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• ; . ¦ ¦ . - . ' , . . ¦ - —? - — -.. "¦ - :. - . . . - . . ;¦;¦ A MJSRIGA and Europe stand rather curiously jCjL contrasted in the aspect of this week ' s news . In America we see the republic master of the situation , prosperous , laying down its own course , and surmounting its domestic difficulties with , the innate force of a great people . Europe
»; less .-.. torn by disorders than harassed by cross interests , the intrigues and treacheries of her official governments . The Message of President Piekce is a pictur * of the Union , its prosperity , its incessant activity , and its victory over sectional interests . Kansas has been quieted . The Conflict within the older states of the Union on the
visionary question of extending slavery , or of placing a restraint upon the institutions of the South by the will of the North , has been overridden by the steady progress of material activity , and by the good sense of the great bulk of the Union . President Pierce describes the attitude which the Union preserves towards foreign States
—peaceful on all sides , declining to recognize tlie petty governments of Central America , watchful towards Mexico , -whose feeble Government cannot maintain order at home or abroad . He justly points to the recent Presidential election as establishing the triumph of attachment to the Union over geographical distinctions .
We point , however , with peculiar satisfaction , to the address delivered by Mr . Buchanan to the students of Franklin and Marshall College , with which he is connected . A numerous band of youths went to congratulate him , on his election , at Wheatlands , his own house in Pennsylvania , and the reply of Mr . Buchanan , the first and only manifesto which he has made on the principles of his future administration , will bo found to read like an echo of those views which , on a knowledge of
his character and a long observation of his public services , we have already put forward . The object of his administration would be , lvc said , to destroy any sectional party , North or South , and to harmonize all sections of the Union under a national and conservative government , as it was fifty years ago ; for James Buchanan closely connected his own principles with those which > vcre uphold by . « the Father of his Country '—Wash"WroN . And as a . sign of the general spirit with which the . American Republic is behaving in the world
we can take nothing better than the little incident of Captain Haktstecn ' s mission to present Queen Victoria her own ship— -the Resolute . Our own Government has inflicted upon that of America incompatible wrongs — it has mistrusted ; , '" her , and has at the same time treated her with bad faith . The United States have preserved their own course unaltered ; they maintain a friendship which we had forfeited , and have-taken . ' their-re- , venge in this return . It is not a bad example of results which flow from government- by tlie people , as compared witb government by Belcrravia . *
We are at war again . It is not Queen victoria , indeed , that has declared war , but Lord Canning has done so , as proconsul of the Indian Empire . War has - been "definitively proclaimed against Persia , and all pretences of a minor operation , a mere local suppression of disorder , at Herat , have been abandoned . The grounds of war have been explained in our own columns ; we are not , however , at ' the . present moment dealing with the merits of the question ; we are only noting the military fact that we are at war in Centi'al Asia .
In Europe , too 3 the duration of the peace js virtually called in question by'the practical impossibility of definitively executing the terms of the Treaty of Paris . " Wo hear nothing more to reassure us on the . subject of the 20 th Article , which Russia has explained in a sense apparently more consistent with the actual terms of the article and with the geographical features of the proposed frontier , than our own plenipotentiaries and Ministers have done .
And while the plenipotentiaries are preparing to reassemble , our nearest ally , the one to whom we have most absolutely trusted , has struck out a new course ^ in a matter quite as interesting to Europe as the integrity of the Ottoman Empire , namely , the integrity of the Swiss republic Nuufchutel is the principality of that Turkey , and Prussia plays there the part of Russia . The case is more paltry , "but more barefaced . As Russia
claimed to exercise some degree of protectorate over the Danubinn Principalities , so the King of Prussia claims to exercise a lordship over the canton of Neufiihatel . The canton originally owned some kind of lordship in a French family , whoso inheritance by the female lino devolved upon the house of Hoiiknzoix . kiin . The King appointed certain officers , aud bad a certain fee as lord or suzerain ; which feo he entirely expended
m local purposes . In point of fact , the suzerainty was a mere augmentative of the Prussian dignity , the very troops being under restraint as to their service , especially against the interests of the republic . During the disturbances of 1848 , the canton broke loose from its regal tie , so totally incompatible with its essentially republican relations ; and the King so far condoned the proceeding as to give an express permission that the officers heretofore named by him , and the persons who professed some remaining allegiance—the scanty local Tory party— -should execute their duties and obey then * superiors in the canton or the republic , tbe severance notwithstanding . InMay , 1852 , during the distinguished residence of Lord MALMEsnuRr in the Foreign-office , the Chevalier 23 u ? fSEx made a formal declaration of King Frederick William ' s rights as suzerain over the province of Neufchiitel ; Lord MAtMESBtTKY and certainforeign ministers sitting in the conferenceon other subjects , received this declaration on the part of the ChevalierBuNSEN , and in a protocol on their part , recorded the formal declaration that Prussia had made a statement . Everybody knows the Pourtales insurrection of this year—the ludicrous discomfiture of the insurgents , their imprisonment , and their trial , now actually commencing , - on a charge of treasonable rebellion against the republican authority . Fbederick William has professed to be excessively reasonable on the point ; he will do something gracious on one condition , and that is that the prisoners be released unconditionally . The ground for this preposterous claim is , that although they are traitors to the republic , they were only too faithful to him . That the authorities of the republic will deal leniently with the prisoners , is a matter of certainty ; they have already treated them with striking indulgence ; and King Frederick Wit . liam cannot possibly feel the slightest real anxiety on their account . He is only demanding an act of absolute deference from the republic as an inferior to himself as a monarch . The federal Government has replied to him with courtesy , and has even put forward distinct explanations for the purpose of proving that it has been regular ^ Jawfill , and lenient in its conduct toward ^^^^^ v tured insurgents . In this country t ^ e ^^^^^ yj £ but sympathy and respect for nxetav ^ aft ^ jSmw / ifpF -d . ! * '''' flirt "siiyyj'ir J'ljivi - * - ^ i understand their duty . Not so wk dcHivp ' TSJJKKfflfiiit in European countries . Wo alreaujM Iwi ^ 'P ^^^^ ^ King FitEDKUxcic William had Kf ff . i *^ fe . ^^|^| 5 ? h the Gorman states which lie be ^ B ^ sAw ^ fepf . ^ kj
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 20, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20121856/page/1/
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