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extreme Ignorance and terror.
Look also to France! Can any one, OBJ
scrva.A of human affairs. have foreot,en
tho Revolution Of 1850, repletc with every
thing that can shock the feelings or disgust
the sensibili,ies of humanity? The spirit
of change FIRST cviures itself by dreadful
popular convulsion. in which The old ca.
laJlishcd order of things is entirely done
away with,-royally abolished :-lhe King
and Queen bcheaded, the people split up
into contehding factions; the whole nation
thrown into tumull: LAWS overturned:
tribunals subyerled; industry without vigor:
commerce expiring; the revenue unpaid,
set the people impoverished; q church
pillaged, aud state no, relieved; civil
and military anarchy made the Constitu.
non fine kingdom; every Thing human
and divine sacrificed 10 the idol Of public
credit, and national bankruptcy the conse.
quence."t M6bs, wars, civil dIssension,
whosesalc robheries and murderss anarchy
anil confusion disgrace tile na,ion. In the
wildness Of the popular fury, the God Of
Heaven is dethroned from. the. peoples
minds, and The Goddess of Reason."
with her licenlious rule. is elevated 70 ar
binary donriuiUn. With this master stroke
Of innovation, follows scene of bloodshed
and horror. which no language can des.
cribe, No art portray. Men, iwomen, chill
dren.-the harmless babes OF innocent
mothers. are hurried away without trial,
justice, or mercy TO The river Seine, or to
the bloody GuilIoline ,e meet their doom
Of dealh. Brother is ssrrayed against bfolh-
er. father against son, and husband against
wife. There is no vile passion that does
mol find pander-no crime that does not
receive an apofosist. Indeed all the base
elements Of man's nature seem to be let
loose upon each other, doiuS their hoirid
work of bulchery aud destruction. This is
hut faiul sketch OF the "hloody reign Of
Terror"-the dynasty Of Danlon. of Ro-
hesplene aud Of Mara,-those diabolical
fiends, allowed in The wisdom of ProYi-
dence, 10 be, for time, tue scourgers Of
their race.
TO what extent The phrenzy Of infioya-
ton had led that excitable people but for
the IRON will Of the greatest genius, and, at
the same time, the grea' est tyrant the world
ever saw, cannot easily be conjectured.
The masterly spirit Of Napoleon did for
while hold in the headlohg propensity for
change; but ilwas only by the most rigid
military organism and a harsh. systematic
espionage (sure badges of despotism) kept
up by day and by night all over The nation.
And after all, il may be question ofseri-
Gus historical Inquiry. whether the national
spirit did upl drive Napoleon into many of
his aggressive wars. II is gune certain,
at least. that he would have found it much
more difficult to couIrol affairs within.
had not the national miud been so entirely
directed to foreign wars.
At Bonaparte's loss of power, the old
spirit Of change. which had been 50 violent
during the Revolution. broke out afrcsh.
grs, IS iIs Wonted energy. Sep by step 1t
a.5"s4:ed ill Charles the K. was driven
~ @ throne 1881 J and Louis Philipe
ii il hs g!ass No sooner gss !ns ss
iisae 9nizing effects. Under the orderly
~, t the younger Bourbon it gradually
~ ,e violent ill, at length. gathered in
= -.,s sht. it again overrhrew the rule of or
der and government, and reproduced licen-
,iousness and anarchy. Louis PHILIPPE has
beeri driven from his throne by the very
power that raised aim 10 il. As formerly.
mobs, rows, bloodshed, violence, rapine,
anarchy and confusion have all succeeded.
and France IS still ,riihout q gorernment!
These examples stand out prominently
on The pages of history 10 warn Us against
The dangers of hasly and reckless ihnova-
lion. They arc beacon lights, set out
before the'eyes of the world, as guides TO
nations. The people that wil not profit
by them. are grossly negIec'fnl ofthe plain
lessons Of wisdom and experience. Like
The reckless people OF Isreal they forget:
they do moi consider. God grant that this
may no, be our condition
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
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