Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-06-28
RED REPUBLICANISM.

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offers every thing in the name of free
dom and secures nothing. Its first per-
manent achievement, in the cause of a
well.ordered liberty is yet to be achiev-
ed. 1t has done much. 1t has made
the cutters of Paris run red with blood. |
1t has piled her streets with the dead.
1t has given the war cry to carnage until
pity and duty were things unremem-
bered. Its monuments have been the
accumulated victims of those who op.
posed it. Society, civilization, chris.
,ianity has suffered, has groaned at every
outburst of this ungoverned spirit
Liberty, as we in this country know it,
wins its triumphs with the calm fear
lessness of conscious right. 1t strikes
when it mus. strike, with the cool and
deliberate tranquility of true courage.
Riots are evidence Unpopular cowardice.
Brave men never riot: they think and
act, and, if need be, they die TO consul
mate the purpose TO which they are
pledged. Of the mobs of city it can
only be said that they are less hateful,
abhorrent as they are, than they are
contemplate. We give no credit to
the courage of the mobs Of Paris, or, if
we must refer TO them, those that made
Philadelphia Kissing and q reproach
throughout christendom. All such
mobs are made up ofmen who, in their
supposed security of a multitude, drive
forward those who may chance TO be in
the advance and make them Victims
Rioters are thieves, burglars, and pick
pockets. Courage seldom is found in
alliance with the wrong.
But we have wandered from the point.
The spirit Of riot, and its proper name
is Red Republicanism, is abroad and
rampant. We do not fear its worst
results here, for the fatlt of our repub.
lican experiment is not yet ripe enough
for its hand. But there is in Locofoco
| ism many of the traits that character
ize the Red Republicanism of Europe
With them it is not extraordinary tina
the rage against wrong, and such wrong
should rise to ungcvcrnabe rage, Of
that, in the contests which neeessaril,
result from an armed issue between twt
great masses, the streets of cities SHOULD
be crimsoned; that the path Of armie
!, through provinces before peaceful an
happy should be desolation; and tina
the tread of armies should be regulate
by no martial music save the shrek Q
: violated women and of children braine
! against the cradle in which they wer
! rocked. Red Republicanism asks, q
= its banquet, blood. Red republicanisI
: lives only in the storm. 1t lacks III
5 courage Of calmness; but, under III
/ fury of feebleness, commits attrociti'
over which valor would weep.
X The spirit is abroad in the world
l. we are rejoic ed that it is now strugglir
= in the emasculated portions of Europ
is against the despotisms which there pr
n vail. 1t may do good in Europe. 1t CT
Ct do none here. We are oil that we d
t. sire TO be, except in regard to our moi
= and intellectual elevation. We need
b. revolutions, such as have been alrea'
fe made; no land TO which we were r.
y; born. They are blind to the truth W
81 do not see that the elements Of popu
is emotion are equally or nearly so, {
u proachable by every popular feeli
er hero as elsewhere. Americans are mi
n and are as open TO the excitements Il
DC now make life in many parts of Euro
he worthless, as those which leave villal
OF in ashes, provinces deserts, and th'
* sands without hope except from dea
he Save US from the Red Republican,
US of Locofocoism. The largest libe
ly, with the largest security against wro
a public or private, is our motto.-Ph
EEK delphia Ne,cs.
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