New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-16


J -. With more than toeairic suddeHness. France
s-.ted berself in the mre, ami there she lies with
ay,s foot upon her neck 0or ailOr he is) whstever
gP~h<sher King President or Emperor be may call
Uoweyer. Louis Bouaparte Is absolute lord of
- al much a. any planter Of his niggers
- oersop (persona h0n1spis) who ia one day. by at
ss,mple perpetrated more crrnes, and those more
L;exous and degrading, more selfish and more ouS
-. tbsn all the Grim malls beside him in the jails,
md erIIeys Of the whole world, Tor fthsy wereal
-. pptogether face toface with MIN, which THEN
M Dotssyi True haycstoleD, apoOr outcsst afew
- N keep me from starvation, but you gentleman
"a I. nripee have stolen millions. Or, again Yes,
rSfred my master in his sleep but you have betrayed
LII hiaher trust: you not only killed the Constitution
ssscb YOU undertook 20 safeguard; you not only
s,gi.a ip The dark midnight assassin that you are,
- Ia sp the freedom that " Of the people, but you
,dered by swift o. elow means Ia France or Cayenne
soasspds who would only have uph )ldeu the Law
;ns YOU; end do you then, your forehead snl hands
slipe with such bloody inismy, 90 you pretend TO
I've decrees and sign judgments against others TO
nal IN the psme and mantle yourself with tae myssty
Tthe Isyi Come down from that throne and stand
ss5e nae In the dock beside me; no but thousand
80 below me- II it possible. Way, even Justice
,,e would forsake her function and oreyo herself for
while rather than become degraded forever by being
dpiuitcred under such rufisn.
But though all this be notOrOu ly true, Jet Louis
snspsrte ocks the truth lie is not hanged, nor shOt
5swu nor boo,ed he goes abroad cOmplscently,
h. Ives uxuYiously he psrsdes himself mperay, aud,
: would SEEM in about the same security az the lazy
srdlipg OF Pope's satire:
Swbo est snd sept Who gsnnble5 drant and ~,
Then gave the Gn4y vault sno,lsf ofl'
And France enduIes him; but why, rom her AFFECT
,e say tie fends OF freedom from her fear Of some
hing worse say the ilatterefs OF Bgnapare. Or waai
ne Socslistsf All, hut that wolfcry well enough
b rs season-it is now worn out. the real well came
rom another quarter. However, we do not wonder
ina, you love even the treadbare lie il did good service
N IL day the Bonaparsts worked the public guliblty
neht gliby with IT, The Socialists upon you, sam
,eu, PJlagoi Murder The Socialism the Socialists
isl
same Socissts Paris elsewhere and the quiet
klpdly intelligent looking that they are, working
dsy by dag for their daily bread would have been
what surprised the next morning 10 them, the
goyerne paper, by the magic o printers ink, turncd
into such mob OF devils. To be sure the tradesmen
did not like them for these Socialists were neither
por less than wOrkmen associated 10 work on their
sccouut instead OF masters. But that ieud IL over;
nd for the Socialists the question Is Does Louis
gouapsrte like them We are inclined 10 think, well
spough He has rather favored them Of late aud NJ
wonder for they were the bugbcars which, hi1eou-ly
A. they were got up made him. HIMSELF look
ye less ugly their contrast and 30 althankst 10 them,
and good night to the hobgobin fables about the So
essts.
Bot enough of this French tTagcal farce We will
no, call 1t strange or shameful, or fearful We have no
word for IL IL is something wholly by itself; some.
thing merely monstrous and inhumsD. The Egyptians,
we know. used 10 get up their reptiles for the gods
but such cur ms ths-such many wOD-tJ kGeel be
fore such creature il below the dcepest Egyptian
debasement. However words are vain There he is,
the living libel the sovereign SANDER the eprOus botch
upon huusnify-snd France, while afflicted with him.
cannot even CRY out the lepers warning, "Unclean,
ureleanl" No moro OF him. We viii only ask, with
the indignant prophet, in the name OF France OF Free
dom. and OF universal manhood how long, oh, Lord
low long9 Sooner later the answer will come,
though mol in WORDS and fearful ans II Will be.
