The New York herald., 1874-11-20

gentleman and did not strike from the
shoulder or cry "Live the Republic" This
is q small event, but it is very significant
England begins to look upon republicanism
Us fact in the monarchy principle 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 and caste, like the caryatdes that
support the splendid edifce, silent, suffering,
unresponsive, only to stand and die, that
ancient and false systems should exist
in undiminished splendor, the people feel
that they have rights as well as the
descendants OF the freebooting Stuart and
Plantagenet From st. Petersburg to Bir-
mingham, wherever we look we see troubled
waters. Danish and Polish and Roman and
Eastern questions, Spain and France under
the mailed hand of armed adventurers who
represent neither that ''grace of God" which
comes with crown, nor that still higher
grace which comes from the will of the peo-
pie. The Commune in Paris, the intransi-
gentes in Madrid, the ultramontanes in Ber-
lin, the socialists in st. Petersburg, the repub-
licans in London, all these we see and have
seen. Truly the European sky is in angry
mood-shooting flames here and there and
lightning flashes and the ominous thunder
that comes from the far-distant canopies OF
heaven or the far-hidden caverns of the earth.
What does it all mean? A proud Emperor
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turbance everywhere. AS if to add to the
complication here is the mighhest religious
controversy that has been known since the
time of Luther, and not unlike that of Luther;
for Germany and England have again grap-
pied with the power of Rome. All this
ing every able-bodied citizen, and even
bidding the old men to be ready to
defend their homes. Europe is an armed
camp. The sword is the sign that is seen in
the heavens. No wonder the venerable Rus
sian Chancellor should take long and
dreary winter journey to see what it means;
to try if peace cannot 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 Napoleon was First Consul, and
when no events seemed more distant than the
downfall of the Bonaparte Empire, the aboli-
ton Of the temporal power, the unl6cation Of
Germany and the emancipation of the
slaves and the serfs. But in his life
he has witnessed the fruition of all, and now,
in his venerable, honored and sunny old
age, he sees the coming of even greater
events. Like Disraeli he sees that the world
is on the eve of momentous crisis-one Of
those events that give monumental gran
deur to the age. 1t is not for US to speculate
upon the nature of this crisis or the tremen-
dous consequences it may involve. But we
can we'll understand how Gortschakof and
Bismarck, and those whose trade is the
service of kings, would sit in anxious thought
as they looked upon these 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. He
lena when Europe would be republican or
Cossack. Civilization has made the Cossack
alternative impossible but how about the re-
publican?