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Show SPREAD OF EKPUBUCANISM. A general change in the form of European governments is by no means Improba'-V. Indeed, it is most probable. Jent events point equarely in the direction of no ordinary ordi-nary political revolution. Fortunately it is such a revolution as we in America Amer-ica can afJord to applaud, if it be not carried too far. The people under ! mouarcl" icftl rule, everywhere, re exercised by uncontrollable diei-ou tent, &ii(l dissatisfaction that cannot be suppressed. These manifest themselves them-selves most in tboie governments where the powtr is closely centralized, and tue line of caste nviro distinctly drawn, as in Russia and Germany. England is not free from this popular discontent, though bIio feels it less in proportion as her Government is more liberal than the others and ber subjects have mere voice in the nalior. The tendency is everywhere towards republicanism. re-publicanism. The United State? has set an example to the wjrld: Too seed that was planted mure than u century ago in the wiids of the North American continent ha? produced a . tree that challenges the admiration ot the people of Christendom. For a 'ong time ttie republic was regarded J with a watchf'i' and distrustful eye;, and while it was be- i 'Ml to behold I aud charming to Co n'.eoi plate, it failed to inspire confidence in its stability. Few in the old world thought it could stand, and while many hoped it would not fall, they trembled at every little internal commotion, com-motion, lest the Btructure Bbould topple and go to prices. Most of these apprehensions "have long Bioce vanished, aud the world ts day looks upon the republic as one of be firmest, as it is on-: of the most vigor ous and enterprising governments on the earth. It is no longer regarded sa an experiment with a dou'u i result. Ths example has beeu : f.jtion, aud tho success or the republic is likely to prove the grown et-ong and our institution- become fixed principles, losing their isky, doubtful character, other g v-erumeuts v-erumeuts have growa weak and shaky. As people have ceased t- look upDa the government of ihe' United States as a pretty toy that vuuld be destroyed by playing with it, they have come to admire .it on en tirety difhrent grounds, and are now about ready to p-Uteru after us. France was the first to seriously catch the infection j which has now spread to every couu-! try iu Europe. Tue attempts, recently, to destroy the German cm- ! peror were but violent ways of expressing ex-pressing the fever. His subject do j nit dislike Wilbelm, but they are diB-1 satisfied with nyalty and waul a, changj. Tney are q nck to drw comparisons, and ready to de;:ide in favor of tho popular government, i Tnose attempts and the goner! mur 1 :nur:.ugs everywhere he-trd throughout Europe, ttll, too plainly to be ; misiakeur what they forbjdts.. As ; it is expressed in a dispatch from Loudon, iu today's Herald. "Mm in private say the entiy is ripe Or a republic." This is certain to be the outcome of the iimvercal discontent discon-tent among the nusse3 of Eirope. The danger lies in the people "going too far, as in the attempts upon the life of the German monarch. They are liable to mistake communism for liberty, and in their revolutions go beyond republicanism into anarchy and chaos. Howaver, as revolutions do not go backwards, though cx9S3ei and misrule mis-rule may come at first, they will ba succeeded by order .itgood covern-i covern-i ruenl. Having set tue proud example, jthe United States cn but note with gratification the growth of the plant jintho nations of the old world, aud rejoice at the prospect of ere long 'congratulating the republics ol Germany. Russia and Great Britain. |