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SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE . At the present moment , the following version < the Marseilles hymn may appropriately find aplac fn our columns : — THE MARSEILLES HYMN .
Ye sons of France , awake to glory , Hark 5 hark ! nhat mjriadB bid yon rise , Your children , wires , « nd graBdsireshoarj , Behold their tears , and hear their cries ! Shall hateful tjrantt , mischief breeding , With hireling hosts , & rnffian band , Affright and deselate the land , While peaca and liberty lie bleediag ! To arms , fcj arms , ye brave ! The avenging snori unsheath ; March on , march on , all heartsreEolred On victory or death . Kok-, how , the dangerous storm is rolling , Which treacherous kings confederate raise ; The dojjsof war let loose , are howling , And , lo ! our fields and cities blaze ; And shall ue baselj view the ruin .
While lawless force , with gnilty stride , SpreadB desolttion far and wide , With crimes and blood his hands embruing ? To armi , < fce . Win luxury and pride surrounded , The viie , insatiate de « pot * dare , Their thiritof power and gold nnboonded . To mete and vend the light and air ; Like beasts of burden would they loadui , Like Gods , would bid their slaves adere ; Tint man ignan unA trho ir toots ?
Then shall they logger lash and goad as ! To armg , &c . O liberty I csn man reiign thee , Once having felt thy generonsfiame t Csn dungeons , fcolti , and bars confine thee ? Or whips thy noble spirit tame ! Too lone the world has wept , bewailing That falsehood ' s dagger tyrants wield , Sut freeJoet is oar sword and shield , And all their arts are unavailing . T « arme , toarme , jebrave ! The aTenjing iword nntheatB ; March on , march on , all hearts resolved Oa victory or death .
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THE DOOM OF TOIL . By the late George Bissb , ef Sunderland . Writtei daring the author ' s incarceration in Darham gaol for the crime of having advocated the right of th people to bs represented In the legislature . Time was when England's fertile laud maintain' ^ The honest toiler in a peaceful home ; When labour was the price of riches gained . And want ie '« r < 3 rore lier ps&s&nty to roam . The eastern sun awoke the coltaf e lire , To rise with gleesame smile upon his face , With life unhurt by fierce oppression ' s ire ,. . The happy emblem of a happy race . At ere returning from his toil alone , The self-same smile was visible and bright 'i £ id bliss so sweet contentment built her throne , And dreamless sleep , CDbroken , crown'd the night Oil I then did Wend in artisoa dirine ,
The mighty works of Nature ' s only k > cg , And manhood seem'd to vie in joy sublime , With Xsture ' s minBtrel music on the wing . Oh ! whose could be the cruel monster hand , First railed on high Ambition ' s gotj sword ? O& I whose could be the robber rampant band , First euried honest men their just r « ward ! For soon—too soon , alas I—the verdant hills In rain their golden harvests spread aroand ; In vain did flaw the gushing crystal rills , For sordid avarice her millions bousd , As murfcy clouds of coming night lo flit Acro > s the breathless summer ' s sunlit sky , So hearths , -which once the purest blessings lit , Are now abodes where slaves do pine aad die . Prone man seems thirsting for hb brother ' s blood And Innocence doth tamely bear the chain Till human woe invokes another flood ,
T © end its swage life of toil and pain , Ere twilight dimg the night '* , bright starry crest , We hear the ditmil tolling fact ' ry bells , Commanding baby limbs to quit their rest , And break their tender hearts ia British Hells , Far gold , the rebel few break Nature's law—For tordidgold , the blood of life ! s spilt , The vulture fangs of Mammon , ruthless gaaw The human form , regardless of the guilt . The holy tear that swells & mother ' s eye , Ana trickles to the feet of despotlord ; The plaintive wailing of that ' piecer' boy , Is counted sought when men have wealth to hoard , 2 ? o hand is stretch'd to sooth a pang of woe , Ko heart is movsd to sympathy for pain ; Content to count the dearest friend a foe ,
Each sordid § oul is still augmenting gain . At times , when madden'd frency speaks aloud , And lights a rebel brand atSature ' i fire , To wrap some blood-built palace in a cloud Of flame and smote , to sate its quenchless ire ; "WbeR crushing roofs and Famine ' s mingling yell TTaK scare the wolfish monsters In their den . They'll meet in conclave , like the fiends of Hsll , To lull the swelling storm of honest men . The trumpet shrill trill echo on the ear , Whilst troops of murdering ruffians draw ! And forced along in passioa ' s wild career , The soldier bathes his savage steel in gore ! Th-gs men are made by pride—that gilded curse-To bend to toil and arrogancy wild ; And armies live upon the public purse , To kill the father who dare love his child !
