Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-03-30
THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE

Montpelier think best.
THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE
Has excited great deal of sympathy in this
country, especially among Frenchmen. In New
York veysnthusastic mass meeting of French
men has been held. The young friends of Ire
land have also responded heartily appointing
committee TO visit Europe and watch England's
difficulty and Irelands opportunity that is to
say to watch for a rebellion in Ireland The
Swiss and Poles also have expressed their patr-
otism or the occasion.
The annexed extracts indicate the spirit of
the London press on the occasions:
The London Sun of February Goth, has the
following:
"FRANcE A REPUBLIC. Exult, shade of the
great Vergenaud Rejoice spirits of Gcnsonne,
of Condorcet, of Brissot, of Barbere, of Fou-
frede, of the beautiful and sublime Roland, for
after struggle of nearly seventy years, through
the alterations of many successive Constitutions
after the rise and fall of three distinct dynas.
ties, through perls from within and from without,
from traitors and coalitions in spite of hostile
armies and conspirng faction in spite of des-
poism and reason--thc genius of patriotism has
torious at last,
FRANCE is FREE.
Bravo, Frenchmen, you have shown yourself
worthy of the age and of History. ENGLAND
watches the progress of your Revolution with a
profound and fraterna interest. As you have
just displayed your valor and danger, evince now
your moderation in victory.
Glory, say we, to the Parsians who have con
quered their liberties in the presence of an army
of 100000 men, who have broken the Throne
in the Boulevard, and trampled its atoms in the
mud; who have driven from their palace re-
creant and faithess tyrant, and elevated in its
stead the triune symbol of the people
LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY.
In speaking of the new Provincial Govern.
nent, the Sun says: Here, therefore, we have
the foretaste of Republic? Is not Ledru Ro-
lin Republican? Is not GARNER Pages Re.
publican? Is not Marie the Editor of the Ma
tional, Republican? Is not Louis Blanc, the
Historian OF the Revolution of 1880, Republic
can? Is not Arago, the great Philosopher of
Europe, Republican? Is not Lamartine, the
noble and elegant panegyrist of the Grondins, a
Republican?
The Liverpool Mail, Tory paper, says:
The instruction will have preiudcal effect
upon othor countries 1t has happened at sin
guiarly unfortunate crisis. The recent radical
despotism in Switzerland will we fear give rise
to new outbreaks and more sanguinary convul-
sions. The Italian patriots, if fearful and unde-
cded hitherto, will derive courage, and it will
not surprize us to hear Of Sicilian Republic
And how will Austria feel? Revolutions on her
confines, and patriots knocking at her gates We
do not say that the people of Austria are disaf.
fected; far from it but sedtious movements are
infectious. If reform be necessary for the hap-
piness or the glory of France, why should dose
of it be unwholesome or poisonous at Vienna or
Parma? Lola Montez has introduced liberal
opinions into Bavaria, as Golden is said 10 have
done in Spain. Indeed, there is no saa1rg ,chere
the Reform riH end
Since writing the above, the Editor of the
Mail received further intelligence, upon which he
says, What was an Instruction has ended in a
Revolution. A Provisional Government, com.
posed OF some revolutionary scoundrels, sits in
the Hotel de Vile. The Partisan popuiace and
the National Guards are said to be clamorous for
a Republic on the model of the United States
Heaven help ye, silly ones"
The London Chronicle says:
We shall not pretend to dissemble our concern
) at the catastrophe which has befallen the cause
OF constitutional liberty in France.
The same paper adds:
, Whether we look to the past or future, il
would be difficult to say whether our regrets OF
our alarms predominant.
The London Times says:
England watches with deep but varied emo.
tons, the Revolutions Of the Great Sister En-
} pire. Another Epoch, another revolution has
come. Caprlcious fortune has again thrown down
} the pillar of the Bourbon dynasty. We deplore
the obstinacy which induced Louis Philippe ia
press what might have been SO easily conceded
We but little doubted, or rather but little wished
to doubt the power of 100000 men to reduce to
present submission the unarmed population Of
a metropolis. The result shows that the system
was even more hollow the core more rotten and
the surface more deceptive than we had suppos-
ed.
The game which Louis Philippe has played,
it was evident to all, must one day come to an
end. Temporisng and artificial as it was, it
must one day run out. His life was thought the
spell of its tenure. We are mistaken 1t has
not lasted his time. He lives to see his works
in ruins, The conqueror Of Add 81 Kader shows
that strength as well as weakness can fail:
The desolator desollte,
The victor overhrown
The arbiter of others iato
A suppliant for his ownn
The younger branch of the Bourbons, if it has
not ceased to reign in France, only survives with
nominal and provisional existence.