Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-03-25


BILE provision -
Congress shall make no lao respecting
api establishment of religion, or prohibfffag
ihe free exercise thereof or dJridging the
freedom of speech or of the press, or the
right Of the people pedceabiy 10 assemble and
10 petition The Government for a redress Of
grievances"
II is the same Constitutional provision
therefore which protects us from govern
mental intelligence with religious faith
that also guarantees the freedom of speech,
the freedom Of the press and the peaceable
assemblies OF the people. Il these latter
guarantees are set at defiance what is there
left in our Fundamental laws to prevent
that religious persecution, which is the
most bitter and unrelcnting of all despot-
isms from being inflicted upon us when
ever the fanaticism that now rules the
hour shall he guided by religious intol-
crancc
A Government that attempts to enforce
conformity Of opinion upon any subject is
tyranny 1t was this which Lord Mon
TAGu peer Of England denounced even
as far back as in the age Of ELIzERETH--a
statute was proposed "to force the subjects
Of the realm to receive and believe the re-
ligion of the Protestants on pain Of death"
--'this" said ne, sis thing most unjust"
for that it is repugnant to tie rational
liberty Of mems understanding---for UNDER
STANDING MAY BE PERSUADED, NOT FoRc-
EDP' The freedom OF opinion is right
guaranteed by God himself, recognized
by the Constitution of the United States,
embraced in the same clause which guar
antees the freedom Of speech and of the
press. The attemptto to violate these rights,
may for n brief time, meet with apparent
success-but unless all history is a lie, a
people that owes its national origin to a
revolution fought in vindcation of the ma
tural rights Of man, will not, after ca
reer of unexampled prosperity and power
for three quarters Of century, basely
yield its blood bought heritage, the source
Of all its blessings, without struggle that
viii annihilato its oppressors and amaze
the world
Material nature itself furnishes nc
display of force so terrific and form
idable as that of mighty people in the
throes Of II revolution. In its presence,
all its Vaccinations Of power, all the do
fences with which those in the exercise oI
illegitmate authority have sought to sur
9 round and intrench themselves, fade away
: '1ike.the baseless fabric of avision, anC
!, leave not wreck behind" The day be.
4 fore LOUIS PHmLiPPE fed fiiendless ont
!, cast from the Palace of bis ancestors, h,
: was to all physical appearances the mos
g powerful monarch Of Europe. An obe
q dient and well diciplined army of an hun
: dred thousand men under officers of hi
= own appointment, manned the fortifcation
y of his capital and we've apparently tn
Il devoted supporters Of his authority. TIL
/ tempest of revolution gathered in night
n An unarmed people frantic for libert
II they could not define, blew but its breat
d upon Dynasty that had ruled it for 81
4 hundred years, and it persisted The bar
i ners of the army became at once inscrl
=
If ed with Liberty, Equality snd Fratel
&c nifty, and its bayonets were ready to d
Id the behests of reyolutionized people
"a When the First NAPOLEON landed frol
ic his exile on the island Of Elba upon IL
O. shores Of France, all the visible support
he of his once Imperial power had been swel
'al away by the Allies "a Bourbon kin
m, LouIs XVIII, occupied the Tuilleries an
,ss administered the Government Of Franc
ng The crowned and titled spoilers" we
IA in session at Vienna, and were engaged
parceling out the territories and the pc
Of Piles of Europe az if they were their ov
li- property. The French army had been I
. organized and sworn to loyalty to Il
Bourbon king, Even some of NAPoLnoN
is old Marshals yielding to the blandis
for ments of royalty, had accepted the cor
in mand of troops, and the whole civil Al
lp- military administration of the count
es had been lcohfoimed to the how order /.