Then next Eome haughty eoJton lords will meet , To reconcile the outraged father ' s breast , By keeping children healthy , dean , and neat , " With baths , and cleanly linen often drest ; In other words—to coin more guilty gold ! Though oft they tell them it is for their good ¦ Enticing y ontb , like Burke and Hare of old , With proffer'd sweets , to drain their dearest blood . Hy curse upon the mercenary soul Thss climbs to wealth regardless of the means ; Hay Hearen ' s thunder o ' er him wrathful roll , And dssh to dust his base ambitious dreams . There ' s not a child , however ragg'd and bare , Whose early years are spent in yonder mill , Bat ' s dearer than the wealth that ' s gather'd there ,
Though ev ry brick were gold , and erry wheel . The tear tbat fall * in silent sorrow there Is r < -gisterM by God ' s unerring eye ; The poorest glare ' s despised , neglected prayer Will some day seal the doom of tyranny . Ye mard ' rin ? Cains ! ye avaricious few , Who flourish o ' er 50 W wretched c » untrj ' s grave , A day of fearful vengeance looms for you , From which no tyrant ' s arm nor sword can save . Eiplire the secrets of yen dismal mine , Where crippled colliers toil in darkest eight ; Wkere poison vapoars round hits sickly twine , And half extinguish the pale glim'riflg light ; Ten hocrs of ceaselesi labour scarce will bring EsOTJ » h of food to jieJd the call'd for Etreagth ; Whilst every { . rou < 5 and cruel coal-pit king Is floating gaily on a sea of weal'h ! To see the hardships thatthe 6 e men endure ,
Would move a heart as hard be stone or eteel 1 And blacker ttan the coal of Tjne and Wear , Most be the heart that cannot , will not fee ! . There ' s scarce a . day but sneaking Av ' rice tries , To cheat by . measure , weight , or grierona fiae ; And tortuHesEpring from treachery and lies , Like mushrooms in a night , in yonder mine . Kor co our laws concede to Right its due , For often Vice will triumph—Truth be lost ; And yielded by the ? urse-proud tyraat few , An honest man is ruined with the cost . So keenly pressed by want and cara are they ThstchiWrcn bear the ' caller ' s' rattling roar , And leave the village freen where others play , To keep Starvation from their father ' s door . Ko innnv days to romp ahoat in joy , 2 >' o velvet sward to stretch his Hmbs with glee , Ko mtrrv playmates for the collier boy ,
5 o jocund spirits , henlthy , blithe , and free . Ana then , to fitt the enp of direst woe , Some unsuspecting nour will bring nim home , With Life ' s last embers taming faint snd low , A . shattered son of Toil , almost unknown . Then floods of tears from warm affection flow , But fail to give the throbbing bosom rest ; The partntB by their loved one cold and low—They oft have kissed—so often have carest . Another victim to the cursed might That shoots its barbed arrows all around ; Vet ge = tle childhood ' s years escape the blight , * That keeps such thousands in its fetters bouad . ( To be confound . )
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MEMOIRS F A ~ PnYSIClAN . ' B ' y Alesasdeb Dumas . Vola . I ., II ., ( forming vols . II . and X of' The Parlour Library . ') London : Simms and M'Intyre , 13 , Paternoster-row ; and Donegalstreet , Belfast . We resume and conclude our extracts from these volumes . The Dauphin ( afterwards Louis XVI . ) has wedded Marie Antoinette :
THE TWO FKTI 8 . The king retired to hiB apartments at nine o ' clock and dumiiised everybod y . The daaphin and his bride had also retired to their apartments ; and the immense erowd of spectators of the ceremony thronged the courtyard and the terraces ef Versailles , now one blaze of light , and waited anxiously for the fireworks , which were to be exhibited on a scale of unusual magnificence The evening , at first lovely and serene , hy degrees became overcast , and gusts of wind , gradtally increasing in violeace , tosiea thebranckes wildly to and fro , as if they bad been shaken by some giant arc ; while immense masses of clouds hurried acress the heavens , like squadrens rushing to the charge . The illuminations were suddenly extinguished , and , as if fate had deterrain « d to change the general rejoicings into gloom , no sooner had the first rockets been discharged , than ths rain desceudsd ia torrents , as if the heavens had opened , and a loud and startling peal of thunder announced a terrible convulsion oltha elements .
