Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-05-30

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sent to US their present law of imprison-
ment, as one which we ought to adopt
with blind confidence. But are we TO
give our confidence to Ministers belong
ing to party, thirsting for vengeance:
faction which they themselves have
denounced heretofore as the enemies Oh
liberty. deep murmurs to the right.
Many members start up and gestlculatc
violently Mr.. Castle Bajac rushed to
the tribune and exclaimed furiously,
" Let order prevail. Mr.. Manuel has
been making personal attacks upon
great part of the assembly.-Let the
dignity of the assembly be maintained"
(Cries continue to issue from the right.
The tumult is at its height The Presi-
dent (speaker) rings his bell, and pro-
claims that Mr.. Manuel is entitled to
explain.)
Mr.. Manuel-" repeat that the par
ty in question wishes that which is con-
trary to liberty-(several voices from
the right we are, then, enemies to liber-
ty-yes, yes, (from the lett--confusion
and tumult recommence.) Mr.. Manuel
proceeds-"I reract nothing-I repeat
that the party is hostile 10 liberty"
(Bravoes from the left, indignant cries
from the right.) MIR. Castle Byac
rushes forward--the President requests
him to retire, &c.
Mr.. Benjamin Constant" ask
whether Ministers will have the right OF
keeping those, whom they arrest in Sc
cret confinement. This question is in.-
portant, because the citizen may emerge
from this dreadful state entirely de-
prived of his reason. We have had
signal example fthis. A general, who
| had rendered the greatest services TO his
country and might still render them, left
his prison insane, after being three
months secretly immnred, and is still in
that condition. Moreover, will Minis
tiers be obliged to bring to trial, at tic
end of three months, those whom the
will have arrested? The expectation u
such trial would diminish the numb
of arrests, then they might not ar 5spt
to more than five, six, or ten thousana---
(Murmurs in the centre.
Mr.. De Courcei7es from his plaee
They went as far as sixty thousand
1915"
Mr.. Demarcay. =" Let the Minii.c-.
see to what such maxims as theirs ioas
Cast glance beyond the Pyrenne~g
mailman you wish to bring US to tar
condition from which the Spaniards art
now esdeavoring to extricate themseive5,
Your intentions are confessed; yonr
counsels would be those which woQ.l
probably destroy Ferdinand VII"
Mr.. Puymaurin. "The law of in
prisonment is essential for the preserya
ton of the dynasty. The plots OF the
tenth of August, brought about the sub
version of the throne and the death Of
Louis XVI. Ifthis unfortunate monarch
had been able to employ preventative
law, our annals would not be stained
with his blood. We arc in the same
circumstances as in 1892. An open
conspiracy was then carried on against
| Louis XVIII. There is conspiracy
against all the thrones of Europe, and it
is at Paris that its governing committee
is established"
| General Se6assiani elf believed,
gentlemen, that arbitrary government
would preserve the reigning dynasty
from real dangers, would not hesitate
to vote for it. But entertain a very
different opinion. have resided in a
country, (Turkcy) where arbitrary rule
is in all its beauty-in all its plenitndc.
There newspapers do not pervert the
public mind; justice is summary; the
march of the government is not impeded
by constitutional clogs; and neverthe-
less, have seen in the course of two
years, eleven ministers perish by popu-
lar CONFUSION, and what is still more
serious, t7oo sovereigns." (Lively SEN
sation in the assembly,
Mr.. Couryoisier. We are told by
ministers of "a conspiracy. They speak
of fragrant conspiracy against the dynasty
ofthe Bourbons. Gentlemen, if such 4
conspiracy exists, it must be confined to
small number of factious desperadoes.
do not deny that the fall ofthe last gov
crnment has left much unsatshed am
bition, and that some persons cherish
guilty hopes of its re-establishment but
those hopes are not those of the nation.
The fears that are suggested are alto
gether chimerical. How can we believe
that this nation viii adopt projects look
ing to the return of Bonaparte. Do you
believe that Frenchmen have forgotten,
that under his dominion, no citizen was
master of his own person, of his proper
ty, or of his children; and that our blood
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