The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-10-27

suiJeclion OF 200 900 men 10 Presidential dctation
subject TO be called into service ut his command,
ana whose "omhS seaicd in regard to the We, y
act by which they disfyaaehised and made
@"ocS Let the people of this Union assent to
l lhs proposition, and from that hour their bondage
will begin. The issue is now fairly before ,hom
The President himself has presented it and his par
! ty have approved il. Let il DO lnet-boldly ard
earsely met. 1t the effort of tyrant to estab
lish tyranny, 1t Is dnrng attempt 10 shut the
mo0ths Of the nation and make us slaves Let the
people speak out, and cause these rulers to trembre
| in their high places, and convince tho world that
they still free, and that he blood of their rev.
olutionary fathers yet flows through their VEINS
~ ROPEAN FAIRS
| The extraordinary parts taken in European
affairs by England, France, Russia Austria and
Prussia, are Ia us Americans so extraordinary that
win difficulty can we understand or appreciate
| Them. Whenever there is troublr, there are tho
nv" great Powers, who undertake 10 settle it, even
by arns,aS if il their own bu siness to be trans
acted III their states. Their theatre of opera
lions just now, seems To be transferred from tho
North of Europe aud Spain to the East,an Eastern
affairs, in which they toward Turkey and E.
gypt and Syria as il they but part and par
Gel Of coIunon empire Of their own, which they
had a joint right 10 govern at will. For ought we
know, this is all WELL aud all for The common
good but 1t Is not tho less extruord mary in our
own eyes, this of Foreign Powers arbitratng' upon
the affairs Of the lime P"rt,the Pasha of Egypt,
the Druses, and the Christians of Lebanon! IL
peace the object, or common lust for peacoaby
won new Gomiuions2 a..s -
The picture of affairs in The old world Just now
is not less extraordinary than the way they man.
age them. France Is making conquests in Africa.
England has arendy stretched, and is further
streciog her sovereignty in the Gas, beyond all Al
eXandr..n ambition. China is struck for now 10.
0Oj mes FROM Loudou by army created there
bat ma,chng under the British ag. Russia is in
Circassiu aye, even meeting England in the East.
Persia but stnnls between, soon 10 he the common
prey Of both Austria contents herself with n dom
ination over Venice and Milan, and with her guas;
sovereignty in all Italy nj least. Prussia looks on
holding what she ins pnlaw fully got, satisfied il
she can keep it still. All have plundered or are
plundering. Two oftle great pow RS figures large
~ in the new world France anon at Mexico, and
now on the river La Plata, aud England 100 in
South, or Central America, rs we'll as in tho North
The most Restless and ambitious just these
powers, both struggling make up, perhaps, what
they lost, or did not gain upon the dethronement
of Bonaparte FRAMES in the loss of its Rhepsh
and other Siutes, and f. gland by he naptitude o.
It's neg"riators, - for though England fought nearly
all The battles az The Holy y llionce, either by its
purse its sword, yet England got nulhing for it,
upon settlement ofaccounts, unless it were a few
isles ia the Mediterranean.
Con quest, and the love of conquest then is the
picture Europe yet presents, but conquest differ
hg from all that has preceded it. The rulers Of
Europe since the partition of Poland, seem to have
faculty agreed to let European plumber alone, and
to turn their attention e!swhere. Ambition is tovex
no more the plains Of Belgium, nor crimson the
Rhine, but Marshal Valee Leads i, to action under
the ,ricolor, among the kabyles and Marabaots of
of Africa, or, If not satisfied under the of ST.
George, among the Afstnistans Asia, j, scars
even TO tho Chinese s';,s. Ii is agreed that the
statu qao in Euro,o shall be preserved, but there
of Asia and Africa. Turkey stand all crutn-
bling is Mehen,et y |! must Eli, ink back upon
the Nile. Bat stretch has oud the geographical
tread nl what is called iyiiizatun and Russia may
rob aud plumber al Will or England even rob an
empire because it viii not dGrpur lis opium. Rus
ST travels with a,mIrs whoro gedgrap iIors even
can scarcely track them. England camps down
al Eden in The East Her Fur uad6 rs or discov-
erers claim all The earth beS ond lie United States
in North Anerca. Now she wins sovereignty in
New Iceland, and anon is struggling among the Ca.
frees of southern Africa, W i,n her domnidp 70
mol is more easily told than what IT ss. France,
not to be behind, foments and takes part in insur,
reciions in tho provrnces, appended To, aBucnos
A yefs. while with fire mud sword her soldiers ARE
Algeria Thus European anibilipnhas
Ibludoued is old ie!ds Of sile, W here il, but rob-
'ed Que another to gratfy it's appees upon bar
'aruns aud savages where it hold what il
,ets. Civilization, it secns, has taught man TO
ease the robbery Of civilized man, bat not of the
Savage or Barhqfiap. Peace Societies have far
ucceeded in Keeping peace, that''here is peace at
,ome, though constant war ABROAD. t"'
Another Wow is Impressive in The present as
rect of European affairs and tina The action OF
he West upon the East in tho Ola World. Bon.
partn broke down The pecullaritics of European
States. His roads aud i!s, oads, If may so ex.
,ress ourseves.--we mean the inundations or hie
nes, wonderfully assiniiated nations upon the ,.