Meanwhile , the people of TersailleB and Paris fled like a flock of frightened birds , scattered over the gardeni , in the roads , in the woods , puriued in all directions b y thick hail , which best down the Cowers ia the gardens , the foliage in tha forest , the wheat and tfce barley in the fields . Sj morning , however , all this chaos was reduced to order , and the first rajs of light , darting from between copper-coloared clouds , displayed to view the ravages of the nocturnal hurricane .. Versailles was no longer to be recognised . The ground had Imbibed that deluge of water , the trees had absoybtdthatdeluga of fire ; eT « rjwh « re were teas of muddy water , and trees broken , ¦ twisted , calcined by that serpent with burning gripe called lightning . Ai soon as it was light , Louis X . Y ., whose terror was so great tbat he coald not sleep , ordered Label , who had
sever left him during the night , to drees him . He then proceeded to the bridal chamber , aad pushing open the deor , shuitered on perceiving tha future queen of France reclining on apric dUu , pole , and with eyes swollen and violet coloured like those of the sublime Magdalen of Rubens . Her terror , caused by the hurricane , bad at length been suspended by sleep , and the first dawn of morning which stole into the apartment tinged with religious respect her long white robs with an azure hue . At the further end of the chamber , in an arm-chair pushed back to the wall , aud surrounded by a pool of water which had forced its way through tho shattered windows , reposed the Dauphin of France , pale as bis young bride , and , like her , having tha perspiration of nightmare on his brow . Tha nuptial bed was in precisely the same state as on the preceding eveBing .
Louis XV . knit his brow : a pain , keener than any he bad yet felt , darted through tbat brow like a red-hot iroa . He shook his head , heaved a deep sigh , and returned to Ms apartments , more gloomy and more affrighted , perhaps , at that moment , than be had been daring the nJ gh * . * * * On the Stth of Hay , that is on the second dajafter that tremendous night , thatnigbt fraught with preeagtc end warnings , Paris celebrated in its turn the marriage festival of its future sovereign . The whole population poured , ia consequence , towards the Place Louis XY . where were to be exhibited the fireworks , that necessary accompaniment to * ererr great public solemnity , which the Paxhim accepts scoffiegly , but which be cannot dispense with . The spot was judiciously chosen . Siz
hundred thousand spectators could move about there at their ease . Around the equestrian statue » f Louis XV . had been erected . a circular scaffolding , which , by raising the fireworks ten or twelve feet above the ground , enabled all the spectators in the Place to see them distinctly . The Parisians arrived , according to cuBtom , in groups , and spent some time in choosing the best places , an inalienable privilege of the first cimers ; Boys found trees , grave men posts , women the railing of fences and temporary stands , erected in the open air , as usual at all Parisian festivities , by gipBy speculators , whose fertile imagination allows them to change their mode of speculation every day . About seven o ' clock , along with the earliest of the spectators , arrived several parties of police .
The fireworks had been prepared oh a moat magnificent scale ; the gazers were in the height of their enjoyment when an accident caused a catastrophe which occasioned the dreadful deaths of some hnndreds of persons , and the frightful : mangling and wounding of some thousands . A stray , rocket set fire to a mass of fireworks , —a , hurricane of flame burst forth . —thesorftnir , composed of fifteen thousand fusees , exploded ; and the nearest spectators , burnt , wounded , and still more frightened , fell back in terror : —
The people , at first astonished , thea terrified , recoiled from the force of mere instinct with reiistless impetus , communicating the same movement to the myriads of spectators in the rear , who , breathless and suffocated , pressed backwards in their turn on those behind them . The scaffolding toek fire ; children shrieked ; equalling womtB , almost stifled , raised them in their- armo ; and the police , thinking to eilenca the screamers and to restore order by violence , struck right aad left at random . All these combined causes made the vraviag sea of people which Philip spoke of , fall like a water-Bpout on that corner of the Place where he was ; ana" instead of rejoining tbe baron's carriage , as he calculated upon deisg , the yoath was hurried away by the mighty and irresistible current , of whieh no description conld convey any idea ; for individual strength , increased tenfold by terror and anxiety , was again augoented a hundredfold by the inaction of the general strength .
