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which, they are hourly threatened with
final fubverfion and total ruin.

and thereby gave them an opportunity Of
di(playing the freacheroufnefs Of their CHI
ratter in its tulleR glare. After deluding
the people Of this State with the hopes Of
Liberty, equality and independence, the y
pillaged the city ofiss treaiures, defroy-
ed lis moe fplendid inaitutions and coRly
ornaments, and levelled the pride of ages
with the duff. They took poHeficn of
its mott valuable IAands, plundered it Of
rs navy, bear and murdered hundreds of
Its Inhabitants in mere whim and caprice,
and hnifhed their pc rhdious work by de-
live'ing up the miferable people TO tie
government Of &ranger and Of mon.
arch, whom they had always affected to
cooGder as one Of the greatea enemies of
liberty, and whom they had, in rAeir de.
crccs and proclamations, thoufand times
KY led depot.
"Savitzerlaud.elotss the awful kGon.
This republic was, like the United States,
a federative one. II had long been equal
ly the admiration Of the hiaorian and the
civilian, and not nnfrequently the iubjeA
of the Mules praifs, Yet, by peace suitb
Fr1nce, this much admired Republic has
been torn up, root and branch. Swirzer-
land, bafe.y forgetting the murder Of the
Kings guards on the 10th OF Augut, OF
ifcicaly came forward the drit fate il
Europe, to'arkvs4uledge The Repnbhe Of
France. The Swils obfsrved what they
called neutrality, but It Wa, yileiy In
iincere, always operating ia favor of the
French. When ,hele latter had lwallow-
ed up the neighbouring countries, they
qaarreled with the Swifs. They ordered
,hem 30 fend away the Englilh Anoaia-
dor, which would have been done, had
he not fpared them the difgrace by retir-
ing. They were next ordered TO baniih
the emig rants; they negotiated and COM
piled. Now there was 40 ground of
quarrel left; an infure6tion was there
fore excited, and rhe gsnsre4s French
marched in their army to ptotett me per
c1prsDsd Iglargents! In fhoFt, the Al'-
v<tie Ua,en was now .o!d that thcY u'uf
change their contribution. They negoo'-
a-ed, but fill the cremy approached as
legiA.tors nel; shey offered 20 maze
fome alterations. Tbofe would nor DO
They muf receiOt cogfinfi0n Jfrom Pa
rais. They retu(ed, and collected sheiG
army bot, fill Mlleyfue, 'hey ordered
their army not TO ACT. As aR, while
they wy were aill debasing, come the
Ffench fanf- culottes. and diiperies them
a, the point Of the bayonet. The ow'ls
army was found; .ne people ws'e. brave
and active; but what, with iueh Sovsrn"
ors, were they TO do againft ten tia'cs
their force? They ruined on the eneml'a
cannon, and were blown TO pieces be
shoufaads. The women fought by ny
Gdes of their hulbands; no lefs than eighr
hundred Of them expired under the iab;es
0. the blooby French. With theie gallant
females the liberty Of Switzerland gfoan'
ed out It's lalt.
Thus Ame,ieass have al fb' rsba6-
Ges Of Ex,ebt, for their endeavorlng to
e9xciliate with France, for their tame iuo'
nsfion to injury and mlah; for thei'
whining, cringng and craving FOR peace
been foally rewarded by the iuovesilon OF
their governments, by the lois of their
property, by the maaacfe Of their people,
by being reduced TO the laf degree OF ma"
tional wretetednefs snd diigrace, and oy
being rendered the fcorn and contemPt OF
the univerle. "
The above extract is from popular
and authentic work which was Pubiinea
here in the year 1895. And now Pe1'nI'
me TO ak who does not remember the cu''
yettings and houtings with which our
own democrats in 1855 received the news
Of the fuojugation OF theie unhappy cou"'
tries by France /? How did they cong'a'
tulatc each other with imilcs and ha0o.
ihakings at all the corners OF the ftfee's AZ
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