Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-01-08

From the New York Evangelist
Louis Philippe, King Of thu French.
By REV. J. s. C.. ABBOTT.
Continued. J

France, with about twice as many inhabitants
as the United States, has but one popular assem-
bly,, the Chamber of Deputies corresponding
in some degree with our General Congress-
There are in France no provincial bodies, anal
ogous to our state legislatures and the active
minds of the nation have no means of communi-
eating with the people, but through the press
The weekly newspapers of France consequently
employ the pens of her ablest writer's, and her
leading statesmen. The peculiar mode of life
in Paris greatly favors an extensive acquaintance
with the public journals. Thousands daily FIRE.
quent the coffee houses, where the journals are
spread before them. In all parts of the city, in
all the places of refreshment, in the public walks
and gardens, little pavilions are tented where the
citizen or stranger can, by the payment of a pen.
ny, read any of the journals or pamphlets of the
day. The resorts are greatly multiplied in time,
of great political excitement, and attract in I'M
mense crowds, the rowing and unsettled popu
lace of Paris.
Charles X. was gentlemanly and good-na
tured old man, but obstinate and in his dotage.
There is not a little truth in the antithesis, thai
during his exile he remembered every thing he
ought to have forgotten, and forgot every thing
he ought to have remembered, Seeing and fear
ing the progress which liberal opinions were ma
king in France, he had the folly to appoint
ministry, each individual of which was a known
opponent of liberal principles, and especially OBJ
n%oxious to the French people. The public press
Immediately opened upon this ministry the mos
harrassing and merciless warfare. Charles, an
noyed and irritated by the loud and continued
demonstrations of the public hatred, with an in
f%atuation of which we can hardly find parable
even in the insanity of princes, determined tt
abolish the freedom Of the press, and silence
these remonstrant voices of the nation. He
thought it safe to follow the counsel of the Rus
sian Empress Catharine, that "kings ought t
proceed in their career, undisturbed by the cries
of the people, as the moon pursues her course
unimpeded by the bowling of dogs"
1t was lovely Monday morning in July, 1889
when the "Moniteur," the Government paper.
appeared with an ordinance declaring, umone
other obnoxious articles, that Sat all times tn
periodical press has been, and it is in its nature
to be, only an instrument of disorder and sedi
ton" 1t therefore declared that the freedom
of the press was no longer to be tolerated, bu
that it was placed under the censorship of tn
Government, Upon the appearance of this exc
cradle ordinance, excitement and indignation fla
med like a condagration through every lane an,
alley of the city. Thousands began to assemble
in the cofee-rooms and around the reading shops
The great thoroughfares leading to the publi
squares of the city. to the Garden Of the Tuille
ries and to the Palais Royal, were ~thronged witt
the reused masses c%rowding to these foci of in
telIigence. Readers mounted upon barrels ant
chairs loudly read the Government ordinance t
the gathering multitudes.
As a police officer endeayored to arrest a maj