The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-04-01
WIN the Reformers Succeed 2

ANVPhpllS
Will the Reformers Succeed?
Great interest is manifested in this country,
us there will be all over the world las the news
spreads in regurd TO the re volution in France.
Among monarchists the anxiety will he that
the scheme for n Republic may be defeated;
but with republicans it will be that the reform
crs may be successful in establishing a per-
manent Republic. ,f.......
The news to the latest hour from Paris was,
that aprovisional Government-the germ of
RePublic-had been sanctioned at Paris, but
how that measure will be received by the ma
ton at large we have yet to learn. That il
will be joyfully hailed by the mass of the peo-
pie is not doubted; buteve with the REFORM
ers there is division Of opinion-some favor
ing Constitutional Monarchy, and others
pure Republic Between these the plan for n
Republic may fail, Louis Philippe, when he
ascended the throne 10 years ago, promised the
people the former form Of Government, but he
gradually receded into form little, if any bet
ter than practical DespotsR This will tend
to make the friends ola Republic jealous of
any aspirant unless lac is for a genuine Re pub
lie. Upon this subject French paper in the
City of New York-the Courier dcS Eiats o.
Ris--speculates as follows: .,.
"The suspension ofthe Monarchial and the
creation of the Republican Government, have
as yet been announced in Paris only as provis-
onal acts-as propositions submitted to the de-
fnitive judgment of the people. win these
acts be maintained, until the con vocation of n
Constituent Assembly-these propositions rat
fled by that Assembly, We believe that prob
abilities are in favor ofan affirmative solution
of these two questions. ..... ... ...
We do not deny that powerful efforts will
be made to establish, by will or force, n mon
archy in favor of the Count de Paris. We say
nothing of Louis Philippe, although to a Ger
tain extent his abdcaton may be regarded as
null, the condition which it was made not
having been accepted. But Louis Philippe
is at present man impossible; he has been
wanting to his reputation, to himself, to his
party. This man, who has medtatcd the res
| toration of family alliances and the leveling
| ofthe Pyrenees-who wished to initiate the
work of Louis XIV, and TO act over again his
magnificent role, has fallen, and disappeared
from the stage, as Kissed actor. His fall has
less grandeur even than that ofCharIcs X for
it has fewer excuses; relying on greater re-
sources, it has been met with less resistance,
justified by less necessity. Charles X. threw
down the guantlct TO France account of a
great principle, that of his divine right: Louis
Philippe has entered into conflict with the peo-
pie, on account of dinner! To that people
| tuhnSa ri0ht 70 1jsnnso If n fhropa ba had
ognized, he has denied that of assembling at a
banquet! To fall thus, is to fall too low ever
to rise again. Thus we regard Louis Philippe
personally out of the case. If he appeals to
the army in his own name, his appeal would
find those regiments deaf who should have re-
manned most devoted TO the cause of monarchy
If it is made in the name of his grandson, we
believe it would find no greater echo. Defeat
has its contagion as victory its illusion. Com
batting in Paris, Royalty might have more or
less prolonged the struggle, but the day when
she left her sanctuary in the Tuileries, she
separated herself from her protecting gods
1t is Antmus raised by this Hercules of the peo-
pie, from the soil which gave him strength
With the fifty thousand men which Louis Phil.
ippe had, he could have remained in Paris but
having once left, it is impossible to enter. evon
with one hundred thousand. Besides it is not
Paris which is now to be reconquered,i it is prob
ably the half of France. To the cry of victory
| in the republican capital, the answers will echo
from Amicne, from Rouen, from all the cit-
les of the Pas de Calais and the North; from,
Grenoble, Marseilles, Dion, Macon this school
of Lsmartine, from Lyons, whose artisans will
seize with a frantic ardor this occasion of
making good their retaliation for the repression
of 1884. May this retaliation be bornded by
the satisfaction of triumph, and not be led a.
way to bloody and terrible reprisals!r