The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1815-07-12

F'oNSN >'nTts Witn NOV uaVints' stopptu II -
Louis XVI you say was the best sof kiinys''p
did ycu not abandon him 10 the most coward
y manuer, when you saw him in,,ae
csngSr into which YOU bad precipha,ed LfSn
Was itrot your duty to form rampart ro6aa ,
hiG ,yisS. your bGdies' Was no, The OATH
whlcn ydS lock, that you would fdetend him
20 .se las vrop Of biSodf lfhe was ths
tatthrr ol.nis subj sc,s, were not you the chil3
ks ad rvd himself into debt Was it'pot
TO ssiis'J yonr re pashy ttat he deprived him
sell of t'c sIrection al bis other children aud
you iefs hiH wi,hou, soppon, ,othe mercy
o!those whom you hsdifli,a,ee against Rim
Was tte tvsiness Of tie republicans',o deg
fsld with theiE yon srics him whom YOU had
no, he ceprs9e' IL Defend with 'swortiss
Nha,woul1 those repeblcaus have ,tore.r
upon f5f theis 40 prott who contcrary 10 theirs
own inlerres,, might have wished 10 savv tho
king? When you ran away wss II net eyi-
dent that icy w5dld have sacrificed him ana
themselves uselcssly; that thuy would have;
been the victims Of n popular commoticnY
You exact ifiom others vtfiac more than
human, whilst you yourselves give an exam
pie or dcseftion and felony go - 'Aa. ~ s'H'
Louis was no longer. king when0h hrs srial
was over; his des,ruction was inevitable =
he could not reign firm the ins,snt that he de-
ptiysd ottbe means Of keeping the efattioh
Under. l, follows that the death cf LouIs
should be IMPUTED hot to those who prcnUpn.
ced his eonte mne,ion, as the fate ofa sick perA
son, whose is despared Of is pronounteds buc
10 ,hose WHO have In their power, TO- arrest
hi. fate in The beginning OF uisordel:y
movement, found il more expedient' 50 quiz
The post so dangerous ~fFf|
You DIV f,igh,ful picture OF ,hs rcvo-'
lulion the more ftiehtful Il is the moro
criminal are yoo for !, is your work-you
ore the authors Of all the calamilics Witch
have resulted from it ;-expiate--(you csnnor
do better )---expiatc vour cowe' dice and IN.
gattadc 70 Louis XVI by annual sacrifice ia
the temples.
You do not demand, as you piously cxprcss
yourselves, but the pdnishment OF the great
criminals--and i, IL yourselves who are the
great crininrls :--Otbers might tall into an
error that isthe quss @,, but on your trca.
son no question can be raised. You wero
the frat born Of that king you who had ev.
cry thing from his weakness. you have, ana
always will have 10 reproarb yourselves, with
Tie crime Of psricide .and Louis might 'havo
addressed yon In those last words OF Caesar
70 Bru,us--" liz qnoqnr fi nj !"
How does il happen, then, that the hfss
ai,hoAs Of maetyrdom OF Louis XVI. the teal
insirigh,orsof orr civil commotion, are the
persons, who in the present day, take to
themselves the parts Of aecnsers How
happens il that others, who have touragcousiy
braycd the revolution, in the midst of its viciss
STUDIES find themselves at once struck, as 10
we're with s,unor, and appear to suffer condcm-
nation, from their hypocriticsI clamorsf 10
is only from the sing gulari,y Of the events that
their weak adycraarics have become the stron~
ger. Il is because The enemies of the French
name, with whom they leagued themselves,
had by the advanWges OF numbers, ten TO ono
got possession Of the capital without rcsis'
lance. That when onc instant suJccd TO ef-
acc twenty years Of glory and victory, those
who had fled at the moment of danger, return
ed 10 triumph behind the baggage Wagons,
and tha, thus twenty years OF glory ana OF VIC
tory, Eavc become twenty years OF sacrilcge
aud Of outrage
Had the .ystem OF liberty prevailed, things
would have borne far different names; tor, IN
the annals Of the world, tho same action, ac.
cording to circumstances o: one time IL
crime, at another an act OF hcrosm Tho
same man is atone time Claudius--at an
other Marcus Aurelins. Cats'inc is but
vile conspirator. II, like Cesar, he had been
able 10 found an empire he would have been
esteemed bcncfactor. Cromwell was ac-
knowIcugcd, till his last hour, and his protec-
ton sought by all sovercigns. Alter pis
death his body was suspended on gbbct.
He only wan,ed son likc h.mselft TO enable
him TO form new dynasty. SO long as Ma
poleon was fortunate, Europe tcwed before
him. The first princes thought IL an honor
to ally themselves with his fanily--as soon
as he fell, there was nothing seen In him bot
the miserable adyenturcs, cowsrdly and With
ou, talent. PcIopidas, Tinoleon, Andrew
Dofia, were proclaimed the libcrators OF 'heT
county; they would have been nothing oue
far,ioos men, like the Cracchi, had ihsy failed
in their enterprises.