Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1848-05-29
FRANCE

We extract the following paragraph from late Paris
letter published in the n Y. Courier.
Among the efficient promoters Of tho Revolution
in France were Two men. of whom the world has
seldom seen, the other seldom heard of In that spec
tacle the imposing which Paris has witnessed for
half century-,he burial of the victims of February
might be walking abreast with the Provisional
Government, little badsheaded, humble looking old
whose whole men denoted unaccusomed u the
pomp and circumstances of such tie had no badge
Of office mark of distinctions; yet there was not man
in thai crowd of half amillon. who had better
right place among the rulers ut the land II Vas the
poet Berange he whose simple Tyre had, Tor more than
thirty years. welded greater Influence .han all the
ma giseria truncheons in the kingdom. he Tyre was
first struog tho 'akng of the Base and under Ns-
ppeon Louis XVIII. Charles Y. and Louis Philippe,
it never ceased to rng out Indignant strains against
PRESTON that filled the centre every true born heart
in tho nation. The seductons ri power could not ull
the a nps of the dungeon could not slacken its golden
cords Bcrange said truly in the preface of ono OF his
published works, lie peuple eest ma muse The Unborn
rights and natural brotherhood of man have been his
uniform themes. and his invocaons have always been
To the nobest instincts emotions and passions ct the hu
man soul For more than generation has France
echoed with Beranger's melodies. They have been the
uabes of infancy the carols OF Childhood the stirring
odes of usy prm. and the genial laws OF declining age
The piano and the forge have alike chmed and the paw
ment and the hearth stone have alike vihrated. with
the magic measures, The whole people have
been in a manner educated and inspired by their
old minstrel in the day Of their triumph. They
are about to drug him from his humble country
r.reat to in the great Council Hall of the nation
lie has pleaded hard he excused but the gratitude Of
the people will not be denied Beranger will be cloth
ed with senatorial purple, though he shrinks from the
robe of the candidate.
| The other individual to whom alluded is RouGe &c
isle obscure lieutenant of the artillery, who, one
nigh, in 1872. in the city of Stasburg composed song
which has been worth moro to the cause of French free
dom than hundred thousand hayonets. For more than
fifty years has boen the DE Profunis filings and the
Dipat of liberty As the alnparis OF Thehes sprung in
to existence the sound of Amphlon's lutte the bar
rcades of Paris leap from the cath at the first burst of
la .Marsriaise In times of monarchy kings suppressed
il out they cannot pluck II out Of mems recoections
II lies there like smoullerng fire brand-al the more
for its being bent up .corchrg and bserng the Utmost
fbres of the soul and when at last it finds vent, it
blazes out with a violence that s to envelope the
whole land IN vast contlagraion Bat the Marsell-
lase is the only ocsn of revelation is the CAN'T
Gle Of national deliverance. Its notes may now be
heard from end Of Republican France 10 the other
In all places of public entertainment 1t Is made the great
object Of attraction