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cannot be too grateful to the brave citizens of Paris that it was made in vain . They have earned the world ' s admiration . They did the only thing which was to be done for their country ' s salvation ; but which required promptness , courage , devotedness , wisdom , forbearance ; all the virtues , in short , that the multitudes which people large cities have been supposed to want ; but which here were splendidly developed as the occasion demanded . They
repelled with a vigour for law the first overt acts of «« a vigour beyond the law ;* ' and they prevented civil government , which is ordained of God for roan ' s good , from being expelled the land by despotism , which sitteth itself in the temple of God , and in his holy name defaces his image in his rational creatures , and tramples on their necks . There was no remote and complicated calculation . The evil to be averted was imminent and immense . The good to be achieved was clear , practical , immediate , and immense also . Many lives of the Tyrant ' s unhappy agents have been
taken away ; many more lives of the injured citizens have been lost ; but so far as man can judge , France has purchased by the sacrifice a mighty sum of good , individual and national , for many and many a generation yefe to come . Nay , more than this , she has made the world her debtor , and blessings were scattered abroad by all the winds of heaven as they bore the tidings of her promptness in resistance , her courage in conflict , and , in ? triumph , her wise and generous forbearance .
Our readers have doubtless acquainted themselves with the particulars of the struggle , and the proceedings that have followed . These will , it may be hoped , soon be collected and embodied in some permanent record * It is much to be desired that this should be done promptly ; and yet more that it should be the work of some competent hand , by which false reports can be winnowed out , exaggeration reduced to truth , and the facts presented luminously and connectedly . Meanwhile there is ample warrant for our feelings , and ample stimulus for our thoughts , in the broad outline of this Glorious Revolution .
There is surprisingly little discordancy in the many accounts which have been published of these transactions , although , as must be the case , they come from writers of very different habits of thought and feeling , natives of different countries , and whose attention must have been directed to very different portions of the one great scene . Instances of absolute inconsistency are scarcely , if at all , to be detected ; a general reliance may therefore be safely felt , and it is most delightful to observe , that in this consistency and harmony , there is a total exclusion of every thing mean , degrading , cruel , or vindictive . Some of the Swiss Guards have been disembowelled ,
and the paliisades of the Thuilleries adorned with their entrails , in the pages of the John Bull , but nowhere else . It is a solitary instance even of calumnious imputation . The testimony is concurrent , universal , and complete , not only to the magnanimity of the great movement itself , but to the humane and dignified bearing of all classes of the population of Paris . The feelings of individuals seem to have been raised to a high pitch of moral elevation , by the nobleness of the work in which they were engaged . The most
valuable and portable articles of property were within the reach and at the uncontrolled disposal of the multitude , without being even a temptation to plunder ; the quays on the banks of the Seine were covered with untouched casks of wine and brandy ; the pictures in the gallery of the Louvre were uninjured , while the building itself was attacked , stormed , taken , and retaken ; and the wounded soldiery were borne away , and tended with the same carefulness as the patriotic citizens .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1830, page 621, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2588/page/37/
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