New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-22

REVOLUTION IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINE
TEENEH CENTURIEs.-The subioined extract
from the writings ofEdmund Burke, though
written nearly century ago, and in reference
to distant corntry, is singularly applicable
to the action and policy of the present Con
gress. of the United States:
Out Of the tomb Of the murdered monarchy in
France has arisen vast, tremendous, uniformed
specter, in far more terrific guse than any
which ever yet have overpowered the imagination
and subdued the fortitude of man. Goingstraight-
forward TO its end, unappalled by peril, unchecked
by remorse, despising all common maxims and all
common means, that hideuus phantom overpow-
cred those who could not believe it was possible
she could at all exist 5N .'ae
A republic, with an uncultivated and half de.
populated country, with q distressed, enslaVed
and furnished people passing with rapid, eccen-
trio, incaeulable course, from the widest anarchy
to the sternest despotism, has actually conquered
the finest parts Of Europe ! has distressed dis
united deranged and broke 10 pieces all the rest.
What now stands government in France was
struck at heat The design is wicked, i'm
moral, impious, oppressive but it s spirited and
daring it is systematic: it is simple in its prinei
pie; it has unity and consistency in perfection.
In that country, entirely to cut off a branch Of
/ commerce, to extnguish manufacture, to des-
troy the circulation of money to violate credit to
suspend the course of agriculture, even to burn
city or to lay waste province of their own does
nOL CUSG buGln d npuleuIS dHAlttNS 10 JutLu lllb
will the wish, the want the liberty, the toll, the
blood of individuals is as nothing Everything is
referred to the production of force; afterward,
everything is trusted to the use of it. 1t is mill
tary in its principle in its maxims ia its spirit and
| in all its movements. The State has dominion and
| conquest for its sole objects; dominion over
minds, by proselytism- bodiess by arms.
Thus constituted with an immense body of
natural means, which are lessened in their amount
only to be increased in their effect. France has,
since the Accomplishment of the revolution, a
complete unity in its direction. 1t has destroyed
| every resource of the State which depends upon
| opinion and the good will of individuals. The
riches of convention disappear. The advantages
| of nature in some measure, remain even these, /
admit, are astonishingly lessened; the com
mand over what remains is complete and
to the productions of nature, whilst others
are obliged to wind through o very intricate
state of society. They seize upon the fruit
OF the labor, they seize upon the laborer him
self. Were France but half of what it is il
population, in compaetness, in applicability o
It's force situated it is, it would be too stron
for most of the States of Europe, constituted a
they are and proceeding as they proceed. Woul
it be wise to estimate what the world of Europe
as we'll as the world of Asia, had to dread fron
Genghis Khan, upon contemplation of the col
and barren spot in remotest Tartary from whenc
first issued that scourge Of the human race?
Material resources never have supplied nor eve
can supply the want of unity in design and con
stancy In pursuit, but unity in design and perse
, verence and bOldness in pursuit have never wante
, resources, and never will We have not consiC
cred the dreadful energy of state in which tn
; property has nothingto do with the government
Reflect, again and again, on government
which the property is in complete subsection, an
) where nothing rules but the minds of desperat
men. The condition of commonwealth not go,
erned by its property was a combination of things
which the learned Spectator Harrington, who hi
tossed about society into all forms, never coul
the world will shut their eyes to this state of thin
they will feel it more. The rulers there hal
found resources in crimes. The discovery
8 dreadful; the mine exhaustless. They have ever
thing to gain, and they have nothing to lose. TIL
= have o bOundless inheritance in hspe, and the
: is no medium for them between the highG
elevation and death with infamy.
= No living man could better or more searching
= portray the schemes and endeavors.