The New York herald., 1870-09-16
Tho Republic nIurchina On.

Tho nepuDic murcnlu2 Oms
"Lat ct Qmne CALM !" we said in an article
published three weeks ago, and predicting
revolution and the republic as the necessary
next consequence of the complications in
France. The phrase was q species Of slogan
or watchword in one of the old North German
dialects in certain remarkable days, and now
its use and application have come again. The
Interpretation, ''Let it so round!" is being
wondrously fulfilled. The republic has been
proclaimed and accepted by all France with
out the cost of o single life, Notwithstanding
the open sneers and secret hostility Of those
eternal foes Of popular progress who were
tho friends of France while she represented
military despotism, and are her snarling
enemies to-day, when she stands forth grandly
and nobly for the people. But these pests Of
liberal epoch grow fewer and feebler every
hour, and each reaction that they plan
is paltrier than tho one that went
before. The voice of the third French
republic has electrified Europe. Wherever it
has penetrated true patriotism and genius
have leaped up to the summons. Spain, Italy,
|. Ireland respond with enthusiasm, and Eng
land, the very stronghold OF arstocratic con-
servatism, thrills tonight with more real and
earnest popular inspiration than she has felt
since tho days Of Cromwell. Moreover, were
it not that German feeling is, for tho moment,
identified with the cause Of united Fatherland
as typiied in the existing war, and it would
look like graccless desertion of the toilworn
veterans in tho field, vivas for Idle republic"
would be heard, while we write. in the streets
of Berlin, Dresden and Munich as they have
been heard already (our latest dispatches tell
us) in the cities of Brunswick. Nowhere in
oil Europe was there more general, deter
mined and well considered republican mani
festation made during the heroic days Of
1S48 than in the German capitals. Baden
was one wide battle field where the
hastily equipped patriot armies under
Mieroslawski yielded only after hard fighting
to the terrible explosive bullets Of the
Prussian regulars Twenty-Five years have
passed since those gigantic struggles. The
people have twice the Thought, education,
organization, earnestness and resources that
they then possessed. The songs OF Freiligrath
and of Kinkel and the words of Robert Blum
live vivid life in their memories; Fatherland
has become one in its aspirations for liberty
as for national existence. At Strasbourg, at
Metz, and now at Paris, the French people,
as contradistinguished under their real tri-
color from the fraud OF the I'd of Decem-
ber, will, in the glories Of their supreme
reverse, have again infamed the enthusiasm
of their armed adversaries and have awak-
ened the pity and sympathy Of their demo
| cratic brethren beyond the Rhine. The
German soldiery may return thither with thu
| fall of the autumn leaves singing their owl
version Of the 'tMarseillaise."
| The republic, then, is marching on. On
| by one the withes of monarchical impedimen
are swapping asunder before her advancing
steps. One by one the good and wise mel
of all lands; the true, fresh, brigh
natures in all regions Of the cart
are recognizing her doctrines as the only
guarantees Of permanent order, peace and
| Cnristan U-lirht~.--.~--l, -.-a 30 thn romotos
bounds of Europe millions greet her nam
with enthusiasm who, but generation since
scarcely comprehended the word. Bat the
steam engine is, indeed, democrat, and elec
tricity is the Ariel Of practical progress. The
surrounding and neighboring States can M
more remain for any length Of time darkened
with standing armies and overshadowcd will
the gothic lumberwork of thrones while tht
republic shines out from the watch towers o
France than the planets and their satel
lites could continue in primeval nigh
after the central sun began to glow in th
armament.