The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-10-03

his myrmidons. They are ready enough.
however, to come out from the hiding
places to which they had run at the first
sound of cannon-liring, when there was
nothing more to be done except to cheat
the brave men who had vindicated tho
national honor by driving away dynasr
ty which had been imposed on the coun-
try by foreign armies. Louis Philippe'$
elevation 10 the throne was the work OF
the bourgeoesis, and the effect was the
utter disgrace of the king and the ma
ton. There was no act Of meanness
that statesman are capable of, that was
not perpetrated by the French govern
ment between the summer Of 1880 and
the spring of l84S France was COM
pletey demoralized by the action Of such
men as Perier, Theirs, Guizot, and
Mole. The Revolution Of 1880 was u
vivid and energetic protest against the
treaties Of 1915, and had the Republic
been then declared, Europe would have
been Reconstructed and the work of the
unholy alliance completely ul.done.-
But Louis Philippe was too selfish to
have any regard for people out Of his
own family. His main object was the
elevation Of his race, to effect which he
sacrificed the honor and the interests of
France, and the general welfare of Eu-
rope. He was the Sampson Brass of
kings, and took all the kicks and cuffs,
and insulting language, that the heads
of old royal and imperial lines chose -
shower upon him, land they were ma
sparing of snch tokens of enmty. He
allowed Russia and Austria to act the Is
own pleasure in Poland and Italy. The
former completed the overthrow Of p
land, in violation OF treaties; and the
latter was allowed to place her barba.-
rian hoof on Italy, with how much effect
in the way Of crushing Italian spirit. th.:
events of '45 and 40 sufficiently Demon
strated. The idea that lay at the bot
tom Of Louis Philippe's foreign police
was precisely the reverse of that b.
which the Provinces, according to their
great poet, were animated. He spared
the proud and crushed the weak The
Gar would insult him with impunity.
and violate Obligations without exciting
the mind of the degenerate DESCENDING
of the hero of J ry, the brave Henry,
who bearded Phillip ii with that success
which always waits on boldness; but ii
some Indian potentnte, in an island Of
the remote Pacific, looked awry at d glib
bering French official, forthwith feet
was despatched to avenge the deadly M
suit offered to French honor. France
became the laughing stock Of Europe,
though thousands are even now living
who can remember when her name was
d terror to the nations.
The Orleans home policy was as corr
rupt and paltry as its toreign policy was
icowardly and base. The basis Of the
French political edifce was far narrow
er than that of any ether country making
pretensions to liberal instit tions. The
number OF electors would not differ ma
terially from the number Of officers IN
the government gift in consequence Of
the establishment in France of the mis-
cradle system of Capitalization. A wise
gradually but steadily and surely widerl-
ed this basis, until at last it should havi,
become SO broad and comprehensive as
to have made every Frenchman interest,"
ed in the maintenance of order and Gf
law, which is the only way to keep OF
the wild-fre of revolution. Louis Phil
ppe and his chosen advisers would do
nnth:ng of the kind, and the RevolutioI
of AS was an absolute necessity. 1t might
have been postponed for few years,
had not the king and Guizot proved
themselves to be as great towards in tie
hour of adversely as they had been ~
rants in that of prosperity. They re-
fused reform of all kinds, and were driN-
en- out of the country by a breeze thit
never could have been felt by a wise and
strong government. There was some
thing positively ludicrous in the event.
of the Revolution of February. An en-
ergetic monarch, who felt secure in the
affections of his people, would have
quelled that movement in a couple &i
hours. But the king was weighed down
by the sense of his own corruption, and
that of his ministers. The most immor-
al and disgusting spectacle afinrded By
European history, is that to be scen on
looking over the last few III nths of the
brief existence Of the Orleans dynasty.
Murders the most horrid, accompanied
or followed by the mast stocking sui
cides; corruption among the highest gov
ernment officials, known to and counta-
nanced by the Premier himself, who Ia I'd
claim to great deal Of morality and re-
ligion; and an old king much past sey-
enty, and who had been acGEainte wifi
every side Of human life, ciinsing to sa
miserable system that could not last -
such was France at the commencement
lSiS, and such was Guizot's determine
,tion that she should continue TO be-
if there was any force in cannon and
virtue in bayonets. But a ludicrous
emeute, absolutely contemplate in all It's
details when compared With what had
marked many other outbre axis since
1880, was sufficient to break down tie
sy stem that had been In proce ss of CO NJ
plctions for eighteen years, and WHICH
fell amid the dcrision of Europe.