Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-02-24

nothing, comple,sd nothing. This is the
reason Why war with England is unayoida.
BILE; this the reason why, should England
succumb, way sUilk The United States is 9.
qSally unavo idable. The new principle. In
making iu appearance in France during
three years, has evoked from the tomb the
spectre Of the middle ages. At no period
of history scas there ever beheld similar
fury against the ideas of liberty. Do no.
the feac.ionary party speak openly in France
Of going back beyond the l6lh ceniuryl-
Do not dull and sullen muuerings begin
here to announce systematic measures of rig.
or against the Professionals? And why, in
deed, should religious liberty be more ia.
vored than political? Did no, Luther en-.
gender Descar,es, Volsaire, Mirabeau, Con-
dorce,, Saint Simonl II modern thought,
with all its fruit, religious, philosophical,
political, be not radically ex,irpa,ed from
the world, will not the heads Of This hydra
be continually reproduced beneath The axe :
Therefore is war with England imminent.
Yos you will soon see the dcspo,sm Of Eu.
rope, confessed and mustered into shape by
Russia. come crashing down on England,
to overwhelm in that naval stronghold the
hitherto inviolate asylum Of human liberty.
And now, Oh Americans, free citizens ofIhe
Republic Of the United States, fold your
arms, lie. things take their course, shu,
yourselves up in your pruden, and tradition.
al maxims Of neutrality; forget that TO libe.
rate you France, three quarters Of century
ago, was lavish Of her fleets, her blood, her
treasure; in the strife, abandon England, The
las. s.andard-bearer Of European liberty (;
trust TO the ocean, which protects you, for
impunity in deserving the solidarity of free
peoples-under The gaze OF the solidarity OF
tyran,s. But remember these three words,
which contain all the recent history of Eu,
rope: Republican France allowed Hunga.
ry, l.aly, and Germany TO be crushed, and
France to-day enries The lot Of Russia!
England, like France, has permitted oil
the rcsurgen, na.ionali,ies 10 be s,iHed, and
10! the very stroke which has beaten down
the liberties Of France, pierces her 10 the
heart; she feels herself threatened, no lon
ger in tho dsvelopemen. Of her power
merely, but in the very conditions of her
political existence; and England, not without
anxiety, turns her restless glances toward
America.
Practice in your iurn, Oh Americans
these maxims Of insulation and egotism
which have succeeded SO happily in l.a'y
Hungary, Germany, and France, and which
are already bearing for England herself
such alarming fruits, and. in few years
you will comprehend with sorrow. as W,
now comprehend in France, and as England
begins TO comprrhend, ,ha. the policy o
ego,sm Is an insensa,e policy; thu, .her'
are no local. no rational questions; tha. .h'
eas, blow struck agains, Liberty a. 81. Pe
,ersburg bounds from point TO point, even Il
Now York; .ha. The human race is one an
indivisble, and .ha, the nation which "wil
none of solidarity with others in libert,
is destined ere long to share The soldaril.
Of servi,ude.+
A The above is supposed to be written by on
of the first men of France, and is solemn voic
e., oh hat rbn,, Il