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result ^ to give the people the whole weight of his namevand his , experience . , During the night of the 28 th not less than one hundred thousand men were employed in active preparation for the struggle of the morrow . The result of the next day was the complete triumph of the popular force over the royal troops , and the virtual
dethronement of the elder branch of the Bourbon family . At this time it would appear that neither the Duke of Orleans , who remained quietly at Neuilly , nor the people who had effected the revolution , had any idea of his succeeding to the throne . There , however , existed a party , with M . Lafitte for its leader , who had long kept this object in view . This party planned its measures quickly and well . The body of the people hesitated between the
desire to place the crown on the head of Lafayette and the policy of appointing a regency in the name either of the young Napoleon or in that of Henry the Fifth . These regencies were both repeatedly offered to Lafayette , but this consistent republican steadily refused to compromise the principles of his life . The event was the offer , first of Lieutenant ^ Generalship , and then of the crown , to the head of the younger branch of the old dynasty .
After the immediate excitement of this great effort had somewhat subsided , the men of the Movement' party began to look for the altered system , which alone could make the revolution valuable . The most evident display of the spirit of the new government was to consist in its external policy . With regard to this policy two courses presented themselves—the one was to cast aside the web of the old system of diplomacy , with all its
entanglements , its hollowness , and its legitimacies , and in its stead to make all the arrangements and relations of France correspond with the spirit of the revolution of 1830 . As respects the moralities of the faith of treaties , it is plain that equity could not bind France to alliances made for , but not by , her—alliances ,
the whole tendency of which was opposed to her present condition and principles . Were precedent to constitute a ground for disregarding them , there was sufficient example in the manner in which those of Amiens , of Presburg , and of Vienna had been violated by the very parties who now so loudly appealed to ' the conscience of the king . '
The non-intervention system had also its honest adherents , and , in the then state of France , had much to recommend it to deliberate men ; that is to say , a true , and not a sham , non-intervention principle . The word , in its government acceptation , has hitherto stood for non-intervention where any popular cause stood in need of it : it will be found to have been but little remembered
when to forget it might promote the ascendancy of might over right . In adopting neutrality for herself , France was called upon in consistency , wherever she had the power to maintain , and if
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76 fit The French Revolution of ISBO :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1832, page 760, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1824/page/40/
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