The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-26
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REMOVAL.
TIVE DISPATCH office is removed from !"
late location on Governor street, to the cofn
or of Main and 18th streets.
yrcroR Huao's ApDRrss.-The aaafe'
the celebrated French novelist ana repavn
..n exile. Victor Hugo. to his fellow eAne'
and the people of France, is IN nus u'u~. .,o
ousnt strain. 1t was made on req A. inc
seventh anniversary Of the procia'na''oh oi
the French Republic, in ts4s.
Victor Hugo talks very excellent sense as
we'll As fine language, when he comes down
man the Western Alliance, He shows that
the war is = war between kings, and one IN
which the people have no interest, ana ne
points to the CHASTITY trench before sepas.o'
pol a finger that makes the blood curuie WIN
horror. In that trench England has piioo up
thirty thousand soldiers, and France up "
Dsc II. even more,-47, 900 lie asks what /
might not the money have accomplished |
which the allies have expended in this war!
II might, he says, have completed all the
English and French railways; constructed
the tubular tunnel in the Channel; drained all
the marshes Of the two countries, given
wholesome water to all the cities and towns
have multiplied the workshops and schools;
have explored and worked the veins of coal
and minerals; have given every parish their
steam excavators; have sowed millions of
acres now lying fallow; have transformed
cesspools into manure pits; have rendered
dsarth impossible; put bread in every mouth
have increased tenfold production, consump-
ton, circulation and wealth, an hundred fold
Victor then draws q scsthing picture of the
French Emperor. Amidst all the woes OF
Sebastopol, amid all the walls Of bereave-
ment, he is dancing quadrill! But he means
to start for the Crimea,-"he is brandishing
towards Sebastopol the sword of Lodi draw
ing on the even-league boots of Wagram,
with Troplong and Baroche. in tears, cling
ing to the two lappets of his gray overeoat' !
''What," exclxims Hugo, "does this going to
the wars mean? Citizens, a recollection
On the morning of the coup d'etat. when he
heard that the conflict had begun, Bonaparte
exclaimed: / must go forth and share the dan
gers of my brave soldiersi There was pro-
Baroche in tears. But nothing could restrain
him. He set out. Hetraversed the Champs
Elysees and the Tuileries, between triple
files of bayonets. In issuing from the Tuile-
RES, he entered the Rue de fEchelle, (the
Street of the Ladder.-TRANS. means the
street of the Pillory; in former times there
had been a ladder or pillory there. In that
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threatening gestures of the people; work
man shouted: "Down with the traitor!' He
turned pale, and wheeling his horse, fastened
back to the Elysee. Then do not parade before
e us the emotions of this departure. Should
he 90, the door of the Tuileries, like that
ofthe Elysee, will remain half open behind
him; should he 20, it will not be to the trench
% where his troops are suffering, nor to the
breach wherethey are dying. The first cannon
shot thatthunders in his ears, "Down with
the traitorr' will cause him to retrace his
steps. Be assured;-for never, in Paris, or in
the Crimea, or in history, will Louis Bona
parte pass beyond the street Of the pillory!
Moreover, should he depart, the eye of his
tory will be fixed on Paris. Let us wait!"
1t is pity that this eloquent and scorching
address should be disfgured by such rhapso-
dies as we find in his picture of what Europe
would now be if Louis Napoleon had not de-
stroyed the Republic. A Frenchman knows
how to pull down. but not how to build up.
Among other glorious results which we
should now witness, if the Revolution OF
1s4s had been uninterrupted in its natural
course, Monsieur Hugo gives US the follow
ing:
No application Of force against any one whOmso-
sver eyen 10 bring about good. For what could it
nrofit, bv the simple force of things. by the mere
insrsass Of light, BY the fact alone Of open day
vosid nave become too hne for the respiration of
the man Of force. the man of frsud the man of
lii follow the parasite the sabrer the usurer the
Zoe of iutsiligsncs and eduestion-in q word of ali
who ait, on bats wings through the dark
out, like the rest War being dead, the scafod
ana Disappeared Of itself The sword in eveqy form
would have vanished, and men, by this have doubt.
Cd whether human beings had ever dared to pat hu-
man beings to death, even 10 the past There would
be in the Ethnographic Gallery of the Louvre
fai1han mortar, under glass CASE Lancaster gun
under glass case; guillotne under glass case;
Eallows under glass case; and people would 20 to
the Museum through curiosity to see these savage
beasts Of mans creation, as they repair to the
menaserie to see the savage beasts that God has
made.
xecpI0 would ''Inen that 10 gibbetin Just
~ they now say, Then that's tiger"
But this is not all 1--WE should have polls"
says Victor, ''where women might vote as
well as men, for the old world finds woman
equal to civil, commercial and penal respon-
sibilities; it finds woman equal to imprison.
ment, to Clichy, to the bagnio, to the dun.
geon, to the scaffold;-as for us, we shall, find
woman good enough for dignity and for lib
erty; it finds woman good enough for slavery
and death, We shall find her good enough for
life; it recognizes woman as public person.
age for safferings and pains and penalties we
shall recognize her as public parsonage for
Justice and right. We shall not say,-sou, Of
the first quality, MAN; soul of secondary anal
fly. woman! We shall proclaim woman 40
our equal, with respect the more. Oh woman.
wife, mother, sister, companion, eternal mi.
nor, eternal slave, eternal victim, eternal mar
tyr, we win raise you upP'
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