The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-10-26

IT WILL be hardly less interesting to study tho
reactionary influences Of tho triumph of the Fede-
raj arms in Europe, than to watch tho progress OF
tho work OF paeifieation in tho Southern States.
The cause OF the North has at no timo had tho
sympathy OF foreign potentatos, or OF tho classes
which arc styled the ruling ones abroad. Tho de-
moeratic spirit is tho object of their continual
dread. They are wholly consistent in hating it's
development and advancement. They regard it
now just as BURKE regarded 1t in the time Of the
Fronoh Revolution, whom he characterized il, in
the eloquent frenzy of his opposition, ''tho por
tentious comet" switch, from it's horrid hair
shakes postience and war, and with fear Of ohango
perplexes monarchs."' It is comet thoy have
boon anxiously watching this long time, without
tho power to calculate on its Disappearance from
the political heavens. So g.
The result Of tho American Revolution proved a
powerful stimulus to those other causes which had
long boon operative for radical change in France.
Tho crisis of '69 could not have boon kopt back by
oil tho posRihlo combinations OF human power.
And although, to superficial. view, tho history Of
that period is wrtton only scUnee Of tumult and
blood, and illustrated by wild revels OF passion
, that struck horror and dismay into the heart of
all Europe, the real expression and significance of
that unprecedented movement OF the French poo
pie lay deeper than tho philosophio sagacity of
BURKE WAS able to penetrate, and limited, in its
brokon and almost lunatic phrases, OF the doom OF
old dynasties and tho possibilities for the people
Whether tho method was endurable or not, there
stood the great democratic fact Organized power
might beat against it, and so might disorganized
passions; but in either case without dispiacing it
hom it's firm base. ~-.
Since that time France has been O sort of deba-
ting-ground for revolutionary or democratic prin-
oipies. To-day the argument has been carried on
with words, ALL tomorrow with cannon balls, that
are harder than words. Other powers have, from
time to time, stepped into the arena to take part
in tho vital controversy, in the case Of the great
alliance against BoNApARrE, which thought it had
finally settled the dispute by the Peace Of Vienna
But though tho BoNApARrE be long dead and gone,
the debate goes on. Now Russia is drawn into it,
and now England. To-day it is Austria's turn and
= tomorrow it is Italy's. One power ranges itself
upon this side, and another upon that. Even
; those who notoriously champion the popular side
unconsciously serve rs powerful instruments for
that side, by striving quite much for themselves
as for the people. NAPOLEON would strengthen
himself in France, and so helps Italy to unity and
freedom. The prediction of the First Consul
would appear to be approaching fulflment-that
within fifty years from the time he uttered it
Europe would become either Cossack or Isepubli-
can. Tho seed he WAS instrumental in sowing,
after ho had broken the soil with the iron plow-
share of war, has certainly sprouted and obtained
d healthy growth. -