Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1856-08-29
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Madrid to Paris, and from Paris to
lcndon., "Order is restored" are
the words employed by royal cut
throats, to signify to European Poten-
sates, that Liberty is in chains, and the
people crushed into submission to the
edicts which Kings enforce with cold
s:vcl. "Orler is restored" said
Francis Joseph when the plains of
Hungary were strewn with the bodies
Of the last army Of revolutionary pa
triots, and Kossuth lay exiled in a
Turkish fortress. "Ordcr is restored
said Louis Napoleon after he had i'm
prisoned the members of the national
assembly, overthrow the Constitu-
ton, and suLjugatcd the people into
submission to his foul usurpation. =
Order ia restored" said the Pope af
ter French bayonets had butchcred
Italian patriots, and covered the land
with weeping mourners, and reduced
the people to AFFECT slavery. "Order
10 restored" said Queen Victoria, az
ter her armies had butchered, quarter
ed and behcaded, the Irish rebels, who
were led on by Irland's most illustrious
patriots, to regain her lost liberties.
Yes, "ordcr is restored" ard tens Of
thousands Of noble, liberty-loving men
arc wandering in foreign lands, as ex-
lies from home they loved too well,
and for believing in the great demo
cratic doctrine that the people have
the right to selfgovernment.
Gen. O'Donnell has succeeded in
quelling the rebellion in Spain, and in
overtuaniag the liberal Constitution,
under which the people and the press
were making such rapid strides in the
pathway Of true progress. Since that
bloody bigot, Phillip the Second, by
the aid Of the bayonct, the scahold
and the Inquistion-extirpatcd every
vcstigc of freedom fiom the kingdom
Of Spain, and emasculated the minds
Of the people of all political thought,
except that Of absolute and unquali-
fed obedience to the Royal will, the
Star Of Spanish Glory has grown dim,
until neither Literature, Art, Science,
Manufacture, Commerce, every and all
agencies that make up the sum Of ma
tional greatness, national progress and
political liberty-can scarcely be said
to have an existence in any other do
minions.
Recently the fragrant debauchery,
corruption and profigacy of the Court
and the consequent feebleness of the
government control, and tyranny, has
stimulated portion Of the Spanish
people gradually to recover confidence
nd boldness in the affairs Of the ma
ion, and liberal constitutions have
oeen adopted in Spain, as elsewhere
in Europe, to be observed and respect
Cd only so long as the people have
more power than the Sovereign, and
TO be violated as soon as the Sovereign
could con6de in his troops, in the de-
struction Of the hated document.
Queen Isabella has initiated. her
royal adviser, Louis Napoleon, and
Spain is again in chains, and the peo-
pie reduced to obedience. "Order
reigns," but there is a fearful day ap-
prosching, when the suppressed NUT
terings Of outraged millions will break
forth with terrific explosion, scatter
ing the abominablc inventions of ty-
ranny, which royal butchers have de-
vised for oppression and robbery, and
deluging the gorgeous palaces Of Eu-
ropean capitals with the blood of
bloated despots. The People will
yet become q power in Europe, strong
enough to defy the Machiavilian devil
ces Of princes, or the armies Of oppres-
zion. There 10 leaven at work which
10 slowly and surely regenerating the
people, preparing them for selfgovern-
ment and teaching them the only true
way Of attaining permanent indepen-
dence.