The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-09-29

And when a wear ago on the 9Th of August
on the accession Of the new ministry, we ex-
claimed Unhappy King, these were the disas-
tiers which we foresaw. Unhappy klng In
this particularly that his misfortunes are Just
punishment Unhappy family which has MADE
itself the elect and the predestinateo OF az
solute power, and which perishes with II WIN
out redemption. This senseiess ueStihalion mas
become its fatality 1t is this which has ruined
it. 1t is this implacable fatality, which like
the destiny of the ancients, has urged II Tor
ward from errors to errors.
Each royal race represents in the world one
Of those grand ideas which control the human
mind during a long period of time but when
God takes back to himself those sovereign
ideas, the royal races fall with them If they
have not the genius to perceive that the world
is changed. Go to Rome, to st. Peters, look
at the tomb of the Stuarts They are the rep
resentativss of religious despotism. They
sleep with the genius of that despotism, which
constituted for long time their power, and at
| last their weakness. They sleep profoundly IN
I that tomb At some future day also. will be
SEEM in some foreign church, the tomb OF the
! Bourbons, the unhappy representatives, OF po'
! litical despotism-heirs and martyrs OF an idea
which reigned long time in the world but
which has fallen rrevoca5ly. And until that
time may this heritage of exile, which they are
crown, be peaceful and respected May they
wherever they go find that reception, and that
! melancholy emotion which is inspired by the
! sight of the statues of renowned gods, which
survive their Worship Representatives of alb
solute monarchy, and Of the fatality attached
to it, it is that fatality also which must consti-
tute whatever is to remain to them OF majesty
and grandeur. May they then be like Gdipus
overwhelmed under the ascendant of their des-
Cd fhalp
ljestc, because the hand of the gods is impress
sed in their misfortunes
We in the mean time shall follow the new
destines which the change of dynasty is about
! to accomplish; for the changes of dynasty dc
nothing bat to accomplish the destines of a
country; they do not make them. They are
the effect, and the last effect of revolutions
They are not the cause of them. They are the
sign that great change has been made in So
ciety. They are nothing more The dynasty
of Orleans is the last result of the revolution Of
S9-that revolution, which put popular cleo
ton and parliamentary suffrage in the place o.
! mute obedience-the liberty of the press in the
place of the privileges Of the KiRg-the liberty
circumstances in place of the exclusive DONNA
ton of the Ronsh Church. 1t was necessary
that that revolution, which has every where
substituted voluntary aoquiescence for blind de
pendence, should also substitute a sovereignty
f granted by the choice of the people, for soy
ereignty given by the right of birth. This il
what has been DONE
A change of dynasty is then the signal o
the close of revolutions rather than Of theil
opening. The revolution takes place first in
the mind, in the manners, in the laws, in tn
Institutions then, every thing being prepared
it takes place in the dynasty. This may b.
observed in all the changes of dynasty whicl
+ have taken place in our history.