Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-06-20

ton would to legitimacy without tho charter
But because constitutional opposition was cncpun
tered, chamber which has since sufficiently proved
that it was neither facous rcpubican-Undcr the
protext OF conspiracies which did exist or which
have not existed suce 1929 deprive whole nation
OF It's rights. to put France under interdciion was
an odous idiotsn that merited, and received
ment. Had this enterprise CT weakness and folly sue
ccedod Tor few days, only blood would have flown
Weakness, when Victorious mpacab all the songs
CT ccurtors and spies exu in geance l who sneak
would have been the nrst sacrifice for nothing should
havc deferred mo from writing. should have thought
myself JUSTIFIED IN repeing violence, by violence in
staying whoever to me- az ordinance ant,
a Law in hand. Well; all these concessions made our
recourse TO vengeance without foresight, and with
out limits is not the less of the fatal accidents
Which could have happened to the lborties as TO the
peace of the world
What do we ,yish7 What sack re7 A ,,,r.
perfect level than that which equaizes us? But the in
equality of men, and things arises from nature itself
How many men, mortified having come to nothing
IN the course of the Revolution, turned upon themselves
the desperate hands, which they had raised against
ciety! The red cap (bonnet rouge appeared their
pride, but another kind of crown but
grade of nobility of which the Murats and the Robes
pieeres were the Grand Masters Furions at finding
inequality OF ranks in the world of grief and tears
condemned to be nothing but Williams the feuday of
Jewellers and hangmen they either poisoned themselves
or cut their throa with rage, so escape the superior
ty Of crime.
Shall again put ourselves in the power of those
veteran kevoluonists of those invalid headsmen co-
petecs) OF 1913, who find nothing beautiful, tho
oatties OF the guilotine, tho istS les gained by
| VIZ cAee"Ho" over Inc young girls OF Nerdun,
and the aged Malesherbes1 who eli ve that we will
allow ourselves to be plated with az much compla-
cency as formerly That it would be possible
dish legal murder and the proud reign of terror all
oplocc France bleeding and disheveed ulfler the
bre OF pigmy Bnomaparte with the accompaniment of
gags manaces other letters, and imperial parodes?
On the other hand who would desire that old royalist
party full of honor and proby but whose understand
ing IS like walled and vaulted dungeon without door,
window, loop hole, chink through which can pass
the smallest ray of light.
This old and respectable party would relapse to-mor-
row int" the which they committed yesterday,
always dupo to hypocrites intrgueiss sharpcrs and
spies, 1t its life in little intrgues which
ders great conspiracies
Among those who would give up all our lber.
ties for the Office i'll the of legitimacy
and those who would sell them for blood usurpa-
ton of their choice and hoae who, belonging to
neither party, noutrs Inactive one ia real
| " bewildered.
Political systems have terrified me; haye mn
urely considered them ALL there subjects OF this
nature, which have not again and again examined-I
have arrived at this conclusion that neither behave it.
the people in Kings but do believe in the nelli
gence, and the power which compose all society-No
man is more persuaded than l. of the perfecabty of
human natures but do wish, when speaks to rae
of the future that ne should present me as new tina
which have hung for thousand years in the schools
OF the Greek philosophers aud the churches Heresi
arch Christians ought advertise the risnu genera
ton that when they discourse of the community goods
of wives of children of the pell-mel of bodies and souJ
of pantheisin, of the worship of pure reason &c
ought to advertise them, that when they speak of ali
these things, discoveries of time they deceivs
them these novelties the Oldest they arc the most
deporable chimeras Let not this admirable portion of
France abuse its power Let IL beware lest it shake
the columns of the temple 1t may draw down upon IT.
self the future; than have Frcnchmen been
buried beneath the wreck which they themselves made
Without prejudices of any kind then il Ia for my
country that depore too rapid Eubversion-I should
have desired them TO stop innocence misfortune
The barrier beautiful the STANDARD of liberty would
have hoated upon with less of danger from tempests
and all interests would have rallied around it. Youth
would have been called to take possession of an era
which naturally belonged to it. They went bcvona il
we degrees they delivered themselves from twenty five
or thirty years decline. They had infant which thew
NIT Mt have brought up in the ideas of the time and
moulded to the opinions and wants of the countrv-
They could have effected all the changes they desired
in the charter and the laws. Adjon glory which was
easy thing Ito this commencement of that reign and
you would have made it of the greatest epochs in
| our records.
| When say that youthy would have been cali
ed to the natural heritage, | advance nothing which
be at all doubtful. The restoration Clespised no
talent; witness the men in powerful Mareschal
Sout, NJ Baron Louis, Ministers of Louis XVIII.
NJ de pilele, at the moment of his fall, wished to
confer the Portfolio of Finances on N. Lafttc. When
NJ de Villelc fell they proposed to to re-enter the
/ Ministry L consented it, but condition that
Messsrs. Casmir Perrier, Sebastian and Roger Col.
lard should enter with it could DO arranged as
wished, at that time. 1t appears that Charles X re-
membered at Saint Cloud my proposition as he amed
NJ. Casinr Perrjer, Minister of Finances to Henry
9Th. They offered to NJ. de Rigny, in 1899 the Port.
folio of Marine. N1essrs. d. Argout and de Montali
bit received the Peerage from the Legtimacy he latter
an Hereditary Peer, not only in right Of the Peerage Of
his father but also, colaeraly by that of his brotRer
favor well mertGd without doubt but in every respect
never cordially neglected any one but myself.
But could we have stopped at Henry With? Yes; with
less cowerdce on side and sang froid on the
other. They pretend that tho infant Monarch could
not have held his position abdcatcd royalty; that
the intrigues of the old court would have undermined
all that two powers, the Of right the other of fact
clashing in the State, would have destroyed him; in
short that the Prctenson oil primitive power constl
ted by divine right, would have always remained,
am not of this opinion believe that in calling
around Henry OF Bearn, talented who have not
even obtained place under the elective monarchy all
the energetic chiefs, military and civil Of the past all
the talents, all the youth, should have easily con-
quered the hunters the dowagers the inquistors
and the political economists of ST. German and Fon
tainbleau Besides, experience has proved, that fal.
len Hing has but little power Charles Y and his son
in the circumstances under which they would have re-
manned in France far from being courtcd and reche
chcs would have been soon plunged in profound SOL
tudc
Suppose the contrary 1t time enough then to
do that which they did the 9th August they might
have had the advantage of convincing France, by ex
Pericnce that they could be sheltered under the
old rrf fr,y,~ y, . tbc e.. l