At the moment when Philip dret ? Aadree away , Gilbert had resigned himself to the stream which carried them along ; but he had not gone above twenty paces , before a band of fugitives , tnminp to the left into tbe Rue de la Madeleine , surrounded Gilbert and swept him away , foaming with rage on finding himself separated from Andrea . Andree , clinging fast to Philip ' s arm , was inclosed in a group which was striving to get out of tbe way of a carriage dragged along by a pair of furious horses . Philip saw it approaching swiftly and threateningly , — the horses' eyei flashed fire , and they snorted foam from their nostrils . He made superhuman efforts to avoid it ,
but all in vain . He saw the crowd open , bebind him , — he perceived the foaming heads of the two ungovernable aaimale , he saw them rear , like the two marble horses which guard the entrance of tbe Tuileries , and , like the slave who is striving jto subdue them , letting go Andree ' j arm , and pushing her as far as he could out of the way of danger , be sprang up to etize the rein of the horse that was next to him . Tbe animal reared a second time . —Andree saw her brother sink back , fall , and disappear from her sight . She shrieked , extended her arms , was huetled to and fro in the crowd , and in a moment fsund herself alene , tottering , borne alonp like s feather by the wind , and jast as incapable of resisting the force that we » hnrrjing her away :
The Etnnoing cries , far more terrible than those of the battlefield , —the neighing of horses , —the frightful noise of wheels , grinding now the pavement , now ths bodies of the slain ; the lurid games of the scaffolds whieh were on fire ; the sinister gleaming o <| 5 Wor < Jg drawn by seme of the infuriated soldiers ; and ever all thiB ensanguined chaos the bronze statue tinged by the rudd y reflections , and seeming to preside over tbe carnagewere more than was needed ta disturb Andres ' s reason , and paralyse her strength . Besides , the power of a Titan nould have been impotent in such a straggle—a struggle for life and limb—of one agaimt nil , Andree uttered a piercing shriek : a soldier , opening himself a passage through the crowd , wbb striking the people with his swerd , and the weapon flashed over her head . She clasped her hands , like a shipwrecked mariner when the last wave is passing over him , and exclaiming— ' Oh , Eiy God 1 ' sank to the ground . Whoever fell In that scene might give himself up for lost !
¦ But that terrible , that despairing shriek , was heard and answered . Gilbert , c&nied to a distance from Andree , had by din : of struggling once more approached her . Bending beneath the same wave wbich had engnlphed Andree , E 6 raised himself again , made a frantic leap at the sword which had unwittingly threatened her , grasped the throat of the soldier who was goinc to strike , and harled him to the ground . Beside the soldier lay a female form dressed in white , he raised her up aDd bore ber off as though he had beeu a giant . * , * * * . The poor fellow , who stood leaning with his back against the wall , and his eyes turned toward the bridge , Bad not looked to . his ripbt . Before the carriages ,
¦ Which , long deta : i > ed by the crowd bat now hemmed in Ices closely , began once more to move , and feoon same on galloping as if coachmen and horses had been seized with a general frenzy , fled twenty thousand unfortanate creatures , mutilated , wounded , bruised one againet the other . Instinctively they fled close to the walls , against which the nearest of them wtre crushed . This essbs swept away or suffocated all those who , having taken UP their portion dsbf tbe Gards-Meoble , imagined that they bad eteapsd the wreck . A fresh shower of blows , of living and dead bodies , rained on Gilbert . He foHnd one of the recesses formed by the iron gates , and stationed bimeelf there . The weight ef the fugitives made the wall crack .
