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COLUMBIAN CENTINEL
Boston, Saturday, November 11, 1815SPECULATION ON THE FUTURE OF EUROPE
THE PROSPECT
We cannot promise those epicures whose appetites have been vitiated by the high seasoned courses of battles and revolutions which have so often been served up from the European cook shops, much feasting for yet a time to come; unless indeed, the winding up of affairs in France should furnish some extra dishes, or an unexpected dessert.
But those who can feast on human happiness we think will daily find fresh gratifications from transatlantic store-houses. They will see that the husbandmen of nine-tenths of Europe are tilling fields in the hope to reap them; that her artisans and manufacturers are quietly occupied in their work-shops; that her sons of science and ministers of religion are pursuing their researches and devotions undisturbed by the clamors of war; that while the Arts and Sciences, with their great patron, Commerce, and Enterprise, are showering wealth and true glory on the nations, the condition of Europeans, as citizens, is, with very few exceptions, rapidly ameliorating. That the ruling monarchs, having learnt wisdom in their intercourse with men and science, appear desirous to strengthen their monarchies by balanced representative governments; to give assurances to their subjects of the enjoyment of individual liberty; the regulated freedom of the press; the security of the right of property; the liberty of public worship, according to the dictates of their consciences, and in some instances, the trial by jury. This is no flourish of the editorial pen. We have facts to confirm us in the belief of the truth of the prospect. Surely, when such tidings can be communicated, it is to be hoped the number of those who cry, "No News" will be small indeed.
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