Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-06-07

gouging." Yours,
PEgo TuEBocEs,
Master Of the Uncle tohn.
Victor Hugo's Letter.
The following are a few extracts fromIVic.
tor Hugos letter to Louis Bonaparte, on his
arrival in England. The special correspon-
dent Of the ~ Y. Times a! Londou who en-
closes it TO hio paper says:
! 81 send you one Of the addresses destined
for Napoleon. It has the merit of coming
from the heart, and OF being an eloquent ex.
| ponent OF deeply-ielt truth. 1t has, more
over, been already dispatched to and received
by the Emperor; several copies having be-
sides found their way to the our,ere Of Paris
| have been.favored with a copy, and have
translated ii for your readers. You will see
that the end o. this letter alludes to certain
warning addresseds to the exiles to keep qui.
ct. may add that that warning had a semi
official character and was given by the or
ders Of the Governor of Jersey. The French
cXiIes in London have net been warned, but
! they are strongly watched; and it is even
said that numerous body Of Partisan police
men, in civil dress, has already arrived here ,
to watch over the safety OF their master"
Victor Hugo says;
! What are you coming to do here! What
is your object! Whom ar e you going to
insult! England in her people, or Fran ce
in her exiles! We have already, buried nine
Of these at Jersey alone. Is it to know this
that you are coming for! The last one was
called Felix Bony, ani mad lived twenty
nine years Are you sutsiie3! Do you wish
10 see his grave! What are you coming for
:sk you! This England with no yoke on
her neck: this France of prescriptions; this
people, sovereign master otits ow II, ami these
exles, decimated and calm, can have no bu-
siness with you.
f Leave Freedom in peace. Leave Exile
, undisturbed. Stay away.
Are you to visit London as an Emperor or
t as u General Others who have been en-
perors and generals have visited it before
you, and have received, as you will receive
triumphal ovations. Will you visit Trafal.
, gar SQUARE, Waterloo place, Waterloo bridge
, and Waterloo monument! There Nicholu:
, was received by the Aldermen. VIII yor
, go to the brewery of Perkins! There Hay.
t nau was received by the workmen. Are yo,
coming to talk about the Crimea! Have
4 care The subject is one Of deep mourning
d The iisaster OF Sevastopol opening the side
= of England even more than those of France
e The French army is in its death throes-th
r English army is dead, fact which,if we ma.
: credit,those who admire our fortune, has mad
t one OF your historians say.
: "We revenge Waterloo without ha9in!
4 wiled it. Napoleon ILL., has done more harm
: to England by one year Of alliance than Ma
d polcon |. by fifteen years o(war. You friend
: no longer say Napoleon tie Great. Why i
z thisf Il
: Tlke any of those who, for various rea
d sons will welcome you; take the most intox
t ica,ed, take the Hng!ishman-ald alderman, min
|, lister, lord-who is most loud in crying "Aur
: luh Tor the Emperor" take him and ask hin
:, this simple question; "What would the peo
u pie Of Eng land do to a man who being il
t power, under some title or another-as ,
: minister, for instance, .(and you were such
r one, sir) would, on The pretense o. havin:
: sworn, before men and God, fidelity to tin
d constitution, take England by the throat~-
a destroy the pariament-upset legislation
cast the nccrruptihle members of the house
: into tie cells of Millbank and Newgate-
$ annihilate Westminst er-turn the Woolsacl
: into guardhouse-eXpel the judges--sie tn
| hands oIjustice-gag the press-break up tn
Q printing otiices-slrang!e the papers-cove
e London with guns and bayonets-empty 'ht
band into the pockets OF his soldiers-tak
D the houses by storm--cut the throats OF mel
n and women. young and old--transform Hyd
it park into ditch of nightly murders-bom
i bard the city, the Strand, Regent Stree
l. Charing Cross, twenty wards of Londor
/ twenty counties of Eng gland-encumber tn
streets with the corpses of passers-by-h
Z the cemeteries and hospital-spread darknes
If silence, and death arounG!--who would i
i short, suppress, by one blow, freedom. righ
l. the law, and the natioa's lfe!'
,s What would repeat, what wocll th
% English people do to such man! VIII
d before the question had time to be fully utte
n ed, the very soil of this land would throw o
It and dress the ladder of tie scafold! Yes
the scaff9d! x Il
J. Sometimes, at nights; while awake--ft
g the sleep OF our mother country is reaso
n for the eXile's being sleepless-l see gloC
= my France on the horizon. ] gaze at th
n eternal firmament--that face of eternal jul
= tce--I question the shadows Of the nigl
1t about you. | ask the darkness of God
N tell me its opinion on the darkness of yoi
:, making, and pity you, sir, when in the pre-
J. enct of the formidable silence of the Eterna
ID NIcToR HUGO.
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