Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-10-19


they were then:
JOURNAL or coMMTRcR.
RED RErusLIcAxrsM IN Nrw YoaK.-It 3 melancholy
to see the delusons which many Of the foreign Tsor
and Others are subject when they arrive Shores and
even for some time after they arrive Judging om the tone
Of the resolutions and speeches at the German section Of the
article which publish this morning. translated from the
German paper the ssNew Yorker Demokrs" these people
feel themselves just much oppressed and downuodden in
this free country they did in Europe two three years
ago when they raised the standard Of rebellion against the
Governments there existing The trouble is that they mis-
take the very idea Of liberty. There such liberty n the
world as that which they seek AFTER and cannot be without
beeet,irg more ntolersble tyranny than dsgd the
Czar or the Sultan They deelam against police blood
thirsty and murdeoving, BECAUSE with the least violence
which the case admits they prevent these newly arrived for
egners from entering the houses Of their feowwokmen and
taking away their work by force The laws and authorities
which restrain them from doing they call tyranny and y
rants Hence we what they by liberty, viz free
dom pepeate the most gevous wrongs upon their neigh
bos and and upon whoever efe may stand
in their way Had they, and those who acted with them in
Europe sought only for rational freedom such
ssent with the rights Of Others they might have obtained it
for all Europe ripe for revolt and ready for any change
which promised obetter their condition. But just proper
ton as these violent unreasonable developed their doc
nes and purposes in the proportion public sentiment
pronounced against the until length the bright hopes of
the morning were obscured by Clouds and finally sunk in
gloomy night How could it be otherwise Never, until
the world has grown grey with age and crme such alb
surdes and such mpetes the Red Republicans promu
gate be incorporated into any system Of governments and
when they are that government and people will either 60
destruction Or after brief experiment. struggle back into
condition Of mutual restraint for the sake of mutual protection.
The Red Republicans fairly answersble to mankind for the
failure apd than ure Of the European Revolution Of
iS4S Says the London Times:
elf there either candor, penetration, memory
the class of enthusiastic which aue, they
acknowledge that the between the spirit Of
poray reform which seemed to be adyansng in s47 and the
results which witnessing $780, decisive condemna
ton oher theories and Whenever Democracy
broke in like food the works Of Government interrupt
ed Of all that most promising IL the civilization
ken promises and shattered hopes and the injury done
listing liberal institutions Of Europe is only surpassed by the
rgor OF the system which has in their place. For here
speaking Of those only in which the ntepo
son Of military force has suspended the action of civil
horiy in Austria where indeed considerable progress
may be traced and where all the revolution has left
considerable beneficial results in spite of the evils with
which it accompanied. We allude especially to
those countries like France and Prussia in which what
miscaed the liberal principles actually umphed and we
affirm that the Governments constituted in the French
public, by universal suffrage, have arrived point Of Re-
ever have attempted So that We are brought by the
aspect of affairs on the continent to this inference which would
have sounded many Of readers months
ago. namely that the administration Of France by the King
whom she expelled is to be regretted by that country only
for the home and the power exercised
abroad but for the liberties which the people,
and which have pershed since its overthrow"
Of course we do not concur with the Times in all its
views Of Democracy. On the other hand believe that
weregulated Democracy is the best Government in the
world. Here it is, in these United States. We know Of
better Government earth. II protects the rights of ALL
and in theory at least grants peculiar privileges to
But this clearly the kind of Government which the
Red Republicans want They want Government which
will give them privileges not enjoyed by their felowctizens
They want in legal way gain the pockets
of their neghbors. An agaan law, extended other pro-
perty well land would probably meet their views They
would like to compel society to support hem either in idle
ness by finding them employment at high Poor
deIuded men There is not country in the world where
such crudes are less likely to find favor than in these Unit
ed States, where they be urged with little
Inconvenience to the public little danger Of disturbing
the flow of society Most Americans either have
property expect to have or the road fame and fortune
open to ALL and in either they choose keep it,
rather than divide it out to drones and agato Almost all
the wealthy in the United States poor and
many of those who poor will eventually become
rich Such state Of things stimulates enterprise, industry,
and self respect Americans do not all crowd into
patton until it is ovedone, and then demand that laws Of
nature shall be reversed by order of the Government II
particular branch of business is overdone they understand that
prices must fall matter Of and fall Of prices
from such they take to be sufficient indication that
some OF them had better turn their attention to other pursuits
In country where universal suffrage exists, Americans do
not talk Of revolution" They appeal to the ballot box
for redress they appeal to the public and sympathy
and if they gain their object in either Of these ways
they conclude that their course is hopeless and that
tempt at revolution" would be still The FIVE
hundred thousand foreigners recently arrived Shores
would do well to remember that they power
to do mischief they present They have here
very little material to work upon The vast aggregate Of the
wenythee millions of inhabitants Of the United States
bound to the soil and to the laws both by interest and aec
ton, and be swsved from their duty than the
from its The laws the people made them,
and the people will them to be obeyed We advise all
newly arrived mmigan and especially Red Republicans,
to keep their " down-wth- the Government" notions to
themselves be Industrious patient perseveriDg, endeavor
to understand the principles Of free institutions and let
console them that though their lot in life may be
hard one, their children have opened before them
which nothing surpass
And here beg leave to read them short lecture from
Chanberss Edinburgh Journal which trust they will duly
ponder:
For years past popular writers have strongly
such tend to make the child of humble toll
believe himself the accredited nurslng of society," instead of
being commissioned by take place in the general
of industry, and employ his faculties owing
any thing but love. twill necessary to look NE
primary law OF nature in the face that he who will work
must wanta rule not at all interfering with the claim Of hui
many in favor ofthose unable work. who par
cular exigency cannot obtain employment but which
redy in its general bearing be paramount every other
consideration For what the society which looked to
that which must do for every body but only per-
who obliged to work for every thing they possess
In what predcament would this society if every
posing instead Of working for himself expect that
the should work for him In that il is easy
that should Immediately be landed in the practical
difficulties Of vicious circle would be expecting help
him, would be looking C, while again resting in
expectation OF aid from and B. No would be working,
but all would be idle expectancy and meanwhile starvation
would be making its approaches.
cit pure deuson to talk of property being sddled with
obgaon beyond what imposed by humanity and
pediency support the whole Of those who may be who
may represent themselves being want because property
open every man. and is nothing but what may be saved
by sedenia out of the aggregate results of industry