Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-04-20


the consciences of all citizens who are electors
that is the intention of arepublican Govern
ment, that is ITS duty, that is yours! That Il
the safety of the people! Have confidence ii
the good sense of the country. 1t will have
confidence in you. Give ii liberty, and it vii
! give you back the republic.
Citizens, France is attempting at this mo
ment-in the midst of some financial Difficult
, ties bequeathed to her by royalty, but, unde
providential auspises, the greatest work o
modern times-the foundation of the govern
nlent of the entire people, the organization o
the Democracy, the republic of all rights, of al
interests, of all the intelligence, and of all I'll.
yirtuesi Circumstances propltlous. Peace
is possible. The new idea may be able to take
its place in Europe without any perturbation
but that of the prejudices which people have
!, against IT,. There is no anger in the minds o
the people. If the fugitive royalty has not car
ried away with it all the enemies of the Repub
lie, it has left them powerless; and although
they are invested with all the rights which lht
Republic guarantees to minorities, their inter
est and their prudence insure to us that they
will not themselves trouble the peaceablt
foundation of the popular constitution.
In three days that work which it was tho'
was postponed TO distant times had been &C
complshed without drop of blood being split
admiration being heard in our departments OIL
on our frontiers. Let us not lose this unique
occasion in history. Let US not abdicate the
greatest force of the new idea. the security
which it inspires in citizens, the establishment
which it inspires in the world.
Yet few days of MAJ nanimty, ofdeyotion.
of patience, and the National Assembly will
receive from our hands the new-b born Republic.
From that day all will be saved. When the
nation, by the hands of its representatives.,
shall have seized the Republic, the Republic
4 will be strong and great, like the nation, holy
like the idea of the people; imperishable like
the country. (patric.)
The members Of the Provisional Government:
Dupont, (de fEnre,) Lamartine, Msrrast,
i GARNER Pages, Albert, Marie, Ledru Rollin,
/ Flocon, Cemieux, Louis Blanc, Arago.
i The Secretary General-PAGNERRE.
Austria.-The Emperor of Austria has con-
sented 10 the liberation of the press and the es-
adjustment ola national guard. The new MIN
lister in place of Metternich will be count Kol-
ourat.
1.-The intelligence received this morning from
Vienna says our correspondent, is ofthe most
serious nature. The accounts are but meagre
as to details, but the result proves thata com
plete revolution has been effected in the Aus
trian capital. A conflict on the 18th between
: the people, led by the students and citizens
and the military has compelled Prince Meter
mich to fly There has been bloo6shed ON botf
Sides but the number of killed and wounded il
not stated. The director of police, NJ Seld
Milky, has been expelled. The house of Prince
Metternich was sacked by the mob, and The
Grand Dukes have Withdrawn into private life
The military have left the city, which Is unde
the protection of the civic guard and the stu
: dents. The official Gazette of the 18th con
, talns a notification of the concessions the EN-
peror is compelled 10 make to the necessitie:
of the hour. His majesty consents 10 arm The
students, and expresses hope that the citizens
will cooperate with them in maintaining pub
lie order; ne trusts that fresh proof of his pa
ternal solicitude will be recognised in this
measure, and that tranquility will be re-estab-
iished by it; if it is not, he WILL though with
regret, be obliged TO authorize the troopsto use
their arms. There is discrepancy between
the official account and the intelligence of the
SeitungShalle. If the city is already in posses
sion of the citizens, the orders to the military
come too late. rv- sf
THE movement now in progress in the diff
ferent States of the Germanic confederation
! cannot but embolden the revolutionary party
in France. But as every hour brings intelii-
gence af some new adhesion, some additional
fragment of the old system carried away By the
Sf6dl uCUuCtC VI anu pOll(lCo
/ swept down empires in its flood, it renders
more inexplicable and less justifiable the all
but universal arning of the people here. The
military force of France is increasing every
day, the regular army has not been diminished
the national guard in and around Paris mum
bers 100000 men, the garde mobile with the
new enrolments made since the revolution
cannot amount TO less than 1000 The las
are being armed and equipped with all possible
rapidity, even in the face of extraordinary fl
nancial difficulties that ought TO induce the
most rigid economy. In this general DISPOSE
: ton, or rather instinct, of the French people
: to fly 20 arms lies the element Of danger to the
peace of the world. For what-against whom
| lis this enormous force TO be employed2 The
: republic has no enemies on lis frontier now
: as in 1892 and 1913, the revolution is acknow
, lodged, and the patriotic spirit is not rouseC
: by any condition of sovereigns or Brunswick
proclamaiions. But The traditions of the ole
republic are still living and active, and are op
Grating vitality at the present hour. The su
perstitions of democracy may be as mischev
, Gus as the dogmas of royalty, when both arr
unsuited to the circumstances of the age. Ma
5 ny Of the first DEGREES of the present Govern
ment were but repitilions of those of the con
:. vention, though half a century..of change ha.
rendered them unnecessary, the things haC
> ceased to exist. In the same manner the PEG
: pie revert TO that period with an unmistakabIe
desire to reproduce it; the popular aspiration:
are all warlike. The increase of the army i.
: but the embodiment of feeling by which the
2 Government is carried away Words and
, phrases are Of a peace, acts all point &c
war, though no power dreams of attack. :"
j HaIy-As soon as the news of the French
revolution. and The subsequent proclamation
of the republic, was known at Rome, an i'm
nense crowd of people proceeded with ban
> ners, and amid cheers for the constitution and
the French Republic, TO the Quirinal. where a
deputation was chosen to present the following
address TO the Pope.
''Holy Father: The recent events of France
are of such importance that they must exercise
: the greatest influence in every part of Europe
, and particularly in Italy. The subjects Of
your Holiness, with the strongest attachment
to your person and throne, feel the necessity
of expressing their fears and hopes in this EN-
ergency For the purpose of giving wise di
rection TO the movement of political passion.
: which may rise in the present circumstances
| your subjects think it urgent that a constitu
ton be Immediately published, in harmony
with the institutions of the other Italian states