American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-10-02
The Republican and the Monarehicai
Principle.

In the year 1927 distinguished divine pre-
dicted in an elaborate discourse, that The aes-
potic governments of The earth would combine Tor
resistance to the truth, "as the march OF intel
lect and piety, and civil liberty, shall minister
alarm :" but, he added, g all the governments
who yield to the limitations OF that Providence
which sends out religion and civil liberty upon
the earth will be safe and happy" and "all
who make resistance will be agitated by revo-
lutions and destroyed by heavy judgments"
What was prediction then has since been in
the process of ful6lment, and on grand scale.
The government of Charles the Tenth, of France,
made such resistance, and it was destroyed.
The government of Louis Philippe, unmindful
Of its origin and its obligations, made such re-
sstance, and it was destroyed. And the present
government Of France, really despotism under
the forms of republic, is making such resist
ance, and it too will be destroyed, whatever
temporary success may attend the plans of that
miserable criminal, Louis Napoleon, and his
willy and unprincipled coadjutors
Other governments Of Europe--monarchies,
of course-,have been shaken by revolutions,
and their kings spared by the unwise lenity Of
the most wholesale demolition of human rights,
have been witnessed; such " fantastic tricks
before high heaven" have been played cas-
make the very angels weep!" But there comes
day, now not far distant Of just retribution,
In which the kings of the earth who make re-
sistance to civil and religious liberty will be
dealt with summarily, never again to escape by
a lenity they have so often abused!
The art of printing and the various improve
ments of modern times have made such changes
in the state of nations, that the suppression Of
liberty has become far more difficult than il
was before the invention of that most useful
art and the existence of these improvements.
All the arts and passions of tyrants have in vain
essayed to subjugate the press, or to turn it to
their uses. Partial suppression they have eff
fected; but, crushed in one place by their de-
vices, the truth rises in another, puts on its
panoply, and is as formidable as ever.
Even the invention of firearms, and the sue
cessive improvements in them-down to Colts
revolvers, that latest of the very important ac-
cessions to their force-haye been on the whole
security against brute force, whether directed
by untutored savages or controlled by despotic
governments.
The increase of skill in the manufacture of
such arms, increasing their quantity and eff
cheney, has also been favorable on the whole to
human liberty and security. 1t has enabled
men with greatly inferior means to those of the
great monarchies and missionaries OF the world,
to supply themselves with the means Of resist
ance to their tyranny, and to conquer in de-
spite Of the superior wealth of their adverse
ries.
In vain for ages did the despotisms of Eu-
rope drain America Of her gold and silver, and
monopolize her trade and her Offices. The per-
manent settlers from the mother countries
found means to organize resistance to the mea-
sures of those countries, founded in the parlia-
mentary declaration that the Parliament Of
Great Britain chad power to bind the colonies
In all cases whatsoever; and in the similar
principle of the Spanish government that the
will of the King is supreme. The principle of
the French monarchy was at that period the
same, but it had colonies of no primary import
ance on which to operate The edicts of The
French Kings concluded with the words-Car
tel est notre ptaisr, flor such is our pleasureD
oppression, from the Spanish hunting and slavery
of the Indians, and monopoly of the commerce
of these colonies, was in vain lavished to con-
tinue their subsection. The richest of these
European nations-Great Britain-failed to
continue the subjugation of her colonies, al |
though throughout the whole war the aristo-
cracy of England lavishcd their wealth to sup
port her fleets and armies, both in the payment
of heavy taxes and the contributions Of enor-
nous loans. In the year 1880, England bor-
rowed twenty millions of pounds sterling to
prosecute the American war, besides employ |
ing the vast revenues from customs and excuses
to the same end. The banker Theason sub
scribed 100000 pounds sterling, Hoare & Co.
SOC, 600, and other aristocrats in proportion.
The next year saw her army in America cap
tured at Yorktown, which, as Mr.. Burke re-
marked, might be considered the closing scene
of the war.
Thus the sovereigns Of the European govern
ments, armed to the teeth with munitions Of
war, navies, and almost dictatorial authority in
their own dominons, and endowed with i'm
mense wealth, were defeated in their efforts
against liberty in America; and thus, in the
events here recited, we find verifcation Of
the remark, that the invention of firearms and
that of printing, with the various improvements
in the arts, have been favorable to the estab-
lishment of liberty.
MINERAL SpRING NEAR NORFOLK, VA.-The
Aygus says that spring has recently been dis
covered at Zion Meeting house, few miles
from that city, strongly impregnated with alum