The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-08-17

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THE PROTEST OF THE HOLY ALI.
ANCE AGAINST THE RE-ESTAB.
IISHMENT OF THE EMPIRE In
FRANCE.
NanoIeon said Of the Bourbons, that not.
withstanding all the sufierngs they had en-.
dured during their exile, they had learned moth
ing and Gs'ct ;ict. nothing. They went awey
the mos; Ignorant stupid, bigoted, of the whole
human race, and they came back precisely as
they had gone. The same thing, we believe,
had been said of the Stuarts, and with quite
as much reason. Indeed, we doubt if there is
royal race in the world to whom the remark
may not justly be applied, were they placed
under circumstances calculated TO draw II
forth. Kings have not the opportunity oil
judging of the progress of the world and of the
worlds ideas, as other men have. To them
the idea ofihree centuries ago, is the idea oil
to>day, and i'll be the idea Of Tomorrow
Expel them from the throne, for offences OF the
most fragrant nature, end they are never cor
rected by the infection. Reinstal them, and
unerring certainty. That is not all, however.
Their brother Kings, tho spectators merely
cannot see the foIiies they commit-cannot see
that their whole movements are against the
age.
The French revolution caused the death of
a, least six millions Of human beings. 1t was
produced by the folies of race of Kings
which had been accommodating for centuries,
and which finally led one Of them to the block.
1t caused general massacre or expulsion of
the mobiles and priests and it ended in the erec-
ton of military empire. The head of that
empire, after such a profusion of bloodshed
as the world had never seen-was at last over
thrown. The old race of Kings is brought
back to be expelled Il second time. France
has TINS shown that she will not have them
that she will endure everything rather than
submit to them. Yet the three principal pow
ers of Europe-they who profanely call them
selves the Holy Alliance-are determined that
they shall return-that they shall govern
France-that it it can be done in no other
manner, it shall be done at the point OF the
bayonet The wckedness-the atrocity-the
appalling criminality of this determination, let
them be yelled under what cunning terms of
diplomacy they may, are apparent enough
They meun that legitimacy, that for which so
much blood has been shed, is to be the cause
of shedding still more. They mean that France
shall not govern herself-that the people have
no rights-that their liberties are to be exlin-
guished at all hazards. All this might have
been expected from the Holy Alliance, be-
cause it is perfectly consistent with their
known principles, and it is not for this that we
denounce this convention as so supremacy
wicked.
Ii is because the authors of il know that they
are deliberately preparing a war which may
last for halfa century, and involve the whole
world. They cannot believe that France will
submit to have the Bourbons forced upon her
second time at the point of the bayonet, save
after a terrible struggle. They are therefore
deliberately preparing, for the sake Oft family,
detested by large majority of the French
people, to force that family upon them, though
it cost ten millions of lives, and it can scarce
~ Cost less.
We are. we hope, true republicans. We are
something even more than that. We are in
favor of allowing every people to choose their
own form of government. We detest cOmpul-
sion. We would not force people to do any
thing-even TO become freemen-if they did
not wish it. We hoped, when the Revolution
of 1S4S broke out, the French would be re.
publicans. We hoped that they had learned
wisdom by sixty years of experience and suf-
fering. But they have not thought proper to
fall into our views, and they were at perfect
liberty TO do so or not, as they might think
proper. They have preferred to take Louis
Napoleon, for better, for worse, as man takes
his wife. As republicans we assert that no
man has right to gainsay their choice. If
they choose, in their own country, and without
interfering with any one else, to erect the en-
pire a second time, and to pat him on it, we
say let them do il. As for the Holy Alliance,
we think Nicholas would do much better with
out Francis Joseph than with him. He will
prove heavy drag on him, or We are very
much deceived. 1t is only by his assistance
that Hungary and Italy ale kept down.
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