that
for time the reactionists gained ground, and
sank within them when they saw what appeared
to them the evident symptoms Of the approach
ing dissolution of the republic. But how is the
scene changed now? The tyrants are trembling
and the people exulting at the success of our
arms, the bright prospect of the speedy resto-
ration Of the federal authority throughout the
Union, and the vindioation Of the strength of
democratic institutions as fully equal to
any strain to which they may be subjected.
There is no example Of any rebellion so
formidable as this in the history of Europe, and
there is no monarchy on the face Of the earth
could have stood against the shock. There are
millions of moderate men in Europe who had
hitherto resisted democracy from belief that
it wanted stability. But the American repub-
lie demonstrates the contrary by such prac-
tical proof as was never given to the world
in favor Of the permanency'of any other form
of government. The eyes of these conserva-
tive men will now be opened, and they will
join the mass of the people who will very soon
embark in revolutionary movements in Eng
land and almost every country in Europe.
The distress in the manufacturing districts
will add fuel to the fame kndled by the Ame-
rican war, and let no one be surprised if before
the end of the present year all Europe should
be in one universal blaze.
ISLAND No. 10.-At the last accounts the
'Father of Waters" himself had come to the as
sistance of CON- Foote in the work Of expellng
the rebels from Island No 10, while the muddy
roads of Kentucky and Tennessee were drying
up, thus facilitating the march of our land
forces. How, then, with all the elements against
the rebels-earth, air, fire and wster-can
they expect to hold on to Island No. 10? We
expect, in good time, one of the most glorious
reports of the war from Island No. 10.
IRoN-PLATED VEssELs-oF-WAR--It appears
that since the instructive affair in Hampton
Roads between the Monitor and Merrimac the