The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-06-16
THE CONGREGATION OF soyeREIoNs.
Russian Lessons from French History-The
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Emperon are very great mon. but their greatness
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almost periodic their meetnss cycica and the returns
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anxious forsbodinga century and . half ago the
dssred to sss the greatest sovereign Of his age and
NO doubt 70 learn something at 10 first Court, its
nrst capital. and It's frs. school Of diplomacy. he
might have soon also. In the spectacle Of . long
and glorious reign setting in clouds and darkness,
the peris Of ambition and the limits OF power.
Prince whose grandson the immediate successor
persisted on the scafod. century after that visit
t and sss shs sDecs -
Heaven, he believed had made him, OF order humanity
and religion. In the meantime one dynasty had suf
attempted the conquest Of tho world. had done
than even Russian ambition had ever dreamt Of; and
old borders BY re oomnos s6orts Of Esrope AVID ~
erhousfion. But Il there was lesson to
be learnt from the great political ceremony Of the
restoration, at which many potentates assisted in
person. IL wm that legitimacy was to DO hencsforth
the rule Of the world and that the people which affected
will Of It's would ind itself speedily overpowered
by the whole brotherhood OF nations and kings. The
very presence of the Russian Emperor was itself the
mos ea from Paris had himself lust before oursasd
tho sacred capital Of Muscovy. But whatever these
champions of divine right and orthodoxy might think
they had earned or deserved, and however skilled
70 read the signs OF the times they could not expect
that gcnraon France Wold haze her revenge
by erpeing first branch Of e resored dynazy, taen
oosr and finally reiasating the imperial family icich
u had taken all Essope 10 ovatsroV and prosus6e.
The esotsm Of ambition waIps its forecasts. and
prevents from reading Alright the lessons thrown IN s
way Thore good deal to be learned from the his
tory and the result Of the great struggle that occupied
last age But Russia, msled by her own great des
tiny saw nothing but dynasties alliances, established
churches well regulated humanities universal reign OF
poscs and her own soanasss d'vsopmsn. 10 the inter
that Heaven had kept faith with her when France sud
denly turned out once more the elder Boarbons and
are people who can never see that which il under
their very eyea The imperial family OF Russia could
have supplied the annals of the century
horrors than the deposition OF incapable prince and
the substitution of cousin with better qualities Tor rule
But at ST. Petersburg these transactions had been done
strictly at home In palaces family councils and select
circle OF court MOBILES Scandals there had been but no
public disturbance inversion Of order SO the Emperor
Nicholas thought he could s afford TO sustain his pro
test against French democracy. and to declare his
sympathy for discrowned right and when be came
OF revolutions o did not know that, little as France
had consulted his taste In her arrangements she
might do even worse; that she might very soon give
up the scmblance OF legitimacy she then retained
and that 10 a few years more Emperor OF Russia
might become the guest OF Emperor Of the French
could he suppose that this would follow tho innic.
ton OF great blow, aimed at Russia's dearest
Napoleon SDpss n0 in "V Alliance with England Great
Of Peter and Alexander not less great, even
The events Of the haif-csntury, between the visits
OF Alexander l. and Napoleon H. Russia must by this
time be tired Of waiting Till the world sees every
her own light chooses its sovcreigns and its constitu-
lions By exact Russian rule and renounces all progress
except tho spontaneous development Of the Holy Rus
sian Empire.
wisdom may always find consolation, for the
whole course Of human affairs works on her side.
Alexander sees at this end OF the Old Word
no ambition, whether national or personal,
secure from disappointment or free from ordinary
Ilms France much the France that Peter the Great
wished 20 see when great sovereign warning his
infant heir that peace better than aud content
happier than ambition. There Is, indeed, concourse
OF soyeregns the banks OF the Seine but may be
fairly questioned whether France could have reckoned
on such company had she been supposed the aggres.
sye and ascendant Power they all thought ner.
IL cannot indeed, be said, II In the pleasant
OF 1851 that all nations laying aside
the arts OF and beakng themselves 10 OF peace
As the more generous field OF competition. Men are
s men and the world unchanged, but II 10 impossible
not 10 auRur something for peace from this devel
opment OF tho Napoleonic ambition. Then oil else
how changed since the days when Alexander and hrs
allies ordered the restitution OF national spoil and the
destruction OF imperial monuments In Paris, a. II to
samp out the spark Of French ambition II France
has revived since then aud made herself once more
name OF power two great natens the German and the
Italian have asserted the principle Of national unity
and By doing co. raised themselves IN the scale Of Eu
ropean Powers TAs treaties which intsposed between
the new and the old system and the new and the old
dynasies even twenty yeap ago. ara Aspos Qf ne
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