The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1867-01-24
Democracy---Rts Progress.

ca" directs the attention of the reader to
the tendency, throughout a period of
seven centuries, of all French govern
mental institutions toward the equalization
OF the various classes Of :he French people,
of the stripping of the lordly of their
! power, and of the raising Of the masses to
the assertion and maintenance of their
natural rights. What De Toqueville said
oF his own, may be said with equal truth
OF nearly, if not every, portion of the
civilized world. If the acknowledgements
OF the masses, or the ameliorating OF their
condition, or an increased Difference to
their inherent rights, and especially their
right to a voice 10 the affairs of govern
ment, constitutes progress, then the world
does advance rs steadily as with martial
step toward justice and right.
Not stopping to survey our own land,
where even the stone blind can see that the
law proclaimed from Heaven to the Jews,
amid the noise on Mount Sinai, comman-
ding them to have one law for the stran-
! ger and him that was born within their
gates, IS to be re-enacted by the American
people, let us take horoscope of England,
| with WHOM We quarrel somewhat after the
fashion of first cousins, and yet whom we
love. First of all, then, in our once
mother country is the concession on all
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extended to three hundred thousand more
OF her toiling sons. Then, scarcely, or
really none, the less important is the
admission by many of the large manufac-
turers of their employ ees TO share in all
the profits above certain per centum on
the capital-a movement that will do
more than any other single agency, the
gift of the ballot alone excepted, toward
the elevation of many of those whose daily
bread comes from their daily labor Last
but not least, is star of hope, not large,
not dazzling, but still star of hope for
the Emerald of the seas, old Ireland, tue
land O. potatoes, and poets, and soldiers,
and orators. Ireland-may the day of
her deliyerance draw nigh, and not in
blood, but by the hand of England herself!
| Crossing the channel to the land of
Louis Napoleon, it is not so much what
we see as what we do not see, that makes
US glad. The rider of the white horse
will soon, even IN the course of Nature,
take to himself the present occupant of
the throne of the French. And what
then? He has sought to found dynasty,
out has he succeeded? AS the weakness
of old age creeps on him, he bids his
troops creep out OF Mexico, he finds the
Prussians TO have baf1ed him in Diplomacy
and n the field, and to nave robbed him
Of his place as the arbiter of Europe
Every sign 5etokens that the people of
France will decide whether the son of the
succeed to the throne before many years
to be vacant.
Following the footsteps of the elder
Napoleon across the Alps to Italy, the
land OF sculpture, and of song, we see
rise as nymph from the sea, and yet as
lion from his lair, new government
among men, in which the voice of the
people is not stihed, and in which the
sacred name of law is not the rallying cry
of oppression. Born with two hopes In
her heart, the annexation of Venice and
the securing of Rome as her capital she
has gained the one and is as sure of the
other as he who 10 patience waits till the
tree lets fall It's ripened fruit. Yet there
is waited over the waters of the Mediter-
raDean painful dirge from Gambia, the
ancient isle of Crete, where the Christian
suffers beneath the heel of the Turk, and
where even women and children take
example by Samson and prefer a common
death with their enemy to life and a
thraldom that robs of his wages the laborer,
aud to women makes her life her curse.
Pass from the Mediterranean to Hun
gary, and we find the Magyar demanding
from the throne of Austria his ancient
privileges, and while he petitions, he lays
his hand upon the hilt of his sword. For
Austria there seems no alternative but to
grant to Hungary her demand tor the
pardon and recall of the exiles of the rev.
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