Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-04-17

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The following extract, translated from lie
General de La Moriciere. par le Comte de
Montalembert,'' is so deeply fraught with gen.
uine pathos, that I send it for your paper; as
am sure on reading it over, you will agree with
me, that therei is no one having q heart, who
will not rise wiser and more worthy from its pc
rusal:
THE death of this great servant of France,
was announced in the official journal Of the
French Empire, among the fats divers, after an
article upon the supply Of water in, Pa
ris i! This s;aid-atter having touched the
elfanew to contemplate and adore the grandeur
and glory of Adversely. Let us acknowledged
fully. La Morciere,r betrayed by fortune, dis
graced prescribed, insulted La Moriciere VIC
tor of anarchy, and victim of the dictatorship;
condemned by honor to the long torture Of OBJ
scure ideness beaten at Castelfdardo, and
prisoner at Ancona; bearing the DEGREES OF fate
with Christian gravity and modesty-is figure
which stands out at stroke from the vulgar
ranks, to mount to the great heights of human
admiration. [ will go there said the Bishop of
Orleans, to throw a look to Heaven, and ask
for the triumph of Justice and eternal Honour
upon earth: will go there, to raise my heart
from its sadness, and strengthen my soul amidst
its tatgues. | will go there, to learn how to
preserve in my bosom the flame of zeal, and to
to my last sigh and my last word. And we will
also go, with the gre&t and dear Bishop, to ask
and to learn all we have need of, near that grave
dug in one of the lands Of Brittany at the foot 81
an unknown cross, where lie the remains ofthe IL
lustrious chief-ofhim who, like his countryman
Duguesclin, deserved to sleep at st. Denis,
among kings So long as Christian France ex-
lists, that distant and solitary tomb, will appear
TO every true heart, clothed in solemn grandeur
and touching majesty; and there, this great
soul, betrayed by fortune and elevated by sacr-
flee, may be best invoked. 1t IS there, that the
,1,n bor1 I'M act SGl
citizen, and Christian, may be estimated with
out reserve 1t is there, that the nothingness Of
human hopes may be best learned; and at the
same time, even in this world, the existence OF
true greatness and true virtue This Tomb,
will teach us how to avoid the sins Of victory;
how to serve in the Army Of Justice against the
army of Fortune; how to protect agalnss
enervating softncss, against servile compllanoes
against the idoatry of success; how to place
fidelity to deserted convictioDs-to a torsaken
flag ofabandoned treedom--to persecuted friends
to the vanqushed and the exile, high above
the poor tnsel Of false grandeur. This Grave,
will teach US, in the confusion andinstabllllty OF
the existing world, to save before everything,
that personal character, which gives all his
strength and worthness to man. But at the
same time, still more difficult and necessary
lesson, will come to US from that Grave. 1t will
teach us, to be gentle and strong in misfortune;
to find calm and JOY in suffering; to bcarit with
out fainting or bitterness; to accept where in
cvltable, the necessity of beng an Improbable
servant, and thus to gain eternal life
n one, who knows what hcrosm means, or
who can be touched by sight Of self devotion,
carried to its lofticst height, will refuse to La
Nloricerc the tribute Of fellow-fccling, which is
at once the closest and strongest bond ofhuman-
ity; those divincst principles upon which all
loyalty and honour are built He consented to
be defeated, and for the present time, disgrnced,
for the sake Of the cause, he thought the highest
in the world, and to which his faith, and truth,
ard honour bound him.
Always, when human imbecility, or force,
tyranny and mcanncss have crushed Il cause,
some forlorn and noble soul rises still-hcaven
be praiscd-to throw the sad illumination OF he
roc virtue upon its ruin.
Can we not say, Of the illustrious victim of
another cause "Mutato nomine: de tc tabula
narratllr"