Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-01-15
BiOgraphica /,
From the New York Evangelist.
Louis Philippe, King Of the French,
BY REV. J. S. c. ABBOTT,
Continued.

LII 0SOPO Vi SAhNAASo ~' NhN INS A~NNSSH GNSEN1 ~
said that the king with his son, stood upon the towers
ofhis palace at st. Cloud, about six miles from the city,
with his spy glass in his hand, anxiously watching the
National flag, the emblem of the Bourbon power, as it
foated from the battlements of the Tuileries. Sud
denly he saw it fall, and the tri-colored flag Of yictori-
Gus rebellion rose and was unfurled in its stead. It
revealed to him at a glance that all was lost-that his
honor and his crown had fallen forever. The next
momenthe saw the dust raised by his retreating troops
flying from the city. Charles and his family, accom-
panied by a small %retinue, fed in the utmost conster-
nation to KanlbuiHot, obSut thirty miles from the re-
VOTED capital
And now the cry resounds through the streets of
Parasite Rambuillet!" "o Rambuilletg" Scarcely
had Charles arrived, with his fugitive household, at his
hunthgseat, ere the alarm c%ouriers rushed from their
ranting-foaming steeds into the presence of the royal
family, to tell them, with pale lips, that all Paris was
on the march to attack them, Men, women and chill
dren. on horseback, in hacks and omnibusses, carts, and
ON foot-a motley throng of amounted thousands, were
on the way to pay their fallen monarch a most unwel-
come visit. 1t was a vivid revival ofthe scenes Otter
rr in the old French Revolution. Charles had not
FORGOTTEN the awful day in which his brother Louis was
torn from his throne and his palace; and dragged IN a
cart to a most ignominious death. The sun had al
ready gone down, and darkness oyershadowed the land
1t was indeed a night of terror and of tears, when
Charles and the royal family, in midnight gloom, pre-
c%ipitately entered their carriages, surrounded by a few
faithful a%dherents, and fled from their foes. As the
infatuated shouts of the multitude swelled upon the
night air, mingled with the cracking fire Of m%usketry
and the distant thunders of heavy artillery the Bour-
bons commenced their melancholy journey from regal
magnifcence to lgnomlny and exile.
When the next mornings sun rose above the
hills Of France, this funeral procession Of de-
parted power was seen winding its mournfuI way
through the distant provinces of the empire, to
6nd in foreign lands a refuge and a grave. The
alarm-belIs # the nation toIIed the knelI of de-
parted royalty, while every now and then came
p~eaIinr through the air the deep and distant
thunders of the instruction gun. The tri-col-
ored flag of triumphant revolt, floating from eve.
ry castle and streaming from every turret, pro
claimed that the Bourbous had gone down int
fiom Whence there was no resurrection
Charles and his son and his grandson, three
generations of kings, with the sobbing females
Of the royal family, witnessed these sights and
heard these sounds with emotions which no
language can describe. They darkened the
windows of their carriages, that they might con-
ceal from the popular gaze their countenances,
wan and wasted with sleepIessness and terror and
despair. .Apprehensive every hour of arrest and
consignment to the,dungeon or the gulllotine,
they hardly ventured to alight for refeshmcnt or
repose, in their funeral flight from the splendors
and the honors of the TuiIleries, Versailles and
St. Cloud, to the tomb of ignominy and of ex-
lie. A few hundred of the defeated body-guard
of the king followed in the train of the royal
carriages, silent and detected, the palI-bearers of
the Bourbon hearse.
Deeply as We must condemn the conduct of
this fallen monarch, who can refrain from she'd
ding a tear of sympathy over the ruined fortunes
of himself and his race, We forget his politi-
cal crime in the magnitude of the ruin with which
it overwhelmed him, Even the generous people
whom he had so deeply injured, when they wit
messed his utter and hopeless discontinue, man
F. stested no disposition by arrest, or insult, or re-
%proaChes, to add to the bitterness ofhis anguish.
They allowed him to depart unmolested. When
this melancholy train Of weeping f%ugitiges arriv-
ed at the ocean shore, they were received in two
American ships, which happened to be there,
and were conveyed to England, there to linger
out the remnant of their days in inglorious and
hopeless Punishment.
While these scenes were transpiring in Paris,
the Duke of Orleans was at his residence in
Neuily, so weary of being the sport of reyolu-
tons as to take no part in the conflict. He seem
ed to feel that he had borne his full share in the
periIs ofpolitical parties, and could hardly with
justice be called upon to expose himself to new
dangers. But La Fayette and the other leaders
of the revolution, Immediately directed their eyes
to him, as the most suitable candidate to ascend
the throne of the fallen monarch. They felt as
sured that France was not prepared for a repub-
lican form Of government, and they wished to sus
tain the throne, but to surround it with free in.
s%titutions. Louis Philippe was a branch of the
royal family, and that would c%onciliate the roy.
alists. He was the richest man in France, and
expended his immense resources in great liber.
alty and wisdom, and that gave him great pow-
err, for, the world over, wealth is influence. ]
have seen his private property estimated by a
French writer at one hundred millions of dollars
At any rate, it is so immense that a few million:
more or less are of no account. He WINS somt
very valuable blocks Of buildings in New York
SO that in the event of another revolution, hi
children will not find themselves %penniless in thi
city He was a known and l%Ong-trled advocate
of liberal political opinions, and that would rec
oncile the republicans.
The ministers of Charles also %foresaw, tina
from these very reasons he was the individual
from whom they had the most to fear. As tn
retreating troops of ChaIlss passed the park Q
Louis Philippe, they discharged a few vollies Q
artillery into his country seat, as the emphati
Expression of their consideration. On the sam,
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