New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-21
EUROPE TO BE AGAIN oVERRUN.

the virtual extinction of France as a frs
class power? Is the Latin race undergo
ing subjugation before the steady anC
consistent advance of the Sclavic tribes
In other words, is the North marching
down to overwhelm the South? Has ma
ture generic storehouse from which tc
draw fresh supplies of population wher
the people of any particular locality nave
become exhausted by climatic influences:
These questions become momentous only
as we see their answer reflected in the
events that are at present taking place
under our actual observation. Years
ago the North was morally, socially
and politically as rugged in her HUI
manly as she was in her climate.
She had emptied her migratory armies
upon the South to her own depopulation
Italy was overrun, France was conquered
England fell before these predatory
hordes swarming out of the great North
ern hive. 1t is said that Scythia was the
mother of the population that originally
settled in Russia and Germany, but be
this as it may, when the Vandals marched
to the south of Europe they left depopu-
lated States behind them. Since then
years have rolled away and the few that
remained behind in the North have recu-
perated in strength until now thew are
ready to swarm again. The first exodus
has become enervated under the sunny
atmosphere of the South and its parent
Is preparing to repair the ravages of eli
matte dilapidation by pushing a new
column to the support of the weakened
populations that have lost their strength
since they emigrated from the rigorous
and robust North. Do we not see the
same law in partial operation on our own
continent to-day, that the effete
and somnolent tribes of Spanish
America are actually being pushed into
their graves before the steady advance
OF the Anglo Saxon? Life is too easy in
the tropics. Industry and exertion stag
nate when nature relieves them from eff
fort; and stagnation is the inevitable pre-
cursor of mold and decay. Mankind loses
strength when he ceases to exercise his
strength. Under the palm, the mango
and the banana life becomes a sleepy
and dreamy condition of existence, the
very poetry of action. Under the snow,
it becomes the fierce and active enemy of
rest and inactivity. The North, therefore,
is ever in motion, while the South is ever
at rest.
Our vitality exists by virtue of the trans
fusion which is constantly excited in its |
favor from the fountain head We travel |
North, we rub against recuperative forces,
we are impelled forward by contention
with opposing elements, We imbibe ac-
tivity and regeneration by attrition with
what is progressive. The United States
is in process of growth, and her virility
is due to the same causes which now
threaten the south of Europe with
second subjugation at the hands of the
Northern races
Italy is already undergoing a transfor-
nation which will deliver her from the
weakness that has stricken her with ma
ional palsy. Spain is provoking the
anne intermixture, because the tendency
If events in that unfortunate country is
n favor of interference from abroad. Her
people have maintained their Incidence |
nd exclusiveness SO long that it will
Don be a necessity that Europe shall in
expose to arrest their decadence and
DOWNFALL. Spain is the Mexico of Europe,
nd as it will become our duty in time to
escue the rich and lovely valleys of
lexico from misrule and stupor, so it I
i'll ultimately become the duty of North l
IN Europe to save Spain from the same a
vii fortune. 1t may not come at once, c
ecause the movement of population is a
present directed from Germany to q
merlca; but once let this tide cease, and L
lie people who now crowd across the Il
tlantic will turn their attention to the d
alleys of Andalusia, and the Pyrenees o
i'll resound with the voices of a column P
lat must emigrate from its crowded c
ONES into fields that invite by their Il
eauty and wealth the hardy children of 5
lie North. The tide of nations is only
mporarily arrested in its movement G
5ainst the South of Europe, but the IL
resent war i'll France may unlock the C
untain, and then we shall see the be-
ming of that TRANSMISSION which must p
feet the absolute solidarity of the peo- ST
e from the Volga to the Tagus. P
These are the suggestions that force =,
emselveS upon the consideration of the :,
oughtful when it is intimated that Ger :.
any is subduing France, as she was once =,
fore subdued by the people from across +,
e Rhine. We do not assert the exist
&c of this revolution, but simply con- -
At ourselves with discussing it as law 70
at is said to be declaring itself ~
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