Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-12-05
specks of War.

Our political horizon is not, at the present time
altogether without is portents Of gathering ma
tonal trouble from abroad But those portents
are not, perhaps, very dire, or very certain pre-
curson Of any actual, gunpoWder hostiliIiss.
Those small, muddy looking clouds low down in
toe east, which in the physical world are regarded
as storm-breeder:, and in the political, as etoken-
ing difficulties, complications and wars, will
all, probably, burn away, and be replaced by the
bright skies of peace and amity, to endure for
sometime yet to come.
/ As to England, indeed, WI are, of course, to
have another good stiff tussle at no very distant
day ! for we have as good a cause for war with
her as we have had since the old Revolution, and
she sadly needs one more drubbng to humble and
beat out Of her further portion Of her in,uppor-
able arrogance But we mean to take our own
tins for it, There is no danger she viii force us
into an actual conflict before we are ready for tho
nitiaIion Of ourselves. Lions, tigers, and 'uoh ilk
are said to be tanned snd reduced to good behsy-
ior by the application by their managers Of red
hot pokers to their noses and John Bull has had
bis nose SO frequently and SO seriously burned
by such military managers as Putnam, Gates
Green and Washington, at the battles of BUL-
ker Hill, Saratoga and Yorktown in the old
war, and Scott, McDouough and Jackson, at the
battles Of Lundy Lane, PIattsburg and New Or
leans 10 the war of 1872 that he will long hest
tate and look askance at us before he provokes
the use Of the hot pokers Of such other managers
as Grant, Sherman and Farragut, by any actual
assault. Yes, we can have our own time and op
portunity, and when the rightones come along
we shall be pretty middliog sure to improve them.
And as regards that bastard son Of Dutch Ad-
mira, who, through the frailty Of bis MOTHER
inherited modcum Of Buonaparte blood, and so
took the name OF Louis Napoleon, though he has
behaved ike an unmaniy sne,k, as he is, in taking
advantage Of US in our troubles in our late rebel
lion, by trying to get fooihold in Mexico, by
covelIy siding with our rebels, and mitigating
other nations to do the same, yeI he likely enough
would make war with US for our proposed asser-
ton Of the Monroe doctrins in NJ exco, il he
dared to. But he dare not Already " uneasy
lies tho head Of Macmillan wearing the crown Of
Mexico, and il will require more troops than
France will allow her imperial lnterloper to haye
for that purpose, to keep that crown on the head
Of its wearer! Algeria has again risen in revolt
which it will require large portion Of the French
troops to quellj and lastly the French people
are, as a mass, sincerely riendy to US, while theiT
Empelors Mexican crusade is VIGOROUSLY very
unpopular wish them. Aud all these things DO
ons better knows than this same Loui, Napoleon ,
and he will also see il be enters upon war with
us, that he will do so at bis peril. And so know.
ing and seeing, be- will be careful how far he goes
in backing up foreign throne against the will Of
his cxciiable people, lest he provoke a revolution
at home, in which his own crown would be for.
feied and perhaps passed to a much more honest
and manly Napoleon than he ever was or ever
will be-Princc Napoleon, alike the friend of the
French and loyal American people.
For these reasons, notwithstanding the late act
Of discourtesy shown by the French officers to
the officers and crew Of ons Of our national ships
at a French port, aud Notwithstanding all the
threatening appenancss aoas the Rio Grande or
other borders OF Mexico, We believe there will be
10 war with Ftarce at present, nor hereafter, on
any such grounds as are now in existence.