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BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
No. CCCXCII. JUNE, 1848. Vol. LXIII.
CONTENTS
| How to disarm the Chartists, | 653 |
| Stoddart and Angling, | 673 |
| The Caxtons. Part III. | 685 |
| Guesses at Truth, | 701 |
| Life in the "Far West." Part I. | 713 |
| Lombardy and the Italian War, | 733 |
| The Inca and his Bride.—A Medley, | 750 |
| Sentiments and Symbols of the French Republic, | 767 |
| American feeling towards England, | 780 |
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HOW TO DISARM THE CHARTISTS.
The tempest which has lately passedover the moral world has begun tosubside,—we no longer hear of empiresrevolutionised, monarchies overturned,by every post. The states whichwere to be prostrated by the blasthave already fallen; those which havewithstood the shock, like a cannonwhich has borne a double-shotted discharge,are only the more firm fromhaving escaped uninjured from such atrial. France has been utterly revolutionised:Prussia, to all appearance,scarcely less thoroughly convulsed:Italy has been thrown into transports:the smaller states of Germany have,more or less, become republican: Austriahas been violently shaken: theseeds of another bootless democraticconvulsion sown in Poland. This isenough for three months. Even M.Ledru Rollin and Louis Blanc couldscarcely, in their wildest imaginations,have figured a more rapid consummationof their wishes. But other stateshave stood firm. England, the firstbornof freedom, has shown herselfworthy of her glorious inheritance:—shehas repelled tyranny in the formof democracy, as she has repelledtyranny in the hands of kings. Russiais yet unshaken;