The New Hampshire Gazette And Republican Union

France and England—The Revolution.

The gallant French people are pleasantly enough returning the compliment they owe England on an old score. In 1688, James the Second of England, as obstinate and wrong-headed a king as old Louis Philippe, but not so crafty and hypocritical, was driven from his kingdom, and escaped with his life to France, and as he ran away threw the great seal into the Thames. The French took care of him but never let him go back, and in 1701 he died quietly in Paris. Out of that expulsion of a bad monarch, all that is good and wholesome and popular in the English constitution has since grown and flourished.

One hundred and sixty years after that event, the French people, tired of the treachery of their itinerant and schoolmaster turned tyrant, have sent him over to England and set up a government for themselves, which God grant they may maintain. Now let us see if England will dare to turn up her aristocratic nose at the provisional government of France, and raise armies for legitimacy, as she did for fat Louis the 18th? If she does, the world will remember that France has as good right to expel a bad king and make her own constitution as England had in 1688, and if she interferes, will be likely to take some share in keeping her at home.

We do not think the believers in "divinity of government" will induce the French people to recall the old king and ask him again to put his foot on their necks. And we shouldn't wonder if they should put the little Count of Paris out to nurse, and conclude to carry on government for themselves upon the "atheistical" and "anti-scriptural" theory of the social compact, as the learned Dr. Vinton called it.

What a glorious day it is we live in, when the people are rising in their might to trample under foot this wretched dogma of the dark ages, that nations are born the slaves of a single miserable royal family, and the millions made beasts of burden to pamper the pride of old men or young women, called kings and queens, and the babies who are expected legitimately to become such!

Thank God, the French people have begun this revolution wisely and well. Moral power is at work instead of the guillotine, and no blood flows but that of the people in defense of their rights. The moderation of the populace is above all praise, and the great heart of this nation will beat loudly in every pulsation for the triumph of freedom in la belle France! "In the name of the sovereignty of the people!" is the motto of the provisional government; and now let every free heart in America send up a prayer that this third revolution may be like our first, for which we owe so much to France, the establishment of free government by a free people.

In '98, France had her revolution through fire and blood, and it ended in a conqueror for an emperor. In 1830, she had her second revolution, and when she thought she had got a citizen king, she found a crafty old fox, a miser and a hypocrite, who thought only of filling his purse with the people's coin, and the throne with one of his babies. The third revolution has come, and now the shouts are heard across the Atlantic, calm, resolute, moderate, and, as it now seems, full of the promise of hope, of Vive la Republique! America will echo it back again to her ancient ally in our glorious revolution with her whole heart.—Boston Post.