The Arkansas advocate., 1830-11-17
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 It is not little remarkable that the I whole American people arc capable q seeing that Charles \ was guilty oi q forced construction of the constitutional Echarter of France, when he dissolved I.tl tie ( amber q! Deputies and abolished Ithelibery of the press, and yet that they cannot sec that equally oserstralned constructions the Consultation of our l Confederation of States, have been re- sorted to by our rulers il; tic ssssf;s
 Tariff and Internal Improvement laws. By the Sth article of the French Con- stitution, it was deelared~as follows:
 .s. FreneAmen have the right to pub fish and print their opinions in conform lity to the laws for regulating the abuse of this liberty
 On the 25th July last, by the Jaws then existing, it was allowable for the press to speak freely of men and mea- sures, but the presumptuous Ministry of Charles, desirous of placing themselves and tfeir. conduct beyond the reach ot public scrutiny, infused into the head of their master, sentiments like these:-- Fs: 1t all cpochs the periodical press has onsy been, and from it's nature must ever be, an instrument of disorder and sedi- tiop,n and persuaded him, that tte gene raI zrel}iaYe of his subjects called for its abolition. To resort, however, to so fragrant breach of the charter, which expressly guaranteed the freedom of publication, without some show of war ranty, was too much-eyen for the high handed and desperate politicians who were orstallng the crown upon single throw ofa dle, and they accordingly re- sorted to the convenient expedieht of putting d forced construction upon what was unsusceptible Of two interpreta- tions. In the report made by them to the King, under date of the 2tth July, but which manifestly constituted the groundwork of the decrees ante-dated the 18th, they employed the language:
 <. There IS but one means Of satisfying them, (the aiarnas of tue peop5es) 1t is to return to the ConstitEtion-if the terms of the 8th article are ambiguous, it's measure IS manifest. Itis certain that the Constituton has not conceded the libertyof the press tojournals and peri odical writings. The liberty of pub fishing our personal opinions does not certainly imply the right of publishing, by way of speculation, the opinions of others. The one is q use of faculty that the law is atliberty to grant or to submit to restrictions; tine other is.a spe- culation of industry, which like all others, and more than all others, sup poses the seperyisien of public authori .ty."
 Was ever such miserable sophistry displayed upon a vital question before, except iii tilis country, where the pre- pertf of millions has been taken away from them as lawlessly as was the llber ty oi the press attempted to be by Mes lsleurs Pollgnac, Chantelauze, Montbel, and Company What man, possessing the slightest share ot intellect, cannot perceive in this monstrous attempt upon tthe liberties of France, a gross, palpa- bic, and deliberate violation of the Con stitution? And yet the imbecile mon- arch to whom this sophistry was ad- dressed, finding it to be in accordance with his own views of his scLfanterest, which is too apt to be mistaken for the general welfare, adopted the trcasona- ble suggestion, and by q stroke of his pen, obllteratea, as he thought, frem the fundamentallaw, them precious right fof Frenchmen. sAThe liberty of the pc riodical press is suspended,' had scarce 1 ly been pronounced, when the unhappy sovereign and his wretched advisers were made to feel the consequences of their treachery. The people of Paris declare nulland void the decrees of the King, and taught the world lesson which oughtneyerto to be4iorgotten-that as constitutions are designed to secure lt the rights of those who have not the control of the government, it behooves ali who are entrusted with power, whe- ther they be monarchs or popular u,a- ljorities, to adhere in good faith to a rigid construction of the instrument from which they derive theic acthority.- Upon our own country, the events in France cannot but have most salutary influence. The fact of the Revolutions having entirely grown out of forced con- structions Of the plain and manifestsense