Litchfield enquirer., 1868-07-30
Kings and Constitutions.

| The 1neHectual, because unnatural, at
 tempt to make over the absolute into tho
 constitutional monarch, is one Europe nev
 CT tires of trying. In fact, the "consti
 tutional monarchy is myth. In Eng
 land, the struggle which cost one king his
 life, and another his crown, res ulted in the
 entire destruction of the royal executive
 power, in a government by Parliament
 through it's committee called Minis
 try" In France, the Moderates of the
 Great Revolution strove to make Loui.
 XVI into constitutional king, and failed
 the Restoration repeated the failure with
 Charles K; change of dynasty under
 Louis Philippe failed again. During the
 great uprising of 1S4s, the principal Con tonstttdtrons outrasted the revolutionary
 fervor that produced them.
 The history of these experiments de.
 monstrates at least one fact conclusively
 that every written constitution, though
 wisely framed, must pass through weak
 infancy. Till it becomes firmly founded
 in national habits and affection, its execu-
 tion needs to be in friendly hands, or fail ure is sure. Even our own. the only re- ally successful written constitution, owes its success to the fact that its first execu- tive was George Washington instead of George III. Yet Europe still insists on entrusting the execution of her untried constitutions to the very men whose ances- tral authority they limit, whose bigotries they condemn, whose early instilled, des- potic notions they offend. The latest in- stance of the kind is to be found in Aus tria Present appearances, indeed, prom ise much for progress, but the following facts indicate very plainly what we are to expect from the Emperor when the pres ent stress of political weather is over:- Monsignor Haynald, Archbishop of Koloiza, in Hungary, the friend and confidant of the Empe- graph letter from his Imperial Majesty to the Pope, and charged with secret mission Some 'me ago, the Emperor, through Count Crivelli, | oromlsed the Holy Father utat he eoo,sld soithtold .ss sanction from ate 'eD religious lasos passed by he Austrian Chambers, and his letter informs His Holiness that he has been obliged to give way on | he question, as the public feeling it excited left Jim no alternative but abdication. The object of | he Archbishop of Koloiza was to reconcile the l Pope to this defection and he has done his best in he matter, having had several interviews with the Holy Father, and pleaded his cause with great arnestness. The eloquent prelate presented to lis Holiness the evils which would result from he Emperors abdieation. dwelling particularly on he regency involved by the minority of his son, nd pointing out tte uncontrolled p0acer that acoald tus be uested in hostile hands and entreated the loly Father not only to remit the Emperor's prom ,e, but to give him in this emergency the benefit that enlightenment which he had received from Teaven. The piety and submission of the de- cendant of Rudolph of Hapsburg quite overcame he Pope, and the Archbishop is now carrying to iennaan autograph letter from His Holiness, ex- ressing the deepest eommiseration for the pitia- le situation of the Emperor and stating that the ope regards him as depriued of liberty, and not I esponsible for ue acts he is obliged to do conse- uently he is not bound by them, and may be at eace with his conscience, prouided he determines tdse adoantage of tue ti'st opporturaty to abro- God and ate Church. The Archbishop was so q ated with this success that he announced it to C se Emperor by telegraph before he left Rome-I 'onse CoTTes Pdu MaU Gazette.
 And this is the executive to whom is en. rusted the renovation of an effete despo- T ism, the enforcement of liberal reforms he contest with papal usurpations! We hall be surprised if Austria does not soon dd another to the long list of murdered a constitutions. s