Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-06-12

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s'ren gth as Il rises into a flame. as a
aSh'ea candle kindles a confagration.
translated t''oa the Madsid Espectador
| 81 The ASIA FeJ. 1893.
When we find those sery;Ie ,,,.t.ho.
those base slanderers oftheir country.
already, predict the ruin of onr sacred
cause, and FREEDOM TO destruction the
glorious constitution we have cemented
with our blood, we know not really
sssa.hor we should give way to LAUGHTER
or indignation. To hear them launch
for the, Que would almost take II for
granted, hatthe invaders are so many
cannbals, who deyour both horse and
man, and that we Iberians are inc
meekes' and most inohensive OF all the
human race. They would actually make
US beheye that were handful of those
'yclops butte shew themselves ON the
peaks of our pyrenees, The very s;ght
OF them would OF itself be sufficient to-
strike terror INTO breasts of whole hosts
Of spaniards, and would induce tho
panlc-suuck soiGers of Spain to seek
Tor safety IN their heels. They moreover
would make us suppose that wisdom.
science and yator are entirely on the sida
OF the French, and that this wonderful
nation has monopolized ell tie talents.
heroism, and bravery that we ever pos
sessed Ii is IN vain that we recall, To
their Frenchfed brains, the glorious
days OF st Quintin and Pavia, the CAM
paign OF 1903, or the battles of later
years with them all those noble feats
pass for dream and are looked ,,pon
IN the light of national braggadocia--
According to. those sage and .highmind-
ed gentlemen the French are as much
superior to their neighbors as the bril-
llant sun is TO the pale faced moon; and
SO much our sureriors, that if one OF
those, Sdcre Ueur were but to conde-
scend to fog one of our miserable race.
the Spaniarl so favored would be in
all humility, to present the scourge 10
his executioner. What exalted corr
ceptlons, what sublime notions these
vile partizans of the inquisition have Of
Spanish yalor
But in the mean time, while these
stupid animals and superstitious fanatics
proceed in building castles in he air.
and are consulting their Egyptian ora
cles, all true Spanjards will call Ia mind.
the noble blood that flows in their eyins.
and will hasten to defend s!,at beloved
country which viii never bend fl any
foreign power whatsoever, and Sill less
TO that OF France.
In the year 1908, the chief Of the
French nation took il into his head that
we ought to be governed ACCORDING TO
the Paris fashion. sFour monarch q an
old man." said heto US my visit to
your country is 60 give YOU a
young King You must lave Nspo-
leon such as the french have; you must
have constitution such Is rnJ people
possess; and you must tight for nv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT as The french have
done all this | will, because il Is nv
imperial pleasure, an1 moreover, be-
cause have one milliun OF French bav-
onets at my mod"
Now comes louis XVIII. telling II,
don't relish your mode of governing
yourselves you must be governed as
we are. Your king must be at fun iiber-
ty in the midst of one hundred thousand
French bayofsis, to give you constitu-
ton as he may judge most proper for
you such an one, for instance, as I
was pleased to present to my subjects
from the mouths of my cannon. All
TINS Will because it is my sovereign
pleasure, and moreover, because have
one hundred thousand or more soldiers at
my wink"
How paternally careful-how Won
derfully watchfui both their French,
Majesties have been ofthe prosperity of
Spain, and how provident in furnishing
US with such kinds of governments as
were betting us to receive, and them
to present In 1908. our for,orp
country had no Constitution. and soma
parte undertook to give us one and
in 1873, when we have one, the French
by 81. Louis command, are MARCHING
to take 1t away and we verify believe.
/ that II by some extraordinary casualty
the grand Seignoir himself were to he,
come king Of the French, we should be
Obliged TO embrace the Mahore,sn
faith, and to adopt the Musselmen sys-
tenn OF government, to please his Naies-
ty of France!
| however, as the answer we gave them
IN 1908, IS not long since given, we shall
reply IN the same style in 1928. The
generals commanding our armies are
the same, the soldiers the same, the
nation the same, the cause it defends the
. same, and we now answer you in the