New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-30

only but of all-that every arbitrary ruler Is
of necessity selfish, cruel and perfdious -
and that Liberty can no wheretest securely
until Tyranny is bsnished from the earth
But in this act the Allied Despots have not
merely waged war on the Rights of Nan
every where, but declared it. They have
struck the frs. blow in fearful contest
let us see who will strike the last
This black usurpation draws clear line
between Republicans in earnest and their
adversaries. The latter, not only in Eu-
rope, but even in America, judging man
kind by themselves, incline to the belief
that the Usurper will, at least for years,
maintain the despotic power which ne has
so audaciously yet stealthily seized. They
point to his Half Million of armed Merce-
naries, his Million obedient FunctiOnaries
to the Military and Parliamentary leaders
of both the Republican and sincerely Roy
alist parties in his prisons, to the dispersed
Court of highest resort and gagged Press
of France, and say, What can be done
Louis Napoleon has every element of pow
err in his hands His scepter cannot be
broken
No, gentlemen he has not every ele-
merit of power, though French Central
ization and French Armies are fearfully
potent. But Heaven cannot be on his side :;
there is other artillery than that stored in
human afsenals. Opinion is not with him I;
the People are not with him. True, he has
with him the present leaders of the army,
and, through the principle Of passive mill
tary obedience, and the military spirit burn
ing to prove that citizens cannot resistregu-
lar troops, and through bribery and drunken
ness the rank and file are his also; he has
now impelled them to crush the Constitu-
ton, imprison the National Representatives,
gag the Press, and wantonly butcher some
hundreds of men, women and children In the
streets of Paris; but what of all this The
Nation has been surprised and bound but
that proves nothing. The People are not
allowed to meet and deliberate on the issues
forced upon them they are for the moment
sienced, but not subdued. They will think,
nevertheless, and Will very soon find way
to speak. Thirty-fve Millions of People,
of whom Thirty Millions are Republicans,
and good part of them capable of looking
as coolly and piercingly down the muzzles
of loaded and hostile muskets as any men
on earth, ae not thus to be surprised into
slavery. Within three months, the People
| of the South, the North, the East, the
West, the Center of France, will know
what they mutually think Of this usurpation
and that will speedily end it. 1t may be
doomed to fall by universal instruction; by
revolt in the Capital, aided by a part of the
troops, who cannot always be keptin hostility
| to the PEOPLE: or itmay hn doomed expedient
to save the effusion of blood by picking
the Usurper off his horse the first time he
shows himself in the streets within range
of Republican rifle. The culprit who
puts his crimes beyond the pale of law
by dispensing Courts, Legislatures and
every safeguard of Liberty, and says
to mankind, 81 rule by the might Of
bayonets-if you don't like it, you can't
help yourselves" clearly provokes this
short method ofdealing with lawless offend
as. In abolishing all other tribunals be-
fore which his acts may be tried, he throws
the enslaved back upon the right which ex-
listed antecedent to all laws and constitu-
tions-the right Of self reservation. In
less he consents to be the first and closest
state prisoner in France, Louis Napoleon
has no chance of OUTLYING his own usurpa-
tion,-which, no matter how favored by
kindred villains and hedged around by cam
non, cannot outlast the year now before us.
Let the result show how far we are justi-
fed IN this, our most undoubting conviction.
JENNY LlND.-Our City was saddened
yesterday by the unexpected tlding, that JENNY
LIND had Just received adyices of the death Of
her mother in Sweden, and had been so pros
trated by the blow that she could not give her
,,onoSad Earawall ConcartS IN THE Citv and an