The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-10-04
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emlrasiou. Oriental civilization. VIA
ati ss bartaue riches aHd sp.en3Vfs
became outaotu aad etiete. and ibr
domiaau. iagces ol tha @o6d dssef,e.
the orient snd ojasd in ths continent
ni Enrop8 Tue Latin tace took up j
new 3na oi ma,ch and in lt- e1uAic
With iis surrounding races, ii impress
ed upon them alike lH rs defeats anJ
victories. uoA order 81 religious aud
social principles Christianity extend
ei tsell aestatrl apa claimed thc Ia
fopcan continent iur as own heritage
There IL h4a worked oai uaw forms q
eiyilizei Aiu au,i fu.allel the predictions
u lis founder. 4 esme not % bring
peace ~ the sod bat sword For
eighteen centuries lhe heaven Of this
wonderful Religion has be ~ 40 king Ia
tle nssgbly races VI The eJauaunt gep'
ttat.u4 lev couA.els, oes social Ior,as,
noW capitalization auI higher con-
Z ditions ol progress For centuries, L.
ais lod the vanguard Of eiyihzatiod a q
usAered the nations, by force u persaa'
sioa, aloag the highways q Proudence
Bat alter having established the fonda
system u the med.myai period nd run
ont religion inlo the pu i!ities oi asne-
tlcism, crampiug It's manly and active
powera Wilh the iluas Ol the c,uister
aud the monastery. 1t had % give up
the leadership TO others. Fer "A white
I Spain, for centuics tho first lieutenant
u Italy, carried tue sword whlea had
/ fallen from the hand Of ITS leader, bat
she w4s unable 20 Weld il successfully
loag Then France became practically
.he head 81 Europe. rs ascendancy,
questioned aad often disputed ny ioree
ot arms, yet was never decidedly over
thrown With ull her reserses aud de-
feats, with her many wars with Eng
land an Germany aud Austria and
Russia aud SPAN, ID wuich sue has
Deen alterately yanquished a1d victor,
she has yet maintained her pratleal
supremacy on the political and militia.
ry arena Of Europe. From the time Of
Charlemagne 10 the days OF the first
I Napoleon, she has had, in TIE main the
practical leadership OF the continent IT
Aud for the last fifty years, though her
policy has been changed n measure,
she has been Of invaluable service III
| the work of destroying those leudal
institutions aud made teudal ideas RI
diculous. Every victory that Napoleon
ln by the md OF those splendid Mar
shals Of the Empire, whom lie had rals-
ed from the ranks, taught a lesson IN
human equality winch was carried to
every home IN Europe. But with this
aud with bis remarkable Code, the po-
iitical value OF France has come to All
end. The third Napoleon, unable to
build up better order Of ideas, or re-
construct better policy on the me.
digyal ruins which his uncle had effect
ed, made the preposterous attempt to
revive IN France herself the old system
which had been broken In pieces; a
despotsm resting on brute force; a
Casarsm both Of Chuic ch and State. =
The French nation gave him his way,
aud permitted him to Csc all the pow
ers of q gleat empire for the enlarge
ment Of the despotic principle. They
surrendered themselves TO hs eXtraor-
binary genius. They placed themselves
their army and navy, their political,
social, educational aud religious instI-
| tutions IN the hands Of Hn adyenturer
and usurp5r They allowed him to
lead their sns into one war after an
other; to put Spanish bigot at the
head Of his Court; TO prop up the fall
ling temporal power of the Pope with
tht bayonets that had pierced the feu-
dal system through and through. They
gave him an army OF 100000 men with
which TO regulate the affairs OF their
continental neighbors. With such mag
hifcent power, furnished him by peo-
pie who bad stood at the head OF ciyl
/ iization for five hundred years, he be-
cUme the arbiter OF Europe He sep
arated himself from al the liberal ideas
which would have given France the
/ lead another half decade OF centuries,
aud by the will Of the people dispos
se SD the people Of all their political
rights Ii seemed as II under hls lead
/ the French nation had surrendered the
lasthope Of republican freedom on the
/ continent
/ Bat what has been the result What
has become Of Of the Emp or who two
months ago made Prussia retraet her
consent to the candidate for the Span
+ ish throne What has become Of tie
nation which has never been humiii IT.
ed aud disgraced beiorey
I In lS43, when Lonis Napoleon was
imprisoned al Ham. be published some
striking remarks on tie government Of
Louis Philippe when contained the
4 following sentences Some years ago
there WAS Ia the United States man
called Sam Patch, who weut INTO the
/ following trade. be constructed with a
great deal Of art, a scaifoiding above
I the falls Of Niagara, and after having
raised a heavy contribution from the
I whole ne.gaborho3i B. see him, he
mounted uaie ticaiy 10 bis platform,
aud threw himself headlong into the
+ boiling waves 10 the foot 81 the catar-
set erep ated this Poriloas expert
tucal several times. tlll sc last he was
swalioaei mp by whirlpool Alas!
there ars some governments whose up-
E lcaianoe 0H tbe sceue ot the world are
Z 10 every respect analogous % that Amer
I lean Juggicf, lheir history is Slammed
up il ibese words fearful scu1olliug,
itrflAlc iali On 4 iew stakes, planted
ia tire ground they raise sbape.ess
bulldiug, composed o. fragments and
bits borrowed from ihe runs u tae
past. aud when u.t.F iasE s flushed,
their bastard building, AZ nitAou, nul-
iiy Is il Is without foundations, has on
ii served e throw them headlong from
! 1fsat4f Eeipbt INTO tie ai,yss And