Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-12-01

small share of the converse by the cozy ingle or
long winter nights !
From the Washington Union.
French Affairs.
The day, as at present decided upon, for the
formal proclamation of the empire, is the Cd of
December The army, without being won to the
interests of the usurper, will acquiesce in the pro-
cedure The regiments most feared for their de-
votion to republicanism, were removed, one by
one, from the metropolis to distant garrisons. The
opposition, embracing every shade of politicians
except the Napoleonians, are quite as impatient
for the imperial advent as the most clamorous of
the cabinet members, or Of the projects Since
the Bordeaux speech, its views of the future are
eotirely changed. No one believes that the en-
pire and peace can exist for half year harmeni-
ously together; they are necessarily antagonists.
Let those who think otherwise remember that af
ter the capture of ofAb-del-Kader, and the conse--
quent termination of the Algerian war, Louis Phil
ippe only reigned about sixty days. As soon as
the throne is erected, the army and navy, from the
marshal and the admiral to the soldier and the
mariner, will expect and demand an emphatic
compensation for the services rendered for the
advancement of the chief of the State. They will
distinctly indicate to him that their claims not
to be postponed longer, while he is in the enjoy
ment of an annual salary, swelled with chateau
and rarest privileges, to something like $l6,o0O,
900 per annum. They expect remuneration thro'
which war alone can afford, and if disappointed,
they will Indignantly demolish the work of their,
own creation. Honors they have received are rath-
er what are denominated honors, but honor without
money, are no longer considered valuable. On
the other hand, the s'peace'' speech is engender-
ing additional imitation in business operations; and
if its assertions be violated, ruin will be infict
ed ON the nation from which it never recover.
But it is apparent to every rejecting person that
war is intended, and war upon large scale. Bel
gium will be annihlated, and with the taeit con-
sent of the European powers! England will not
even protest, as famous as she has been for pro-
tests against the destruction of her bantling. She
will prepare for eventualties; but, as concerns
France, she will have eye exclusively to self
preservation. She sees distinctly that she is re-
duced to as humble a condition in respect to Of
fensve hostilties as little Switzerland was years
by the rules of the States adjacent to that republic
LII lew WOChS INuSoCL Wli1 doouiCuAy uPSOs DOA-
by. If the new Premier, in announcing his for
eign policy would declare that there is but one
power on earth that he was disposed to cooperate
with, that there was identity of commercial in
terests between England and America, and that in
view of the progress which could not be restrain
ed from developement, he hoped to see nearer
approach to political identity he would triumph
unity direct the government the rest of his life.
Without such an implied alliance, the "proud mis-
tress'' is lost. She will soon have forfeited her
stand among the nations of the earth, unless she
the whirlpool in which, by bad management, she
finds herself implicated.
1t is now becoming evident that there is to be a
coalition of the European powers against the
United States in the event of their becoming in
volved, no matter how justly, in hostilities with
Spain The "Times,'' with all its hatred to the
Derby government and to the embryo Emperor,
clearly foreshadows the course it is to pursus in
such an event. twill go, as will go England,
hand in hand with autocracy to prevent
the enlargement of the area of freedom. Under
the secret assurances given to Spain from France,
that she was ready espouse her quarrel of Cuba,
the cabinet of Madrid, through the new Captain
General of the Island, has assumed bearing so
nsolent and SO directly opposed to international
comfy, that persisted in it will be impossible
fer the United States honorably to avoid war with
that nation. Ofthe result of that war no true
hearted American can entertain fear. Liberty
and absolutism have sooner or later to enter the
arena and decide the most important question ever
presented to the consideration of the Caucasian
of the. two is torule the earth! Would
that our physical conditions were such as to ena-
BILE us to ward off the first blows that might be di-
rccted against us. We would perhaps suffer Sc
verely in the outset from the defenceles state OF
our almost interminable sea-board; but, recover
ing from the shock, with such recuperatlye pow
ers as no country ever possessed before, we would
humble our formidable enemies to the lowest
point of degradation. az,
"Kossuth says bayonets think, and Mary Lee
saws hands sce-she is sure of this, because she
heard man say "a hand saw!"
ssWhat are you looking after my dear,". said a .
very affectionate mother to her only daughter.
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