Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-09-13

abatins the rancour OF party ana removing if01
the scene those Of all sides, who, unaccustomed
to the general and inPartil exercise OF the laws
were ready to improve every advantage, and de-
bate every political question, sword IN hand. Or
as they themselves express it, par uo's dc fda-i
The guarantee for the permanence OF their iree'
dom. is the only subject on which reasonable
FrenchIpen of the present day are ANXIOUS we
trust there is no occasion for their soilcitude..
Fatal indeed would be the advice which should
induce the French Government to give the slight
est subject for Just complaints. The ultra Roy
alist. the Jacobn enrage. are gradually cooled by
aoe. or fate has removed them from the scene
Those who succeed, having never seen the SWORD
drawn, will be less apt to hurry into civil strie:
and the able and we'll mentioned on either slde'
while they find room in the Chambers tor express
ing their difference Of opinion, VIII acquire the
habit of enduring contradiction, win canoor ana
good humor, and he led to entertain the whoe.
some doubt, whether, in the imperfect state OF
the human intellect. it is possible tor one class
of statesmen to be absolutely and uniformly night,
and their opponents. in all instances, decidediy
wrong. The French will learn that 1t Is from
freedom Of debate-from an appeal, not to the
arms. but to the understanding ofthe people-oy
the collision Of intellect not the strife Of brutal
violence. that the political institutions OF this In
genious people are in future to be improved
With regard to the liberty of the press, and
the security of the Duke Of Orleans on the throne
we hold opinions or notions which may be DEEM.
eel peculiar. but which we do not hesitate to
express. We 6eliere-without a:Serting-that
no government except the republican, can be per-
manent with press entirely free and widely
spread. This CONCLUSION is the result OF close
and unremitting attention Of more than ten years,
to the character aud effects of the British ana
French journals severaIly. Political parties anu
Journals in France soon lash themselves and each
other into extremes-into republican or royallst
ultraism; they address mercuriaI and lniiam-
Unable people; they have always treated with the
utmost emphasis and fervor, topics adapted to
deyeope and expedite those democratic tenden-
cies which we indicated yesterday.
The prejudice or superstition OF personal 10Y
ait1 was greatly narrowed and weakened IN
France during the Revolution: under Napoleon
il was nearly supplanted by admiration OF militia
nv genins and success, and a habit OF bind sub
mission to military power. All the principal IN
huences which recommended or fortified tictc
throne. in the minds of the French nation, have
disappeared:- Church no longer lmpTts
strength or sacredness to the monarchy; the
Clergy can scarcely retain any degree Of regard,
Difference, OF suHerance. for themselves. Asfor
the regular troops. they acknowledge and obey,
in fact. no master but general; the BOurbOns
have no prestige of military renown and skill,
either for them or the people: the Bourbons are
dislked and ever suspected by all the revolution
arv politicians aud the mass of the liberals. In
what quarter, then. can any one Of them hope to
find lasting support and fealty? The Duke OF
Orleans NAV be used as necessary for the mo-
ment. but he will be discarded as soon as he can
be dispensed with, and as the common republican
press. stimulated by free and censoriuus spirit,
shall triumph over temporary obstacles.
In Great Britain, also. the conduct OF the
princes, the progress of free enquiry.-the i'm
pove, ishment of the laboring classes,-the bold
exposures and criticisms and republican tone and
doctrine. of most potent and difusive periodi.
cal press,-and other obvious causes, have sensi-
bly, diminished and contracted the feeling OF 10y
atty to the individual sovereign or royal family.
This gone, monarchy itself has lost one of its
main props and reliances. The change of cha
racter in the standing armies generally, is anoh-
err remarkable trait in the present condition of
the regal cause in Europe. Sovereigns can no
longer count upon them as agents for suppress.
inv or averting general d,scontents or insurrec-
tons of the People: it is tie latter whom they
are ready to defend and assist. Even the Rus
sian Gar is believed to be difident and insecure
in this respect.
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Love in the B'tskes.-A chap called at one of
our ;averns, last Saturday, and hired horse and
wagon to go three or four miles west, but meet
iny man on the road, he sent back word to the
owner. that he might perhaps go on as far as West
field, and that he must not be surpr,set if he did
not return till Sunday. Accordingly, the owner
remained quiet enough until Monday morning,
when, not being able to hear OF his horse and wa
gou having being in West6eld, he became alarm
ed and rallied in pursuit Of, as he supposed,
horse thief. In the mean time the chap had
gone into the town of Ripley. married very
pretty locking girl. and was quietly vending his
way back with the horse and wagon, when. meet
ing man who had informed him that the owner
of the horse was in pursuit of him, the simple
ton, instead of continuing on like an honest man,
seized his trunk and, with his Dulcinea, took to
the woods, leaving the horse and wagon in the
road After short pursuit, they were found in
the woods he with his trunk still on his shoul-