Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-04-19

We are struck with the following observ,,;.
of the London Morning Post, Of the lst, ~.
as worthy of attention for their substance -. :,
for the poignancy of the style.
s The violence Of language in which tbo =.
listers of the King of France, and nor b;s :A
tiers only, but himself and his family, ara r,s
aticallv assailed, together with The reyoIr,;sS eA
doctrines daily incucated by ,rge nran "oa.'T
of the French periodical press, are viewed P h.
ny persons as the forerunners of some ore,, Is'
tional convulsion, as the rising and ratSs;" H.
clouds in the political horizon which my
and announce an overwhelming and rrnO r'V!a'e
pest. And although we do not share tbo I ie'I'
and melancholy anticipations to which Tho YAK
sent aspect, position, and demeanour Of Pc,
parties in France have given rise, in tha ' n:
of many intelligent and well informed no~ ~''na'
who, like ourselves. view them from ds as|'
vet are we compelled to confess that We ona
exemption from the pain and anxiety Which, V y
vision of so terrible futuritv must Iipair, -. .e
cipally, if not entirely, to the belief th,, ~M'
are pecuIarities both in the circumsi,n,o'~ S'P
national temperament of the French peonls sal
will not allow us in their case to deIrrc'' G GS
conclusion, which, if the same symptom. ~
exhibited elsewhere. would be Legitimate and aE
avoidable.
1.-The French nation, as whole. have No
tinct, ineligible, tangible grievance or ca,m,r
nothing IN the nature of positive and sensible o,I
inflicted by the Government, ard comm, bo,,'
to the business and bosoms of is sDhiec. ,,'.'
complain of This fact is decisive. Tbo t.,
guage of the French press-language viiI
would not have been so long and general oer.
vered in, had it not been found accepobi, :,
many of the peopie-apppears. ne,erhsIe,, :,
be symptomatic of approaching relcIim-
And are we, then. in defiance Of ali reason. 4 n
experience, of all philosophy and history IA in,
CINE that nation will take up arms a;ars +.
rulers, without grievance or sulit iHy ia r,,I
them to this, the last resource Of sufe;i1abam,
nifty against oppression and misrule: Or lo,
shall we reconcile these apparent cOntradi.riy,
How account for a press, unquesonsHy r,g
lar, breathing the spirit of instruction, and MI
retaining or increasing its popularity while 4.
people 1t addresses have not grievance Or svas,
ing to endure, which could induce any bat,m,.
MAC to expose his person to the slightest Or .lor
est hazard or serve any rational man as an eycu.
even to himself, for breaking tine head Of ,iag.
man of the gems d'armes. orthe windows Of asia.
gle magistrate? It's only in France that such,
problem could have arisen; it is by reierriBsn
some popularity in the national character d
France only that it can be solved.
1.-The vivacity of expression, the intensity
feeling, the hazardous recurrence to FIRST primo.
pies, as if no settled Government actually exist
ed in France, which no man who takes I'D
French paper can fail to remark. denote, no
doubt, the present existence, while they nOrri.i
the strength. and prolong the duration, Of an ez.
cessiye excitement OF the public mind. This eY
citemcnt, however. is not founded upon realite.
substantial and sensible, but upon fancics. and
speculations, and prophetic riddles, more amb
guous and unintellieible than Pagan Oracle eve
uttered. 1t is an excitement altogether thearri
cal. The terror and indignation Of which it COL.
sists arc of the same kind, more durable no doubt
but certainly less intense, than those under The
influence of which the good citizens of Paris re.
tire from an affecting spectacle to the enjoyment
of their petit SOupers. We never will believe
unless we should see it. that any nation will r,t
into civil war under the influence of such fact
tiOus excitement as this: and least of all will We
believe it of nation which would endure, witt
out resistance, the mercless conscnptiOns Of M
poleOn. No: if there is to be civil strife. Ostel
sibly because her sovereign is resolved to exc
else his constitutional rights and duty of appoint
ing his own Ministers, and will not be DEGRADED
into the passive instrument of a faction to trans
form the French Monarchy into Republic: b
really because, to these natural. and virtues
and patriotic resolutions, dramatic repugnlHc
has been excited, we may surely in all rei,oe
expect, that the weapons ofthis novel warfare 81.
be dramatic aso-that its swords will be swords
of lath-its thunder the thunder Of the theatre