Year: 1862

1
souri, which revolted at FIRST support the South
but to defend its particular rights Price has always
addressed his reports to Governor Jackson and not to
Mr.. Davis or his Secretary of War


The arrival of Mr. Fremont, who bv his reputation
and Dragging haG imposed upon the President and his
fellow citizens, came near to lose both Missouri and
kentucky for the Union by single stroke. If Mr..
Lincoln with moderation that only censured by


few fanatics had not modified the astonishing proca
nation which Mr.. Fremont had issued Kentucky me-
naced in its interests and its rights would have pre-
ferred to join the South rather than fight for country
which threatened to reward its fidelity with ruin.


Soon thereafter danger to be feared in the
west Threatened to be deprived Of the position which
he had obtained Mr. Fremont seemed by his acts and
his language to he the point of playing the role Of


military Dictator Be it that he did not feel himself
equal to the role, or that he not sufficiently sus
tanned be 1t that his patriotism imposed silence his
ambition, or that he would not compromise a future
which he cannot believe yet Ost-he accepted his retire.
ment but the conduct of of his officers, and the


language of certain citizens of St. Louis reveal the
less serious symptoms in the West. The writer then
depicts the growing dangers of the German element in
the West, and proeeeds.-ED. POLYNEsIAN.


And now last fact to complete the picture of events
which We have seen pass before US during the year
We viii speak of the secession of Kanawha. Like
everything else this grave decision of the Wheeling
Convention passes unObserved. People only attach
themselves to the fact, leaving aside its
deductions and consequences And yet here is fine
subject for discussion by showing how the Government





the right of secessOnis led by the necessities of this
very and in order procure allies for ITSELF to
repudate its principle and acknowledge in the Counties,
which have possessed rights of sovereignty, that
right which it refuses to the States. But we do not
discuss only narrate.


In Short in the space of year, twelve States have
seeded and State has been created by virtue of the
same principle. The has turned away the vital
sources of the nation, of industry and commerce, to
start them in and unknown paths The old laws
have been suspended Personal liberty and the liberty
OF the press have more the guarantees for
merly An enormous military element has introduced


itself in society which had remained until then purely
civil and the idea of central power, which will finish
by absorbing all particular powers, has advanced
immense step and is half realized. So too, whatever
may be the issue of the war; it IS safe TO predict that
the new American Union WILL in every item rest upon
other foundations than the ancient Will the Northern
people gain thereby' That is question which does
not belong to us TO answer, and which requires BESIDES
further Developments The future will but too
soon. We have finished our picture, having only
proposed to remind the reader of the facts without
commenting upon them in order to show them in their
connexiOn and whOeness and enable him to follow US
on the road we have passed during the past year.


The New ITALIAN POLIcY.-A Turin correspondent
reports the following part Of an address of Baron
Rcasoli


1.-The shelter which Rome gives to the ex-King
of Naples deprives of half our forces. A
large portion of our army must remain in Naples
fight the brigands, and have not the satisc-
ton of showing that it improves miltarly thereby;
because scattered the country, it necessarily is
the experience it acquires will be of no use in a war
with Austria. 1t is always and everywhere this same
question of Rome that embarraSses u.s. Ii must find
solution some time The refusal of France to cut it
short, ought not to discourage drive into a
change Of policy. 1t is needless to speak of Venice.
Whenever shall think that hare any chance of
success, tVH begin tie actiOa announcing II sur
months beforehand But as regards the Roman aues-
tion it is not by the sword but by intellectual weapons
that it will be solved. The efforts must therefore
continue in order to enghten the opinion of Europe,
to demonstrate good right to have Rome for our
capital and thus only the force Of public conviction,
having become the force of circumstances, will conduct
us to the capolium. The Ventian question excludss
in no manner the Roman question. As regards the
former, it becomes to act without much talking. As
to Rome must talk, write, agitate. 1t IS only the
public opinion Of Europe which can give us Rome


WARSAW, Nov. 9.-Arrests and condemnations
to Siberia continue


- The London Mail, speaking of the Ministerial
change in the Financial Department of France says:


1t has been said that despotisms cursed with
fatal inability to recede from a false policy, and
make those sauary confessions of that are re-
presented in popular Governments by a change of
Ministry. No man knows this better than the French
Emperor and he is resolved prove that he is superior
this fatality. He has had the courage to to





devoted to the of peace and economy than
TO the interest of the Napoleon dynasty and TO hear
from him words as bold those addressed by Turgot
to Louis XVI NJ Fould in his financial programme,
calculates that the deficit has reached the almost ncre-
ible amount Of 200 600 900 francs. He directly
this astounding fact the employment of credit
" in all its FORMS and proceeds to strike at what he
regards the root Of the evil by proposing TO abandon
the right of opening fresh credits in the absence of the
Chamber. He goes further, and points to the
existence of this power, and the apprehensOns which
it excites among foreign nations by leading them to
believe that one virtually weds all the resources
of France, as the Immediate if not the sole, of
the vast aTmameDts Of the Great Powers If he does
expressly promise large reductions in the national
Budget be that he does not contemplate them
We viii not wrong the author of the pamphlet ' Pas
d AssgHats, - which appeared during the Republican
interregnum by supposing that he look for relief
to an inconvertibe paper-curreney 1t IS outgoings
that be down. Of the four alternatives sub
mtted by the Bourbon Controller General to his
ter,-bankruptcy, al augmentation of impOsts, new
loan, a sweeping reform of expenditure,-the last
only then, permanently restore the balance
Of the finances, though, If speak true recourse
will also be had to the third. Snowy public works,
and what we know as Miscellaneous Estimates, -
are The pensions and monopolies of these days.


The letter to the Minister of State in which the
Emperor ccepts the policy aud renOunces right
which unouestionably belonged TO his constitutional
predecessors, though 1t was never exercised by them
% lavishly, is quite remarkable as vi. Fould's
statement 1t does that which sagaciOus man should
10 who not prepared be taken at his word vol
lnteers reasons for an act which might well have
been left to explain ITSELF and defines the limits of I'm
Deral sovereignty Faithful to my origin, neither
regard my prerogatves sacred deposit which cannot
1e touched, heritage from my ancestors which
must be transmitted intact to my Elected by the
people, and representing their interest shall always
bandon without regret every prerogatye useless for
he good Of the public shall like wise preserve
haken in my hands all power which is Indispensable
r hp lifv md Of tha
not for to say whether the thought of a recent
Royal manifesto, very different in its spirit from this,
md savOring of an age in which the people was
nown, may have given controversial precision to this
declaration. At all events, we may safely conclude
hat the theory of kingshp was NOT of the points
cal the zith the King of Rrussia