Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-06-01

on the evening ofthe Goth of March, two or
three hundred of them gathered before the
printing office, shouting "a bos Ia Prose-
Mort II Girardin !" The Editor caused the
doors TO be thrown open, and after conferr-
ing with the mob for an hour or two, sue
ceeded in persuading them to depart with
out inflcting injury. The Minister of the
Interior, upon hearing of the affair, imme-
diately FASTENED to the office and took meas
ures for its perfect security. All the city
journals, of every shade of opinion, Joined
in the severest Reproduction of this endeavor
to abridge the freedom of the press and
there is little danger of the attempts being
repeated.
Disturbances have occurred during the
last month, in several of the departments
A few of these have arisen from want of
employment but most have been the con-
sequence of the injudcious policy of the
government commissioners, in acting too
strictly upon the instructions of Ledru Roll
lin, the Minister of the Interior, an extreme
Republican, and man of much more ener-
gy than prudence. This functionary, with
out consultation with his colleagues, ad-
dressed to the commissioners in the depart
ments, soon after their appointment, cir
cular defining their powers and their duties,
IN which it was said that their authority was
illmltable that their mission was revolu-
tlonary, and that the general elections were
their especial object of supervision. This
circular Immediately exacted the greatest
Indignation among all classes of citizens :;
and 1t was soon followed by manifesto
signed by all the members Of the Govern
ment, soflenlng its rigor, and guarantying
to It's fullest extent the freedom of election.
Yet many of the Commissioners conducted
their administration in the spirit of their O.
rlgnal instructions; they deposed immova-
bic magistrates, arbitrarily made up lists of
candidates, and in variety of ways under
took to control public opinion, for the ben
eft of ultra-republcanism The conse-
quence, as might have been expected, was
reaction; and several of the Commissioners
have been violently driven from office -
Calm has been uniformly restored upon the
appointment of other men of more moderate
principles, and more enlightened policy.
The election for the officers of the Ma
tlonal Guard passed off in highly satisfac-
tory manner. The officers chosen, are men
OF high moral worth, devotedIy attached to
the Republic and ever true to the supreme
cy of law and order. The elections were
conducted with the greatest regularity, and
augur happily for the termination of those
for the National Assembly without the least
detrlment to the public peace and tranquil
ity.
The high-minded negative of LAMARrrNE
to the Irish delegation, who solicited French
assistance for the cause Of Repeal, has oc-
casloned no feeling but satisfaction among
the people. The truth is that France has
much less sympathy for Irish independence
than she had at the former revolution; and
the reason is not that the cause is intrin-
sically less worthy, but that il has suffered
rretrievable discredt by having fallen into
the hands Of such vaporing DULLES as O'Bri-
en-, Mitchell and Meagher, who by their
thirst for blood have repealed from their as
ISOLATION all the sensible and substantial
portion of the country. Not one of the re-
cent revolutions in Europe has been elfec-
ted without the instrumentality of the mid
die class of society. So long as the Irish
population answering to this class oppose IA
resort TO physical force, and persist in adj
herring to the wise policy of the great Agi-
tator, the existing order of things will never
be changed by violence. Rebellion will on
ly array itself to be ANONYMOUSLY discom-
fitted, all the brass cannon of Colonel HART
to the contrary notwithstanding.
SIGMA.