South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-02-21

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the yoke imposed upon them, they
labored, with unyielding tenacity, "a
make it more CALLING. They disarmed
the National Guards; they cramped
and crippled the right of suffrage in
elections they perverted and traves-
tied the institution of juries they
feltered the freedom of the Press, and
10 their external policy lent themselves,
willing instruments TO crush the libers
ties of Spain and Italy. The spirit Of
the Nation was curbed, but not subduee .
The principles of freedom proclaimed
10 the Declaration Of Rights OF 1889
had taken too deep root to be extirpa.
ted. Charles the Tenth, by gradual
introduction into his councils of the
most invelerate adherents 10 the anti
revolutionary Government, was pre-.
pairing the way for the annihilation Of
the Charter and of the Legislative
Representation ofthe People. Ia pro-
portion as this plan approached to ite
maturity, the resistance Of the Nation
to its accomplishment acquired conss,-
ency and organization. The time had
been, when, by the restrictions upon
the right Of suffrage, and The control
Of the Press, and even Of the freedom
OF debate in the Legislature, the Oppo.
sltion in the Chamber Of Deputies had
dwindled down TO not more than thirtv
members. But, under a rapid success.
sion Of incompetent and unpopular
Administrations, the majority Of the
House Of Deputies had passed from
the side Of the Court to that OF the
People. In August, 1929, the King,
confiding in his imaginary strength.
reorgaoized his Ministry BY the ap.
pointment Of men whose reputation was
isselfa pledge Of the violen, and des-
perate designs in contemplation. At
the first meeting Of the Legislative
Assembly, an address to the King.
signed by two hundred and twenty one
out Of four hundred members, declared
TO him, in respectful terms, that con-
eurrence of senfi-----s. Ortweun ms
Mini..srs and the Nation was indis-
pensable to the happiness of the Peo-
pie under his Government, and that
this concurrence did not exist. He re.
piled, that his determination was im-
movable, and dissolved the Assembly.
A new election was held ; and so odi-
GUS throughout the Nation were the
measures Of the Court, that, Of the two
hundred and twenty.one members who
had signed the address agains, the Min-
listers, more than two hundred were re.
elected. The Opposition had also
gained an accession Of numbers in the
remaining part Of the Deputations, and
it was apparent that, upon the meeting
Of the Assembly, the Court party could
not be sustained.
At this cricis, Charles the Tenth, as
If resolved to leave himself not tho
shadow Of pretext to complain Of his
expulsion from the throne, 10 defiance
of the Charter, to the observance Of
Of which he had solemnly sworn, issu~
ed, at one and the Same time, four
Ordinances-the first of which sns-
pended the liberty of the Press, and
prohibited the publication of all the
daily newspapers and other periodical
journals, but by license, revocable at
pleasure, and renewable every three
months /; the second annuled the cleo
ton Of Deputies, which had just taken
place /; the third changed the mode Of
election prescribed by law, and reduce
ed nearly by one-half the numbers Of
the House Of Deputies to be elected ;
and the fourth commanded the new
elections to be held, and fixed day
for the meeting ofthe Assembly 10 be
so constituted.
These Ordinances we're the imms,
date occasion of the last Revolution
OF the three days, terminating in the
final expulsion of Charles the Tenth
from tho throne, and Of himself and
| his family from the territory Of France
This was effected by an instruction 0
the People of Paris, which burst forth
by spontaneous and unprecedented
movement, on the very day ofthe pro
mitigation of the four Ordinances
The first of these, the suppression o
alithe daily newspapers, seemed as i
studiously devised to provoke instan
taneous resistance, end the conflict o
| physical force. Had Charles the Tent
issued a decree TO shut up all the bake
houses Of Paris, it could not have beer
more fatal TO his authority. The con
ductors of the prescribed journals, b,
mutual engagement among themselves
determined to consider the Ordinances
as unlawful, null, and void; and thi4