Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-14
FO R EIGN
What is Thought of Our Public
Schools.

| schools.
LONDON, Nov. 13.-At public meeting
here tonight of which Edward Mall was
| chairman, Cornell Williams, who recently
| returned from America, gave an account Of
| his visit. He praised the voluntary reli-
gious system and especially commended
public school of the United States.
The Inman steamer City of Montreal
which sailed from New Y ork Nov. l, has
not yet arrived. It is supposed she has
come up with the missing steamer City of
Richmond and taken her in tow.
A Revolution SqueIched.
CITY OF MEXICO, Nov. 13.-HerGld
special,-The Revolutionary government
near Talacua, which pronounced against
the new constitutional reforms, has been
dispersed and the movement suppressed
with loss of 80 lives.
Count de ChambOrd.
New YORK, Nov. 13.-English papers
received tonight contain the full text of
the manifesto of Count de Chambord,
which was written in the form Of letter
to NJ. Chesuleong. The Count writes as
follows:
| am asked to-day to make sacrifice of
my honor. What reply can make, except
that | neither retract nor retrench anything
Of my previous declarations. The claims Of
yesterday give me the measure Of what
wotild be exacted on the morrow, and l
cannot consent to inaugrate a reign of
PREPARATION and strength by an act of weak
ness. 1t is the fashion, as you
know, to contrast the fimnes of
Henry V. with the diplomacy of Henry ".
''The passionate love which | bear to my
subjects" he often said, ''make everything
possible and honorable" On that point /
claim to concede nothing to him, but l
should like to know what sort Of rebuke
any one would have brought down upon
himself, who should have been imprudent
enough to attempt to persuade Hen
~ " to renOunce the standard of
Argues and of livery? You, Monsieur, be-
long to the province which gave him birth,
and you will be of the same opinion as |,
that he would very promptly have disarmed
his interlOcutOrs, addressing him with his
Bearnaise vigor:-'' My friends, take my
white flag; it will always lead you in the
path of honor and Of victory" | am ac-
cused of not holding in sufficiently high eS-
TEEN the valor of our soldiers, and that,
too, at the very moment when | only aspire
to confide to them all that is most dear to
me- Is it, then, forgotten that honor is the
patrimOny in common Of the House of
Bourbon and of the French army, and that
upon this point misunderstanding between
them is impossible? No; | do not
ignore any of my countrys
glories, and God only has seen
tears of gratitude which in the depth of my
exile l have shed every time that children
of France, in good or in evil fortune, have
shown themselves worthy of her. But we
have a great work to accomplish together.
l am ready, quite ready, to undertake it
when desired-tO-morrow this evening,
this moment, and that is why wish to re-
main exactly what | am. Enfeebled to-day
l should be pOwerlesS tomorrow, 1t is a
question of recOnstructing upon its natural
basis a society profoundly disturbed, of
giving energetic assurance to supremacy
Of laws, of reyiving prosperity at home
and concluding durable alliance abroad,
and above all of the unhesitating employ
ment of power in the service of order and
justice. The people speak of conditions.
Were any conditions placed before me by
the young Prince whose honest embrace |
experienced with such happiness, and who,
only listening to the dictates of his own
patriotism, came home spontaneously,
bringing, in names of all those surrounding
him, assurances of peace, devotion
and reconciliation? They ask for
guarantees. Were any required of that
Bayard of modern times on the memorable
night of the oath Of May, when the gle
riouS mission was imposed upon his mod
esty of calming his country by one of those
utterances of an honest soldier, which in
spire confidence amongst good men and
make wicked men tremble? | have not, it
is true, borne, like him, the sword of
France on twenty fields of battle,
but l have preserved intact for forty
three years the sacred deposit Of our
traditions and Of our liberties. l have,
therefore, the right to count upon some
confidence, and l ought to inspire some
feeling of security. My personality is
nothing, my principle is everything.
France will see the end of her trials when
she is willing to understand this. amthe
indispensable pilot, the only one capable
of guiding the ship to port, because l have
mission and authority to that end. Much
lies in your power, Monsieur, to
dissipate misunderstanding and gatherings
in the hour of struggle. Your consOling
words, in leaving Salisbury, are ever present
to my mind. France cannot perish, for
Christ still loves his Franks, and when
God has resolved to save people, He takes
care that the sceptre of justice shall only be
placed in hands strong enough to WELD it.
HENRI.