Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-07-11
VOLUME 6. NUMBER 5.

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Pontiff, who holds the keys Of 81. Peter:
has found . key to unlock the reeesses, Of
the human heart, 20 His moral courage
was but the more, tried BY the difficulties
of his position The abuses of the gov
eminent were the work of ages. and had
entered into all the habits of life and the
ramifcations of society: and he surround.
ed by .despotic governments, Jealous of
the first aspirations OF liberty, and who
maintain their sway by powerful aymies.
The Austrian, too, with his PsudouYs and
his Croais from the banks Of the Danube,
had descended the ridges of the Alps, and
had spread himself over the sunny pla ins
ofItsly. Almost in sight Of the dom of
Peters he watched, with interest and
with many a threatening word, the pro.
gFess of the Pope. But the work went
on. Naples is In state Of revolution;
Tuscany and Sardinia in q state of re.
form; and France of apparently peaceful
progress in the new career opened to
her"
In allusion to the revolution in France,
having been effected with small loss of
human life, he says:-- 4s er
"Eyery American will reloics, that this
mighty change has been effected with go
little an expenditure of human life. Il is
bloodless. noI bloody, revolutions thai we
desire. Unfortunately, our country is
the only one under the face Of heaven
where the right to change the govern
mems is fundamental principle or the
institutions. And il is therefore, in fact,
the only government beyond the reach of
a revolution. All the change We desire
is made by the ballot, and force is thus
excluded from any agency in our public
affairs. Revolutions as have said else4
where, are made hers by the ballot. boz;
but he would be ft for o mad house, who
would fire leaden bullet, when he could
attain his purpose much better by pa.
per one. But in monarchial countries,
power holds on TO its rights--not lie rights
but its pretences and its possessions. In
the quietude of despotsm, no reform vol.
UNFAIRLY comes to break upon the leaden
silence of the people. 1t is Only when
human sutferings are pushed to extremes,
and human strength is reused to exertion,
that the privileged orders give way, and
dole out scaniy moFsel to the famished
masses; and the moment the pressure
stops, the tardy reform stops with it,
Force, therefore, must be applied, or the
abuses ofgovernment will often become
lntolerable, as we'll as interim nable. 10
Is one Ofthose evils inseparable from hu-
man society. But while we acknowledge
its existence and deplore il we rejoice the
more, the more seldom 4 is called, BY
circumstances, into action" TrI
He thus refers to the progressive aspect
of the age:- E st 20
lessons ofliberiy my fellow.cilizens,
may be slowly learned, but they are sure.
ly learned. For ourselves, we were al.
ways free. Gus ancestors brought with
them the principles of civil and religious
liberty; and these have come down TO us,
through prosperous and adverse events,
till they have become bone of our bone,
and flesh of our flesh. But the first
schools of liberty in Europe have been
the schools ofrevolution; her ffrst lessons
have been taught there. The feeling
itself is an instinct of the human heart,
planted In it by the Creator; bat its IA.
,ional enjoyment comes with time, gen.
orally with labor, often with suffering
Something is gained by every step. The
effort may be stationary, apparently ret,
regarding; still the sentiment will be on.
ward. and misfortune prepares the way
for success. And so It is in Europe; time
experience. and e1ePtion. will bring with
them their reward. Not only will the
rights of man be appreciated, but their
rational enjoymenis will be secured, and
the principles that government was insti.
tuted by all, for the good OF all, will be
practically acknowledged.
"We sll feel that this ia an age of
progress. Onmard seems 10 be the great
word of our day and geheraiion--onward
in all the elements Of human improve
ments, intellectual, social, political and
physical.
He would be wiser, who should make
the experiment In practice, which an an
cient king is said to have made in rebuke
of his coustiers, plant himself upon the
shore of the ocean, saying to tie tides,
foo not, than be who should say to the
spiriS ofiAe age, ddrGnce not. There are
many, who fear the progress and result
Of this great feeling. am NOS among
them. have watched It, and mingled
with it for fifty years. In my opinion, it
is yet but in its commencement. Let us
al attempts to instruct and to guide, what
we could not check if We would, and
ought not If we could. Human liberty,
human equality, human improvement.
moral and physical. should be the object
Of our desires, as we'll as of our efforts"