The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-06-05


day at Long Branch with HERALD commits
sioner, that this treaty Of peace had become a
great object with him, in view of the danger
Of another uprising of our late Southern con-
federacy in the event of war with England.
So important do we regard General Grants
emphatic remarks upon this subject that we
here reproduce them:-"There werc," said he,
thousands Of influential people in the South
treacherous and reasonable, who Rugged the
thought that the cause of secession would tri-
umph whenever the country got involved in
war with England. l told Senators of this
matter, and urged them to act upon fae
treaty with England at once" Is this small
matter in this great reaction against these dis
turbng and alarming revolutionary forces in
both hemispheres? No. but it is a very i'm.
portant matter.
The great French revolution of 1889, turn
ing the nations upside down and inside out
convulsed all Europe for quarter of cen
fury. But in the end the Holy Alliance was
too strong for it. and restored, with some
notifications, the old order of things. Then
followed general peace till 1889, from
another French revolution, precipitated in
Paris, that hot-bed of revolutions, and then all
Europe was thrown into revolutionary COM
motion, in which the Pope was upset and ex-
PEELED and republic was established in
Rome, and in which the House Of Hapsburg
was rescued from Kossuth only by Russian
relieving army of 10000 men. Then, with
Louis Napoleon at the head of the French
government, the empire was to France peace,
and, in general sense, peace to Europe, and
Napoleon was the arbiter of the Continent
until 1870, when he spoiled everything in his
imperious arbitration about king for Spain.
Had the revolutionary movements developed
from this folly of Napoleon gone forward sue
cessfully there would have been before the
ending the republic universal and social in
France, in Spain and in Italy, chaos in Bel
GUM and Germany, England, Ireland and the
New Dominion, and from oil these complca-
tions a war between the United States and
England, according to General Grant, and
another call upon the armies of the Union to
fight another Southern rebellion.
There has been, then and there is, great
reaction in both hemispheres in favor of the
established order of things in Church, State
and society. But what next? We cannot
tell We only know that these mighty mate
rial and moral forces of modern civilization,
the steam engine, the press, the railway and
the telegraph, with all their powers of rcpres
sion, are still constantly exciting in every
civilized State new revolutionary movements
as old ones are put down. We only know that
no sluggish or luxurious peace, as in the old
times will hereafter be allowed the powers
that be in Church, State or society; and we
can only say that, looking back at the ire
mendous events among the nations of the last
ten years, it will be consistent with the pro-
polling moral forces of steam and lightning if
within the next ten years we have to record a
succession of changes and transformations, po-
litical, religious and social, in the Old World
and the New still more amazing and still
little nearer the Millennium.