The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-25

people II would seem in the history Of
France, Italy and Spain as II this Bourbon
family had been permitted to flourish as an
instrument to rid the European world of mon
archy by showing the nations to what extremi-
ties of abuse that form Of government might be
carried by selfish voluptuaries. That family
has amply fulfilled its destiny in Spain, and
once it is driven out the republic is inevitably
tho next idea; for this thing has been fer
menting forty years, and in the meantime Spain,
crushed by the potentates and the Church, has
seen sluggish Italy arise and nearly conquer
prived in 1922 by the power of the Holy Ali
ance. Spain is eager once more to try her
career in that struggle, and the time is ready.
With Spain thus winning real freedom Italy
will be aroused again; for although Italy won
enough to make the Spaniards contrast their
condition bitterly with hers, she did not win
all that either nation hoped for. She ex-
changed domination that she hated alto
gether for one that she hated only half as much.
She got rid of the Pope and his Bourbons only
to fall into the hands of Victor Emanuel, with
France behind. France is now not so evidently
behind that royal captain of cavalry, and the
advantage to Italy of the change she made
is that she got master whom she can send
adrift whenever she pleases instead of one
whose hold for ages was so desperate that it
seemed like the grip of death. Every step,
therefore, that Spain takes towards republic
will stimulate Italy to arise and finish what
circumstances compelled her to leave half
done, and the year may close on an Italian
and Spanish republic:
Can France be kept quiet with such storm
raging in the neighboring countries? 1t has
been held by many fatterers of the French
people, and the present Emperor among them,
that it is one of the peculiar glories of their
character to feel, above all others, the move
ment of ideas-the intellectual character of
the age in which they live. Whittier will this
popularity lead, at the present juncture, the
people whose first revolution was in great
measure a consequence of sympathy with oc-
currences on this side the Atlantic, and who
have since abandoned an Emperor who had
betrayed their cause and driven out two kings?
Such people, proud, brave, sensitive and
without perception of consequences, can
never quietly see Spain and Italy attain that
freedom for which they themselves fought
nearly seventy years ago and which they have
not yet secured. France may revolt, and
quite probably will, and if there be no abso-
lutte revolt the nation will assume such an att-
,ude that the Emperor will he content to see
he worthless dynasties, his neighbors, fight
'ut their own causes with the people and keep
lis troops at home. Even England, Boosting
Ter own freedom, will not be able to play her
part of putting a heel on the free
ON Of others. The days of Pitt and his
olicy are passed, and the people have now in
'ngland q real power to prevent the govern
lent expressing the world at their expense.
is quite possible that there may be still such
italty In the reds Of Germany that Prussia
'ill be compelled to look on only. And thus
Russia will be the one great force with free |
lands, and it ia hardly possible that the North
srn giant, finding such an opportunity, will
fail to stride down and take possession of Con-
the ''treaty Powers" to the con-
trary notwithstanding.