Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-07-13

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ther imperial mandate Cor such are,
of France) the conscripts Of on.
succeeding years, at the same tirns
regular levy ofthe current wear. y
scriptions Of 1909 and 1910, for !
were called out in 1903. Not onI,'
conscripts of the current and ss,'
years thus forced into the sery ice :.
to la1u, but those Of the precedna
who have been discharge d@ from 1
vice, and have thus acquired a ksr
Of exemption, are, on various arbi,sss
fences, again dragged into the 6tEI
military chiefs Of the departments. !
men, too, under the military ape. vl
not prove their homage by the public
ter Of births (and the confusions Of 4
volution have rendered this in manv
impossible) are forced into the service.
lysees or academies, the seminaries 4
education of young men intended 4
priesthood, the univ :rsities of law and
sic, are obliged to surrender to The 1
gang the fairest buds of science and s
MUS, which either bloom unnotic,d
" waste their sweetness" amid the il
the confusion and the iniquities efths I
or are blasted prematurely by the had
death. The laws of CONSUMPTION art|
cuted with peculiar rigor against ,ha|
merous and unfortunate class of men
amnestied emigrants, whose childrer|
torn from them to fight the battles l
usurper, whom they are taught from the]
fancy to regard with horror & aversioll
host ct informers in the pay of govern
suffer no deviations from the striictns
the CONSUMPTION laws to pass unnotictt
unpunished. Every symptom of LENT
the inferior executive officer is repressg
the most evereregulations.
Such is the system which pervadv
generated France. Such is the grauda
of those mighty projects of amel;orOti:
those schemes for dif'using liberty and
piness throughout the civilized world,v
were thought to justify all the horrors
the iniquities, all the denominations Of
revolution. Nirm fit, g msrus 8
teucro,um. The Liberty of France has
ed away, the rights Of man are remen
ed but as dream.
The code of CONSUMPTION affords IS
ing illustration of a momentous truth
best principles in politics or morality
be perverted to the worst of PURPOSES
principle in the science OF governmtl
more indisputabiy correct thanthat byv
the advocates of the French system q
scription pretend to justify it. A cou
has right to the military services OF a
citizens, zvhen necessary for its defence
is by the abuse of this principle that
French government claim the right Of
cling its subjects into the field TO suPpe
in uniust, unnecessary and offensive w
the right of dispatching them to the re
est corners OF the earth to fight the bait
ambition.
The peasant is torn from the family
depends on his labor for subsistence.
ministers OF tyranny regard not the Ia
tations of his disconsolate wife, Of his
less children, or of his aged parents
prompted by an "insurgent conse
ness Of right" the unhappy man max
an effort to release himself by flight
the iron grasp of military despotism, b
ly subjects himself, and all who are de
him, to more protracted torments.
enormous fine is levied on his propel
he has any, or on that of his parents
have no control over his actions, no
in the offence. His whole patrlmo
swallowed by the devouring gulf OF i'm
His relatives are turned
nouseless and monelyess to bear the
buGetings of an Implying world, or pc
on suspicion of connivance are expos
punishments still more severe. IF he
en-, either death, the last resourse of Il
happy, releases him at once from mise
he is forced to drag On the sad remn
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