A History of Our Own Times: From the Accession of Queen Victoria ..., volume 2
A History of Our Own Times: From the Accession of Queen Victoria ..., volume 2
Mccarthy Justin
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The possible indiscretion of Lord Palmerston's dealings with a deputation or two from Fins- bury and Islington became a matter of little interest when the coimtry was called upon to consider the propriety of the Foreign Secretary's dealings with the new ruler of a new state system, with the author of the coup d^AcU. The news of the coup d^dtat took England by surprise. A shock went through the whole country. Never probably was public opinion more unanimous, for the hour at least, than in condem...nation of the stroke of policy ventured on by Louis Napoleon, and the savage manner in which it was carried to success. After a while no doubt a considerable portion of the English public came to look more leniently on what had been done. Many soon grew accustomed to the story of the massacres along the Boulevards of Paris and lost all sense of their horror* Some disposed of the whole affair after the satisfactory principle so conmionly adopted by English people in judging of foreign affairs, and assumed that the system introduced by Louis Napoleon was Digitized by Google 185I.
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