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marches that we are startled by these formidable
indications OF social anarchy. The press is pagped.
the musings are silent, even the pulpit is under
oiiciai controls yet whilst the free circulation of
homes, opinions Is thus checked, the poison of sedi-
ton filters through hidden channels, and the faith OF
the community in its temporal institutions and its spi
iitual guides, IS sapped and undermined An ac-
i've police and numerous army, doing the duties
or police, are constantly engaged in tracking eve
ry suspicious foOtstep over the soil Personal Ii
berry is clrcumscribed, and every citizen is watch
ed IKE culprit. Yet what does all this end i'm
ne more these precautions multiplied the more
Intellectual do they become. The very Governments
which rely upon them live in perpetual terror of
internal enemies, whom they repel but cannot ex-
tpate; and their apprehensions attest the presence
and the progress OF the spirit with which thew are
eternally at war; Social order has less TO fear from
England Chartsts, Irish Repealers, Scotch fanatics
and French Republicans at this time, than from the
secret societies and revolutionary tendencies which
are at work in the heart of the American Empire
and the Prussian Monarchy. The people in those
countries are not morally armed to resist the in
trlgues and articles of the enemies of their Govern
ments "A mere impulse of false suggestion may
hurry them into crime. The notion of public duty
mas not struck root among them, for it is only graft
co upon the old stock Of passive obedience. !.
:, These are formidable symptoms for they indicate
the presence Of an evil which is represscd, and.
sometimes punished but not eradicated The sys-
TEN OF government under which they occur is self
condemned, not only because its means are harsh.
and despotic, but because ii does not attain the one
great object Of public security to which all its eff
forts are directed
The present condition of Poland, under her tri
pie yoke Is the most melancholy exhibition which
the world has ever witnessed of the inability of
this system OF Government to accomplish its pur-
pose. Not one of her spoilers has succeeded i'm
giving tranquility or prosperity to the provinces
which still boast their allegiance to that abolished
throne In none of those provinces has foreign
force performed the essential duties of a National
government The wrongs OF Poland are great,
but they have been greatly avenged by the insnper-
able toll and the ever-recurrng dangers which at
tend the possession Of her divided members The
diificuty Is, not to commit crime, but to obterate
the traces OF lt and it is not impossible that the
partition of Poland may yet compromise the very
existence of the States which participated in that
transaction.
But in presence of these dcplorabe and danger
Gus tendencies the duty of the sincere friends of
Polish independence is clear. Mr.. Guizot stated it
In the French Chambers in language equally re-
markable for courage, truth and feeling. We have
no right to incite the Poles by our sympathy and
our applause, so long are unable to assist them
oy our acts. We have no right to assist them by
our ac'S, so long as we are on terms of amity with
the Northern Courts. Let us use our influence To
endeavor to mitigate the horrors Of the action we
already oresee; let us take part in the sorrows of
these eXlles, but not in their conspiraces and let
us not incur the responsibility of abettng an insur
rectlon which must prove fatal to all who embark
IN 1t, and will ruin the hopes it seeks to realize-
The clamorous sympathy Of the Liberal party in
Franco for the Poles speaks more for the sentmen-
talty than the judgment of those who express it,
Poland cannot be saved by dancing the Cracovienne
AT the French Opera, and this fllacious enthusiasm
impaIrs the cause it would assist and betrays the
gallant spirits it would encourage