The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-02-15

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5 Organ or Assassination.
We are mot at all sarprised to see the New York
fr,bups exteruatiag the late infamous attempt Y
sssessiuase the Emperor Of the French, and that
hv a process which exposed woman and null
titads Of Innocent persons TO destruction, one hun
dred aud any Of whom have been killed and
wounded That dslectable sheet exclaimG
why should not "a voice cry, Sleep no more, -
10 the man who seized the Legislators OF his coun-
Try, its valiant generals. it's upright judges, In
their beds BY night, and hurried them, unsnspect-
"a OF erime-suspected only Of not conn!y'ng ut
erime-to the dungeons OF Mazas and Viaeenness
We have little love for the Italians ss.a people
nons at ell for the wielders Of poinards and the
hurlefs OF murderous Rrenades among crowds OF
usiriy Innocent persons. including women and
children. Bnt we cannot forget that the patriotic
Sons Of italy are exiies nor rhy they are exiies-
italy asks Of foreign States only TO be let alone
she will deal decisivsly with her tyrants. clerical
aud other on that single condition. She 10 In
chains to-day only because the armies OF France
and Austria have rsseated and still maintain
her home-borr despots on their thrones Thus
rendered fugitives, outcasts, outlaws beggars. We
may regret, but we cannot wonder that some ltal.
ian Democrats should become desperadoes as we'll
Aud, since they accept the pcri)s Of their deeds,
snd meet unshripkingi y the fate invoked by their
erring aim, we leave them to that fate wtnoa'
adding by reproaches to the bitterness Of their
Inevitable doom.
There are several noticeable things In the above
extract. II comedies that the deed was perpetra-
ted by foreigners and yet has the audacity to ex-
teuuate the attempt Of foreigners to sssasiDate a
prince of whose despotism they at ell events have
no right to complain. In the very number of the
Tribune from which We quote IL a letter from it's
Paris correspondent who declares that such 10 the
popularity Of Louis Napoleon In France, aud ssch
the sympathy which the late assassination has
excited In bis faver. that "if Lous Napoleon could
in any way have put himself 10 rote on Saturday, he
would have carried more SURFACES than ever be-
fore" To the honor OF the correspondent, be it
said, that he Joins the whole civilized world in
denounoing the crime "foolish and brutal
attack upon Louis Napoleon and his wife, and d We
hundred other men, women and children"
And these Italian assassins, who smuggle them.
selves into the dominion Of q foreign prince, and
steal away life dear to his people, life whose ex'
tinotisn would give cp Europe to rapine and blood
without the remotest chance of permanent free
government, the Tribune grandiloquently denomi-
Mates s'patrotic sons Of Italy," What Italy thinks
nf them Ia shown by the simultaneous burst Of
public indignation, which, from one end of that
gallant country to the other, Is rained upon the
. heads Of the miscreants, who have not only COM
mitted great crime, but most destructive blum.
der, who have Infinitely damaged the cause of con-
,stitutional liberty In Europe, and Indefinitely
postponed the realisation of the hopes of its
friends. Ma7sin and his friends, 0rsini and Perri
are not the representatives Of Italian liberalism
or italian character. They have not the confidence
of the Italian people, nor the dignity and courage
of Italian brigands. Ii is just such political ad
ysnturers and lasxsroni as the Mazzinis, Rollins
and other Red Republicans of Europe, and the
Black Republicans of America, that are the worst
foes Of human liberty 10 the world; bringing il
everywhere into evil repute by their evident sci
nshness, their impracticable theories, and rash
and nonsensoal actions; their abominable morals
and cruel and :bloodthirsty disposition. There Il
not q throne In Europe which dses not stand firm
~ on Its foundations, for those thrown
among the people of Paris by their dear friends
and II the great Republic OF America shall come
to an untimey end, 1t will be by radical, fanatic
host, who breathe the same spirit of slaughter and
anarchy, and are laboring every day to undermine
and explode the Union of the States.
Apart from the atrocity of the murderous senti
ments pervsdIng the columns of the New York
tempting to dictate to the French people what
form Of government they shall possess, by which
the article In question is characterized from be-
ginning to end, must strike everybody This is,
however, an error common to journals of the Tri-
bune class. With all their sticking for freedom,
they win not permit anybody else to think for
themselves. They modestly assume that Repub-
lilo 10 the only form of government fit for all man.
kind, and insist upon forcing it upon all nations,
whether they will or not 1t 10 not likely that the
Tribune will be ut all more successful in its mis-
sion Of freedom In Europe than In America
Hence, the only effect of its antislavery diatribes
has been to attach the people of the South more
closely to their institutions to enhance the value
Of slave property and, the other hand, to alien
ate the people Of the North and facilitate the dis
ISOLATION Of the Union. Does not tho philosopher
of the Tribune perceive that there is difference
Of tastes among mankind, and that, whilst Jona-
than may love Republic, John Crapeau may posi-
bly, prefer grand military monarchy The love
Of political equality Is thing for which not one
man In one hundred thousand In France cares the
value Of the oldest button on philosophers old
coat Moreover, the French nation have chosen
Napoleon, over and over, for their master, by
such popular majority as was never before given
to mortal man, and yet this Tribune people wor-
shipper would step In and deprive the French PEG.
pie Of the man Of their choice, by the base hands
Of assassins, and Of foreign assassins at that! -
However, what better could be expected of the
blood and thunder advocate of the butchery of his
own oountrymen in Kansas! We are of opinion
that France will not be impatient for Republic
90 long as those "patriot sons of Italy," Mazzini,
orsiui and Pierri, regarded as representatives
Of the popular cause, and that she will not be
much encouraged by our own example and pros
pectA TO change the substantias of quiet, orde +,
sndSeeurity of life and property, for any such pro-
blenatical good as Internal machines can bring
her.