Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-01-22

eminent at home, and by friendly alliance with
the other courts of Europe, to confirm and con-
solidate his power. By cooperating with Eng
land, in her all-engrossing desire to resist the
encroachments of Russia, he has secured the
friendship of the Court and Cabinet of St.James.
He has married his oldest daughter, Louisa Ma
ria, to Leopold, the widower of the lamented
Charlotte Of England, now the illustrious King
of Belgium, and by this alliance he has placed
one of the wisest and most efficient monarchs
in Europe to guard with fliaI watchfulness his
northern frontier. His eldest son, who was kill
ed a few years ago by lcaping from his carriage,
the father Of the present heir to the throne, he
married to the daughter of Ferdinand, Emperor
Of Austria, and he has thus created the deepest
interest in that powerful, but despotic court to
sustain and establish his throne. One daughter
is married into the royal family Of Denmark
His endeayors to marry another son to the youth
full Queen of Spain, it is now said, will proba-
bly, prove futile as Isabella is reported to have
found a successful sutton in the same famous ia
mlly which gave Victoria a spouse. The long
years Louis Philippe has spent in adversely and
exile; his intimate personal acquaintance with
all the governments Of Europe and America ;
his familiar knowledge of mankind in all the
various ranks Of society, from the Hottest eleva-
tons Of regal %splendor, to the lowest stations of
perjury, render him one Of the most efficient
monarchs upon an European throne. The pos
session of power is, however, always dangerous
and almost always corrupting. 1t is quite evil
dent that King Louis is less democratic in his
tendencies than was citizen Louis. And we
see no indications of any very anxious desire to
surround the throne with republican Institutions.
And yet we should be very slow in censuring the
acts Of mans government, who is morally
compelled to ascend the throne, and who must
either retain his position or be plunged, with his
family, into ruin. If Lonis Philippe abdicates
the throne, France is instantaneously deluged in
blood. The various factions into which the en-
pire is divided, unrestrained by his strong arm,
would at once riot through the realm in all the
horrors of civil war. If he is driven from the
throne, by the advocates Of legitimacy on the
one hand, who are anxious to restore the exiled
royal family, or by the republicans on the other,
who will be satisfied with nothing less than that
France be modelled after the American republic,
a strife must ensue in which shall be renewed
all the scenes of horror of the old French Rev.
%olution, and Louis PHILIPPE, with his wife Amelia
must either follow LOUIS XVI. and Maria Anto-
inSa&%o the guillotine, or follow Charles and the
exiled Bourbons into hopeless balisAmeht,'
Thus situated, it is hardly possible that Louis
Philippe should know any repose, His counte-
nance, it is said, is deeply iurrowed with the ira
ces of anxiety and care. France is filled with
diverse parties. There is no unity of opinion
in the nation. Conspiracies thicken throughout
his realms. Assassins dog his path. He is shot
at in the streets, and the surges of popular clam
or are dashing around his throne. So many at
tempts have been made to take his life, that he
has familiarly been called in Europe the Target
King. 1t has long been necessary for him when
he appears in public, to ride in a musket-prool
carriage, surrounded with guards, and to drive
with the utmost speed. 1t is said that whenev-
er he leaves the Palace, the Queen is in the
deepest anxiety lest he should be brought home
a corpse.
France is a volcano; ever living, breathing,
heaving. The r%umbling of its smothered inter-
nal fires never ceases. Louis Philippe cannot
%recline his head upon his pillow at night, with
the assurance that its lava flood will not over
whelm him before morning. But with his strong
mind, well disciplined in the school of adversely,
and knowing that the repose Of France and his
earthly all depend upon the stability of his pre-.
carious and tottering throne, he may probably re-
tain his position during the short remnant of hi:
earthly career.
The individual, from whom it has generally
been supposed that Louis Philippe had the mos
to apprehend, is Charles Louis Napoleon Bona
parte. When Napoleon married the widow Jo
sephine, she had a daughter Hortense, This
daughter Napoleon soon married to his brother
Louis. Their son, Charles Louis, thus boil
nephew and grandchild to the great Emperor, il
now the nearest Iineal descendant of Napoleon
and the heir to whatever rights he could trans
nit to his posterity, Charles Louis is now about
forty years of age. He has many p%artisans a
mong the people and in the army, and has Ions
been ready to embrace the first opportunity tc
head the veteran armies Of revolutionary France
and march with bloody strides to the throne
from which foreign foes expelled his illustriou.
ancestor.
In the year 1886 he made a very vigorous eff
fort, at Strasburg, to organize his friends, anC
march with a conquering army to the capital
He was, however, bafled by the vigilance Of
Louis Philippe, and after a short conflict utterly
defeated. A short time after this he made an
other very desperate attempt to rouse the army
of France in favor of the relative of their idol.
lied General. The effort, however, was utterly
disastrous. Louis Napoleon was taken prisoner,
tried and condemned to perpetual Imprisonment.
As he was led under the f%rowning battlements
of the impregnable fortress or rather chateau in
Ham, assigned to him by the government as his
home and his grave, it is reported that he looked
up at the gloomy portal and smiling said, "the
word perpetual has long ago lost its meaning in
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