The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-05-20
spseoA denvsreA By Victor Hugo at the Grave
81 French refugee In the Island OF Jersey,

isle Of Jersey followed OF their comrades 10 the Held
of final repose Victor Hugo had: been requested 10 pro
nounee, 10 the OF all. the last farewell His dis
course as follows;
Citizens The 10 whom We have come 10 say the
last farewell Jean Bosquet, OF Farm Ell Garonne
noble soldier OF democracy We have seen him. in
flexible exile, waste away soTowfully among
yeamng for home was Snsshs a III as hear he leu
slowly poisoning him he might have seen again his alb
sent friends. The beloved plaoes-his native city, his
house He had but 10 say word That execrable hu-
initiation which NJ Bonapale calls amnesty, or psIdol
was offered 10 him he honestly rejected IT, aud he is
dead Tie only thirty four yeats OF age. And now,
/ there he lies,
will moi add praises this simple life, 10 this grand
death. let him tepose in peace In this obscure grave,
where the earth will coon cover him. ADD whence his
soul has gone 10 seek the eternal hopes OF The tomb
Let him sleep here tins republican and let the people
know that there snl proud and pure hearts devoted
10 lis cause Let the republic know that will perish
| ra,hsr ,ban lor.ake her ri France knoy that men
die because they can see her no more,
L., him Sleep this patriot in The land OF the stranger
And We his companions in conflict and in alveTsi,ywe
who closed his eyesif his native city, his family. his
friends ask US, Nv here is he y we will answer, dead
in exile = the soltieIy, when the name OF Laiour
dAuvergne called answered, Dead on the held Of
honor 7"
Citizens To-day in France spostacy is joyous. The
old land OF the Ih OF July aud OF the ION OF August
assists the hdeous spread OF treason, and al the III
umphal march Of traitors. Not one unworthy aclon
which is not Immediately rewarded mayor breaks
the law-he is made protect; a soldier dshonors has
highe is made general priest sells ms Ielsion-he
made bishop; idge prostitutes usce--he IS made
senator prince, an adventures, commits every CRIME
| from the base trick which would shame pckpocke
10 the cruelty which would make assassin shuddet--
ard he emperor Around and about these men
are the sounds OF rumphal music bouquets and dane
| ing addresses, applause, and genufexons SefVily
comes congratulate snominy.
| Citizens! These men have ihsir festivals; weH We
too. have ours. When one OF The comranoas, OF our
Punishment wasted by exhausted BY he
slow fever OF old habits broken up, aud affections la
gives way last, and dies after having drunk
10 The dregs all the agonies OF prescription, we follow
| hi. hiarc with biack
OF his grave We too knee not 10 success, but 10 The
\ tomb we bend over buried brother, and we say 10
him: "FTiend. congratulate thee because thou hast
been valiant; we congratulate thee because thou hast
been generous and intrepid we congratulate thee be-
cause thou hast been fahiul we congratulate thee be-
thou hast offered up 10 thy republican faith the last
breath of thy body, the last pulsa,on OF thy heart We
cong raulae thee because thou hast suffered we con-
graduate thee that thou art dead - Then raise our
heads again. and move away, our hearts full OF a
sombre Joy. Such the festivals OF exiles. ms is
the ausere and thought which is al the bottom OF
our souls and the presence OF this sepnchTe, OF this
grief which 10 swallow up man. The presence #
this appearance OF annhlaton, feel ourselves
strengthened in principles and in our CONVICTIONS
I, The whose mind is made up never ueads more
firmly than on the shifting soil Of the tomb And our
eyes fixed upon this dead body upon thus being who has
faded away, upon this shallow which has vanished, We.
mistaken belle gory that which Is immortal ard
tina, which is e,erna-Libery and God. Yes, God /!
Never should tomb be closed until this great, this liy-
ing word has fallen into il, The dead claim II. and we
people amongst whom we live Understand well that The
men OF progress, the men OF democracy, the men OF rev
ou.ion know that the destiny of The soul twofoJ,
that the abnegaton they show in this life proves how
profoundly they rely upon another
Taeir faith in this grand aud yserious future resss
eve the repusve spectacle which the ensaved Catholic
clergy has presented since The second Of December Al
this moment, Romln papism s,a.ises the human con-
science Yes. say ii-and my heart IS la OF bitterness
when think OF so much abjeciaess and shame: these
priests wbo for money for palaces for crosses and mres,
for the love Of temporal goods. bless and gonfy per
Jury murder and treason--lhese churches, where re
Dsfu in
churches and priests would be enough to shake the
strongest convictions in the rmes souls beyond the
church did not heaven. and above the priest a
God And here, citizens on the threshold OF this open
tomb-n the midst OF this thoughtful ihrong which
rounds this gravehe moment has come TO sound sol
word that may take root and spring mp IN every con-
science.
Cuzens! Al this presen, hour-,his fatal hour which
will be marked 10 times TO come-the principle OF abso-
lusr1, the old principle OF the pas-uumphs all over
Europe Ii numphs as II should Triumph by the sword
the axe and the cord by massacfes aud muskeiTy BY
toriues and the ecatold Despotsln, that Mooch
rounded by human bones, celebrates her fearful mystic
ries in open sunlight, under the ponhcaie Of Haynau,
Bonapare, and Radeizky: IN Hungary, the gal.
lows; in Lombardy the gaows in Sicily the galows
in France the gulotine, transp oraon aud exile. In
the Papa States aone-l cite the Pope who calls him
self k de douteurn the Papal States alone, in the
last three years sixteen hundred and forty patriots (the
figures aah-nc) have persisted by shooting or hang
ing, wihou, counting the innumerable many who are
buried alive IN dungeons. Al this moment The continent
the worst periods OF history, IS encountered with
scaods and corpses aud II. when The day
luton should seek 10 make for herself is of the wind
ing sheets OF The victims the shadow Of that black flag
would cover all Europe This blood which is flowing
in streams and IN orren,sa this blood. democrats,
yours.
And ye citizens in the presence OF this saturpala oil
MURDER the pre- ssRce of these infamous tribunals
where IN the robes al The Judge The pres
ence OF all these dear and sacred copses in the presence
OF this dismal and erocous victory OF reaction declare
solemnly IN the oil the exies OF Jersey who have
given me the authority TO do and say II too, in the
name OF all republican exes-and not one rcpnbli-
can voice will contradict mel declare before this coffin
grave within ten days, the exes, we The victims, we
triumph all feeling, all desire, all idea OF bloody reusu.
ton.
The guilty will be chasiised cer,anly-ihey will be
all OF them and severely! This must be, but not one
head shall fall mol drop of blood, not one splash
from the scaod shall stain the spotess robe OF the re
public Of February The head even of the brigand OF
sive. The revolution will make grander example OF
tina, man by changing his imperial purple for the acke,
OF the galley slave No, will re,or on The scat.
fold by the scadod We repudiae The old senseless Law
of retaliation The law of retaliation. like the monar-
chy, is part OF The past We repudIa'e the past.
The death pensy, glorously abolished by the epub.
lie OF ls4s, re-,s,absheA odousiy by Louis Bonapare
is abolished by us. and forever We have taken with u.
into exile the sacred doctrine Of rrogress will faith
fully bring it back TO France. What ask, and Wish
OF the future, is justice, and not vengeance And be-
sides, the sight OF slaves drunk with wine suiced 10
give the Spaans disgust for n'empeTance, so il il
enough for Us republicans TO see kings intoxicated with
blood, 10 have forever a horror OF ssaiTods.