Washington telegraph., 1853-06-15


see a heaven; and above the priest, Cd.
And here. citizens, on the threshold of tlis
open tomb, in the midst of this thoughtful
throng which surrounds this grave, the I'D.
ment has come to sound solemn word, tint
may take root and spring up in every con-
science
Citizens at tiis present hour. this f.
tai hour which VIII be marked in times to
come, the principle Of absolutism, the old
principle of the past. should triumph, by
the sword, the axe, and the cord By massa-
cres and musketry; by fortunes and the
scafold. Despotism. that Mooch surround
cd by human bones, celebrates her fearful
mysteries in open sunlight, under the pom
tificate of Haynau, a Bonapartc, and a
Radetsky. In Hungary, the gallows; in
Lombardy, the gallows; in Sicily the gallows;
in France. the guillotine, transportation and
exile. In the Pope States alone, cite the
Pope, who calls hiiaself ie roi dc doucour.
In the Papal Stases alone, in the last three
years. sixteen hundred and forty patriots
(the figures are authentic) have perished by
shooting or hanging, without counting the
innumerable many who are buried alive in
dungeons at this moment the continent
as in the worst periods Of history, is encum-
bered with sc;ffolds and corpscs. and it,
when the day comes, revolution should seek
to make for herself fac Of the winding
sheets of the victims, the shadow of that
black flag would cover all Europe. This
blood, which issiowing in streams and in
torrents all this blood, democrats, is yours
And yet, citizens, in the presence of this
sotatrnatjn Of murder, in the presence OF
the presence of these infamous tribunals,
where assassins sit in the robes Of the Judge,
in the presence of all these dear and sacred
corpses, in the presence of this dismal and
ferocious victory of reaction, declare SOL
emnly in the name Of the exiles of Jersey,
who have given me the authority to DO 50;
and say it too in the name of all republi-
can exiies-and not one true republican
voice viii contradict me-I declare before
this coffin of an exile, the second one we
have lowered into the grave within ten days;
We the ezilcs. we the victims, we abiure, for
the great and inevitable day of revolutions
~ triumph, all feeling, all desire, all idea
of bloody retribution.
The guilty viii be chastened: certainly
they will he +; al of them, and severely
this must be; but not one drop of blood,
not one splash from the scafold, shall stain
the spotleSs robe Of the republic of Februa-
ry The head even of the brigand of De-
cember shall be respected with honor by the
progressive. The revolution viii make
grander example Of that man by changing
his imperial pIrple for the jacket of the GAL
ley-slavc No, we will not retort on the
scafcld by The scaiold. 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-established
odiously by Louis Bonaparte, is abolished
by US, and forever We have taken with
US into exile the sacred doctrine Of progress;
we viii faithfully bring it back to France.
What we ask and wish of the future is jus
tice. and not vengeance. And besides, the
sight of slaves drunk with wine suiiced
to give the Spartans disgust for intemper-
ance, so is it enough for US as Republicans.
to see kings intoxicated with blood, to have
forever horror Of scafolds.
Yes, we declare it, and we call to witness
this sea which binds Jersey to France, this
quiet nature around US, this England which
is listening to US. The men Of the revolu-
tion-whatever the Bonapartist calumnia-
tors may say-wish to re-enter France not
as exterminators, but as brothers. We call
to witness our words this holy heaven which
glitters above US, shedding thoughts Of peace
and concord upon our hearts; We call to
witness our dead brother, who lies in the
grave, and who while speak, murmers in
his shroud. "Yes, brethren, reject death. |
have accepted it myself [ would not have
it for others"
Citizens, These are the thoughts of every
mans mind. and am only the Interpreter Of
them. The day of bloody revolutions has
passed for what remains to be done, the
indomitable law of progress will suffice -
And moreover, let us be tranquil every
thing combats for us in the great battles,
we have still to fght-battles, whose evil
dent necessity does not disturb the serenity
of the thinker; battles in which revolution
ary energy will equal the desperation Of
monarchy; battles in which might, joined
with right, will overthrow violence allied to
usurpation suberb, glorious, enthusiastic,
decisive battles, the event of which cannot
be doubtful, and which will be the Tolbiacs,
the Hastings, and the Austerlitzes of de-
mocracy. Citizens, the epoch Of the dis
solution of the old world has arrived. The
law of Providence has condemned the old
despotisms Time, the shadowy grave dig
ger, is burying them. Each declining day
plunges them deeper into nothingness.-
God is throwing years upon thrones as we
throw spadesfull of earth upon a coffin.
The work on the Capitol extension at
yU,el,s,, o,4ou bac haan rac,,p,ad h,- tbo tbraa