Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-09-27
Consul Walsh Invoking the Cos
sacks to crush Freedom.

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sacks to crush Freedom.
The last letter of Robert Walsh, our
Consul at Paris, to the Journal nof CON-
,nerce, says:
"There is an affinity between the pres
ent phasis of this Continent, and that of
the first years of the old French Revolu-
ton, which, in my view, renders appliea~--
BILE, or daOtaJle, the language of Burke, i'll
his mastery epistle to the Empress of Rus
sia, dated in 1901.
Madame your glory will be completed,
if after having given peace to Europe by
your moderation, you shall bestow stability
o. all its Governments by your vgor and
decision. The debt which your Imperial
Majesty's august predecessors have contract
ed to the ancient manners Of Europe, by
means of which they civilized a vast en-
pire, will nobly repaid by preserving those
manners f,om the hldeouS change with
which they are now menaced. BY the in
tergention Of Russia the world will be pre-
served from barbarism and ruin
Some Of your readers may be startled,
and even indignant at this my addition
that the repression of anarchy, the restora-
ton and rescue of poL'tieal Ordsr-the safe
ly Of civilization itself-may yet be the ~Ork
of Russia. Distrust is banished from my
mind, by the character, the declarations,
and the very obvious interests of Gear
Nicholas. Respcctifully to utter what we
believe to be the truth, is the best homage
which can be rendered to real dignity in
the sovereign, or at any bar"
Have we inded lived to see the day when
representative of our country in Europe
invokes the power of the Northern Aut.
ocrat to crush the already broken spirit of
Freedom in Europe? How long must this
decoration be endured?
But this does not satisfy our Consular
monarchst Louis Napoleon, grded by
bis Six Hundred Thousand bayonets, feels
unsafe while the Press is allowed some
FAINT shadow Of liberty, and his American
convenience calls for farther repression
Hear him!
: Martial law being Withdrawn from Pa
t rs, several Of the suppressed journals, La
Retorme at the head, have reappeared.
' The Nationah end La PreSSe, which
! were spared, but obliged to curb their ami.
mosities, ale now giving loose to them in
the most rancourous and vindictive spirit
Extremely rigorous and rcaching as the
nae code otthe press may be deemed, it ,ciIL
be insufficient for its purposes This is
5 manifest from the flesh experience Of only
! a few days"
Was there ever a parallel TO this in the
: language of any representative of America
in Europe Tribune.
In view of the above conduct, which,
for some time we have been viewing with
shame and Indignation, we are most happy
now to insert the following late announce
ment.-Eds.
OUR Consul AT PARI..-We learn from
the Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune that Robert Walsh has been
removed from his consulship at Paris. II
thus be true, we are happy to accord to the
administration the credit of making one re-
moval at least, that was demanded by the
almost unanimous voice Of the country.
Mr.. Walsh, by his fawning toadyism at
the court of France, by his gratuitous and
Infamous distortions of the truth in regard
to the conduct and purposes of the liberal
movements IN the Continent by his unjust.
liable aspertons of the lives and motives of
the phlanthropists and patriots who have
led these movements has long ago dis.
graced himself and his country in the opin-
ION Of every liberal man in Europe. His
recall is an act of retrbuti,e Justice, and
will cause but few tears to fall in this count.
ry.-BostOn Rep.