The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-05-02

literally some OF tls answers he eCeiSe ]
from the crowd n dc Chetanbriand, aware
OF the existence OF these hostile feelings. thus
speaks his fears in the French ChanIber oi
De pulies
Revolutionary France brought forth
convention why should not revolutionary
Spain also produce hers The Judge who
condemned Don Carlos To the galeys
would he worthy member Of that lriba
nal. Has mol the Spanish revolution Ia
ken ours for its model ! Does it not CO.
ply il scr,icly Does il not proclaiin the
same principles 2 Has it not already trip
ped the altars, assassinated the priests in
prisons, erected Instruments of death, p o.
nouneed confst aiions and banishments =
Can we, who have had this terrible m la
dy, mistake IT'S symptoms, and not feel
some alarm for the life of Ferdinand viii
il be said, that. by has,euins the moment
of interference, the situation of that mon
arch is rendered more dangerous, Yet dill
England save Louis XVI. by DIFFERING her
declaration Is not that interference which
pre-, ents evil more useful than that which
ayengcs il F? Spain had a diplomatic a.
gent at Paris at the time of that bloody
catastrophe, aud his prayers We're nnavail-
ing. What did this family witness do
here Assuredly he was not necessary
as evidence Of Il death known 10 earth and
heaven. Gentlemen, the trials of Charles
L. and Louis XVI. are already but too well
known throughout the world. One more
judicial murder, and there will be establish
ed, upon the authority of precedcnls,
a sort Of right to commit crimes, and boz
dy oil jurisprudence for the use Of people
against kings"
In relation to the spirit Of revolution which
is abroad on the continent, aud the necessity
| torepress If before il becomes too formidable,
NJ de {. says.
agree That this NOR i eontagion is the
most terrible of all that il is this above
all, that. compromises our essential mite
reats Who is ignorant that the revou-
lionlsts of Spain are in correspondence
with ours Z Have they not by public
proyocations endeavored to excite onr sol
diery To revolt have they not threatened
us To send down the tri-colored flag from
the heights of the Pyrepnees, to bring
back the son of Bonaparte ? DO we not
know the designs, the plots, and the very
names of the guilty men escaped from
| Justice, who venture 10 come To rs under
| lhat uniform of the valiant, which must sit
| awkwardIy on traitors A revolution
| which raises up amongst MS 50 many
passions and reculleciions would compro-
| mise our essential interests This reNolu-
| ton, it is said, is insulated, confined in he
| peninsula, ont of which il cannot go as if,
in the state of civilization to which the
world is arrived, there were in Europe
| states strangers 10 one another? Is not
what happened recently ut Naples aud Tu-
rim a sufficient proof that the contagi0n
| can pass the Pyrenecs Was it not Tor
the constitution of the Cortes that they
wished To overthrow the governments Of
| those countries And let us not even he
told that the people wished for that
| constitution on account of its excel
lence it was so little known at Naples,
that on adopting it they nominated a com
mitee 10 translate it. 1t passed away
like all that is foreign to the manners of a
people. Born in the midst OF ridicur, ii
persisted in the midst of cortempt between
a carbonaro aud an Austrian copolg,l."
n Thoughts that breathe and words Lbat
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