The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-11

sample of the precious text:
"The reform Of the present state of society must
60 hand in hand with, and be made permanent by
a reform in the system of education and public in
struction. Education and instruction must, there
fore, be stripped ofreligous doubts and superuites
Its sole object is to make men fit companions for
each other Religion, which must be banshed from
society must vanish from the mind of man. Art
and poetry will realize the ideals of the True, the
Good, and the Beautiful, which religion places in
an uncertain future.
"The revolution generally destroys religion, by
rendering hopes of heaven superhuous, by estab-
fishing the liberty and welfare of all on earth. We
pay attention, therefore, TO religious struggles and
contentious, (the formation Of free congregations,
and so forth,) so far only as we may, under the
phrase religious liberty, understand freedom from
all religions. We do not desire liberty of belief,
but the necessity of unbelief In this, as in all other
respects, we wish to break entirely with the past
We do not wish to ingraft fresh branch upon
rotten stem; we in no respect desire reform, but
everywhere revolution"
Now there is nothing worse in the programme
of the German refugees In Switzerland OF which the
authenticity be disputed, than IN the collec
ton of excerpts in my memorandum book from the
oracles of Socialism and the Red Republic in France
the National and La Retorms, the highest of the
so-called Republicans Of the eve, included Reli-
gon, individual freedom, capital, every distinct po-
sition and interest and sentiment are prescribed
alike. P,udhon could demonstrate that all agreed
with him in the main and essence; property was
thef-captal the nsufferable nuisance; progressive
taxation Indispensable to pare down all capital; uni
versal, equal, compulsory education Of male and
female to terminate all inequalities. Let me offer
you notion Of the supernal doctrine of the man,
Prudhon whose IMPRISONMENT the National lately
bemoaned as the eclipse Of glorious intellectual
and political luminary. cite from his System Of
Economical Contradictions; Cre@tien Of order IN HUI
mainly. "Whatever may be our offences, we are
not guilty towards Providence; and if there is one
who before us and more than US, deserved Hell,
let me name him-God. The true remedy Of ia
natcism is to prove to humanity that God, if there
be God, is the enemy of man. God!
know Of no God it is mysticism"
Ledru Rollin, the generaissimo of the Demo-
cratic parties, was examined as a witness al the
trial at Bourges ofthe consprators of May. He went
coolly, and in the French sense, cyncaly, into the
the following depression :" / will tell you how we
revolutionary republicans set to work. We seize
to the people-ad captandt. We do not say whittier
we go, but the ball is set in motion When the
obnoxious government is overturned, we, by de.
vice tor not less ingenious and adroit, substitute
another government of our oicn" In February,
l848, the sympathetic idea was the suppression by
the monarchy Of the right of political reunion
assemblage; in May, the Poles in June, the right
ployment; last week, the crusade against the dar-
ling and exemplary Roman republic. In Germany
it has been German unity, the result of which idea,
pray you to produce for your readers, in Berlin
article Of the 10th inst, enclosed in this episte.
When the French Democratic sects found them
selves minority in the Legislative Assembly, they
resorted TO this theory 'We represent alone the
sound principles and feelings of the nation--lhe
true sovereignty; it is for us, not the pseudo ma
| orty to interpret the constitution the President
and ministers have violated the constitution, and
| the majority have connved by vote of acquttal
ALL therefore, Of these traitors hors la io pso
facto outlawed; authority has rghtfuly passed to
the minority, whose duty it is to organize them
selves as supreme government, and grasp all
power.'
This, literally, the daily proclamation of all
these journals, from Friday Of last week to We'd
nesday, the epoch of their abortive attempt. When,
on Monday, Ledru Rollin, matchmaking the As
sembly, requested to remember that 1t was the
| offspring of universal suffrage, he answered 81
can understand the force Of universal suffrage, but
there is something superior TO t-Eternal Justice.
| Thus il is, that, whenever fundamental principles
and essential institutions of republcanism, OF con-
stituuonal texts and processes, operate to the dis
appointment of their efforts and aims, they appeal
TO something vague and ambitious, beyond or ex-
traneous, and hold themselves free Of all possible
| restraints and ordinances.
A letter from Rome, dated June 5, makes the
following reference to the position of the United
States Minister at Rome, in the trying times pro.
duced by the siege:
"With the exception Of Major Cass, our Charge
d'Affares, there is not single diplomatic officer In
Rome, the whole Of that body still remaining at
Gaeta. ! am informed that Russian, English, Ger
| man. and other foreigners have mplored Major
4 Caae IN he ham nd rarOf / w
that ladies and gentlemen Of the highest respecta-
bility have resorted 10 his hotel in great numbers,
in hope Of security. Among them some Of our
| compatriots Not few Roman families, under
stand, of distinction and nobility, have likewise
| joined in this request During the action of this
morning, the stars and stripes, rather very bad
/ imitation Of them, were waving from the palaces
Pinsiana, Falconeiri, and one or two others This
is certainly strange spectacle. That power so
| far away and Of but yesterdays birth, compnra-
| lively should be invoked for protection in old
| Rome, the city Of the Caesars, is n memorable
mark Of the mutations of time; and, what is not
less remarkable presenting forcible commentary
on the weakness Of the present government, is the
| fact that application has been made 10 our Charge
for permission TO suspend the American flag from
two princely houses, in order TO save their female
inmates from violence and dishonor, the heads OF
which are actually members Of the administration.
Honor to the land Of the free"
For long Tune, the French papers have omitted
all mention of Abdel-kader, and the question has
been asked, what has become of him Entirely
forgotten amid the turmoil OF revolutions, he yet
anguishes in prison, and the men who seem so
anxious to establish their own liberty appear TO
have no thought for him one periled all to MAIN
tain the independence OF his people. A contempo-
rary thus speaks Of him:
"Fie is still prisoner Of war, confined in open
and direct contraventIon Of the stipulations made
with Gen. Lamorlcere, to whom he surrendered
the terms Of which we're, that he should he con-
veyed with his family to Egypt, in order to be en-
route for Mecca, where under the shade Of the pro-
| phet he might pass the remainder Of his days in
religious tranquility In the darkest ages, direct
violation Of treaty stipulatons was considered dis
graceful; but for nation pretending TO loom as
large and as mighty as France, and at this en-
lightened period, TO perperate such fraud as this,
sullied the character Of LOUIS Philippe, and dis
graces the government Of Louis Napoleon ADD
Ell Kader is prisoner in the castle Of Amboise.
1 The lion of Mount Atlas in in oloomv solitary