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Suppressing a Rebellion with a Carpet Bag.

King LkosoldiS life was indeed " a history in itself." IJ,e was almost) ostentatiously inditfcreofj to hte. position— ever impressing ou his subjects? Uiab he resigned in their intere&ts rather than in his own. It has been said that ho could always bring them to reason by threatening to abdicate. The sagacity and tact with which he prevented th» Catholics and the Liberals in Belgium f ioui coming- to blows gave him great influence in Europe. But that influence was. enhanced by his capacity for diplomatic intrigue, and the opportunities for exercising ifc which his curious family connections°gave him. Though he began life as one oi the obscurest of the petty Princes of Germany, he had married mt succession the heiress of England and the daughter of the King of the French. By a double marriage, his children were allied to the Imperial House of Hapsburg. He was Iho uncle and mentor of tho Queen and Prince Consort— indeed, he and Baron Stockmar had brought about their marriage. His position was supposed to be unassailable from tho day when, on being threatened with a revolution, he calmly began to pack a carpet bag in presence of the popular leaders, who thereupon, in a paroxysm of fear, implored him nob to leave the country. Yet, according to Lord Malmesbury, "the last years of his life were spent in perpetual terror of Louis Napoleon, and he was constantly alarming our Ministers and everybody on the subject."

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Te Aroha News, 26 November 1887, Page 8

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Suppressing a Rebellion with a Carpet Bag. Te Aroha News, 26 November 1887, Page 8

Suppressing a Rebellion with a Carpet Bag. Te Aroha News, 26 November 1887, Page 8

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