Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-01-04

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EVENTS OF lN'o'
There has NOT beon a moro remarkable year
in Che annals of history than the one which has
already closed. Events of the most startling
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dian ooI Of tbo seasons the ianitor Of the
heavens the deity of cate. and doors, abode
in peace in his sanctuary and watched over
the welfare Of men. But when it closed it
was TO the sounds of human strife, in the
midst of the bombarlmeut Of great cities
to the tramp Of mighty armies, and in the
carnival Of crime and blood, and assass-
nation The eye has hardly been able to
keep pace with the changes Of the kaloide-
scope much less has the intelligence been
able to comprehend the causes and results oil
the marvellous revolutions and yicissitudes Of
human affairs as they have trauspired before
US.
The peacc of Europe was first seriously
meuaecd and finally broken by the Spanish
inbrop,io. Gen. Prim, whose life has now,
on the last day of the year 1870, fallen be-
fore the bullet Of the assassin done to death
by the brayoes of republican IDEAS, the uneasy
spirits who hover, like sca.guls over the
track Of oceanic steamers, over the course Of
European governments, ready to take adyan-
tago Of any disaster has the honor, if honor
it be, to have lifted the cover from this Pan
doro's box whose evils have filed the air aud
settled down upon the face Of Europe
Taking oceosion of tbc offer of the Grown
Of Sooin 10 Leopold of Ilohepzollern, the as
somblv and pcople of France forced Napoleon
TO declare war AGAINST Prussia. In July
last the Emnoror left Paris with his army for
the Rhine. In three months he and Lis mar
sbols and his armies were all safely lodged in
tbe fortre.ses of Germluy. the captiyes Of
Prus.ian proves. while the German armies
were knocking at the gates of Paris and de.
f,atipc easily the successive provincial armies
that were hastily formed for its relief. The
war which we tbouoht would be terminated
in 1870 has been handed down to its success.
sor. Ifn shall be pro,rac,el much LONGER. it
NAV oxhaust the German forces and develop
the resources or the French to AN eIeetual re-
sstonce
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