Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-04-07
FRENCH ARMY AND NATION; A Gu
riOus and interesting Historical.
SkRtCh.

riOus and interesting Historical.
sketch.
When De Tosqueville first set foot in
America. he naivoly inquired, "Where are
your soldiers ?" In reverse to this would
a stray Yankee express himself on his
first advent in Paris. His question would
be, "Who are civilians hero ?" Indeed
Paris is at the present time a military
maclstrom, where the individual man i,
caught, cropped, numbered and fashion
cd into q spit or guillotine ambulAnt.
stand in sight Of the Place Vsndonc from
out of which rises the metallio-clad col
umn of the Emperor, AT the foot O
tho column. one hundred and sixty feet
beneath the colossal brouzed figure Of the
Emperor, are mustered seventy drum
mers. At signal from fur capped
machine, six feet six inches high, with
muscles for prize ploWman, roll out the
funeral notes of thcir seventy drums
for the drum chattsrI in its savage idiom
always Of death. 1t has no relation to
man in his normal condition. 1t preSup-
poses him a mutilatod carcass, the soul
lied. This delicious earrion rovcrie,
which may be realized next week or next
ycar-the time is unimportAnt as to the
principle convcyed-is now put forth by
these seventy drummerS. II one drum
be melancholy, seventy are q roar ol
grief. These incarnate war texts and
skeleton mongcrs begin to march, thump.
ing with frightful precision. Steam pow
or coald not be more accurate. They
soon enter the magnificent Srcades oi
Casti9lion street, and rcSound like the
4 ~, 1,o rE hat OF
commentaries. Now, they arc opposite
the garden of the Tuilerics-poals o.
c1hauSting force which she'd millions o.
echoes around the unbroken line of proud
hotclG-1nd the drummcrs are dismissed
The moon is half voiled under lyrically
weeping clouds: she looks ghSstly
look on the souvenirs of national char
nul-houscs: the night sets in: the air is
chill: the sentinel in his gray overcOat
pAcos in silence, or demands QSi Vive
of the foot or horse patrol: the clock OF
the Tulurcs strikes tho hours As they sc
hastily overlap midnight; but the soldiers
sleeps not: walking and wAtching-typC
OF suspicion and fear-of WrSth-of the
no rest of the fathomloss spirit.
The army is now the sole military force
in France. The National Guard has been
disarmed, II is to be ra-orgAnized-por-
haps. And then only in such fashion,
as that its nationality is merged in police
service. The army then is the thing. On
it hangs the fate Of France or Europe
Tradition says that Henry V. achieved his
victories with five thousand men
Four hundred thousand is now the fig
ure.
Louis Philippe, fAostiouslJ called the
Napoleon of Peace, vigorously SUSTAINED
tho army, His strApping boys were al
brought up to the trade of arms. The
sums the king spent at Versailles. wore
for the purpose Of attracting the public
thisher, 20 soc the great bHt4ls-pieceS OF
Horace Vernet, into which each Of The
princes were introduced AS leaders. Tho
idea never crossed the Kings mind oi
representing his sons engaged in allowing
match-pHintcd after habitual life, the
result of paternAl teaching. Had he done
so, they still would have been at the heat
of affairs. But three hundred millions
francs were spent on the Notifications o
Paris fourteen hundred millions on AL
Eerine sands, not counting the loss o
one or two hundred thousand soldiers
and the expense Of the navy varied from
eighty thousand to one hundred ant
twenty Thousand annually, producing Sucl
grand results, that Admiral Dupetl
Thouars confessed, two years since, tC
the Assembly, that when the rude diplo
macy of Gen, Jackson stung the French
court and nation, the navy was not in I
fit position for attacking the rampant re
public. During great portion of thi
time, that profound statesman and pro
found moralist. NJ. Guizot, WAS Premier
and at the close of his benign administra
ton, Paris, which is the richest portion Of
France, showed the following social de
tails births, $4,000; illegitimate, as re-
corded, $4,000. Deaths, 26, 900; of thesC
there died at the hospitals, 5000; ant
we're buried at tho public expense, 49,.
And then take France at large, and th,
mass of the people live in novels: in one
Legitimate department. whore the divin,
right of kings has most illumined tn,
people, but twelve per cent. of the NAL
population, between the ages Of twenty
one and thirty-one can read and write
Such are the results Of the Royalist Syf
tom. And We are warned thus to cheris
peace and freedom at homs, and max
our representation abroad freely refec
our distinctive principles and practices
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