The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-08

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In one sense IL may be allowed that, If the
French people like this sort OF government, II
is no ones business but their own. II they
like to have a chain about their neoks let
them have Il. II they like TO have their press
gagged, their freedom Of speech taken away
If they relish being perpetually watched in
their houses, dogged in the streets, questioned
for every act called to account for their com
iDgs and goings, told what they may read, and
what they may not read, what plays they may
see acted, and what songs they may sing--ifa
nation be sunk so low that it can love such
things, for Gods sake let II hug this loath-
some corpse of life in peace we eau hold our
noses and keep to the windward. Meanwhile
ii is not little absurd to hear such a nation
forever Dragging of its high civilization, and
claiming the right to lead the world Of ideas
as well as the world of national progress. But
Dragging, though offensive, hurts nobody, and
France may be permitted to grovel and to brag
unquestioned within her own domain.
1t is only when "this vice of kings, this
picll-puTse of the empire and the rule, steps
out of his own kingdom and undertakes to set
straight the affairs of other nations as he has
done those of his own, that we have right to
complain; and Louis Napoleon has now re-
duced his meddling to such a system that
there cannot be movement for liberty in any
part of the world that he does not send his
armies to crush it, if possible, at the very
least TO hinder IL, by every cruel, desperate,
and insulting means.
And so completely has his will domineered
over the rest of Europe, that until Prussia
rose and confronted him there was no power to
say him nay, or that even dared hint dis
pleasure at his acts. England lies at his feet
covering like threatened hound; her only
conquests of late are over the wretohed
Fenians, whom her own laws have made
beggars and exiles over Indian savages whom
she frightens by bloodthirstiness more awful
than their own, over the merchant vessels Of
a nation with whom she is at peace. Austria,
whose simple minded heir has been inveigled
by his cunning arts into shameful death,
makes haste to Paris to kiss the hand that
shed his blood; Russia sends her Emperors to
eat his salt who has brought her to open
shame, and for a whole summer kings,
princes, and mobiles from every land that is
owned by them have made crowns and coro-
nets as familiar in Paris streets as the cti-
zen's hat.
When we were in the mortal agony of our
civil war, this man put all his internal engi-
merry at work. and tried both to secure our
ruin and to destroy the life of a great neigh
boring State. Gladly would he have done
both, and long and hard he worked to accom-
plish his purpose 1t was a bitter day for him
when he found that Americans are not French
men, and that MeXicans are not Italians;
bitter day when the bone to which he had set
his teeth was snatched from his paws and he
was beaten to his kennel But Louis Napo-
leon learns no lesson. Made the laughing
stock of the world by his disgraceful defeat in
Mexico sneered at for a prophet, scorned for
promise-breaker, he tried again to NEEDLE, and
this time with Prussia. All the world knows
the end of that meddling, and perhaps there
never was a jest so relished by the world as
Napoleon's defeat by Bismark. 1t might
almost seem as if fate were bent on forsalling
her favorite, If his heel were not still planted
on the neck of England and on the head of
Italy.
Three times now has this man, acting from
his own selfish desires to be thought the con-
troller of events, and driven by his own fears
of liberty, prevented Italy from ordering her
Government as she thinks best. When he
first set his bloodhound army at the throat Of
this fair fugitive from tyranny, all the world
cried out at the enormity of his crime. But
he deties the conscience of the world, as he
defes God and justice, and sat tor fifteen years
by the side of PROSTATE Italy holding her
chains, and threatening her with his sword.
Since then the world has watched, heart-sic1
and weary, waiting for the time when he
should release his hold, and lend an ear to the
mingled threats and pleading of the world.
But we wait in vain. While this man draws
his hated breath Italy shall not live, nor her
children draw a free breath. Coward that he
is, he has at last found one nation too weak to
shake off his bonds, and the luxury oftyranny
is too great that he should easily forego it,.
Thwarted in Mexico, snubbed in Prussia, kept
in order by America, uneasy at home, he has
of late been stinted in his craving for med
ding, and must bully Italy while as yet she
has no friends to stand up for her. How long
shall Napoleon rule to hinder Europe in her
yearning for unity and freedom How long
must the world be obliged to sit in patience
while one man thwarts the will of millions,
and by the mere virtue of name quenches
every noble aspiration of the peoples of Eu-
| rope, and make them his own slaves
| The Counter. Revolution and Its Result
| Organization of Great Party,
From the ~. y. Herald.
The political tempest that has swept ovel
every loyal State of the Udion this fall, up
roofing and scattering the enormous Republi
can majorites that have prevailed since 1860
might readily have been predicted by any on,
curious enough to study and intelligent
enough to understand the indications of the
political atmosphere for the past two years
When the war closed the loyal people ex
pected at once to reap the advantages of peace
in the restoration of the Southern States al
productive and industrial portions Of tn,
Union, the decrease of national expenditure