Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-03-30
Ftance is the antsgons; OF England, as the
better is the adversary Of the good.

! the Twenty second Of September, lencefortf
called the City Of Europe, Urbs, colossal
assembly. the Assembly ofthe United States
Of Europe, the arbiter Of civilization and
issuing from the universal suffrage of all the
! peoples of the Continent, will discuss and
regulate, in the presence of this majestic
constituent and final Judge, and with the aid
| of the universal free press, all the questions
/ of humanity, and would render Paris, the
centre Of the world. volcano Of light.
Citizens, | say it in passing, do not be.
| lieve in the eternity of what men, at this
day, call plrllamcns; but, pariaments, the
/ generators of liberty and unity, at once, are
necessary. until that day,--a day still distant
and bordering ON the ideal, when political
I combinations having melted away in the
simplhcaton of universal labor, the formula
/ THE LrAsT GOVERNMENT POSSIBLE, rcceiv.
ing 81 application more and more complete
artificial laws all having disappeared and
natural laws alone remaining, there will be
no other assembly than the assembly of crea-
/ tors and inventors, discovering and promul.
gng the law, not making 1.-THE assembly
Of intelligence, of art and of SCIENCE the
Institute but the Institute TRANSPORTED and
glorious, brought forth by an entirely differ
ent method of nomination and ueliberatinn
publicly. Beyond all doubt the Institute is
in the long vista of time the only future as
sombly. One striking circumstance which |
must also note IN passing, is that 1t was the
Convention which created the Institute. Be.
fore expiring, that sombre eagle of past rev.
oluions deposited upon the generous soil OF
France the egg which encloses the wings
Of the future.
Thus, to sum up. in few words, the out
lines have trdced--and many details still
escape me have flung these ideas by
chance and rapidly together, and hardly
follow out more than the one that, had the
+ Revolution Of lcic but lived and borne It's
fruits, had the Republic stood, and had It,
from the Fren Republic, become, as logic
required, the European Republic. fact that
might have then been accomplished IN less
than one year, and almost without shock or
mutllauon, before the breath OF the grand
gale OF February, --ciuzens, had events pass
Cd thus, what would Europe be to-day ?-the
nations, sisters man a brother 20 his fell
low-man We should no longer be French
men, or Prussians, or Spani 'fds, but simply
Europeans On all sides around US, serenl-
~, activity, prosperity and life. No other
struggle from one end to the other of the
Continent than the struggle OF the good, the
beautiful, the great, the Just and the useful,
overcoming obstacles, anu seeking It's ideal.
Everywhere that mighty victory which Is
called labor in that mighty etfulgence which
is called peace.
Behold then, citizens behold, in brief, the
spectacle which, had the Revolution ,ri-
lnphed, we should at this hour have pres
ented 10 to Europe Of tae peoples.
But these things are not realized. Hap
ply order has been re-es,ahlshed And
instead OF all have portrayed, what do we
see
" hat stands before us now IS the Europe
of the kings.
And this Europe Of The Kings, what's it
dong
Il has the force; il can do what 1t wills
the King are free, because they have stuffed
liberty the Europe OF the Kings is rich
II has millions, II has tens and hunrcds OF
millions II has but to open the ylens of the
peoples and there spout forth blood aud
gold. What then is 1t doing Does it clean
out the mouths Of nayigable rivers; Is It
shortening the route 10 India l. II linking
the Pacific to the Atlantic Is 1t piercing
he isthmus Of Suez Is II cutting through
the lsthmus OF Panama or Is 1t laying IN
the depths Of Ocean the vast electric wire
which shall bud Continents 10 Continents by
thought hccomc tightening, and which, as
the colossal nerve OF The universal life, will
make oil ms ul"be one enormous heart
whose pusailon shall be the thought of
nan : WI b what Is this Europe of Kings
now busted Is IT, as mistress of the world.
accomplishing souc great aud holy work Of
Pmgress' CNlhE'l"h ana humanity 10
what 'lss docs II Apply The gigantic forces OF
Nie Continent II nAS al us olposai W nat
Is u uo'hs
= u ,.,, I" Is lhahlhs wa'
F,r vnn W. n,rnl.s
No fnr themselves tho KIM
What kind of a wari.it
A war oit,fn, IN its or,,,in a., ko,i f,,,,h,
ful m rs ononinr deeds n,laLi.y, ,a,
rlble in lis end Tho nbvss
A war b,.g,nn,ng IN ne I,,ab,b,o ,o,o,
inmate IN tbs horrible
Exile. We have sl,e,lv ,oro ,h,n
once spoken of tins wnr ,nj ,ys ara, Con-
demned to speak of II for n lonr tpna 70, :
Alas for nv part. cannot link If # I'm,
with an achins heart.
O Frenchmen. who surround me France
had an army, an admirable. an inconDarable
army. formed for great wars. bv twenty vn,rs
in Africa an army which was the front
rank. the VANGUARD of the hunsn roca n
kind of living .Harseilaise its verses brist.
ling thick with bayonets. which. MINGLED
with the breath of the Revolution had bnt
TO make It's trunpets sound To bring down
in one moment, crumblinr into dust' all the
old sceptrcs and all the old chains upon the
Continent. Where Is this army ; What
has become of it? Citizens. BoN,P.RrE
has taken il. What has no done with IL -
lie first wrapped il in the shroud nf his dark
crime then he sonobt for !, ,on,h he has
found in the Crimeo
For his man ,s hl;odod srd n,shoJ -, h..
the fatality within ill.,, anJ hy ,hs, ;,s,;nc,
Of tho old worId,s das,rnc,ion when ~ sn,,o
or hin, sin firms b,s vorv sanl N''''9
E,iles. for one mone,t w,th1,.w Won,
ewes from CAYENNE where Won hebolj an.
other sepulchre. and turn them Wonder m.