The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-05-17
Violence and Bloodshed.

/ Ever since the French revolution of 1889 innu
merable have been the pGans sung in honor of con
| sentative moderation, and loud have been the de-
nunciations against radicals and revoutionsts wht
have been stgmatsed as the authors of all the VIC
ence and bloodshed that have occurred in the war
of the few against the many Now the song mus
be changed, and the canters of conservatism will
be forced to take up their cracking notes on another
key. 1t is now the party which calls itself the
party of order that perpetrates all the outrage:
against peace and even civilized warfare. Now
the bombardments, the sackings, the sieges and the
burnings are all done in the name of law and fo
the sake of maintaining order. This feature Of
conservatism is characteristic of it, not only in the
old but also in the new world. Not only is Brescia
burned, Genoa canonaded, and Catania sacked fol-
the sake of preserving the established order oil
things, but the 60 backwarders of Canada are in
fected with this disease for violence, and burn the
Parliament House, which has never done them any
manner of harm.
Every steamer from Europe has, of late, brough,
US an account of some crime perpetrated in the
sacred name of Law. No sooner had the horrors
Of Vienna ceased than the iniquities of Italy COM
menced. Windischgratz and Jellachich were moi
competent to perform all the butcheries of the Aus
trlan Emperor; Radetzsky was called in to bayone,
and lombard, TO sack and to burn. 1t was mol
enough to chop off the heads of German patriots
and fill the streets of Vienna with blood the plains
of Lombardy must be devastated with sword and
fame Towns destroyed and fields laid waste
virgins dehowered, and matrons ravished-such
are the marks which Legitimacy has, within the
last two months, left in Italy And now there are
fears entertained that France is to aid Austria in
her career of crime and destruction. Now it is
reported that the expedition to Civita Vecchia is
for the sake Of restoring the Pope to his lost throne
and of replacing in his hands the sceptre which
lately fell from his nerveless grasp. If such be the
case-if the French army sent into Italy has been
commissioned to fight the Roman patriots, again it
Is Inc party OF conservatism which will be the cause
OF all the crimes consequent on this expedition It
is the party now in power in France-the reaction
lists, headed by Barrot and Thiers-vbo have de.
termlned on the expedition to Civita Veccbia. If
for the sake of getting away from Paris some Of the
regiments whose liberal opinions might bava
troubled the existing Government as well as for tho
sake of aiding monarch to regain his throne. the
Barrot ministry have sent this army of 1900 men
into the Roman States, with them and their friends
will rest the consequences that may ensue.
For let it be borne in mind that the party of Red
Republicans although they have been falsely re-
presented as taking the name of Red because it
accorded with the blood-thirsty doctrines imputed
to them by their adversarieE did not vote for the
means and money that are to execute the designs
OF the Napoleonic Government. The men of the
Mountain have been the steady advocates of peace:
they have wished TO confirm and consolidate the
French democratic republic, rather than to plunge
the nation into wars with its neighbors. The Red
Republicans have chosen the single color as the
symbol of their opinions because it is strong and
decided one it has in it none of the white which
belonged to the Bourbons, and none of the blue
which we suppose was introduced into the tri-coIor
ny The GIrondists as compliment 10 Madame
Roland and those of the party who were in the
habit of talking nonsense about Plutarch, Brntus.
Iimoeon, and the Gracchi. The members of the
Mountain wish for democratic republic, free from
he prejudices and expressions of monarchy and the
'ast-a republic that does not prosecute opposing
journals, fine and imprison editors, prohibit political
meetings, and Danish all who may happen to hold
opinions different from those of the existing auhor
les. They are neither Socialists nor Communists.
rour1ersts nor st. Simonians but only sincere and
efvent democratic republicans. Let it be remem-
'ered that these have not sanctioned the expedition
o Ciyita Vecchja