The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-02
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Powers Of Europe has ended as we antici-
pated. A cold shoulder was held out to him
everywhere The Russian government, the
last one he approached, refused to recognize
him In any official character whatever, and the
Czar positively declined to see him. France
republican France-has no friend among the
monarchs and aristocracies of the Old World.
They both hate and dread the republic, and
will do all in their power to suppress It, and to
check the progress Of republican sentiments.
they could not find better representative OF
absolutism or greater enemy Of republican
ism among all the crowned heads. They may
fear his power and would like to see Germany
kept within safe bounds, probably, SO as not
to become dangerous to themselves, but they
are more afraid Of republicanism. Herein We
see the cause OF M. Theirs failure to enlist the
sympathy or aid Of Russia, England and Aus
tria In behalf OF France.
| II Is very convenient, therefore, for these
Powers to say there IS no government in
France that they can recognize How soon
they would recognize the government of any
monarchical or imperial usurper! How ready
| they would be to do that if another Napoleon
or any of the royal pretenders made q coup
detat and seized the powers of government
yes, though such a government might be
erected upon the blood of the French people
and against the wish Of the nation! There
are examples enough of this. There was no
such hesitation when Louis Napoleon usurped
the imperial authority. No! 1t is the republic
that the crowned heads will not recognize, and
the assertion that there is no government in
France is q pretext only. This assertion is
not true. The provisional government is
acknowledged and obeyed from one end of
French territory to the other. The whole ma
ton is rising to defend the country under the
direction of that government 1t is the only
the elements and power of a de facto govern
ment. 1t sprung legitimately from circum-
stances and the situation in which France was
placed by the defeat and capture of the Empe-
ror and by the flight Of the Regency. 1t was
necessity, and the French people every
where, are ralying to support it. AS
to the reports that Bazaine, shut up
in Metz, does not recognize any other au-
thority than that of the Emperor, they are very
doubtful; but if even he has assumed such a
ridiculous position he has no right to speak for
France, and is poweress to determine the
form of government. Then, again, the pre-
tended news that is concocted and spread abroad
by monarchical agents about the ''reds, social
disorder and imperialist proclvties in France,
is utterly unreliable. On the contrary. we do
know that, with the exception of few such
men as Cluseret, who have no influence over
the mass Of the people, the whole population
is united in sustaining the de tacto government
in the present terrible struggle. But the repub-
lican provisional government has been recog-
nized by several nations, and by the United
States, which is one Of the first Powers Of the
world. The Duke Of Argyle, one of the British
Ministry, at a cabinet meeting in London on
Friday called attention to this fact. He is re-
ported to have said "the French republic had
been formally recognized by the United States,
and that it would be sort Of constructive dis
d
government which existed sufficiently, and with
sufficient warrant to command American re-
cognition, had no sufficient standing in fact to
justify England in treating with and through
it for so great an object as the settlement of
Europe"
These autocratic and aristocratic govern
ments Of Europe may yet find that they have
made mistake in attempting to crush the
French republic and in making war on the
republican ideas of the age In this "irre-
pressible conflict, which has been stimulated
by the war republicanism has made bound
that defes the power of absolutism. The peo-
| pie of Europe have become too enlightened to
be driven back to the state of things that existed
| in the Middle Ages or even fifty years ago.
The quickening and educating power Of the
the magnetic telegraph, railroads and other
agencies, must prove superior to political and
military despotism and to the statecraft of
monarchs. The world cannot 60 back. Even
the King of Prussia finds a powerful demo-
cratic sentiment rising in Germany, and he
has consequently commenced to make war on
that while fighting the French. The liberal
leaders of Germany, who have ventured to
express their ideas, have been arrested With
all the service King William has rendered in
uniting Germany and developing its power,
| he will not be tolerated in making war upon
the liberal and progressive ideas Of the age
even by the Germans themselves. Public SEN
timent everywhere is growing strong against
him for this. 1t is hardly likely he can set up
any other government in France than that of
the republic-nether the defunct and fugitive
imperial government nor any other-but he
could help to establish the republican
gOyernment on q firm basis and obtain