When Ali Pasha, a celebrated Turk, was attempting to establish a new government, he wrote a letter to Prince Metternick, requesting him to immediately dispatch to him a " constitution-maker," as he was desirous of ruling the country he was about to conquer "after the most approved European model."
We would suggest to Mr. Seward that a similar application should be made now to Austria, a Government which seems to have the happy faculty of giving content and security to its people--two great blessings, the absence of which can scarcely be made up by republican forms. The Austrian Government, though not exactly constitutional, can scarcely be called as despotic as that which Republicans in the United States would establish upon the ruins of the old American Constitution. Even forty years ago, political offenders in Austria, though regularly tried, were in no case sent to the scaffold. The right of private property is held sacred in that country. There is the most perfect equality before the law, so that the highest noble in the land has not the smallest advantage over a peasant. The people are even allowed to have certain municipal privileges, which they exercise without the interference of the Administration. There are even, in every part of the Austrian monarchy, provincial States, which meet to discuss matters relative to the administration, especially financial, of their respective provinces. Mexico, which now has a scion of the Austrian monarchy on its throne, may come, in time, to enjoy all these advantages, and be the happiest people of the New World, as the Austrians are of the Old. We trust Mr. Seward will have a conference with the Austrian Minister and see what can be done to prevent the United States from being left behind in all the elements of human happiness by Mexico.
