American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1859-09-08
The Death-Bed Of one Klpk Af .PfpssIs,l
A correspondenl Of ths Land0n Times.

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The Death-Bed of the Klps er PfpSsIa.i
A correspondent OF the London Times.
writing from Potsdam. Aug, l5th, says:
"Ths railway carriages were filed with
decorated gentlemen, iD evening dress or
in full uniform, on their way TO make
personal inquiries at Sens Souei-some
led by kindly recollectiOns Of the King,
who possessed an apiable manner, and
was capable Of warm if BOT always lasting
friend ships. apd ,ehjOyipgitAe opportunity
Of displaying their own importance. by
assefting their right to take personal
lintrea ii the monarch's condition. while
| 1,ere we're some who made The. sacrifice
lof few taalers to the sinking sun, in hopes
of attracting the rays Of the successor"
The writer says that Frederick William
lIV.ws not a favorite with the public. or
even with the PolsdameTs. There is no
such scene as was presented nineteen
sIy,ars ago, when his father was dying at
Berlin. Then an. anxious crowd filed the.
space from the Palace bridge half way
down the Linden, day and nighty closely
pacs ed together head to head. and speak
ing only to ask news in whispers, The
old man was personally beloved, and his
!, despotisu tolerated. for the sake OF the
glorious days he and the country had lived
i Through together. On August 7th the
present monarch was struck with apo
plexy.
n NJ. Louis Blanc has addressed the fol-
lowing to London News:
8 In reference to general amnesty an
/. Enounced in the evening papers, 1 beg you
1 will be hind enough to allow space In
your columns for the following remarks:
u II will not stop here to inquire whether it
!. be ct that tie offender should be the for
. piyer-tbat crimes should be renitted
q that never were committed-tbat those
/. should be pardoned who were so cruely
o wronged, having been, although guiltless,
J. driven out Of the country. torn from their
families and friends, consigned to abso.
If lutte ruin, and in fact. berelt OF all then
d held dear on earibF Speaking in my owy
n name alone. and Judging from mere
practical point of view, Z own candidly
!. that situated as lie ip. Louis Bonaparle
4, could hardly do. more for us than, he has
IN ifpst done. But il is not the less true,
,llthat those whose hearts have been FOL
wears made TO bleed from iunumerable
al wounds, have claim to something better
than contemptuous and, perhaps, unsafe
n favor. What was done TO them in sbaPt
ut OF injustice connot be paid IN the shape o
ID pardon. But enough of this, considera
lions Of higher Significance and more
}. general import, are involved in the ques
ID ton. Let freedom be wholly and sincere
" restored to France. for one am pre-
10 pared to applaud. Our wrongs We nigh
in forget. May we feel Indifferent to tn
r, wrongs OF our couutry? We are permitted
he to return to France Solong as she
ID kept in boadage why should we &C.? Y
complete the victory of might over right
n. to reuder Imperial Despotism still MOI
n. absolutely unopposed. to extinguish th
few last beacons which fed by Frenc
et hands, yet loom 10 the distance before th
in eve Of our unhappy country; in one wor
10 be slaves among slaves. Better sta
10, In the land OF uniettered thought and fre
Ia, speech, better live where to be an exile
.st to remain man. II is reported that !
en- the revolution OF 1870 at the fete du
II Champ DeMars, some fifty Euglisbme
we're seen wearing On the chest med
IL on which these words were inscribed,l "
ID. EiJerats i5i Potria." Without persumin
on to- sit in iadgument upon such OF IN
countrymen Ms may taks different vie
en Of the case, venture 10 say that tn
is, should be the motto Of every man Feeling
m " alive to the dignity Of his own nature
Not that consider my beloved couDtr
of less entitled TO claim our devotion becauc
he temporarily shackled. No, the very sta
tes, of intellectual dehssement and moral agor
wo. in which France is now plunged endea
her fie. more TO us, as we know IL origi
pn- ated 10 fAtat combination of unron,ro
able circumstances, and is maintained
hat brute force alone. That France w
lay sooner or later be warmed into life, and
NJ. herself again, is a creed which fond
eat cherish and to which ] cling with unshaR
cir able convicliou.. Butso long as she
forced into silence and darkness, take
hat to be necessary that some, at least Of b
hy, most faithful sons. should by being abro
be- retain the power ofrepresenting her lr
Of genius, Of making known her sorrow
Of denouncing her wrongs, invoking her j
an glorious recolleotons, Nindicating !
Jeil slined aspirations after freedom and setti
the forth in her name the eternal principles
De- Justice and the right Of reason
l.e .a. ] am, &o,. yours.
,nts LoNDoN, Aug. II, LOUIS BLANC.
:, ANOTHER RorE WALKER, m. De La
i is crossed The Gennesee liver, at the fa
the on the 18th inst. on tight rope. 1
oil distanoe is estimated at seven hundl
y a feet, alta height Of one hundred and
!, l'oa Og feet above the water vt the centre OF
va" rope. The Rochester Democrat, ofAug
'"n y, r7th says.
q" ''We consider De Lave's perlormal
-. more wonderful lcven than that oi Blond
u" While we have no desire to detract fr
J, luN the professional meris Of the latter,
'"'G guy still believe that De Lavs is his eqnal
'usu '' many particularsn Blondin's rope is ?
'ous .us fectlys,eady, anddoes not sway so as L
'"e percep,ible from the shore. while that
''"aa = which De Lave walked yesterday, tWis
about in most disqnisting manuer,ow
y o. to some defect in the guying. or torso
y OF other reason. IL was moreover, wet,
le'd' quite slippery in consequence and is
~ n IL.