Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-22
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MONTPELIER, VT,
DNESDAY, OCTOBER %. 1873
EUROPEAN Af.ifs.

MANY aud tile virtual cobhecatIUn oil cuD-
vents aud overthrow of the power of Cath
Ollie .eligious orders in lta y would, under
other circumstances, rece we much more at
tentIon aud thought from the 4 ner'cAn pub
lie tran they now have. TIE course of III
two great Continental republics, how Yer,
draws al eyes, and puts the events IN other
Countries 10 the background.
We are accustomed to bewail the ignOr
ance of the l. tin races. and prophesy tha
they are, at least in the present century, uD-
able to MAINTAIN republican institutions.
The n, xt few months will afford a valuable
commentary upon our opinions. Last WIN
ter, Sp in began the life of a republic und /
such adverse circumstances that few were
SO sanguine as 10 believe this day would he
reach without the return of rome royal
born fgure head to the throne of Ferdinand
the Catholic.
The pl things Of Don Carlos and the mad
ness OF the red republicans. who mistake
license for liberty, kept the country IN tur-
muil for SIX IN nths. Then. happily the
COrtes put Cartelar, the truest and greatest
republican OF EArope, at the head of affairs
During his two months presidency matters
have lie n made to wear a much brig ter
lJOk, though by no means is there yet as
sured a steady, 'ldl y-founded government
by the people. the advance toward that enc
is, however, encouraging.
The Carlsts have been beaten in the north
cas-. and the vigorous measures ad ,ptei by
the new president, seem to have met with
abundant success against the royalists
The republic 10 iusurgent move nent still
holds out at Cartagena, and retains quite q
Fl ct OF war vessels. The latter have let
the harbOr of Cartigent, aud while they
threaten some of the Spanish ports, it is very
likely That their real purpose is to take the
lie ,ders of the insurgent Junta out of the
country, to escape the punishment wbicl
would follow their coming defeat. TIL,
most hopeful feature of the war against the
insurgents lies really in the fact that since
the vigorous measures taken by G ,s5elar nj
more instructions have taken place.
But while the outlook in Spain grows bet
ter from week to week, in France there ap
proaches..the time..when the plottings of the
mon4rchsts are to plunge the nation into q
fever of excitement, and perhaps into tn
horrors Of civil war, The Count De Cham
bord, on whom the '"lparty of the right - i
now united, is Bourbon of the Blu rbons
The or ,ndson of Charles Y, who was force,
to abdicate 10 1880, and who had act d so
tn It even his aDdicatiou did not avail t,
keep the BIurbOns in power. Cham hord II
biz of king of the old sort, divine right
and all, is wanted.
BIrn 10 1922, seven months after the as
estimation OF his f,ther, the Duke de Berri
he pissed the first ten years of his lite il
France. Since that tune he mas been wan
dertr on the earth, Exile from France
Hs mother educ tied him 10 the strIctes, belle
OF the church an gave him the most ex lite
nJtiOns OF { divine right of kings t
gov'rn. HIS marriage with a princess {
the Nap Titan branch of his uwu house b rs &
Course but CO ,firmei him n his theories u
vernment. Alter a resId nee in E ,giand d, i
S gtzerl aud, AMI lie Of defeated pes h
took up his re-idsn at FrorsdJrt nea
Vienna. Fence he has cJne la ely and await
near the Frencn borders once more the verde
thai vii btIns hin " MS oSn t,un, as
Looks at it, or will shut hi q off f,rever iron
toe throne of Ffanc, o lie can hard fail ,
symp THY Tor the chilliess man whose hi
has been forced aban ionnea5 Of the countr
w1Ic1 be- relIgl)u1ly believes he ought
rule. His obstinacy. to- about what 9th
regard as nDn-essentials gives a certaI
respect for him though it does not mark b
wisdom as of worldly kind.
Meantime Tniers end the republicans
all shades are organizing for the conf
which must come on the opening OF the a
sembIy on the 5th of mex month. s. ia a
t. thwart the designs of the reactlonlst
The BJnaptrtists, too, will generally be ho
tile to Bourbon restoration. Toe conte
will be bitter, aud for the welfare Fran
it is to be hoped that the folly of r, e ia
lishment of a monarchy will not succetd.
woIli be long step backward and the r
gaming OF its present vantage ground wou
cost the republic much bio I'd and perha
weary years of waiting. Sooner or lat
France will be a republic established on
enduring foundation. With wise counst
and the present defeat of the monarch:
the day is in the near future. With {
success Of Chambord and after him the 81
cession of the House of Orleans it will
p stpOned to the hurt of that tair countr
Well may every well-wisher OF France e
claim g live the republic"
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