New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-27


PARTY has unfortunately more or less succeeded IN
attaining its end and that unless some euee r
meaTs can be found to prevent the e mighty pro-
CreSs of advancing faction, within snoIt ui.Io 49,
the very shadow of monarchcal authority may
vanish from the grasp of several OF the IIihces a.,
His Majesty the Emperor is convinced that ~ ,io
state of things just descrbed-the mlSeu'uuIt i az.
tcmpts of faction TO upersede the mona at Of
principle by he modern idea of the sovereignty o t
the people-uust he sought the handspring OF In@V
disorder which gathers strength from day 70 uaI,
and the underlying motive OF the att1chs w.. =" -,
with ever-lncreasng audaclty are Oelne ;its
many a German State, against the sovereign Iieme
OF the Princes. All the other phenomena homo'off
striking they may be, and whatever tHe W. t T.,
apprehension they may excite, ms Majesty 'hc N; ~
peror considers to be no more thah tne ny LAM
consequences of the predominance when tuNl per.
melons theory has Already assumed III ueIIuIul
over the monarchcal principle. or IN every coum-
trv where circumstances favored H. tine same laCtlo
has made of the political Press IN order 10 Icdu
its doctrines by pamphlets, neWspIets anu ~" 70
LEGATIONS of every kind and lncite tue popuId'o ~
revolt against all right, law ana eNislIhE
has aVailed itself everywhere of the pubclty gwen
10 the transactions of the Legislative Assemblies I'D
vent its revolutionary spirit IN repeated rploacnes
against everything cmanatlng nom IdWluI a1.
tToritv: if has everywhere endcavored to win over
the Young susceptible TO all new nnenceS 10 IiS
theories and even to employ them actively rs tools
fer the accomplishment of It's netarouS designs
lastly il has adopted the expedient OF ealing III
question the claim of the middle classes 10 any nc
qured privileges and rights of property ma at me
same time attracting the lower classes to ITS way oi
thinking. by encouraging them IL the belief that
property of every KIND IS destined sooner or lcI 10
become their booty.
Stein had proposed at Frankfort, when the Ger
man Confederation was recstabShed after the fall
of Napoleon that each State should grant its sub
ccts a constitution, and he had also advocated popu-
lar representation Meitcrnichs ideas preValed'ahd
in the constitution which was ratified by the Con-
grcss Of Vienna the privileges OF the rulers rather
than the rights Of the people were recognized.
Under the impetus of Liberalism IN France several
sovercigns made concessions to their subjects alter
1880 and it was to coUnteract the progress OF the
new ideas that Prince Mttternich arranged the con-
ferenccs of Ministers in 1884. How tenaciously he
adhered 10 the text of the original charter ct the
princes rights! Nineteen years had passed, bat he
had lot learned that there were popular rights
which were entitled 10 recognition IN any state
great or small The Tendencies toward popular
Government were reprcsscd, and the absolute rights
of the princes were restored by two eXpedents re-
ferrcd in the closing speech which Prince Meter
uich made at the same conferences.
While the representative system tends naturally
in the direction of the sovereign power Of the
democratic representative assemblies, and seeks IN
thc unlimited responsibility OF the Ministers
means wTcst the virtual power oi the State rom
the hands OF the rulers. precisely where matters OF
the utmost Importance are in question ana mus VIZ
tualy nvertS the natural order OF thingS-our Court
of Arbitration restores them once more 10 thelr
natural relations. llenceiorward 1t Will not rest
with the Estates 10 wrest the meaning OF the Ton
stitution to their own liking; or to he luuecs III
their own cause in the event OF the ruler attenpihG
TO opppSa their wishes. OF aci III manner winch
they think rcprchenSlble.
The theory of the representative system puts it in
the power of the representatives OF the people ny
means of "A single vote TO pafayze The whole PubilG
administration. Much the same thing has occurred
in the German Legislative Assemblies, wnoTe the
folly or perycrsity of a persistent Opposition
threatens TO fall back upon TINS uncGHMIS,llalGnaI
mode of defence whenever the Anti NonafcMJai
section fail b. get exactly what they chose to de-
mand. MIsdemcanOrs of tins KIND are IoT thG
future pui a stop to. Article M. OF 0ur MAJ
PROTOCOL provides that in case where the Estates
and the Sovereign cannot come to terms ut'0n me
Rudopt recourse shall he had TO a court of aJbira
ton and empowers the Sovereign, should this law
full method Of redress meet with willul Obstruction
or rejection the part OF the Estates 10 proceed 10
levy the supplies previously granted.
The outbreak Of the Revolution Of $50 IN France
gave the Chancellor the most violent spaSm of NOR
bid apprehension from which he had suffered since
the Hundred DAYS. He received the news of the
downfall of Charles X while he at Carlsbad
comforting with NesselTode and the two ChanceIors
at once agreed upon common basis OF action 10 De
maintained by their respective Governments. they
were not to interfere the internal disorders III
France hut the other hand to permit no viola
ton on the part of the revolutionary government Of
the general conditions of European guaran-
teed at Vienna. This memorandum. known as the
Chiffon de Carlsbad" received the approval of
three Great Powers of the Continent during Louis
PbIlippe's reign While the outbreak OF the Revo-
lution was not wholly unexpected Prince Meter
mich seems to have been startled By it and TO have
looked for similar movements III many quarters Of
the Continent. - The gaze of the impartial and en-
hghtcned observer" he wrote TO Count Apponyl IN
Paris rests at the present time upon IA world IN
ruins Nothing at present existing in France can en-
dnre for everything lacks basis and suppor while
everything yet standing outside the kingdom IS eX-
posed 10 the liability of attack" The ChahceIl OF
expected that the standard OF revolt against cstap
lisbed government would first he caught up from
France into Italy, but it from the Netherlands
that the next alarm came. The Incorporation Of
Holland and Belgium was of the European ar
ranrements of 1915. The King Of the Netherlands
was now begging for an Austrian army to all nm
in suppreSSiug an Instruction which hai assumed
the proportions of a national uprising. The Chah-
celIor's mental perturbation finds utterance. IL
these excited passages letter to the Austrian Am
baSsador in London:
The cry of the day is. fraternity among nations
and we know what faction understands by" nation
and fraternity Our power does not extend 10
DESTROYING all that Is fatal III this watchwOrd to
the tranquility OF nations; Dut IL ought 70 acl as
warning to u.s. and make Ms fully sensible OF the
folly of laying down the only weapons we yet pos
sess and abandoning to the outcrles OF the as
turbers of the world an lTIeiragablc prlncIpIc OF
Justice. which has hitherto saved Europe from the
universal shipwreck with which she has so long
been threatened
Nav theories and distractions give way 10
sound practical good sense Let us leave all that 10
I'm, new Liberal School, and only borrow from them
flat identification of the end with the means,
that indefatgable activity which they have en-
poyed with such effect in the pursuit OF their pernl-
cious DESIGNS Let Us oppose union OF Govern
ment and the real people to that apochryphal fra
ternity which the enemies of peace and order are
seeking everywhere TO establish between the
mighty revolutionary power and The proiearlate of
all times
Aformidable revolt in Poland and revolutionary