Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-03-24
Tke Revelation in France.


The progress Of free principles is making rapid
strides ia Europe, and producing awful constcr-
nation and %cCnnotion among The crowned heads
existing there. The masses of that down.trodden
people arc awakening to a just sense OF their inn
porionce and power, aud asserting their own
claim to be heard and represented in the gov
ernment. The Cambria brings news of stirring
interest. The dospoiic thrones of Europe are
either tunbling down, or wisely yielding to the
demand Of popular representation.
Charles y, unhccding the awful lessons Of the
first revolution, attempted to enslave the French
nation. The revolution of 1880 hurled him from
the throne, and elevated Louis Philippe to II,
upon his solemn guarantee to respect and pre-
serve the liberties Of France. Louis Philippe
has been on the whole a wise and moderate sove-
reign but in later years, under the advice Of his
ministers, has sought by force to put down lib
erty of speech aud Of the press, and to cocrcc
the people to submission by the exhibition of mil
itary power. Having control of the resources
of the nation, his INSCRIPTIONS minister made
use OF it to purchase or bride the representatives
Of the people, and through q venal majority, sti-
fed and trampled over the rights, liberties, and
just demands Of the nation. For two or three
years past, the struggle has been going on
bribery and corruption have still secured a PHI
ant majority, and one by one the franchises and
immunities Of the people have been taken from
Them. The popular mumurs and complaints,
suppressed by the strong arm Of Il military gov
%crumont, have long been spreading wider and
wider through the nation, and growing stronger
and stronger, until at last, like some pent-up VOL
cano, it has burst forth, and consumed every
thing that opposed its progress.
As a means Of n'aniicstins popular disappro-
baton Of the government, and Of exhibiting and
concentrating public sentiment, dinners termed
" reunions politique" have been given all over
the kingdom, at which political measures were
discussed, and the policy Of government arraign-
ed. These meetings gave offence to Louis Phil.
ippe, and their suppression was determined on.
An obsolete law was found, which was declared
applicable to such meetings, and which forbade
them. This was brought forward in the Cham
Der of Deputies, and published, and such assem-.
bhcs forbidden. The Opposition Deputies de-
termined to give such a dinner, and the time
and place was fixed, but before the day arrived,
the police, by public notice, forbade the meeting,
and the military was called in and placed around
so as to enforce the orders Of government.
We copy the proceedings in their order, and
as much i in detail as our limits will permit:
SUNDAY, Feb. 2Oth-The banquet had been
announced for to-day, in the twelfth arrondisc-
mont lnt .voa nnsfran.al ~ friday until Inac.
day next, in the vicinity Of the Champs Elysecs,
as the people of the faubourg ST. Antoine will
then be at their ayoc ations, and the distance will
probably deter most OF them from attending
There is n great demand for the opposition pat
pers, which contain the circular, signed by eighty
deputies, at a meeting held at Odilon Barfots
house, place de Ia Madeleine;
"The deputies Of the opposition met again
this morning, in order to deliberate on the part
they ought to take in the coming manifestation
in favor of the right Of meeting. contested and
violated by the ministry. After hearing the re-
port of the commission, il was resolved unani-
mously that il became more than ever necessary
to protest 10y a grant act Of legal resistance
against a measure as contrary to the principles
OF the constitution as TO the letter Of the law. 1t
was resolved, in consequence, that they should
go in a body TO the place Of meeting on Tuesday.
Paris has often made heroic efforts and great
revolutions. II is again called upon 10 set an
other example to all people, and to show them
how, in free countries, the calm and firm atti-
tude of the citizen respecting his right is the
most irresistible, as it is the most majestic OF the
national powers. Two great results will thus be
obtained-thc conservation Of n right inherent 10
every free constitution, aud a striking proof of
the progress Of our political manners. The dep
utics Of the opposition count, then, upon the sym
pathy and support of all good citizens, us they
in turn may reckon upon their (thc opposition
membcrs) interchangeable dcyotcdness, and upon
the iinnness of their resolves"
MONDAY, Feb. 2ist.-The National of this
morning presents a curious physiognomy for all
the lines which usually divide the first page into
columns are wanting, and a " Manifestation" is
there printed like a placari--a typographical
coup de theatre, calculated 10 tell. Before it is
the note by which the deputies accept tic invi-
tation to the banquet, rs follows:
1--WE have received the invitation you did us
the honor TO address to us for the banquet of the
18th reimbursement Of Paris.
"Ihc right of political meeting without pre-
vious authorization having been denied by the
ministry, in the discussion of the Address, we see
in this banquet the means Of maintaining a con-
stitutional right against arbitrary prctensions,
and of consecrating it defnitiycly. We conse-
quently consider it an impcrious duty to unite
NNi7NA'N ~ wv hci NAA HiAlllt manifestation
you propose, and to accept your invitation"
This is signed by 80 deputies, whose names
are printed in capital letters,
The manifestation which follows is well worth
a careful perusal, as il shows the studied wish OF
the opposition TO avoid collision, yet to assert
their rights;
"REFohM MANIFESTATIONS.
1.-The general committee charged to organize
the banquet Of the 18th announcement, thinks il
right to state that The object Of the demonstra-
lion fixed for Tuesday, is the legal and pacific
exercise of a constitutional right, the right Of
holding political meetings, without which repre-
sentative government would be only a derision.
The Ministry having declared and maintained
at the tribune that this right is subjected to The
good pleasure of the police, deputies of the OPP
position, peers Of France, e~x-deputies, members
of the Council General, magistrates, officers, sub
officers, and soldiers of the National Guard, mem
bers Of the central committee of electors of the
Opposition, and editors Of newspapers Of Paris,
have accepted the invitation which was made to
take part in the demonstration in order TO pro-
test, in virtue of The law, against an illegal and
arbitrary pretension.
The cortegc will leave at III O'Clock, and
will proceed by the Place dc la Concorlc and
the Champs Elysees to the place in which the