New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-15
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crushed But Their number daily diminish az Iae time no, m
dsrt when The synpahs Of en- inieEs ulpr JUDGED
taa qualify Ancrea TAUGHT Fsanoo hunger or liberty Wh
IL a,s-crratie N.r.eou orcrpogered BIZ
nun b'It si CIV, 5 yy neg 1 70 5o Fj b. .er
ihfd upon the fcaaod "A holy lceao i a. u. sis tl.h
upcn he position which Wa.hin-n would have occupied
he IagCs Of the carsct hsiorils u. buckils f-ice
such is the paragraph with which the Reverend
eorifer of Despotism, apoogst Of Adultery ana var
niher of Assassination. opens his current chapter OF
fophistry and fraud in tie September No of HrrPers
Magazine. That his alsehood is conscious systematic
promedtatcd there is room 10 doubt lie knows
because lie cannot help knowing, thai NapO on was H1
"adyocatc OF republican equality but its deadly foe
that he crushed the liberties OF France beneath his
iron heel as rcmorselessy and utterly any Tanner
lane Aurunszebe could have dOne-hat he, through
all his Consular and Imperial reign affected to consider
all Republicans JacObins and 10 testify for Jacobns
(tIOueh he had been one himself, when poor and
powerless) measureless aversion and horror Right
well does Rev. John : c. Abbott know that arsto-
cratic usurpation had been completely annihlated
in France until Napoleon restored tin outline only
we grant but in outline only because as he admitted
at St Helena he dared not then go further 50 fresh
and keen was the French remembrance of the arsto-
cratic expressions and niqutes which the great Reyo
luton had swept away
But while the Aristocracy nascent and some
what IDEAL the Dcspotism pitiless and complete
Asia never saw its equal in omnpreence and thorough
ness. slabs Sultans and Padishahs had ridden down
all open physical opposition to their mandates but Ma
poleon, through his infamous Police directed by
Fouche penetrated the sacred Of thought
and family intercourse Transforming great and gener-
Gus People into army Of spies and nation of slaves
Freedom of the Pres completely annlhliated; no
journal or magazine dared oppose what the despot
desired: even tie most important facts were sup
messed and no account of tie Battle Of Trafalgar the
naval Waterloo was permitted to appear in the journals
of the day Napoleon's reply La Fayette. who pc
ttoned for tie Freedom Of the Pres Ii that Free
- dom lie allowed neither Gen La Fayete nor | can
remain in France Elk months '-shows how thorough
" and nveerately despo;ic and therefore cowarily
lis irmost nature was.
Napoeon's Civil abilities are, hardly less than Lis Nil
itarv the theme of NJ. AbbOtts eulogium that il
could rot be want Of capacity which induced him. in
that Code which other compiled and he took the
credit of, TO deprive his countymon Of the right Of
Trial by Jury for Political ofenses-a right hardly
second in ir portance 10 any other. With that right
secured Nation can scarcely be enslayel without IT,
there can be but the shadow liberty So Of the Con
crptcn which annually tore from the homes OF France
nearly al her youth attaining strength to carry mus
ket-wlat voice had the people in deciding that this
enormous drain Of their lfe-blood was or was not
necessary Was not this matter which concerned
them rs much as i. does Rev J : C. Abbott ana ii he
is entitled to pronounce upon it, why not they Yet
oy were VIGOROUSLY deprived Of al voice in tie prem
scs By Napcleon successful usurpaton. They had 10
mere 10 say to its proprey than the sheep in any
butchers pen have 10 the day when they shall be
killed Napoleon ultimately admitted that his Legisla
tive bodies were ami.take-that having no real power
they did not strengthen him and could be shielded
from public dersijn-but ths was sn inevitable result
Of his immense and Unsuitable eso,ism Said lie IN bis
letter O. instructions 70 bis brother whom be placed on
Ire ,lr,ne Of Holland.
Ns7er or-e; 'h. IL the -s'7a 20 yhrA -g P e.i s...a
49, s.ecri -,ui-d france Is ,o.r oa.. ri even
thoe ouisa people when Lave eal 20 s5e-a r-s
And Yet because tie proud OF Spanish Nation ID
rot sec fl 70 be governed b. enc OF these BonaParean
sa.r,r rroscd q fiem bv the most barefaced usur-
patton nd iosce Vile their nstiye princes, lured sep
bv sep on. Ct heir own doun rs 10y t1e srosses per
ftr were do.ained in France ss prisoners the are
subjected 60 urmecsurei ~. aches b. Abbott who
even besres vifh his oenslrs The heroic defenders
If Ssrsco... Truly. she hero aud ,ae Irumpeter are
well matched
1ir Abbott proceeds GO quote as eoni-lnatcry cd hs
own II. w tie .o-ovin-:
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