The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-11-25

tions. its difference in nationality, re.
ligion and race, the hundred antago-
nistic elements that have 1eeu welded
together under the iron rnle of the
Ozar-German and Pole, Tartar and
Cnssaok-wili understand how even
Russia would respond to the spirit of
change which for the past fifty years
has been moving to and fro over the
nations OF the world
While Russia ''suppresses socialism"
ell England is commenting upon the
fact that the Prince of Wales has been
receiving honors from Republican
Mayor of the radical city of Birming-
ham. This Mayor, Mr.. Chamberlain,
is known to be one of the advanced
English Republicans. The Prince Of
Wales came to visit the city, and OF
course the Mayor would be called upon
to do him honor. Even as staid
journal as the Times compares the
meeting to that of Potion With Loais
XVI. Other newspapers not 30 re-
served wonder because the Mayor re-
ceived the Prince like gentleman aud
did not strike from tho shoulder or cry
''Live the Republic" This is q smull
event, but it is very significant. Eng
land begins to look upon Republican
ism as fact in the monarchy, q prin-
ciple OF political action. The trades
unions and other labor movements
have great strength. They are rich in
money. and men, and organization.
Every year adds to their strength. No
longer the docile support of crown aud
caste, like the curyatides that support
the splendid edifce, silent, suffering,
unresponsive, only to stand nnd die,
that ancient and false systema should
exist in und'minished splendor, the
people feel that they have rights AS
we'll AS the descendants of tho free.
booting Stuart aud Plantagenet. From
St. Petersburg to Birmingham, whcr-
ever we look We 500 troubled wutera
Danish md Polish and Roman and
Eastern questions, Spain and France
nnder the mailed hand of armed nd
vepturers, who represent neither that
"graoe Of God" which comes with a
crown, nor that still higher grace
which comes from the will of the peo-
pie. The Commune in Paris, the Iu-
trausigentes in Madrid. the Ultramon-
tanes in Berlin, the Socialists in st.
Petersburg, the Republicans in Lon
ooaS GA ShCoC WO dCC huu uAS6 . b6Gu.
Truly tho European sky is in angry
mood-shooting flames here and there
and lightning flashes, aud the ominous
thunder that comes from the far.dia-
tant canopies of heaven or the far-hid-
den caverns Of the earth.
What does it all mean? A proud
Emperor brandishing his sword, and
elements Of disturbance everywhere.
AS if to add to the complication here
is the mightiest religious controversy
that has beon known since the time of
Luther, and not unlike that of Luther;
for Germany and England have again
grappled with the power of Rome.
All this time Germany and France are
arming every able-bodied citizen, and
even bidding the old men to be ready
10 defend their homes. Europe is an
armed camp, The sword is the sign
that is seen in the Heavens. No won
der the venerable Russian Chancellor
should take long and dreary winter
journey to see what it means; to try if
peace canno. be preserved; to avoid,
If possible, the tremendous shock that
seems SO swiftly coming AS our
venerable and illustrious fellow citizen,
Mr.. Bryant, said the other day, he
could remember the time when Ma
poleon was First Consul, and when no
events seemed more distant than the
downfall of the Bonaparte Empire,
the abolition Of the temporal power,
the unitication oil Germany and the
emancipation OF the slaves and the
serfs. But in his life he has witnessed
the frnition of all. and now, in his
venerable, honored and sunny old age,
he sees the coming of even greater
events. Like D'Israeli. he sees that
the world is on the eve Of o momentous
crisis-one OF those events that give q
monumental grandeur to the age.
1t is not for us to speculate upon the
nature of this crisis or the tremendous
consequences it may involve. But we
can well understand how q nrtschakoff
and Bismarck, and those whose trude
is the service Of kings, would sit in
anxious thought as they looked upon
those clouds which float, black and
threatening. over the European sky,
and wonder whether the monarchy
will ride the storm. and whether the
time is not at hand which Napoleon
predicted at St. Helena, when Europe
would be Republican or Cossaok.
Civilization has made the Cossack al
tesnative impossible. but how about
the Republican ?-Neto York Herald.