New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-02-08
THE EUROPEAN NEVIS

The Geographic despatch published on Satur.
day is calculated to saken profound sensation
We are as yet ignorant of the immediate grounds
OF apprehension in England of an invasion by
the treacherous ruler of France. The promi-
nent traits which mark the character Of this
upstart chieftain, render not improbable any
achievement in villainy at his hands We can
readily imagine that the perfdious Chief Magis-
trate who trampled down so ruthlessy the Con-
sntuton and laws of his country, which had
been but recently so solemnly coufded to his
care by his unsuspecting fellow-citizens, would
not hesitate TO pounce upon the shores and Law
waste the fair fields and cities of England with
out any previous declaration of war, and even
while protesting the most pacific policy. The
rumored alarm in Great Britain finds confirma
ton In the rapid decline of the public funds ,
eonsofs having fallen, within Il few days pre-
yions to the departure of the steamer, from 1903
to 81
II it consisted with our ideas of equity to
visit upon children the sins of their parents the
dark record of injustice and crime rolled up by
an 'm6eeie monarch and a supple ministry,
| from '92 to 1916, might seem to justify an aw-
full retribution 1t will not soon be forgotten that
when the French people were struggling against
the abuses of arbitrary power, and endeavoring
to shake off the letters which Feudalism had for
long ages been forging for its victims, the des-
potie masters of Europe joined their arms to
repress the rising spirit of liberty. For more
than twenty-five years, England was the soul
OF every coalition of kings against the hber-
tles Of France. The continental powers had
again and again been stricken by the puisssnt
sword of the French Emperor, only to be re-
NNed' raised up again and nourished by the
ehtreatles' the caresses and the treasures of
England. The victory of Waterloo but crowned
the policy originating with Pitt and sustained
by all his successors, with the exception of
the brief power of Fox--whose untimely death
plunged Europe again in war and wranned
her cities in blaze. After q STRUGGLE Of n |
quarter oil a century, France found herself |
turned over to the tender mercies of the Bour |
Don raee--with an exhausted treasury. a proa |
rated credit, an impoverished people--a whole |
nation teeming with widows and orphans And
hen, as if to add insult to Injustice. the once
'edeemer OF her fallen fortunes, the leader of her
'rinieS' tne hero OF her unparalleled triumphs,
vas torn from her bosom and doomed to drag
nut a wretehed existence in an island prison
'uch is the plcture--not an exaggerated ONE
imposed to be ever present to the Imagination
# the present arbiter of the destinies of France,
Ambitious of distinction, of absolute obtuseness
conscience, red with the blood of his country.
len shot down at his bidding by his minions in
he streets of his capital, having at his absolute
ontrol more than 100000 of the best soldiers
Europe-what may not such man aspire
} what may he not accomplish
But whatever our views may be of the former
olicy of England towards France, or of her do
lestic policy, we need hardly add that our sym.
athies can never be with the armies of France {
ID on by their present chief 1t would be war
despotic power against civil iberty--of brute
rec upon ciyilizaton--of irreligion upon Chris !
anity. mall that eleyates the present age, Eng
md is immeasurably in advance of any part of d
urope; in science and the useful arts--in Il
7ery species of wealth--in noble endowments =
r ameliorating the condition Of our race, and a
the guarantees afforded by the laws for the S
curity of life, liberty and property, there is ,
} nation to be compared with her In blow :
tai to her prosperity, she would not be soil 4
ry sufferer. The civilized world would yibrate "
the shock, and the cause Of human rights e
'oop in saekcloth and ashes