Its voice is as potential, its victories as grateful
elsewhere as with us. And when its banner is borne down and trampled
in the dust, it is not in America alone that true hearts sympathize
and bleed. There are noble men in England, France, Germany, Italy, and
Hungary, upon whom the blow falls, as upon the first victims of
slavery. But in the wisdom of God, the nation that is not just shall
stand finally
"Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe,
An empty urn within her withered hands."
And thus shall it be with Austria. With the judgment of the civilized
world against her, with her people disaffected and disloyal, her
treasury drained and her credit destroyed, she shall wither and fall.
The partition of Poland, and the dispersion of the Poles all over
Europe, have been active agencies in the revolutionary movements of
that continent. Thus do the results of tyranny aid in the overthrow
of tyrants. No government can now be considered strong, whether it
call itself republican or monarchial, unless its foundations are laid
deep in the affections of the people, and based upon the immutable
principles of justice and equality.
In 1775, England had been engaged a century in the work of disunion.
In a hundred years great changes may be wrought. The affections of a
whole people may be diverted from former objects and attached to new
ones.
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