The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-05-23
France and England.

press of Franco to the royal family and
tho people of England, has been duly
chronioled. with all its attendant circum-
stances. Toadyism has had unbounded
sway, and the English nation has bowed
itself in most humiliating manner at
The feet Of sham prince and state rob.
Dor
We wait patiently to hear the voice Of
Thomas Carlyle,on this last mock heroic
scene, this "most lanentable comedy"
We fancy the philosopher, grim and
glum in his cell, while all the grand pa.
geant goes by-preparing for such
wall over the dcgencracy and stale I'M
profifableness of the times, as he has new
er before uttered, or as Hamle. neyor
imagined.
This is the same England which spent
IN enormous amount Of treasure and
blood, entailing on the nation a debt
that time will never sec balanced, and
an amount of suffering and mourning
which destructive war always brings in
its train, to subduc the frs Napoleon,
and establish the nullity of his claim to
supreme power in France. How much
more fortunate now is the nepicw,-who,
If the claim of his uncle was a shadow.
can boast for himself but i" the shadow OF
shade" as his title to royalty
Louis Napoleon has played a bold
game. Thus far it has succeeded. Not
the least Of his mastery contrvances is
the present position into which England
has been brought, by her correction with
the Eastern war.
England is irretrievably committed to
the prosecution Of war tina, Louis will
certainly manage 20 his own hrncfit, and
that will as inevitably effect al immense
revolution in the affairs Of Great Britain,
II it does not work her utter ruin.
This war has emphati,ally s,own Ens.
lands weakness in avaiiable soldiery.
1t has clearly brought out, before the
gaze of tho entire civilized world, the de.
generacy and imbecility of her nobility.
itexhibits her already as feeble depend.
ent of France. 1t has set in motion An
internal civil dissension, of which the
FIRST ferment is beginning to be manifest,
and which bodies the downfall of the pres.
ent governmental system, and the substi.
tuition Of anarchy or democracy-ue
hope, indeed, ultimately rational repub.
licanism.
With Russia We have no sympathy.
There was a manifest wrong in her at.
tempted and intended aggressions iu the
East. 1t is no sufficient answer to saw
that the Western Powers will equally
destroy Turkish independ ence, should
they succeed. We are no, so lost TO all
feelings Of sympathy with the smo.hor
country" and with her noble institutions
as compared with any others in Europe
nor 80 insensible to the relationship Of
races, as to be Indifferent whether the
Muscovite autocracy and the Greek su.
perstition prevail instead Of the reliq.
ION and laws of Great Britain and France
we cannot forget: either, that Russia
was the aggressor. We certainly hone
the grs'ping ambition of Nicholas and
his successor will yet be foiled. Nor do
we think France and England are prima.
riiy seeking an enlargement Of their
power and domain, but security for what
they already have.
The present system of engagement in
England, win never accomplish the de.
sired result, ve,ara tolerably sure Her
humiliation and feebleness-hsr strange
Inconsistencies from generation to gener.
ation-have greatly diminished the re.
spect, II not the sympathy Of nations.
1t needs an Oliver Cromwell--or as he.
r0ic a'pirit more a,ly shaped to tho
present time-to rescue the day, and
save the nation.