The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-06-16


hour which will be marked in time to come
the principle of absoutisu the old principle of
the past, triumphs all over Europe 1t tri-
umphs as it should triumph, by the sword, the
axe, and the cord by Inassacres and musket-
ry; by tortures and the scafTOd Despotism,
that Moloch surrounded by human bones eel
ebrates her fearful mysteries in open sunlight,
under the pontifcate OF Haynau, Bonaparte,
and Radetzsky. In Hungary, the gallows; in
Lombardy, the gallows in Sicily, the gallows
in France, the guillotine, transportation, and
exile. In the Papal States alone, | cite the
Pope who calls himself Le ros de doucem i. in
the Papal States alone, in the last three years,
sixteen hundred and forty patriots the figures
are authentic) have persisted by shooting or
hanging, without counting the innumcrable
many who are buried alive in dungeons At
this moment, the continent, as in the worst
periods OF history, il encountered with scafolds
and corpses and il, when the day comes rev.
olutlon should seek to make for herself flag
OF the winding sheets Of the victims the
shadow OF that black flag would cover all Eu-
rope Tins blood, whicb-is flowing in streams
and In torrents-all this blood, Democrats is
yours.
And yet citizens, in the presence of this
SdtWnahd OF murder, in the presence Of these
infamous tribunals where assassins sit in the
robes oil the Judge IN the presence of all these
dear ana sacred corpscs, in the presence of this
dismal ana feroclocs victory of reaction, de-
clare solemnly IN the hauie Oi the exiles of Jer-
sey, VINO nave gwen me snc authority to do So
and say 1t too III the name of all republican
exhes-and not one true republican voice will
contradict me- declare before this coffin of
an exile, the second one we have lowered into
the grave within ten days, we the exiles, we
the victims, we adjure, Tor the great and aev-
table day of revolutionary triumph, oil feeling
all desire, all idea of bloody retribution.
The guilty will be chastlsed certanly-they
will be- and all of them severely This must
be; but not one head shall fall not one drop
OF blood not one splash from the scaffod shall
stain the spOtless robe of the republic of Feb
ruary. The head even of the brigand of De-
cember shall be respected with honor by the
progressive. The revolution will make grand
er example of that man by changing his impe-
rial purple for the jacket of the galley slave.
No, We will not retort on the scaiiold by the
scatfold. We repudiate the old senseless law
of retaliation. The law of retaliation, like the
monarchy, is part Of the past we repudiate
the past
The death penalty, gloriously abolished by
the Republic of 1913, re-establishcd odiously
by Louis BOnaparte, Is abolished by us and
forever. We have taken with us into exile the
| sacred doctrine OF progress we will faithfully
| bring II back 20 France. What we ask and wish
of the future is justice, and not vengeance And
| besides, the sight of slaves drunk with wine
suihced to give the Spareans disgust for in
temperance, 40 it is enough for us republicans
to see kings intoxicated with blood, to have for
| ever horror Of scaffolds.
Yes We declare it, and We call to witness
this sca, which binds Jersey to France, these
fields, this quiet nature around us, this Eng
land which Is listening 20 IA. The men of the
neutrality-suspicious. tho Bonapartist calumni-
ators may say-wish to re enter France not as
exterminators, but as brothers. We call to wit
ness our words this holy heaven which glitters
above us shedding thoughts of peace and con-
| cord upon our hearts we call to witness our
dead brother, who lies in that grave and who,
| while speak, murmurs in his shroud 81 Yes
/ my brother, reject death a have occepAed il
myself would not have it for others"
Citizens these thoughts are in every mans
mind and am only the interpreter of them
The day Of bloody revolutions has passed; fol
what remains to be done, the indomitable law
of progress will suffice. And moreover, let III
be tranquil everything combats for us in thu
great battles we havo still to fght-battles
whose evident necessity does not disturb tn
serenity OF the thinker battles in which revo
Iutionary energy will equal the desperation @
monarchy; battles in which might, Joined witt
right, will overthrow violence allied to usurpa
ton; superb, glorious, enthusiastic, deoisiy,
battles, the event OF which cannot be doubtful
and which will be the Tolbiacs, the Hastings
aud the Austcrltzes Of Democracy Citizens
the epoch of the dissolution of the old world
has arrived The law Of Providence has con.
demned the old despotisms. Time, the shadowy
grave digger, is burying them. Each decli.
ming day plunges them into nothingness God
is throwing years upon thrones us we throw
spades full OF earth upon ccfin.
And now, brothers, as we separate, let us
shout the cry of triumph let w shout the cry
of awakening IL IL near the grave that one
should speak of the resurrection. Yes indeed,
the future, an impending future, ! repeat it,
promises to us the victory of the Democratic
idea in France; the future promises to us the
victory Of the social idea 1t promises more it
| promises that In every climate, under every
sum- upon every continent, in America as we'll
as in Europe, an end shall come to oppression
and to slavery After the hard trials we are
experiencing, what we want is not tho eman-
| cipation of this or that class of men which has
suffered long, the abolition Of this or that
rght-all this we shall have, but this is not
enough What we must have and what We
shall get-neyer doubt it-what ], for my part,
from the depths of this darkness of exile, con-
template with rapture, is tho deliverance Of
every nation, the enlranchsement Of all man.
kind
Frends-our suiierings give us a claim upon
Providence. God owes us reward. He is @
faithful debtor we shall receive it, Let us then
cherish manly faith, and make our sacrifice
with gladness. Oppressed of all nations, offer
up your wounds; Poles, offer your misery
HungarianS offer your gbbet Italians offer
your cross: heroic transported brothers of Cay
emo, of Africa, offer your chains; exiles offer
your prescription and thou o martyr, offer
thy death to the liberty Of tho human race!
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