Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-05-22
From the Philadelphia Age
The Liberty OF the Press in PRUSSIA
An tisforiCaI Lesson

The Berlin Nolks Zeitung People, Gszettel
af April l6sh. last, contains an editorial e der.
m '.Aimouiiion" to the Kings Government.
from winch We deem il proper q furnsh our read
e-s an extract. They will see from it how PEG
Die living under monarchy dare to speak Co
their hereditary sovereign and his satellites in
period of danger. aud with the prospect of war
before them.
Speaking of the acts of the Government, and
the necessity of the people 10 think and reflect
OH the condition of the State. the writer SAYS:
Under such circumsiances a singular state of
mental anarchy is inrsiuced, which. in the midst
OF their daily occupations. fasiens on the con
sciousness OF the people Everybody feels lit
cannot remsin So" In such situation a State
cannot weather the least disturbance danger
The vo'ca and life o. the people follow difere
direction from the Government. anil there is no
point OF union between them. Such A situation
makes the people lock upon the most indefute
future as bless ing IF il only puts end to the
present order of things In such a condition Of
things. the people At last seize in despair the
thought that in the history of States the greatest
evil often produces an Improvement
The Government made up It's mind TO ignore
the real cause OF the evil. and tn throw the re-
sponsibty on everything they could think Of.
The press. dislOyal civic officers, professors of
universities municipal authorities the tribunal :
OF Justice, and the whole organism of State.
were accused bv the reactOnary party OF prOduc-
ing the conflict, which meant nothing else than
that the people in all their moral and intellectual
relations. are opposed to the tavorite system Of
government. Such condition of things is the
basis OF that anarchy of the mind which under
mines States.
When such a state of things continues from
month 10 month withouta change OF government
xxb, oh :, fba
the Gordian knot, then the whole amount of the
evil becomes apparent when a foreign conflict
threatens In such situation, feels
what it il to have people and n Government
who do not understand each other. or who are
opposed one another-when the apprehen
OF coming danger drives men TO the very brink
of that desperate hope which seeks in the worst
the road TO the better.
How nelr TO this precipice we have drifed. no
one. at this moment. he prepared TO saw
There is period when, without the slightest
reason for so doing. men dwell affectionately
upon the idea OF "A proximate danger. and an
other when a danger really menacng us is
shorn OF half its teIrors 10y dreams of fancied Sc
curity.
One thing. however. is certain a State must
not speculate in such doubts of dangers likely to
pass by without harm. and. leas. of all. must a
State, upon such a possibility. when. in It's in
ternal and external rel ttOns, 1t actually prOvokeS
fate.
In such situation, patriotism, in imposing the
dnty of truthfulness. cOmpels the assertion that
a change of policy or Government becomes ev-
cry day more and more necessary. We must not
deceive ourselves with the idea that the menace
of foreign war would BRING about a general
fusion of public opinions The gulf that -epa-
rates them Is too sde to be filled up by exrrane
Gus means
After past events. even popular Admnistra
ton would have quite enough to do in restoring
better order ot things. In the interior. the PEG
pie have been treated with too much contempt To
he easily moved to hearty CO operation even with
ministers of their own choosing
change of government and of system is
avOiilbe: if it does nor lake place soon. We drift
into that anarchy of the mind which condemns
States to pass only through the severest school
of adverSitv on the road 10 Improvement
TINS il the language of Pru>sian paper, pub
lshe in tie Pru>San capital. under the ewes Of
the Prussian KING. II General Burnside were
military Commander OF Berlin. would he not have
the editor arrested, tried hy military commission
ana senteared to tt insportition for iiei Instead
ofthrt the Volks Zetung and its editors still live,
protected bv that system of ethics which even
der an absolute government controls the action
OF men in possession OF power.