We have thus considered the late histories OF France
and Germany We have drawn asde their death.
shrouds and disclosed alas not the honorable scars but
the treacheIous death wounds beneath they sank
and have hardly known where 70 spea6 most scoTn
fully whether Of the perhdy that inflicted those wounds
or OF the cowsrdice that could undergo them we
have shown however that even In those countries the
moral conduct Of Freedom has not dsgraced her cause
that such cxcesses were committed by her friends,
even ia her name Gs 20 make us blush for her and
thai her righteousness therefore remains whole, aud 10
that righteousness confidently hope the people will
yet again be rallied. But in the cawo ol Germany we
have included that Of Hungary. Hungary a. least
hiss done noby, and she has right T. stand separately
In the sight of nations upon the pedestal OF her noble
deeds-for noble indeed they RreBnd she must be ex
allied by them historically, amid her ruins, how
ever she may be oppressed materially For her down
al we feel indeed the pnng OF sorrow, but not OF shame
We geve for her, but the cloud OF Cur grief like that
Of the Spartan mother for her son. Is well nigh lost ia
the glenn Of conscious glory Wchaye seen that the
sobeness OF her sprt che has raed her rghiul ztsnd
ard for worldwide recognition, far above the huctua
tons OF failure and succees; and TO that standard viii
the nations lock whenever they wish - feel bow mach
may be done, cyeo against overwhelming odas' py ma
tonal heroism need not say moie OF her; Tor the
fsrcasp,s Of the pervcs about cowardce are utterly
unmeaning agnnst her They know too wei that such
shafts would reco upon themselves, and therefore have
nothing 20 answer ON her behalf
Let us turn, then, TO Italy; Even foreigner, now,
ever superficial his views and eens his visit must ies
something Of melancholy az the eight OF the glorious
coun,ry-giorious once in arms 10 sr'-' IN hsuoha
sovereignty only in remembrance. she con
Trusts the evidences Of her former entepusng activity
with her present inert apathy the outward eplen'
doris of her palaces with their inward desolatloni
The magni6ccnce Of her old public buildings with
~ Of he
all and saddest of all, her ancient renown IN toe
nohlest cahnes d our nature win her actual wretch-
edness her shame and degradationi IN one
word her slayshncss. These regrets wiz De deep.
ened he shni have studied have donc for years oi
residence in thai country, the merits and dement's OF
the people their resource their capacities, their ice
lnes their suifif-n short, their whole genus. Ins
last word is lucky one for il suggests TO me the dis
tinctive character Of the Italians they are einnenty
genial and this ephet, alike true OF them and iauiato'
~, implies, need not say almost everything tnat Is
lovely Ia private life warm, impusve and LOFTY,
whether In the appreciation of srts and literature or IN
public aims and aspirations Three centuries OF slavery
had lowered the currency II may call IT, OF Italian
character y the mixture OF some baer elements out
Its general constituent qualities were living and working
nevertheless within H. and the events OF 4S aud ~
Shove that there was both will and way % throw
of the adventurous dross and to purge the national
metal through FIRE, 10 purity and valor worthy
OF the old national stamp ! do not mean 10 be
the historian Of the Italian struggle the retrospect too
painful 50 much courage and genius and deyotedness
30 much genuine manly worth oveIborne, and | might
say undermined, not more by the force of open enc
mics than by the fraud of prOissed friends the disrust
between Royasts and Republicans which dictated that
deadly reply ut Charles Alberto Lam offer Of
aid " L. Italia flia ds se and thea the crownlng
rather the marlcring contamination wherein the last
hope of ltaly--,he Republic OF Romc-was stabbed by
lie hand though not by the viii OF her sister the isepah'
c of France These ihngs 10 b. recoec,cd indeed
but only for remedy and redress otherwise they are too
sorrowf TO be recorded Snl even from this struggle,
we NAV gather thousand motives OF hope-none Of de-
spsir The admirable national spirit who that Witnessed
H. as did from the fret outbreak OF Palermo to thefal
Of Venice but must feel from that motive alone,
The orderly conduct OF affairs both public aud pEivse,
broken by only few bemewoythy oatbnrsts, where,
with populsce to freedom the widest eNcesses
were oro,od by her enemies and feared by many even
OF her welLwishers The dgnihed tone and hsa spirit
OF the press unusual anywhere ami wonderful
in writer's utterly unframed TIE eagerness for ml'E