Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-18 00:00:00

NORTFIERN DAILY TIMES.

benefit, freed and discharged from benefit

and equity of redemption whatsoever.; "----and the
attempt ter-deprive him of any portion of this is
one which cannot be justified, either in law or

equity

Thus much, at any rate, of the real state of the case,
the supporters of the Northern Daily Times
and the public at large have a right, under the
circumstances, to be informed of at once. We
feel confident that in Liverpool, so‘justly re-
• nowned for its cogunercial honour and integrity,
there will be no. sympathy, in any respectable
quarter, at ledst, with proceedings so utterly at
variance with all fair, dealing.

THE world never before had experience of so

grotestqgc an anomaly gs-is event day receiving fresh
illustration and deeper touches of contradiction. in

the neighbouring country

The world never before

sa,w a Sovereign pretending to rule by the "national
will," whose tastes and opinions, and the whole

conduct of whose government were so entirely at

variance with- all the iiitelligence: and high:fe-eliiig;
with all the traditions and PolitiCal ideas of the
nation. Those credulous people who were disposed
ti) excuse the arbitrary rule of Lours NAPOLEON, as
a temporary:, expedient rendered necessary by the

overbearing .aspect of the revolutionary party, .who,
if liberty Were- toey'sbeln or too incautiously conceded,

were ready to turn it into anarchy ;and 'disorder

must, by • this time, be getting their eyes operi. There

3elessly dull, or so obstinately per-

verse, that, having, once imbibed a faith in a person
or a cause, they will go on to the end of the chapter,
believing against all appearance and all probability.

1N ay, as the case becomes :more transparent to ordi-
nary people, and demands a blinder and more
reckless abandmiment of the understanding, they

make a religion of their prejudices, and cry with the
fervid African of the early Church, We believe, be-

cause it is impossible." But people with any reason

left, who haA;e gone'on`beheving professions against
acts,---and-pestponing, -day-after-day, the demands-of

their earlier faith, must get weßriecl of the constancy

of disappointment and the increasing hopelessness of

credulity

As the deeds of a crisis become crys-

tallised into a course of life or'n rule of gOvernme:lnf,

the conscience of most people will lodge a protest

against their persevering love of paradox; and'oompel

them to give u

) the case in des

min In November 1851,
d to have asked one of

:his paid representatives,___"Po
_you believe_ in the
coup eta ?" "I! oh, not at all." 4‘ I thank you,",
replied the master of deception; "you, at least, do
not' hinli me a- seoUndiel." There are men who,
through all the melancholy:tind_desolating',yearaof
the empire,—the proscriptions, the deportations, the
massacres, had "nof begun to " believe in the 'coup
d'etat," did not accept its obvious and Only meaning.
Even thiS year {l4 hailed the commencement, of the
Italian—marehr-and-the-inflated programmes of -the
Wily Emperor as a triumphant answer to those who
did " believe

in it ; who did not, see that the secret

of the last ten yearVwas in that true understanding
• (y'
of " his epoch," which, among living men; did grid

dnes belong alone to the master wind of (NAPOLEON
111 I If Louis 11.43,9moi,T,Ioe,s.niiclerstanl. his epoch

we Jo nat see ttiii ernpliiy method of iiterpre7
•,1 n nil: • • • '

tation dift'erent koin of av ordinary tyrant,

the one,. object .of whose existence has been to- cater

for hiniielf and consolidate his own power. If his
translaiion of his epoch has hitherto Veen Provisional
and preparatory, it is getting time that the Great
Sghoolmaster should be enunciating his lesson to the
h4mely ignorance of Europe. But this is only,
another of the majestic phrases which split the ears
of the groundlings, and explode in barren and fruit-
less results. Whenever he launches into Print, the,

mountain is always in labour, and
.a r•idiculus emus,

like that of the Italian peace, is brought forth.
With all his cunning,.and that force of will to which

the utter absence of conscience gives „full scope and
freedom, Loupit,NAPoLoN is great in nothing but

in phrases

His tyranny over a people' strong

the sentiment of liberty is the one great fact of his
existence, due to his unsei=ul;nlosity and not to his
,renitts• Give him a conscience, and he would imme-
I,

aiatelv.

itelapso-into- Citizen -CHARLES-LOUIS BONA-

PARTE, perhaps without ambition enough to take the
official oath ticr, the Republic ; for he never takes oaths

which he does not intend, if necessary, to break.
N4t month he *ill coin a new sentiment, old =mini-

publicists and philosophers, but deriving the interest,
of novelty from Imperial association. The credulous
and the atiipid will gape and listen. The next, he

nto a foul and pestilential vapour. As for the Pope
we think he is .the object of! the sincerest pity.
Neither he nor his Ministers can be held responsible
for the massacre at Perugia. The necessities of
!government demand - that. revolutionary outbreaks
should be,sUppresied; and for the, excesses of a•sol-
diery-prOVoked by opposition no one but themselves
can
:-be- , liable. But that sanguinary
occurrence is it'samPle 'of the means by which th
new fabric of :power is tO' be alone sustained. It pro-
claims /the advent of that strong. government" by
which ,a discontented ;people must be coerced into
submission.. It points to a new era "Which *e _fear
will be rife with revolutions and proscriptions, with
political disasters and domestic misery.