The New York herald., 1866-08-28

centuries ago, the principle was pretty thor
oughly carried out under Louis XII. and be-
cause France is now, whatever may be thought
of ler political condition. unitary nation in
the most complete sense. In the North Of
Europe we see the Scandinavian races en-
gagged in . movement to form Of Denmark,
Sweden and Norway one political community;
and In the South Of Europe the Iberian family
INDUCES In the hope Of reuniting Spain and
Portugal
Our historical lesson would be far from COM
plete II we confined its study to Europe We
nnd the same principle working out the same
results on this continent. The Canadian prov
inces ara ON the eve Of consolidation into q
Canadian republic; and that event will be fol-
lowed, II It be not indeed preceded, by the
absorption Of the whole into the United States
Of America. Our late war was, to great extent,
conflict between consolidation and Its op-
posite principle, separation, and the result
was the triumph Of the modern idea Even
now the radical republicans have exchanged
places with the rebels and strive to prevent
thorough cohesion from taking place; but
their efforts will prove as fruitlcss as did those
OF the secessionists, and they themselves stap1
the same chance of being crushed out rthey
strive to maintain their untenable position.
1t is the same with the countries south Of
the United States Mexico has been striving
for generation or so to stand alone, but all
its efforts, from their commencement under
Yturbide to their close under Macmillan, have
been sadly fruitless, and nothing now remains
but to recognize and bow to the irresistible
force OF circumstances and let Mexico be
amalgamated into a republic which will then
| Gf Canada be at that time absorbed, and Rus
sa shall have ceded to US her possessions on
the Pacific exercise Jurisdiction over the
whole of North America. The war which Par
| aguay endeavOrs to maintain against Brazil
and Uruguay can have no other result than
| consolidation; and Brazil, whether as an
empire or as republic, will fill the same role
in the Southern as we shall in the Northern
half of the American continent Even our
! Japanese friends have become imbued with the
| spirit of the age, and the Tycoon is deal ng
with his Daimios as Louis XL dealt with his
semi-independent vassals.
1t is not necessary in . newspaper article to
| 90 into all the reasons which tend to produce
this remarkable movement Of the age. They
are perhaps more of material than Of an
intellectual origin. The vast expense of
modern wars is probably the chief cause. The
cost at which the federal and confederate gov
ernments carried on hostilities ,OOO 900 q
day on the average-would swamp financially
the petty Powers of Europe in few MONTHS
weeks or days. Some of them would be bank
rupted by the purchase Of few iron-clads
like the Dunderberg. II is therefore abso-
lutely necessary, in view of their inability to
defend themselves in war, that they cease to
exist as separate communities and that they
become merged In great nations.
By and by another and an equally necessary
movement will take place from 4 monarchical
to republican form Of government. Whether
they so design it or not, Napoleon and Bis
marck are, each in his own way, working for
the republicanixing Of Europe--the one by de-
moliShing all the landmarks of the treaty of
Vienna, and the other BY gathering up into
one fold the German tribes and giving them
that opportunity Of forming German repub-
lie which has been the earnest longing Of so
manyof their philosophers and poets. Mon
arcbs are to communities what schoolmasters
are TO individuals, useful and necessary in
their age OF pupilage, but to be set aside
when the Individuals or the nations attain to
the full possession OF their faculties. Most Of
the nations Of Europe are now, under the in
fuence Of the press, the railroad, the tclc-
graph and other teachers Of civilization, far
enough advanced to be justified in discharging
their royal pedagogues and starting in the
world for themselves. Whenever they do 30
we are prepared to give them cordial well
come.
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