The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-06-22
BOURBONS IN FRANCE AND IN
AMERICA.

The late news from France make it
quite probable. that the Grandson of
Count De Chambord the former King,
Charles K, will be called to the throne
under the name of Henry V. As he has
no children, nor can expect auy as long as
his present wife lives (she being 50 and
himself SD, the Orleans family is salts
fed, for the Count of Paris would be his
successor, provided the French would
want any more Kings.
To reach this exalted station, the Bour
bcn Henry makes the most fattering
PROMISES; liberty, justice, order, religion
and morality are to be re-instated under
his government he viii close the era Of
revolution and bring back to France such
a degree of happiness, contentment and
wealth, that it shall look back upon the
last forty years only rs a dream =
The French people in their present
awful coalition, may be persuaded to
put faith in these promises and accept a
government, such as existed under
Charles X. and which is hardly within
the remembrance of the present genera
ton.
Such Bourbonic candidates now present
themselves also to the support of the
American people: Vallandigham, who
as a convicted traitor, was sent over into
the lines of the enemy during the late
rebellion. plays the role ofCount De Cham
isfed with that of the Count of Paris.
They stuff the people with the most en-
tlcing promises they will put off the old
Adam entirely and appear as innocent
as newly washedIa lambs They know very
we'll that their past lives cannot inspire
any especial confidence, but they assure
US that nov they are entirely different
they promise that, everything achieved
by the last war against the Southern
Democrats, shall remain intact; slavery
shall remain dead and buried, the negro
shall retain the rig bit to vote and the new
articles in the Constitution shall be ac-
knowledged as valid. On this NEW basis
the Democrats propose" to establish NEW
business firm, and beg for it the kind pat
ronage of a favorably inclined public.
But the public has answered so far only
with derisive laughter not qnite free
frc NJ entire scorn and contempt. The
American people are not in the same
miserable condition as the French, that
they should in utter despair throw them
selves under the guidance OF these wolves
in Sleeps clothing, they measure the val
ue of these Bourbonic promises by the
deeds and the character of those who
make these promises. A highway rob-
Der would have about the same chance
to be accepted as safety-guard, in trav-
elling, as these American Bourbons, have
to be called on to protect and defend the
acquisitions wrung from them in a four
years bloody war. No farmer of COM
mon reasoning faculties will employ
hawk to guard his chickens or wolf to
protect his sheep, and the American
people are sure to prove themselves, In
this sense, as sensible as any enlightened
farming community. They know who
led them to victory under the most trying
circumstances and as victors will know
better, than to assent to the whining en-
treaties and false promises of those who
were but lately their bitterest enemies
and who have given no evidence yet of
their reforma tion by any actual deed.