Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-28

army, on which the Government
relies for REFRESHING resistance, is
daily recruited from these discon-
tented elements of society, and they
carry discomfort into its rank and
file. Bismarck knows that he can
not rely upon it, and even his in
domitable resolution is driven to
negotiate with one or the other OF
the disconnected elements, at one |
time with the UltramOntanes, at |
another with the Liberals, and with |
no very distinguished success in the
case of either.
We might give parallel descrip-
ton of Russia if space permitted,
with the additional provocation of
a most corrupt and dishonest adj
ministration of the laws. The judi
ciary in Russia can, in fact, only be
paralleled by that in England under
Jeffries in James the Seconds
time.
Grievances which press on all
with burden so CALLING and which
are maintained by military organ
ization which sets at naught all
constitutional modes of resistance,
have in both countries led to mems
"pooling their issues" as our Cali
fornian demagogue styles it. The
student, the merchant, the mechanic
and the noble have no purposes in
common except that of breaking up
the iron despOtism which cramps all
alike in its pitiIess grasp. The Ul-
tramontane and the Liberal, in all
other matters at daggers drawn,
both look to the downfall of Bis
marck and the reduction of the
army as the means of their redemp-
ton, and, this once effected, every
one in the discordant combination
thinks that he and his cOmpeers
may gain the predominance in the
new combinations that may arise
after the breaking up Of the old; so
while the UItramOntane hopes for
restored ecclesiastical supremacy.
the Liberal for predominance OF the
civil over the military element, the
mechanic for short work and high
wages, the student and professor for
an ideal republic, the socialist and
: communist look to the destruction
of all that the Others hold dear, but
still they spool their issues" 1t is
, a most dangerous state of things
and fearful is the responsibility o.
the Government whose despotiC
oppression has brought it about. i
: is a state of things exactly CORES
? ponding to that which preceded the
, first French revolution. There the
, noblesse and the academicians, the
bourgeoise and the learned prOfes
| sions fooled with theoretic republi
? canism and scientific atheism til
I revolution in earnest overlook them
2 and then found that their sans
culotte allies thrust them aside an'
l ruled over the blOod-stained Orgie
[ of the reign of terror, sweeping nobl
, and academician, bourgeois AM
e professionals into one hideous abys
= of ruin. 1t is the melancholy eXpe
4 rience of revolutions that, regula
, government once abolished, not tn
Z philOsOphic and patriotic element
n of opposition came into power, bu
7 the widest, the most reckless an
INSCRIPTIONS gain the upper hand
; involve the rest in ruin and final
y fall themselves into the pit whic
o they have digged for others.
y We have not written all this witt
out a view to politics at home; som
3 will have penetration to apply it
= our own affairs without help froI
l. us; but in a future paper we hope
n point out how we are in danger o
g this side of the Atlantic from a
e unthinking and reckless pooling
= our issues"