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"The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself / into greater distinctness is ttte Idea of Humanity—the nbb'o : endeavour to throw down all the barxiacs erected between men . by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting ^ sxde the distinctions of Behgion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human ra . ee as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—JKumboldt's Cosmos . ¦ ¦ , - ¦' . ' ¦ ¦ . : ' — ¦ — - — : : — . —;— : ' ¦ ' . ' ' ' ¦ ¦"" ' - : ' - \ . " - ¦ " . ' ¦ : " /¦/'¦; ?; Tt . c ' v- ; t : ; .-
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TTA . LY continues to "be the object upon which X all eyes are turned . The Western Powers are doing something which is likely enough to bring on a crisis . "What the intention of those Powers may please to be nobody knows , but there are signs which , imply a larger purpose than is popularly ascribed to the statesmen engaged , and it IS rpiite oortctni tltat events are becotriLuj ^ tOO strong for the most adroit statesman entirely to
control them . In the first place , the King of Napx . es has tliat power which resists every kind of coercibn , which defies the most gigantic strength to bend it : he has the power which resides in imbecility . The most hopeless of all tasks is to convince a fool , and the King of Napi . es is uuconvinceable . HtJBNER has tried to make him moderate his assertion of absolutist royal rights ; but Naples cannot understand how Austria can preach a compromise of privilege ! lie stands out , therefore ; — -that is the first point . The Western Powers
declare that they are sending their ships to preside over what may , happen in the Bay of 3 S " aplesfour ! me-of-ba , ttle ships and a proportionate number of frigates , & c—that is the second accessoi'y to the approaching drama . Count Waubwski is understood to > have interposed every practicable delay in the consummation of the Imperial purpose at Paris ; but the French fleet has been , or is about to be , or is supposed to be about to be , launched at Naples . Many circumstances conspire to show that the Emperor Najpoleon intends to take an
active part in Italy—or does not intend . Two propositions liavo been ventured by ingenious persons , which prove how far lie has piqued the faculty of guessing : one is , that the Pope , incapable of holding his own at Rome , should retire to Avignon ; the other , that the King of Naples should abdicate , to be succeeded by his eldest son , the Duke of Calaiuiia , who would accede to the throne with the constitution of 1848 . But arc
not _ the Bourbons totally destroyed ? Js there any of the family , even the best branch , the Plri-Hppi & t branch , that has not upon him tho signs of extinction ? Ib not tho -whole family superannuated —fit only to disappear from conspicuous places , and about to disappear from the face of the earth ? Fourth fact , —Austria and all her protfgts are increasing their display- of insolence and their defences . Austria ia strengthening her works n $
Bergamo ; Tuscany lias been imprisoning soldiers of the Anglo-Italian Legion who returned home : while from Tuscany , and every part of the Italian peninsula , come subscriptions for the cannon , for the 10 , 000 rifles , addresses , and the most obvious signs of an impatience for action . The earthquakes of Vesuvius will be felt to the foot of the Alps . Before these great facts the squabbles of other
Governments sink into insignificance . Why is it that Russia still keeps up her attempts to wriggle out of the Treaty of Paris ? The only difficulty that we foresee with regard to Russia is the probability -that she may lend a politic aid to Piedmont against . Austria ; and if so , it will be difficult to strike Russia wh il e she is actually serving the purposes of freedom—if , indeed , it is possible that she can serve those purposes .
Even Spain becomes unimportant , although the principles there in conflict are at the very foundation of the happiness of nations . The Court has just shown tho cloven foot . It has compelled the Government of O'Donnell to suspend the sale of Ecclesiastical property—that sale which was gradually , very gradually , relieving Spain from mortmain , and familiarizing the Spanish mind to a veiy mild though practical species of Protestantism . While tlie Court of Piedmont has saved Catholicism in Northern
Italy at least by reconciling it to progress and freedom , the Court of Spain is preventing that rescue by reviving with a reactionary constitution tho heaviest incumbrance of the Roman Church . The Minister of Finance , Cantero , -whose scheme of revenue was spoiled by the bigotry of the Couit , has retired . By degrees the Court -will drive from it all practical political managers , and is expected to rccal that man who handles his sword as the only political instrument .
The civil contest in Kansas continues , but time lias not yet beon given for the effect of a more moderate course to be felt in tempering the conflict . A third Governor has been appointed , by President Pierce , a man , like his predecessors , selected , from the North , but reputed to be more energetic than they were . Should ho succeed in preventing tho attempt to check the extension oi slavery by a mere process of riot , he will do something to place the movement for relieving America from the curse of Bla . vcry in tlie path of hopeful progress . " Thero is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural nnd convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed whoa all
the world is by the very law of its creation m eternal progress . " The Missouri compromise necessarily failed , because it was an attempt " * o keep tilings fixedV' The rioting must as necessarily fail , because it calls out resistance on tie part of the South ; when already tlie strongest doubt as to the possibility or the policy of maintaining slavery was creeping into the very heart of every slave state . If peace sliould be restored , if the whole subject -vvere brought back . into Congress , where alone it can . be settled , we should profca / bly see the better feelings of the South ¦ evoked to aid the more generous and popular feeling , against slavery in the North ; and the Republic would unite to free itself from the curse which is now dividing it . In the meanwhile , there are men and journals in this country that are doing the best they can to exasperate the Americans into civil war under pretext of agitating for slavery abolition , and they are doing the best they can to procure the election of a distinguished projector of joint-stock speculations , Mariposa mines , and so forth , professedly to render the Republic more respectable !_ Luckily the Republic will pursue its own course ^"' uninfluenced by these beatings of the wind . ' The Belgium Customs l » eform Association is carrying on a war with tho Protectionist interests of the neutral kingdom , and particularly with the ironmasters of Belgium . There are other difficulties which stand in the way of its progress . Although the Government is high . . isposed to encourage free trade , it derives pi - - ? . revenue from several heavy fiscal imposts , wniiu the municipalities depend in some degree upoa tolls , partly intended originally for purposes of protection . Nevertheless , the association is composed of men who have furnished very powerful nid to tho € lo-, , vernment in a course of gradually Tightening the fiscal burdens of the kingdom . Thus the imposts on cereals have been entirely abolished . JBclgiuin , established by international treaties , neutral , serving as a house of call for other countries , has -very naturally offered itself as the continental centre for tho discussion of laws whic-h might be carried out in all the civilised countries of Europe , and indeed of the world . Thus It lias been , fl y * scene for debates on public law , on reformatory * improvement , on sanitary improvement , and now of free trade , to say nothing of the Tiomeopathiats who are holding a congress parallel to ^ fc Q ^ SSKT ^ N . allopnthist free traders . The Fj ^ -TcfMyBamyU ^ gress has been a decided success . r ^ H ^ PWWlfiJB * 2
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 27, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27091856/page/1/
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