The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-04

will not bear transportation; and it will send the
sedltlous residue out Of the country. 1t mistook
the revolution across the channel at the first and
thought at the instant teo little of Legitimacy; but
now it has vehementy returned like dog to his
vomit and the utmost attainable limit of scorn
and contempt is every day, by every organ, lavish
ed upon the gallant population OF free France;
while, OF course, not word appears 10 reproach
the sympt0matIc and healthy commissions of Ger
many and the central countries of Europe, when
there Is still tolerated the contemplate refuge Of
a constitutional monarchy The watchword is
"down with Republics, and up with Kings" And
not TO the province of opinion and sympathy is this
abomlnation confined England is actually inter-
feTnng with her men and money in re-establlshlng
all the thrones OF Europe. See how firm she seems
to stand and how she upholds the weaker poten-
tates as Saturn wears his belts,
But the handwriting is the wall, and every
day deepens the faint lines into leglble characters.
The days of this Babylon are now numbered, and
her towers tOtter to their fall.
will endeavor, in my next, to interpret the glo-
rous inscription, tor which even the humblest lin
gust is as competent as that Daniel who was gift
ed of God to shake the soul of the guilty Belshaz-
Ear. MARCUS.
LONDON, Sept. 8, 1913.
Means of Snppres'mg Pubic Onnion-La,o Pun
ishing High Chronological Jnrtes- Ioady-
Ism of the american M,M,ster.
The laws and government of England, instead
of conforming to the spirit of the age, have, every
year, since George ILL.,, become more and more
intolerable. And, indeed, she IS the sad reverse
of what she was from the time OF the great rebel
lion to that period She has been the only Euro.
pean government In which the people have been
recognized as the smallest source of political
power. She has been known among the nations
as the protestant democratic leader of the destinies
of the old world. And, under her banner, through
those memorable ages, humanity recovered some
of its long-lost rights from princess arstocrats, and
enemies of the race. But she is her own counter
part and by gradual stages in decline has arrived
at this moment to depth OF despotlsm which
even merges the sacrilIgiOus outrages of Spain
and Russia She Is sc the lower Deep of her
immortal Milton. IT there be no remnants of
liberty In those benighted countries, poor human
nature Is saved the maddening insult of hypocri-
victim by selzing the throat In open day; and all
the modern sacrifices of life and liberty to the
mines OF Siberia and the Spanish galleys are made
upon notice OF the danger and without disguise.
In England, hundreds of honest and truest men
have been suppressed and now linger in dungeons
and exile, who supposed they were offending no
law, and thousands are in jeopardy of the last ex-
tIemihes OF punishment, and tremble to think that
barbarity lying hid to spring upon them from the
lids OF the statute book Ofcourse, this matter as
becoming better understood, but the mass of the
people are still In the dark about the scope and ma
the government 10 destroy. every map of ability
and force enough to open the eyes Of the people
upon existing abuses.
Yet, notwithstanding the facts that the English
law has actually crIminated, at this hour, every
patriot whatever upon the entire circuit of the
united islands; that 1t is enforced against every
man In whom the government perceives the noble
qualities adverted to- that, In short, the entire OF
what are known to US as the rights of man, are
actually suspended In the mass, and separately ex-
t,ngulshed at the rulers pleasure. There is per-
peiual prang, like the parrot notes of the Times,
quoted at the head of my first letter. We are mo-
Tested here. and the world elsewhere, with the
despcsble untruths about liberty, equality and
justice, of which those paragraphs appropriate
specimens. 1t Is time such falsehoods should be
crushed. At all events, it is full time that the
fraudulent coin should only circulate at home. |
cannot possibly invent any excuse for the studied
and abomInable hypocrisy OF the oligarchs, who
have mastered and now hold this kingdom IN sub
lection. They have the people unarmed, divided,
antagonised, uniformed, and utterly helpless.
The planters of the South do not more perfectly
control the existence of their slaves Why, then,
should there be all this supererogation Perhaps
the explanation is. that man seeks to deceive even
himself, by the affrctaton of virtue, when he
hath il not. Hence, the astounding deceit of the
first French revolution. That shining event lost
much of its ustre by the mask it wore of judicial
forms. 1t was greatly, as a moral lesson, impaired
by the pretended trials of Its victims Those trials
were sssassinatlOns the accused were a neces-
sary sacrifice to the tremendous emergency ; but
they should not have been Knocked by the resort to
the semblance of legal proceedings In that grand
stride towards all the glorious events which have
succeeded it for France and the world, arstocratic
blood had to flow like water to appease the terrible
wrongs OF the people, and In conformity with the
barbarOus age which then brooded over mankind.
But then, If the aristc Gratis had succeeded in the
struggle, would they have had recourse to such
elaborate impostions? No; they would have
put the people 10 the sword-hecatombs for one of
them who suffered under the reverse of fortune;
and courtly historians would abound to suppress
the evidence, and scarcely glance at the destruc-
ton of tens OF thousands of pebeIans and cama,Le.
This would have been a wiser course for the con-
queIors. Then, history would have had oppor-
tuniy of arraignlng the leaders and people of
lutionary France, tor the Indeble SIN of hypocrisy,
which now even vies with the vermillion of the
period, and begrlmes those otherwise only san
gum ry annals. After all, this memorable French
hypocrisy was not half as bad as the present
English hypocriiy; and the oligarchs of this
country might consider the probable course of
their prototypes OF France in 1893, if fortunes had
But will not detaln you by further kindred
observations If you not areaoy satisfied, will
further make good my criticism upon the speech OF
the American Minister, delivered TO crafty princes
and potentates, IN the very middle OF the month
of dear July, commemorated, in both hemIspheres,
to their overthrow You shall say | was right
when charged that, for the sake Of the hospltali
Nes OF the gilded roof at York, like blinded
Sampson, he rose, and shook the magnificent
columns of that temple of liberty, whose founda-
tons are the world, and whose summit will ever
claim fellowship with the sky
Down to the 54th George Ill, one guilty OF trea-
son in England, was to have his bowels torn out,
and after being halt hanged, to be cut down alive,
and in that awful situation suffered to expire,
after which his body was cut to pieces and his
limbs scattered. And this horrid law is not now
! essentially altered to the punishment while
there has been even recent cunning employed to
make 1t more efficient. This will be very soon ex-
planned hereafter High tire the United States
is well knownto require some overt act,-either OF
by actual means, to the enemy. And, of course, the
act was TO be established by testimony which is
specific, and not speculative. But in England II is
treason, ever since the dark age Of Edward III.
(25lh Edward Ill, CHI. p You see at once what
drag-net this act is in the hands of these fishers
of men. 1t Is impossible for any obnoxious per-