Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-03-30

multiplied the workshops and schools have
explored and worked the veins of coal and
numerals; have given every parish their
steam excavators; have sowed millions of
acres now lying fallow have transposed
cesspools into manure pits have rendered
dearth impossible put bread in every mouth
have increased teDfold production, consump-
ton, circulation and wealth an hundred fold !
Yet It is worth more than this to take-I am
in error-to NOT take Sebas,opo
II Is worth more to employ their millnrds
in causing their armies TO perish 1t is bet
ter 10 ruin and destroy themselves.
So, then, in the eyes Of the shudderinr
Continent, the two armies are lingering out
their last agony. And, all this time, what i,
the "EMrERoR NApoLEoN ILL., about? |
open newspaper Of the Empire, (the orator
here unfolded French paper) and in il |
read the following: 1.-THE Carnival pursues
Its pleasures. We have nothing but parties
and balls. The Court will, for twenty-fnur
hours, lay aside the mourning assumed on
the occasion of the death of the Sandman
Processes, SO as not to prevent the ball
which is to take place at the Tuileries"
Yes, 1t is the accord Of an orchestra which
we hear in The Pavilion de 'Ilorloge YES,
the .Nonaew reports, with full detail, the
quadrille in which " their Maics,ics figured"
yes, the Emperor dances, this NAPoLroN
dances, while we, with eyes fixed on the
darkness, gaze, and the whole civilized
world, shudderng, gazes, with us, at Sebas-
iopol, the well of the abyss, that gloomy tun
TO which France and England, those two
Danaldes, with bloodshot eyes, come, one
one after the other, pale and dsheveled, TO
pour into the gulf their treasures and their
children, accompanying ever never done
Still we are told that "the Emperor" is
about to start for the Crmeal Can it be /?
Is he, indeed, accessible 10 shame, and grow
ing conscious Of the public humiliation? lie
Is represented 10 Us as brandlshing towards
Sebsstopol the sword Of Lodi drawing on
the seven league-boots of Wagram. with
Troplnngue and Baroche, IN tears, clnring
to the two lappeis Of his gray oyercoat.-
What does this going to the wars" mean
Citizens, recollection On the morning
Of the coup de ,iai when he heard the con-
filct had begun, BoNAFARTE exclaimed:
must 90 forth and share the dangers Of my
brave soldiers There was probably, at that
moment, too, some Troplong or Blroche in
tears. But nothing could restrain him.
He set out. He trayersed the Champs Ely.
sees and the Tuleres, between triple files
Of bayonejs. In issuing from the Tuileries.
he entered the Rue de 'Echele. The Rue
dc pEchelle tbe Street OF the Ladder
Trans means the street Of the Plllory in
former times, there had been ladder or pt-
lory there. In that street, he beheld the
ihrong, he saw the threatening gestures of
the people; a workman shouted: " Down
with the traitor :" He turned pale, and
wheeling his horse, FASTENED back to the
Eysec. Then, GO not parade before US the
emotions Of this departure. Should he 90,
the door Of the TUicrics, like that Of the
Elysce. will remain half open behind him;
should be 60, II will not be TO the trenches
whore his troops are suffering, nor to the
breach where they are dying. The first
cannon shot that thundors IN his ears -
" Down with the trailorn viii cause him to
retrace his steps. Be assured for never,
IN Paris, or IN the Cumea, or IN history, will
Louis BoNAPAKTE pass beyond the street OF
the pillury
Moreover, should he depart. the eye Of
history wild be fixed on PARIS. let rs wait
Citizens have just sketched before you,
and would limit the picture that Europe,
this day, presents TO your gaze.
What Republican Europe would be,
have set forth; what lmpcrIal Europe is,
you see.
In the miLs, Of this general position Of
affairs, the special situation OF France Is as
follows:
Her finances squanacred, her future borne
DOM with burdens, bills of exchange, sign.
ed December 2dand Iouls BoNArARrs, and
consequently, subject to protest; Austria
pI y = 4.
and allies; coalition of kings, latent still.
bot visible the dreams of ACKNOWLEDGMENT
returning "a million OF men ready to prec!.
plato ,han, -al'ss ~ren tho Rhine nf The
Czlrs Iltst signal our African army dc
stroyed, and prop to lean upon what !?
hnghnd-a wreck
Such is the frighiful horizon before us
and at its two cx,remties, behold two spec
tres--lhe spectre Of the army in the Crimca
and the spectre of the Republic in exile
Alas one Of these two spectres bears IN
It's side the gaping dagger wound, inflicted
by the other, aud pardons II,
Yes insist the situation Il so mournful.
50 wretched. that Parliament IN terror orders
an inquest, aud that II looks to those who
have no faith in the future of nations. pmd.
cd, especially by Providence, az f France
were abou, 10 PERISH, ana England to ioan.
der.
To resume the thread Of my discourse -
All around IL darkness In France. no more
tribune OF the people, no free press, no liber-
~ OF speech. Russia seated upon Poland
Austria upon Hungary, upon Milan. upon
Venice; FERDINAND upon Naples, the Pope
on Rome, BoNArARTE on Paris. Within
this sealed chamber OF obsuuriiy all kinds of
Il IL . tsaf 81. 4.
lialions, robberles, transportatIons. fusiilades
and gbbeis; IN the Criinea friphtiul war /;
the corpses Of armies heaped on the corpses
OF nations Europe one slaughter house
know not what lurid light glowing above the
future ,-bockades, CONGREGATIONS, lombard
ments, famines, pestiences, bankrup,c les
for interests and ego.isms general scramb-
ling flight; obscure reyolts amongthe SOL
diery awaiting the universal uprising of the
people. A dreadful state OF things, | NAV
well say, and search out ioi Yourselves the
final issue. To capture Se5astopol is war
without end-not 10 take it an irremdable
humiliation. Until now men ruined them.
selves for the sake of glory; now, they ruin
themselves for scorn and opprobrium.-And
under this clashing and battling of the inlu-
rated C9sars, what will become of those
nations which survive ? They will weep
To their very last tear-they will pay the very
last sou they viii bleed to the hearts blood
OF their last remaining child. We are in
England what do we see around u.s. On
all sides women In mournlng-mothers, sis
tiers, orphan girls and widows. Then restore
to these women. you can, the objects of
their grief! All England is clothed with the
emblem of woe.' In France there are two
vast MORNINGS, one of which is death the
other and the worst, disgrace the heca.
tomb of Balaklavo and tho grand ball at the
Tulleries.
Eyles, this crisis has a name tina, name
Is society restored and saved 2"
Let us not forget it-ihis name tells us so
let US refer everything back to its origin.
Yes, this situation, this whole crisis, has
sprung up from Z" the great actn of Decem-
Der
II Is the product Of the perjury of the I'd