The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-29
,..A. IN. c;,v Of Paris, and is gzrnished with an

Il, eo,,.rds IN. city of Paris and is gzrnshed with
immense train Of artillery rfady h o' any .ns 'ns
the civ ITSELF when these troubles broke out the govern
snt lad collected great army of hundred Thousand
men among the best disciplined troops the world and
Collected for the very purpose of putting down all oPposi
on to the 1t was proposed adopt And what was
the result Of this great political foresight as seemed 10
be, The foruhcatons did not fire gun me Iess'ahce
in the did not produce much boodshed as an OF
binary s1ets and the troops frateplzed WIN Ihe PEG
pe and went over 70 them % Inc hG d :, sn hndns
government was dissolved, his dynasty terminated,
his family expelled from the kingdom, and the people
took possession of the power that belonged TO them.
And what then Any more bood' Amy vio-
ence' Any of those reactions OF feeling, which have
have rendered the werd itself unacceptable to timid
There has been nothing Of all this and let hope
there will not be. A provisional government has been
organized, composed Of able and eminent men, OF
them known through the civilized world and all of
them we'll fitted ot their position, and with characters
which furnish the best guarantee Tor their patriotic
duct They have summoned national assembly to con-
short time, in order 70 prepare constitution
for the French people and in the meantime, all violence
and resistance have ceased The equality Of all French
sal suffrage has been established and the great princi
pies OF liberty have been recognised as freely they are
recognised IN our own country And public vessel has
hun TO go where he pleased What beautiful iilusira
ton all these proceedings OF the progress OF health
full public opinion in France and what beautiful ex-
evils, and may resort to the same remedy! =,
The people OF this country prOpagandists lhey
permit other nation interfere with them IN their own
internal concerns, and they seek 10 interfere with no ohe
in theirs They proclaimed on the an OF july l1o lha
ii the right OF every people 70 abolish ITS government
and to institute one, "layng ITS foundations on
such principles, and organizing It's powers IN such iorm
as 10 them shall most likely to effect their safety
and happiness" But every people must Judge for heu-
selves as well whether they will continue an existing
government, whether they will change nj and II So
what form they will substitute. We know the priceless
value of liberty; we know IT suits our condition; and
that il has given greater measure OF political happ
ness than any nation enjoyed before But while
feel all this and wish that every other people were as
well fitted for the enjoyment of liberty are still
these convictions and these wishes have influence
upon our political conduct. We hold all other nations
fathers did-enenes IN tcar IN peace, friends
But there is no just principle OF national comfy which
forbds to- indulge and express sympathy with strug
sions. rising in their strength to their long
lost freedom We ought neither to shut our to the
welcome sound OF their successful efforts hearts
the emotions which these well calculated to in.
spire France does not want men nor means to defend
herself or to maintain the position she has assumed Shs
they have at her disposal But the sympathy OF TWEEN
ty millions of people, is present fit TO send across the
Atlantc-aAd Of a people, too, who have preceded
France the great into which she has just enter
ed and who tell her that it is beset by no trials or dit
fculties which time and experience may not easily over
come 1t will make her joy the greater for what she has
DONE and her confidence the mer for what she has to
do. Abandoning them the question OF party let us all
up this great work Let neither wing nor demo-
be concerned in it, Ii is the right and the duty of
swallowed up that acrederm Let this and since
the return of Columbus to Spaln no higher tribute will
have been paid the advancing opinions OF the age and
no nobler present made by the New World to the Old