The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-01-18

not eXaSGefate the lHipoIihtf VI Sui- I
rent events in saying that this genera /.
ton is witnessing series of trans :
formations which in their importance '
and magnitude are not parallele'i by {
those of any previous epoch, whose
annals are known to us. An Imperial |
dynasty, whose claims to perpetual
ton of authority had been recognized
by the suffrage of six millions OF Its
subjects only few months ago, is i'll
simultaneously hurled from power, and
the captive of Sedan furnishes Il new
illustration of the Instability of earthly
fortune, while thoughtless populace
hail with reclamation the ephemerll
Republic that seizes the reins which
have fallen from his palsied hand. .
Italy, contemptuously designated by
the great Austrian diplomatista as mere
ly ga geographical phrase" has been
welded into compact unity, to accom-
plish which she has seized territories.
d tl,roned Princes, and finally has not
SHRINK from destroying the oldest SOW
| ereignty of which Europe can h"ast--a
Sovereignty, not indeed reaching back
into the mythical past until it is lost
in the twilight of fable, as Macaulay
graphically pictures, but tracing its
origin further than The Oldest existing
dynasty, around which cluster the his
f torical events of mere than a thousand
yea,s, and whose fall affects the sensi-
Utilities and interests the feelings OF
larger section of the human family
I than could he moved by the extinction
{ of any other Power. Spain losses with
r distain the diadem from the brow OF
e her unworthy Queen, and after seek
Il ing long in vain for head upon which
o she might hope it would safely repose,
selects finally one alien to her in birth
$ and dissociated from her in history
r. The House of Hapsburg, vainly strug-
IS Cling against an inevitable fate re-
e linqnishes the ancient autonomy OF lt'
IS Empire, and accepts the role OF mod
m ern constitutional monarchy only t.
J. avoid humiliation. Russia stretche
d out her mighty hand to fasten its iro'
he grasp upon the Bosphorus-to un
n bend The Crescent and transmute it t
Ia the shape of her Grecian Cross. Grea
~ Britain prepares to depart from he
.d nolicy of intervention which sli
" vigorously applied to the Confederat
ne States, and these may yet find in I'll
ar East the Nemesis which shall avene
he her hostile indifference to their caus
|or and condemn the senile statesmansiil
al that permitted their conquest 10y III
IT. Iinfuriated rival. From central EurOl
on n giant power energies, grand IN
m proportions, and with Cyclopean blo'
,eii, brushes armies aud Emperors and fol
t.d resses and Governments, making t
IA earth resound with the heavy tramp
His its legions, and fastening upon lis
the bewildered gaze of an astonlsii
cad world.
esi- Underlying all these movements a
test giving rise to some of them, IS that
his cmeut. the expansion of which cons
luct tutes the peculiar feature OF the NJ,
res tecnth century-an element that on
,ol- ;ts birth to the success of our REBEL
non against Great Britain, and when
Of /, irving fresh strength from the Frel
toin revolution, has now permeated
,,n, governmental machinery of all tn
heir nations save one. 1t is the princl
ON that the people have an inalieha
.om- right to participate i'll their COVE
,nce ment, and that none can be safer!
Lee Justly imposed upon them with
this their consent, a principle that find:
!, he tbealthiest development those &C
stion tries where representative institut
. not are in unrestrained activity unde
ding Executive who "'reigns but does
hem govern, The extent of this pop
lie of participation in the government
macy he greater OF less as surrounding
allied cumstances, and previous history,
nents present aptitudes demonstrate t
tons, proper. England with wise ca,
lsent, allows this principle slow dev'
f YER ment. We, with long previous t
ealing ing in its practical application
I'd ms handed it to its full fruition,
r per- sought to plant it in new C"nfe
tions, CIV, under whose protecting aeg'
s. nm might realize those visions OF lit
$ nv contentment and happiness vii
they polished writer has pictured as VI
,,tists Vain were our herculean effo
;mnle- build this beautiful st, ucture. W
their the treasure that long years OF pr'
nat ma ity had garncre1. Lost the pr
N but lives of our people, and their lie
udiute who went with them to the b
id.nce fray. Beneath the grass OF hn
public blood sodden plains they lie, m
W SUBJ death, yet speaking to us tru
life in tongued of the sacrifices and the
ute in of that tremendous conflict and b
Inv this us -nshrine in our hearts thos
have gone down to the grave III
honor. in that good cause. Their me
.~,r oftap fha n