The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-09-24
COLUMBIA. ]. \ j "a S. G.
Saturday Morning, September "a, 1870.
Republicanism In Europe.

republics. The cold comfort given NJ.
Thiers by Earl Granville, during their
last interview, shows the feeling Of .'the
powers that be" in Great Britain to-
wards, the spread Of republicanism,
while che action of the King Of Prussia
in ihsisting that the present Provisional
Government Of France is ON irresponsi-
BILE mob with which he will not treat for
peace and thus recognize, is sufficient
proof Of his antipathy to the establish.
meat of q republic in his neighborhood.
The antagonism between the monarch
lists and the republicans in Europe is
deadly. The tending of the age towards
universal republicanism and its ultimate
prevalence, is merely a question Of time.
In France it has reared defiant front
and has organized for the immediate ne
cessities of the nation. In Italy the
smouldering fires arc with difficulty kept
down, the removal Of the capital to
Rome being rendered imperative rs
check to the repnblicanism that was
becoming dangerous to the present
monarchical, institutions of thatcountry.
In England the feeling of the masses
against the gFeat land owners is grow
ing daily more bitter, and the agrarian
spirit has manifested itself in more ways
than one as Enthusiastically hostile. Tie
intercourse Between Great Britain and
the United States, the influence Of the
Americah press on the English mind,
the dissatisfaction of many with the do
mestic and foreign policy Of the present
cabinet, all have the effect of producing
more or less restlessness. The feeling
against the feudal element in some of
the monarchical countries grows stronger
and the establishment, although tempo
rarily, of republic anywhere in Eu
rope, serves to shake the very founda-
tions OF feudalism everywhere.
With the education of the European
masses, comes tho gradual extinction of
the monarchial and the formation of the
republican forms of government. The
intelligent popular mind, no longer be-
wildered or awed by the gorgeousness,
the splendor. the tinsel and trapping Of
imperialism or royalty. will discover that
they are not necessary to good govern
ment, and will struggle to form simpler
form, and one equally as strong. There
is not monarch in Europe who does
not feel that his form Of government will
pass away, and that, too, before many
decades. Their tenure of thrones and
power is as brittle as glass and as weak
as rope of sand, else we would not see
the spectacle of vanishing empires and
rising republics" Nowadays, once let q
nation get a taste Of Republicanism, and
all hope of permanent empire or mo-
narchy might as we'll be given up.
Prussia, which is q model of order,
energy, intelligence and compactness, is
the most eficieitgovernmen in Europe,
and its power and influence would pro-
bahly be equally as we'll sustained under
Republican form of government as
under its present one to certain ex-
tent, the most marked difference being
that under Republican government the
advantage of the one-man power could
not be had, but this would be counter
balanced by a strong cabinet and bold
ruler.
II the empire existed, and Napoleon
or the Empress we're in Paris to treat
with King William, the war would spec
dily end, and on more advantageous
terms, possibly, the Mobile Register
thinks, than France is likely to get now.
But the King of Prussia wants not only
to take Paris for the eclat of it, but he
wants to put Napoleon back on the
throne, because he would be able to ma,
mage him for the future better than hc
could a hot-headed young republic, be.
sides he wishes to strangle republcanism
in France, and to put out this inccndiary
element, because it would be in danger.
Gus proximity to his own powder maga
zine; for there are republican elements
in Prussia that might ignite from this