Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-09-17
From the New York Tribune.
DISCOURSE OF VICTOR HUGO
AT THE TonD OF Lorrsr JULIEN, FRENcn ExlL

CITIZENS
'Throc coRins in four months,
Death hastcns, and God delivers M one by ono.
we do not reproach thee, we thank thee, ALI
Powerful God, who rc-openest upon us, exilos, the
gates of an eternal home.
This time the lifelcss and precious being whom
we bear to the tombis woman.
'On the 2lst of January last, n woman was ar
rested at her own house by Boudrot the Commissary
of Police ut Paris. This woman, still young being
thirty five years Of age, but crippled and iniirm,
was sent to the Prefecture and confined in what is
called the hfai-ccH This cell n sort Of cage about
seven eight feet square, without light or air
the unhappy prisoner has painted it in a word
she called it the t0mI-ceH. She says--l quote her
own words" 1t is in this iomJ-ccll, that crippled
and ILL., passed twcnty-onc days, pressing my lips
from honr to hour against the grating, IN order to
breathe little vital air, and not die" ~ the end
of the twcnty.onc days. on the nth of February,
the Government of December took this woman out
and banishcd her II cast her at once out of prison
and out of her country The prescribed left the
Itrul-dungcon with the germs of consumption She
quilted France and reached Belgium. Her dCSt.
tuition forced her to travel, with cough, splitting
blood with diseased lungs in the depth Of a North
on winter. in rain and snow. in those frghtlu
open carriages which arc Il disgrace to the wealthy
railroad companies. She arrives at Ostcnd. She
was driven from Francc Belgium now drives her
away. She passes over to England Scarcely
IllnNeU NI lDnupu Nile llkt- W llcF Ott lIlC us
case contracted in prison aggravated by the forced
Journey of an exile, becomes alarming. The pro
| gcrihed-I should rather say, the cUndcmnod Il
Idcatli--kCaps her bod for two months and half
Then, hoping little from the spring and warm
weather. she comes to Jersey. We still remember
seeing her arrive on Il cold, rainy morning. in tho
midst Of the sCa-fogs, with rattling cough, and
shiverng under her thin garments, wet to the skin
4 few days after her arrival, she was confined tC
her bed, from which she never roso.
Three days since, she died.
| You ask me- what was this womah, and wha
had she done to he thus treated. will tell you:
This woman by patriotic songs bv sympathet,
and cordial words, by kind and pubc-sp spirited acts
had signalized in the faubourgs Of Paris the nam,
of Louise Julien, by which she was known ant
salutod by the people. One of the working class
she she had nurscd her sick mother; she had takcr
caro- OF her and maintained her for ten years Du
ring the days of the civil war she made lint: ant
p though lame, and dragging herself abott with diff
hculty, she went to the dn,dutaHces and aided tn
wounded of all parties. This woman Of the pe0p
was poet this woman of the people was genius
she sang the Republic and loved liberty she Dir
IDENTIFY called for the approaching brotherhood O
all nations and of all men; she believed in God il
{ the people, in progress in France she poured ou
around her us vase, into the souls of the pr0lC
tarics, her noble heart full of love and faith Thi
is what this woman did. Bonapartc has killed her
! 'Ahl such a tomb is not dumb. 1t is filled wit
: sobs, and groans, and cries
Citizens, the people, in the legitimate pride q
a their sole power and of their right construct wit
Z granite and marble, sounding cdifccs, maiosti
y shrnes, sublime arches, from the hight of whic
c speaks their genius from the hight of which ar
poured into the soul the holy inspirations of patr
Il otsm, Of progress and of liberty; the people in
; agino that they need only to be sovereign to Il
invneible, believe that these citadels of spcecl
these sacred fortresses of human Intelligence am
= of civilization are unapproachable and ippregnabl
and say that their tribune r indcstructbl,
r They deceive themseves-thesc tribuncs can b
Z overthrown. traitor comes soldiers arrive
! band of brgands conspire, unmask themselves, mn
o fro--the sanctuary is invaded, stone and marb
n are scattered and the temple, the palace where III
great nation spoke to the world tottcrs the grOunt
y aud tho foul conquoring tyrant Npplauds, caps h
hands and says" 1t is finished No one will spea
g again. Not voice honcciorth will be lifted NJ
Silence is accomplished"
c Citizens In liis turn, the tyrant is deceived.
n is not the will of God that liberty, which is h
d word, should be silent. Citizens! the moment thu
Q triumphant despots believe that they have forey,
s taken the power Of speech from ideas it is restore
by the Almighty This tribune destroyed he r
constructsit. Not in the midst of the public squa
mot with granite or marble; there is no need
that Iercconstructs it in solitude he reconstruc
it with the grass of the cemetery, with the shade