Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-05-23

the Spartans disgust for intemperanc; 30 1t Is
enough for us, as republicans to see kings intox-
icated with blood, 10 have forever horror OF
scaftolds. -.
Yes, we declare it, and we call to witness this
sea which binds Jersey to France, these neioS,
this quiet nature around us, this England winch
is listening 20 US. The mon of the revolution
whatever the Bonapartist calumniators may say
wish to re-enter France not as exterminators,
but as brothers. We call to witness our words,
this holy heaven which glttcrs above us, she'd
ding thoughts of peace and concord upon our
hearts; we call to witness our dead brother, who
| lies in that grave, and who, while speak, muir.
murs in his shroud, eyes, my brothers, reject
death have accepted it for myself; would
not have it for others.''
| Citizens! these thoughts are in every mans
mind-I am only the interpreter Of them. The
day of bloody revolutions has passed for what
remains to be done, the indomitable law OF pro-
gress will SUFFICE And moreover let us be tran
| quill; everything combats for US in the great bat
| ties we have still to fcht-battes whose evident
necessity docs not disturb the serenity OF the
thinker: battles, in which the revolutionary en-
| ergy will equal the desperation of monarchy: pat
ties in which meht Joined with right, will over
throw violence allied to usurpation; superb, glo.
rious cnthusiastic decisive battles, the event OF
which cannot be doubtful, and which will be the
| Tolbiacs, the Hastineses, and the Austcrltzes OF
democracy. Citizens! the epoch of the dissou.
Providence has condemned the old despotisms-
Time, the shadowy grave digger, is burying them.
Each declining day plunfes them deeper into
nothingness. God is throwing years upon thrones
as we throw spade full of earth upon coffin.
And now. brothers, let us shout the cry OF
triumph: let us shout the cry of awakening! 1t
is near the grave that one should speak of the
resurrection. Yes, indeed, the future is an inn
pending future, l repeat it, promises to US the
victory of the democratic idea in France: the
future promises us the victory of the social idea.
| It promises more: it promises that in every eli
mate, under every sun, upon every continent IN
| America rs well as in Europe, an end shall come
to oppression and to slavery. After the hard
trials we are experiencing. what we want is not
only the emancipation of this or that class OF
men which has suffe-e1 long-the abolition of
this o. that right: all this we shall have but this
is not enough. What we must have and what
we shall get-never doubt it-what l, for my
part, from the depths Of this darkness of exile
contemplate with rapture, is the deiverance OF
every nation, the enfrarchisement Of all mankind!
Friends, our sufferings give us claim upon Pro-
violence. God owes us reward. He is faith
full debtor; we shall receive it. Let US then
cherish q manly faith, and make our sacrifice
with gladness. Oppressed of all nations, offer up
your wounds; Poles, offer your misery; Hunga-
rians offer your Gibbet; Italians offer your cross;
heroic transported brothers of Cayenne, of AT
RIGA, offer your chains exiles offer your rroscrp-
| "
liberty Of the human race! VIvE LA REPUBLIQUE!
WHY HAVE NATIONS persisted !---s' Come with
me my friends, moment more, pass over this
Colgotha of human history, treading reverently
as YOU co. for our feet are on moth:rs' graves,
and our shoes deflc our fathers hallowcd bones.
Let us not talk of them; 60 further on, look and
pass by. Come with me to the Inferno Of the M
tons, with such poor guidance as my lamp en-
lend. Let us disquiet and bring up the awful
shadows Of empires buried long ago, and learn q
lesson from the tomb.''
"Comc, old Assyria, with the Ninevitish dove
upon the emerald crown what hid thee low? Il
fell by my own Injustice Thereby Nineveh and
Babylon came also to the ground"
"Oh, queeny Persia, fame of the nations,
wherefore art thou so fallen, who trodlest the
people under tn C, bridgcst the Hellcsront with
on the weste, n world? Because trod tn. pco-
pie under m,, AMI b-idged the HcllcSpont vi h
ships and pourc my temple-wasting millions on
the western world, fell by my own misdeeds p :"
"Thou mus:clikc Grccian queen, fa;rest Of all
thy classic sistcrhood Of States, enchanting yet
the world with thy sweet wi:chcry, speaking in art
AMI most seductive song, why licst thou there,
with beauteous yet dislonored brow, rero,ing on
thy broken hlrp? & scorned the law of God :
ban;shcd and poisoned wisest, jlstest loved
tn, loycliness of flesh, cm3almed 1t in the Par:an
stone loved the loneliness Of thought, and
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the beauty Of just CO, the oveliness Of love, trod
them down to earth! Lo, therefore hive become
as those Barbarian States---as on, of themP"
ooh, manly and majestic Rome, thy sevenfold
mural crown all broken at thy feet, why art thou
here? 1t was not injustice brought thee low; for
words, ---iustce is the unchanged, everlasting will
to give eaca IN his right 1t was not the saints
ideal; it was the hypocrie's pcetcpce! made
iniauity my law. | troa the nations under me-
Their wealth glded my ralaces-wh,-e thou ayst
the fox ana hear the owl lit fed my courte g
anil my courtczans. Wicked men were my cabi-
net counscllors, tn, hattcer bcea'hcd his poison
in my ea~. Millions Of boailmen wet the soil with
tears and blooi. Do You not hear it crying yet
to Go12 Lo, here have l my recompense, tor
mentcd with such downfall as YOU SIC! Go back
and tell the newborn child, who stitch On the
Allsghanies, laying his either hand upon tribu-
tary sea, crown Of thirty stars about his youth
full brow--tcll him that there are rights which
States must keep, or they shall suffer wrongs -
Tell him there is a God who keeps tn, black man
and the white and hurls to earth the lofticst
realm that breaks His just, eternal law! Warn
the young Empire that he come not down, dim and
dishonorcd, to my shameful tomb Tell him that
Jastice is the unchanging, everlasting will to give
each man his right. | knew it, b7ose it, and am
loaf. Bid him to know it, keep it, and be safe -
- Theodore Parker. ..p'7r ~ tag s,rj
ZEN AND INK CkErCH VI lNlCuoLAS.-lue En-
peror is of great height, and is very proud Of it,,
too proud, perhaps, as he has acquired the habit
of certain airs, which often give him strong re-
semblance to peacock when about to spread his
tail. 1t is a fact well known in st. Peterburgh,
that every we'll grown man newly recruited
for the guard, is called into the Emperor's pres
ence, who measures heights with him. His air
is serious, his glance wild, even little savage,
his entire phisiogomy has something hard and
stern in it, his gestures are abrupt and he cuts
his words in pronouncing them. The Emperor
never shows himself but in military costume, the
stiffness Of which makes his great height still
more conspicuous. Meanwhile there is q want Of
ease in his morcments-since fall from his
horse, he drags one leg after him, in disagree
able inelegant manner.
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