Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-04-01

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is the cafes and reading rooms, and similar places Of public
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self with his avore journal and his glass of ordnar
and laugh the world while he assuages his carna
and mental appetite at the same time The French are both
frugal and temperate people, and their peculiar system OF
personal comfort well adapted to these principles Of their
cia life.
Mr.. Leon Foucher INDUCES in specuaons upon
Revolution and cczes of the criticisms of Mr. Quiet
After recognising with the ustous author that the grew
which led separation from England rather
abstract than PRACTICAL rather apprehensons for the future than
wrongs of the present. and consequently not OF nature to
produce powerful impression upon the of society, he
adds Ii is by spreading the msees of the workmen,
e boody shirtof eict, the humiliation OF sl, that
the people excited to take arms He remarks, hait
only the high nteects which regard the question OF right
and that the Revolution of the United States would
have become popular if the English authorities in the
'of the contest had committed of cruelty which
asperaed all mems minds" He then proceeds to state APP
parenty cooary of what may be called his bloody
principle that revolution popular with what he
the eror classes and then continues "There lies
the of the embarrassment which has struck Mr.
Guzot and that Washington could alone overcome by his
prudence well by his mDess Transport to the France
of 1889 the principle of the American Revolution and
campaign of the coaesced Powers would be enough to crush
sher Admit that the principle of the French Revolution
would have operated upon North America in IT'S, and
'dve the English into the would have been for Wash
sington affair of three months only.
And all this the writer doubt considers the true phoso
ply Of history In his secompacency, author and
Frenchman TO him that what he calls the diff
nf two
words the state of excitement and of terrible crimes which
marked the progress of the event. and Of firm resolution
and continued exerion, destitute Of all political anatcism,
which distinguished the otherrew their origin from the cha
of the respective people pushed these struggles and
not from any peculiar political opinions of either OF hem
garng the foundation of their rights the duty OF resist
ance The Fenchman might have considered the prospect of
future oppression not worth immediate exelon while upon
his ardent temperament single wound may have required the
Precipitation of the fall OF the Bale But most assuredly the
Americans did not visible signal to push them and
he who should have displayed boody shirt for that purpose
would have been followed by the contempt OF the spectators
and sauted with stones by every idle boy in the streets 1t
must be remembe ed in all attempts anayze the views OF
the French writers upon country and Government that
there peculiar fact be kept in view, of the utmost
importance in its bearing here but which has the slightest
point of resemblance any thing in the institutions of the
United States In all questions Of national opinion and of
political movement Paris is France From the first expo-
sion in 1889 to the last enaeute in May, 1885, not single
popular effort has overturned seriously threatened to
turn, the existing Government, which has not originated in
the capital And very slight knowledge of the elements Of
the society which compose its of million of nhabt
ants is sufficient explain how this multitude may be excl
ted and how bloody shirt may perform important part in
the revolution Of kingdom But, God be praised have
Paris, with IFS powerful influence and its nfammabe
terias He who occupies the uneest cabin upon the
verge of civilization has just important part play in the
fate Of country the denzen Of the proudest city the
land. There tocsin from tower any rdppel from
guardhouse which to the defenders of
institutions that they in danger. drum bell whose
roll whose could reach hunJredth those
upon whose affections political ed6ce rests will never be
made by mortal hands Such sound will be heard but
by the human
Here, to room, omit several pages which have
direct reference to France her People, Government
obvious in perusng the extracts have given from the
French de OF accusation above referred and which exh
bits the creed Of the persons engaged efforts overtun the
Government that the object not all confined change
Of political institutions to the substitution Of republic for
monarchy but that extends the fundamental basis of
ciey seeking the destruction of private rights and of all the
barriers which defend property and order Undoubtedly in
these crowded regions OF the old world there much misery
and the comforts of life very unequaly distributed He
who depends Tor existence upon public charity, he who by
constant labor and continual pvaons, barely supports life
without becoming mendcan may be easily taught to look
upon the principles TO which he attributes all these evils
equally unjust in their foundation and oppressive in their
operation. Where there is much physical suffering there
the elements of discomfort and material of revolutions. The
history of the flight of David, and of the rebellion of his
Abaom, teaches how easily by au representations, the
unfortunate young soe the hearts Of the OF Israel
and this lesson has been repeated succeeding ages Till il is
g familiar in mouths household words" And the adj
dress of Cane his fellow conspiraors recorded by
Salus sufficiently evnces the knowledge which that Roman
Prodre had of the springs Of action that may be easily put
IN motion when misery Expresses any considerable portion OF
the population at nobiS est domi aopid foris GhenuDi
naah res, Spes uo aspeor deique quid requ habemuS
praer miSerdm ?" There is problem in human
society nught with important consequences than that
which seeks to combine the happiness of the greatest number
with the necessaypncpes of public order and private rights
Visionary feeling right but thinking wrong, may declare
against the existing institutions Of society," and talk about
the evils aud eshness Of riches and the justice of equal
partition Of althe products Of industry and Utopian pol
clans may dream Of far off regions where there's neither
wealth poverty where each abors for and for ALL and
where self lost in indiscmnae benevoence. But such
regions must be sought another globe than this III the
curse labor the first fruit of dsobedenc descended upon
mankind it accompanied by the stimulus Of necessity and
by the passion OF acquisition Without this selfish hope and
without the barriers which fence round whatever minister
to it what would become of the nations Of the world Who
would labor from the morning of life till its close with hand
head and toll in any Of the nnumerabe spheres Of action
which in their ensemble constitute the aggregate of society," If
the reward he hopes find the product of his industry may
be wrsted from him by the first awess invader who chooses
to appropriate TO himself what he pcases And between the
unlimited power of acquisition and enjoyment and the ndis
crmnac abandonment of oil to ALL human ingenuity has yet
found no practicable medium.
In our country general comfort is compatible with all the
security which necessary for the reward OF labor and for it,
stimulus Every man-and the importance Of the truth
VIII justify It's repetIionevery man, by industry aud probiy