Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-03-26
VOL. |, NO. II.

IL taSe care. NOHing Ike tlS aSEeSs
; with France. 1t is formidable sport,
, which allows il to foresee, only 10 foresee
in this France the ideal which il has-the
sacristy sovereign, liberty betrayed.
knowledge conquered and bound, books
torn, the sermon taking the place OF the
press, night made in mitIds by the shade
of the ca sock. and genius under the dis
cipline of beades.
1t is true, tie clerical patty is skIIIlul,
but this docs not prevent il from being
simple. What it fears sCcal:sn.-
What it sees the wave rise at what It
SAYS, and it opposes to ft--to this wave
which rises, ! know not what barrier OF
open-work 1t sees the wave rise, and
Iimagines society will be saved because 1t
will have combined 20 defend its cial by
ipocrisics with material resistances, and
because it will have placed Jesuit every
where where there is not gend' 'arme.-
What pity!
repeat it, let il take care. The nine
teen,h century is opposed to it; let it not
be obstinate, let il give up lording it over
this grand epoch, full Of instincts profound
and new ; if not, il will succeed only IN
exasperating ii; it will develope imprtl-
IDENTIFY the formidable side of our times,
and il will raise terrible Consequences
Yes insist upon it, with this system
which has just come out, the education OF
the sacristy, and the government Of the
confessional, with these doctrines which
an inhexble and fatal logic draws on not
withstanding men themselves, and frult-
full with evil, these doctrines which cause
horror when we look at them in history.
yes, with this system, this doctrine, and
this history, let the clerical party know
will engender revolutions wherever II
shall 90. Everywhere, TO avoid Torque-
mada, we shall throw ourselves upon
Robespierre. This is what makes OF the
party which calls itself the Catholic party
a serious public danger. And let those
think we'll of it who, Ike me, fear equally
for the nationr Overwhelming anarchy and
sacerdoIal sleepiness, and lei them utter
the cry Of alarm in season.
You interrupt me. Cries and muir
murs cover my voice. Gentlemen,
speak to you, not as an agitator, but as an
honest man. All now, gentlemen, shall
be suspected by you, perhaps
What, am suspected by you !! You
say so! All well on this point must
explain myself. This is in some sorta
personal matter. You will hear, ] think,
an explanation which you have provoked
yourselves. All, | am suspected by you
And of what Put last year defended
order in danger, as defend to-day liberty
as will defend order to.mor-
row, if danger return then. / am suspec-
ted by you. But was ] suspected by you
when | discharged my mission as repre-
sentative of Paris in preventing the effu-
sion of blood in the barricades of June
All, well you do not wish even TO
hear voice which resolu,ely defends lib
erty. If am suspected by you, you are
also suspected by me. The country shall
Judge between us.
Gentlemen, one last word. / am, per-
haps, Of those who have had the happi-
ness of rendering the cause of order, in
different times, in a recent past, some OBJ
scure services. These services may have
been forgotten do no, recall them.-
But now, at this moment, have right
to lean upon them.
Well, leaning upon this past, declare
il as my conviction, that what is necessa-
ry TO France is order, but that living or
der which is progress; il is the order
which results from the healthy, peaceful,
natural growth of the people j, is order
showing itself both in facts and in ideas
by the full shining of national intelligence.
Ii is quite the contrary with your law.
am one of those who wish for this
noble country liberty and not bondage,
growth and not degradation, dominion and
not servitude, grandeur and not insignih-
cance. What you governors, you leg
isIaiors, you will put an end to yourselves!
you will put an end to France! You
wish to petrify human thought, stlne the
divine fame, materialize the spirit. DO
you not see the elements Of the times III
which YOU are! But you are then as
strangers in your own country.
What! it is in this centuTy-in this
great century Of novelties, Of discoveries,
Of conquesis, that you mediate immobili-
ty. 1t is in the century Of hope, that you
proclaim despair. What, you cast upon
the earth, like men worn out with pain,
glory, thought, knowledge, progress, the
future, and you say, +" 1t is enough, let
US 90 no further--let us STOP" But you
DO not see that all goes, comes, is moved,
is increased, is transformed, is renewed,
around you, above you!
All, you wish to stop yourselves and
TO stop us All well! repeat il with
deep grief, l, who hate catastrophes and
falls. | inform you-death in the soul
you 10 not wish for progress You viii