The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-08-31

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Deputies, and at the Elysee Bourbon We have seen
'he cause Let US now look at the consequences Like
he serous and terror bearing earthquake that
seys inc secret mud enwombed in the centre OF the earth
uhae the unfathomable ocean, and shakes the continents
ana Islands thousand leagues distant, the powerful ac
o OF Tue moral earthquake al Paris had produced sud
aeh ana most astounding effects. But the volcano ex
hausled lis orce and the reaconsts began to make soil
OF inc very lava, 10 plant anew their systems With
emeIiy they cultivated and built the decyities and
% lhe very summit OF the mountain which few days
before beched forth It's fury, concerning that its anger
was spent, and that its fires would sleep forever.
Under the reaction France is less free than under roy
ally Paris is a camp. hundred and fifty thousand
troops surround IT, have the armed soldiers, with
bayones fixed, crowd the churches OF the Madeleine St
hoch and Others during divine service Yes, the prayers
o. e people lifted to Heaven the point OF the bay
10 Americans this would be novel part of religious
ceremony Ii there be the least excement-any attempt
10 express public Indignation at the tyrannca and anti
republican measures of this government oil compression
Immediately the streets lined and every guarded
with troops This immense material and visible force
49, al the same tme the strength and weakness of the
French government 1t is powerful to support authority
over very mpulsve people, but it nfatuates the rulers
to degree that destroys them. Under the influence of
lhs idea OF force, they led with blind confidence,
to acts of severe and mpotc coercion They ever rely
upon the gerng steel which meets then at every step,
instead of relying uh-on the consciences and aztec.
tons OF the people. They deceive themselves and real
ize this saying, that they who trust in the sword shall
perish by the sword" Ii is the fatality of all the gov
ernmens in France The present pursues the course OF
the former. may instance the conduct of M. Cartier
pre Of police, the faithful representative of the Presi-
dent who felt annoyed at the sight OF the trees of lib
ery which planted at the revolution in all the pub
lie places. He had sympathy with liberty, and the
symbol disguised him. He ordered the gendames 10 cut
them down. These trees, planted in the soil moistened
by the blood OF the brave Parsians and whose every leaf
appeared to bear the impress of their wounds,
tain weed, which grows in the Old World, whose leaves
have dark stain, said to be indeliby and perpetuay
stamped there by drop of the Savours blood falling
rees sacred to the patriots the oak the Druds
and around which they would assemble and sing their in
spring songs of liberty and herosn-these were doomed
TO fall The reactionary laid TO their rools and
the cries OF indignation applications of "spare !"
"spare !" awaited not with these Vandas of arbitrary
power What necessity to destroy these harmless symbols
OF lberty' Was it not hate of liberly' Was il not
guilty provocaon TO excite the people TO Instruction in
order to have the pleasure to crush and preex for
still coercion? Was it moi that constant overween.
ing confidence in military force' But see yet further
this reign OF compression When the people would not
be provoked to desperation, but made peaceabe and
even pous demonstration against such an outrage, BY
marching with of tmmorteiies in their hands 10
the place de la Bastie TO deposte them the coonle de
Juliet, M. earlier arrested their march and turned them
back This beautiful column erected on the site of the
old BaslIe over the remains of those who fell in the
revolution Of July, 1890 Their are inscribed on
scroll OF bronze, which reaches from base to the top
winged mercury radiant with gold, is in the act OF
flying in eager haste from summit TO trumpet forth to
the world the of the heroes of liberty buried be-
meath, and the mighty things they had accomplished
And it was crime, according TO M earlier and M Be-
naparte for the people OF Paris TO honor these brave
dead by placing rmmortees their grave. They died
fpfli hpry nd was a Of
the offence. The reaction had taken away liberty
and wished 10 take away the remembrance OF il also
Even those immorteHes which were deposited on and
around the monument removed by the police
Well may the French people cling TO these symbols and
souvenirs OF liberty; for all the governments under the
constant impression OF nvincible brute force attract
ed to The same system of coercion.
The laws against the press originate from the same sys.
TEN. Immediately after the election of Eugene Sue for
Paris law passed against the press, punish the
people for freely expressing their views and feelings TO
the government through this election Sue is an extreme
democrat with some tendency TO socalism-more exlreme
probably, than OF those who voted for him. for he
elected by an immense vote but he the very
opposite OF the majority OF the assembly and the govern.
ment This enemy OF intolerance and esuilism was
chosen the expression Of the reproof opinion OF
Paris upon the reaconary course OF the representatives
and especially upon the law OF public instruction. recently
passed, which gave the bishops undue influence
education The law against the press which followed
aimed of the class Of small cheap
papers, such the OF the people generally read by
raising the ndmoney high that the publishers could
no, comply with its requirements. There other
provisions in the law for the object-namely 10
limit much possible the circulation of the liberal
journals. III not permitted to sell newspaper in the
streets and every man compelled 10 sign his
10 full 10 the article in the journal Every one knows
how frequently newspaper editors and correspondents
prosecuted for the free expression OF opinion Proudhon,
one OF the powerful writers in Paris will hardly live
TO such an age all the time in prison to which his
many sentences have condemned him The late case OF
Victor Hugo's son. who condemned Notwithstanding
his fathers soq for speak against the law OF pun
shme nj OF death is more and familiar 10 us Another
editor sentenced for saying that the President Louis
Napoleon had embarrassed himself by the extravagaces
OF Mrs Howard, his mistress. True this last not a
pocal question; but when the President had come TO
ask an additional of money from the Assembly TO his
already enormous salary, account OF his embauass
ments was fair subec, for public notice. Few days
pass over that there is prosecution against Jour
nalist; and thousand outrageous than have
noticed might be cited to show how rampant the spirit OF
compr preston in the existing government of France.
have said enough for this purpose
The crowning act, however, of the reaction was the
consequence tina, against the press OF the elections
OF several ultra democrats by immense majorles Sue
in Paris, and Emile de Girardn for the Haut-Rhin but
chiefly OF the Paris election. The majority IN the As
semby and the government clearly tina, The country
was recovering from the shock OF the June instruction
ha, the veil from their sophisticated, eac,ionary