Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-08-05
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France Is at present profoundly agtated, in conse-
quence of the attempts OF the reactionares to subver
the republic, aud reinstitute monarchy. The mon
archists, however, have only acted their treason
able designs through the medium Of their votes the
National Assembly; but they have the majority in
that house, and the people generally, like our own
citizens, do perceive that Illegally used,
as traorous nstrumentalles as bayonets, they have
with impunity; and now they are publicly working
for its overthrow. In the recent discussion the
revision of the Constitution, NJ Michael de Bourges
said in reply TO the party ofreacon:
ssAncent Republics are not my models They
constituted organized brigandage--a struggle be-
tween robbers, for wealth unjusty acquired. The
republics of Athens, Rome, and Venice, had been
equally guilty. Ny republic is America, and defy
all the wise and able men of this assembly to frame
anything more perfect than its Constitution
NJ. Michel was loudly cheered by the republicans
in the Assembly, when he made this alIusion to our
country, which cheers were demonstrative Of the
moral influence which even the theory of our repub-
licanism exerts upon the mind of Europe in spite of
the lamentabe derelctions from the strict letter of
the Constitution, which Southern influence and
Northern subserviency have produced And those
cheers remind us how much more influential for good
we should be, ifthe practice of this entire republic
was in accordance with the lofty ideal which is set
before US, like pillar of fire, in the Constitution
How much more efficiently our example would ope
crate, in favor of universal freedom if the arisocra-
cy of commerce and the aristoeracy of the slave
whip. eagued with the unprincipled politicians, had
not betrayed great country into the continuance
and support of the Inconsistency of Slavery. This
incident in the French Assembly was not, however,
compliment, but rebuke, to of the present gen.
Grafton, after all for the orator, NJ Michel, did not
refer to the actual daily life of our republic, as his
model, but to the Constitution, which our fathers
gave us, and which is the ideal of true genuine re-
pubcanism, Of which Justice and Liberty are essen
tial elements, and whose existence is inconsistent
with the very name ofSlavery. lfhe had taken the
practice of the republic perfect illustration of
representative democracy, he would have been con-
strained to defend the slave auction block the lynch.
ing Of Northern men for expressing their own opin-
IONS IN the Southern States the parcan practices
some Of the churches ofthe North, which do not adj
init colored men to communion, and the Fugitive
Slave law. But NJ. Michel saved himself from This
serious dilemma, by citing the Constitution as his
model, which admits Of none of this incongruy and
inconsistency, but the most perfect exposition of
pure republicanism the world has yet seen. We be-
eve tina: the salvation and perpeuation of this re-
public mperativey demand the perfect congruity of
theory and practice; and believe, also, thai the
spread and establishment of healthy republican
system throughout Europe, depend much upon our
example. 1t is plain thatneither Of the bunker sec
tons Of politicians will try to advance the public mo
rality, by working for this end. They have no re.
publican sentiment, and none but party sympathies
II deyoves upon the people themselves to break the
chains of habit, that have long bound them TO mere
party names, and to develope syster, Of freedom,
compatible in all respects with the principles Of the
Constitution. Then shall the Spirit Of Liberty look
lown without blush upon our country, which shall