Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-10-04


can get trial M. Francois Hugo Published his article
the 9th The sentence above described was pro-
ncuRced the 18th, than six days after Il would
perhaps be worth while put upon record in your coumns
the article which, in republican France, the middle Of the
nineteenth century, under constitution recognising the
liberty of the press has been deemed worthy 90 much gor
Let me first uanscbe the clauses OF the constitution bearing
upon the subject a
cart g. Citizens hare the right Of associating themselves
Of meeting together peacea6y and without arms pettioning
OF manesng their thoughts by of the press other
wise The exercise of these rights has no limits but the
rights or the liberty Of Others and the public security The
press cannot in any case be subjected 10 censure"
On the 9Th instant the Boaspartist journal the Constu
tone in ausion the arrests Of foreigners and
the rigors Of the police said: $500 a7s
elf there really existed Of which we arc ignorant
German plot if the refugees from the other side OF ,e
Rhine borrow territory for the purpos, of cap
cerng attack against the country of which thew are n.
tves and against Governments with which are At peace
only would the French Government commit an act of
felony, bat it wood perform act Of international good i.h
aresDg the auh0rs OF these aggressive
The Power which should tolerate them would render itself
responsible for them. The law Of nations imposes duties"
was in reply to the Constitutional that young Hugo,
in the Eueneaen on the 9th instant published the article
for which he has been severely visited Here is his a
Gle. You viii agree with that If is severe apon sthe
Government Of the Republic" that is upon M Bonaparte
and his Minister'S there is nothing Of nature to bring
odium contempt upon republican government
An AyowAI.-At last they avow it,, them The actual
Ministers Of the French Republic consider themselves as av-
ing identical interests and jointly responsible with all the
monarchcal Governments c Europe with the Emperor Of
Russia, with the Emperor Of Austria, with the King Of
Prussia, with the King OF Naples The actual Ministry Of
the French Republic charged watch the maintenance
Of democratic constitution, 10 the ally of the Nesseirode
ministry which violated the Polish constitution of the
ministry which violated the Austrian consti
tuition; of the antvue ministry which The
constitution M. Bonapare, who has fidelity to the
Republic. and indivsble, is the auxiliary of the Holy
Alliance
SIT is the constittionneI which says that! VIVA, we
journalists Of the opposition would have dared affirm.
the journal Of the Eysee ams and boasts Of and it claims
matter Of euogy in favor Of the Government what
would have regarded outrage. Yes it is the journal
Of the Government which declares that in causing the
Of the German refugees guilty of wishing for their country
different regime from that Of the Cossacks tho Ministry of
the Republic has performed act Of international good faiths
and that in violating the holy law Of hospitality toward
happy exes he has only been performing duties imposed upon
by the law OF nations And at the same time this journal
has given undersend that the Executive power would do
well to address the English Cabinet relative
to the protection extended the exes of London. And
here what we have come to This right Of asylum which
babsans themselves accord to their vanqushed enemies;
this right of asylum for the respect Of which the Sultan Of
the Turks himself has just incurred the danger Of with
Russia and Austria this right Of asylum for the respect of
which the little Hevetic Republic affonted for long
time the wrath Of all the monarches of Europe there
Government that violates II, and gloes in doing And
this Government is that Of the former exile Of Thugova the
Government Of France, the Government of the Republic.
sWha the Restoration itself would not have dared do
but in secret the Ministry of BoNAPARrE dares and boasts
Of Its police, its gendames, its PRISONS placed at the
service of those who have paoned Poland devastated Hun
gary subiugaed Germany, ruined Italy And this it calls
duty To be European, and wish for Europe other
equilibrium than that impous and unnatural established
in 1915 by the vctors of Waterloo this with the Ministers
of NJ BoSAPARTE is called crime against the safety Of the
To ho nlo and h.o thoo
of the Cossacks independence life, this with the Ministers
is crime against the safety Of the State To be Hunga
an, and wish for his country the fall Of Austria and national
independence wish axenge brothers eacheousy hung,
mothers whipped upon the public square, bear proud
heart to remember ones hearthsone, cling regious to
family ties, to admire KossUTH, to HAYsAU, this with
the Ministers is crime against the safety Of the State To
be German, and wish for Germany that unity which is the
right of and the strength Of nation 10 wish that
moherand should not be parceled out among thirty six
princess wish the cessation of arbitrary power and the reign
Of right to combat for those principles which have made the
English people free and the French people sovereign, this
with the Ministers is crime against the safety Of the State
To be Italian, and wish for Italy other reign than
that Of Marshal RADErzKr Of Cardinal ANToNRLLI, and Of
the King Of Naples wish the expulsion Of the Austran
and the end Of the Jesus etes the bombaders Of Rome
Of Milan, of Messna this with the Ministers is crime against
the &c ~ oa. TU Frenchman and give asylum
10 exes to feel the respect due misfortune and banish
ment to soy, as the Emperor Napoeon honor the
qushed, this with the Ministers called an act of feony
These are your principles Very WE'LL II is good that
france should know those who govern her
The Restoration undertook the Spanish expedition but
ct least attempted to require for Spain appearance Of
sutonal liberty The dynasty Of July favored the exped-
ton Of the Sunderland but at least pretended up the
last day to protest against the partition of Poland Those
Governments with the Holy Alliance yet they had
certain sense Of shame which made them shrink from avow
ing it. You have not this false shame. Ministers of the Re-
public, you the allies of the Cossacks and you avow
Ministers chosen by the nephew Of the yanquhed of Water
loo, entering into compact with the vcors and you
are goiying in the pact. That's enough.
"F. v. HUGo."
VICTOR HUGO present at the trial. and seated beside
his but took upon this no part in the Defence
as ne did in that of his Charles some months ago. The
defendant in this young man Of years
only. CHARLES HUGO is twenty-six.
am happy to note since my last decided improvement
in the tone Of the European press touching the Cuban affair."
The Constitutional yesterday, in long article,
upon the brought by the last intel
gence in spite Of its contradictory character proving in
contesatly that the expedition has already miserably aed
like the first and that Lopez himself has almost certainly
perished But it does the Government Of Mr. FILLMORE
ample justice admitting that he n acting with great energy
and sincerity in the fumen of the obligations imposed by
the law OF nations and by the of existing treaties with
SPAIN MICHEL CHEvALIER, of the Debots in long and
able article OF four columns the Cuban invasion as
originating IN settled and obstinate purpose the part Of
the Southern United States annex Cuba with view of
strengthening the slave interests Slavery says he "ur-
nshes the key to the persistence with which the states Of the
South return perpeuay their cupabe project upon Cuba
and TO the everh impotence with which thew are pressing
lis accomplishment This island is the only acquisition which
they add TO the domains of slavery and hey all ony