The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-04-15


popular excuses, and rued the fault in bloc
and has commenced another by exposing h
life TO turn the boiling passions Of pol
ulace into peaceful channels with glorious SUI
cess; of Lamartne, who has thus manifested
devotion and courage as lofty his genius
this Journal, and sll Journals, and all men
all parties, speak as the man Of our age, genis
good. and great.
But in the same paper is an Editorial ev
IDENTIFY from the pen of Thomas Carlyle. ricl
poetic, and strong, fitting picture Of the gran
event; setting OH la striking lights, and graph
contrasts the madness Of the King. and the 10y
atty of the people.
Ii is not light joy. such rs can express Il
self iI vain talk, in buster, mockery, and "tre
msnious cheers" il Is q stern, almost sacre
Joy that the late news from Paris excite II
earnest men. Fora long, melancholy series o
years past there has been no event al all to ex
cite in earnest men much other than wearinss
and disgust. To France least Of all had w
been looking of late for tidings that could ele
vate and cheer US. Nor IL the present terribl,
occurrence properly great or joyful. As we say
misery and sin-yet with radiance in IL like
that Of stars, sternly beautiful, symbolic Of i'm
mortality and eternity.
Sophist Guizot, Sham King Louis Phil
lippe, and the host Of quacks, Of obscene spec
trail nightmares under which France lay with.
ing, are fled. Burst are the stony jaws Of thai
enchanted, accused living tomb; rent suddenly
are the leaden wrapPages and cerements; from
amid the noisome clamm and darkness OF the
grave bursts forth thunder-clad soul that wal
not dead, that cannot die. Courage! the righteous
gods do still rule this earth. A divine Nemesis,
hidden from the base and foolish, known al
ways TO the wise and noble, tracks unerringly
the footsteps Of the evil-doer-who is natures
own enemy, and the enemy Of her eternal laws,
whom she cannot pardon. Him no force OF
policy, or most dexterous continuance and vul-
pine energy and faculty, will save: into his own
pit he, at last. does assuredly fall-sometimes,
As now, in the sight and TO the wonder Of all
men.
Alas, that any king, or man, should need 10
have This oldest truth. older than the world it.
self, made new to him again, and asserted TO be
no fable OF hearsay, but very truth and fact. in
This frightful manner! To the French nation
and their kings it has been very impressively
taught, under many forms, by most expensive
courses of experiment, for sixty years back; and
they, il appears, and We, still require new les
sons upon il.
Very sad on all sides. Here is a man OF
much talent, Of manifold experience In all pro-
vinces Of life, accepting.the supreme post among
his fellowmen, and deliberately, with steadfast
persistence, for seventeen years, attempting his
high task there, not in the name of God, a. we
NAV say, but Of the enemy Of God. On the
pulpine capabilities alone had Louis Philippe
any reliance; not by appealing, with courageous
energy and patience, to whatever was good, and
genuine, and worthy round him (which exist
ed, too, though wide scattered, and in modest
seclusion rather than fragrant on the house.
lops;) not by heroic appeal to this, but by easy
appeal TO what WAS bad, and false, and sordid,
and To that only, has he endeavored TO rsign.-
w hat noble thing achieved by him, what noble
man celled forth into benefcent activity by him,
can Louis Philippe look back uponf None
His management has been a cunningly- devised
system Of iniquty in all its basest shapes
Bribery has iiourished; scandalous corruption,
till the air was thick with it, and the hearts
Of men sick Paltry rhstorisi~sss, r.rli.snea-
larry tongue-fencers mean jobbers, intriguers;
every seTviceablest form Of human greed and
low rnindedncss has this 'ssouroe Of honor" pa
troni,ed. For the poor French people, who by
their blood and agony bore him TO that high
place, what did he accomplish Penal repres-
sion into silence; that, and too literally moth
ing more. To arm the sordid cupidities Of one
class against the bitter unreasonable necessities
Of the other, and to leave it so-he saw no
other method. His position was indeed difii-
cult; but he should have called for help from
above, not from below.
Alas, in his roamings through the world =
and few have had a wider ramble than this
mamie had failed to discover the secret Of the
world, after all. II this universe be indeed q
huge swindlel In that case, supreme swindleI
will mean sovereign ruler: in that case--but moi
in the other, Poor Louis Philippe; his span
ish marriages had Just pros2ered with him, to
the disgust Of all honorable hearts; in his Span
ish marriages he felt that he had at length
achieved the topstone which consolidated all
and made the Louis Philippe system cement
ed by such bribery mortar, bound by such dip
loraatic tie beams) a miracle Of architecture
when the solid earth Impatient Of such edifice,
gave way, and the Eumenides rose, and all wa.
blazing instruction and delirium: and Louii
Philippe "drove off in a brougham," or eoseos
street-cab, 'through the Barrier Of Passy,"-
towards night and an avenging doom. Egalit'
Falls, after a long, painful life-voyage, has end
&c no better than Egalite Pere did Ii is TRACE
dy equal TO that Of the sons Of Aureus.
Louis Philippe, one could pity as well a
blame, were not all ones pity concentrate
upon the millions who have suffered by hi
81 ns On the French peoples side, too, 10
not tragical9 These wild men in blouses, will
their faces and their hearts all blazing In celes
tial and Internal lightning. with their barricade
I'D, and their fusils in their hands-they are nov
the grandsons Of the Bastillers Of SO and tn
s,eptemberers of '92; the fathers fought in 1880
they in ls4s are still lighting. To the thir
generation it has been tequeathed by the secon
and the first; BY the third generation the i'm
,nease problem, still to solve, 10 not deserted,
duly taken up. They also protest, with thei
hearts blood, against a universe Of lies; an
say, audible as with the voice Of whirlwind'
"In the narne of all the gods, we will not hav
Il so. We will die rather; we and our sons an
grs ndsons, a. our fathers and grandfathers hav
done. Take thought Of II, therefore, what on
fint transcendant French Revolution did mean
for your own sake and for ours, take though
and discover Il, and accomplish II, for accom-
plished II shall and must be, and peace or rest
not in the world till then"'
"The throne was carried out by armed me
in blouses, was dragged along the streets, an
at last smashed into small pieces" say tn
journals. Into small pieces; let II be elabol
ately broken, pains be taken that Of IT there n
mains nothing. "Begone, thou wretched III
holstery phant asm; descend thou to the abysse
to the cesspools, spurned Of all men; thou q
not the thing we required to heal us Of our III
bearable miseries; not thou--it must be SOM
thing other than thou!' SO ends the "Thror
of the Barric,ides;" and so, II right well deserve
to end. Thrones founded on hniquity, ON hyP'
crisy, and the appeal Of human baseness, cal
| not end otherwise.
When Napoleon, the armed Soldier of Demo
rscy. rs he has been called--who at one tin
had discerned well that lies were unbelievabl
| that nations and persons ought to strip then
selves Of lies, that II was better even to 60 ba
than "ciofhesl with curses" by way Of garment
when Napoleon, drunk with more victory thu
| l. .s,,lI nasru was ahout d0se rtin1 this tn