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and which are farther advanced
| repeat, what most alarms the friends Of
peace among US is to sec to what degree any seri-
ous pretext our side is lacking. Observe that
these friends of peace are at the same time friends
Of liberty. Now they can not but remember
that in France q great war and liberty rarely 20
hand in hand
\ great war This scarcely expresses all.
What school-boy ever Will believe that short
campaign is in question! 1t is not two armies,
hut two nationslities almost two races, that are
entering upon this strife Suppose even Jena;
nothing will be concluded Germany, wounded
TO the heart, and for whose unity We shall hsve
done more than Bismarck-Germauy will reusin
profoundly hostile to Us. 1t was the men Of
jena, indeed, who reused all Europe against US,
who occupied Paris in 1914, and decided the fate
Of Waterloo in 1915.
Such are the thoughts which every Jey be-
come clearer among our fellow-citizens, the
friends Of peace. No victory, 10 increase Oltor-
ritory, will soften to them the inconsolabie GRIEF
OF seeing violence done TO justice in the name Of
their country.
And their number will 60 on incre lsinc.
Should the war be prolonged, when our sgricul-
tural classes are attacked, when we have ire
triegably entered on that road which leads 10 the
last man and the last dollar, then it will be per-
ceiyed that if it is criminal TO make war when it
IS lot indispensable, it is imprudeut to mistake
for the will OF the people al outbreak provoked
10y Minister, the clamof Of mob, the uomeu-
tary enthusiasm Of the mass,s for the flag, and
in tne the arlor of the enemies of parliamentary
liberty, who avail themselves Of a war to recover
lost ground
utter these words without hesitation. Let
them compromise me-so much the worse-l
shall have obeyed duty, and protested, as far As
in me lies, against m act which IS reuueuaut 60
my conscience.
win it be said that iu loin- this I an wanting
in patriotism Fox and his friends thought
themselves very patriotic when they conlsmLci.
in Parliament, the war against France. We are
apt TO te hurried away by She higH-sounl.ns
phrase, ' The Alg Of ogr country II uufurltd
and We must follow it 900 That is TO say, We can
10 longer speak or write or think. Never was
maxim of desp5tism better conceived s dac,a-
ration OF wsr i hurried on, the lag is uuflr.el,
and then silence opuion Silence IN the court
Ine fag is unfuriei
But if the flag is uufurcl, so is our cousci-
ence and we will not, aud canaot accept the
leas; share Of moral resp5us bility IN q hu'clcry
which nothing renders lawful in our sight.
There are, il appears, two aiels Of. ratria'-
ism thst which follows the Tag wherever II
gocs, we're il ths. Of Lsc.er, on the way to .c-
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