Andree iarescned , but Gilbert ' sunk dying upon a he nei cLa p ter introduces Rousseau in _ search Of his disciple Gilbert ; .-md another character who anceara in these ' Memoirs' for the first time , the subsequently celebrated Uarat-the terrible ' Friend of the People . ' FIE 1 D OF THE » EA » . Great storms are always succeeded by calms , fearful in their very stiHne ^ , but bearing healing on tar wingi . It wxs about two o ' ekek in the morning . The mooB , waging between large white clonds which hovered ever Paris , showed ia strong relief , by bar wan and sickly light , the inequalUies of tbis Bad . epot . andthe pits and holes in which so many of the fleeing crowd had Ioudu
an untimely grave . , Here and there in the moonlight , which was obscured from time to time by the large white fioatiog c . lond / . ^ bave mentioned , mghtbe seen , on the margin of the Elopes and in the ditchw , heaps of corpses with duor .
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dered attire , stiffened limbs , livid and discoloured faces , and hands stretched out in an attitude of terror er of prayer . In the centre of this placa , a heavy tainted Bmoko , emitted from the burning embers of the timber , contributed to give to the Place Louis XV . the appearance of a battlefield . Orer this bloody and desolate plain , flitted , with rapid and mysterious steps , shadowy figures , who stooped , looked steathily rouni , bant down , and then fled . They were the robbers of the slain , —attracted t © their pn-y like vultares to the decaying c ; irrien . They had not been able to rob the living , and they came to despoil the dead . Surprised at seeing themselves anticipated by tbtlr fellow robbers , they might bs seen escaping sullenly and fearfully at the sight of the tardy bayonets whfch menaced them . But the robber end the lazy watchsaan were not the only persons moving among the Ion ? ranfes of the dead .
There were eome there , who , famished with lanterns , might have been taken for curious lookers on . Sad . lookero-on , alas ! for they were parents and anxious friends , whoBe children , brothers , friends , and lovers , had not returned heme . They had come from great distances , for tbe dreadful news had already spread over Paris lik a hurricane , scattering dismay and horror , and their ansiety had been quickly changed into active search . It was a sight , perhaps , more dreadful to behold than the eatititrophe itself . Every expression was portrayed on theaepale faces , from the despair of those who discovered the corpse of the beloved being , to tho gloomy uncertainty of those who bad found nothing , and who cait an anxious and longing glance towards the river , Which flowed onwards with a monotonous murmur . It was reported tbat many corpses bad alreadj been thrown into the river by the provoatry ef Paris , who wished to conceal the fearful Bumbtr of deaths their guilty imprudence had occasioned .
Then , when they had satiated their ejes with thiB fruitless spectacle , and , standing ankle deep in the Seine ,- had watched with anguished hearts its dark waters flow past unburchened with tha loved bodies of thosB whoaa they sought , they proceeded , lantern in hand , to explore the neighbouring streets , where it was said many of tho wounded had dragged themselves , to seek for help , or at least to flee from the scene of their Buffering ) . When unfortunately they found amongst the dead the object of their search—tfie lost and wept-for friendthen cries succeeded to their heart-rending surprise , and their sobs , rising from some new point of the bloody Eecne , were responded to by other and distant sobs . At times the Place resounded with noises of a different kind . All at once a lantern falls and is broken—tho living hag fallen senseless on the dead , to embrace him for the last time .
There are jet other noises in thia vast cemetery . Soma of the wounded , whose Iimb 3 hnvo been broken by the fall , whose breast has beeu pierced by tho sword , or crushed by the weight of the crowd , utters a hoarse cry , or groans forth a prayer , and then those who hope to find in the sufferer a friend , hastily approach , but retire when they do not rerognise him . In the mow timv , at the extremity of the Place , near the garden , a field-hospital is farmed by the kindness and charity of tbe people . A young surgeon , known as Btich by the profusion of instruments that surround him , has the weunded men and women brought to him ; he bandages their wound * , -and while he tends them , he speaks to them in words which rather express hatred for the cause than pity for the effaot . To his two robust assistants , who pass the sufferers in blood ; review before him , he cries incessantly : —
' The women of tha people , the men of the people , first 1 They can be easily recognised ; they are almost always more severely wounded , certainly always less richly dreBsed . ' At these words , repeated after each dreasing with a skrill monotony , a young man who , torch in hand , ia seeking among the dead , has twice already raised his head . From a large wound which furrows his forehead a few drops af crimson blood are .. falling- . One efbiB arms ii supported by his coat , which he has buttoned orer it ; and his countenaace , covered with perspiration , betrays deep and absorbing emotion . At these words of the surgeon , which he has heard as we havo said for the tecond time , he raises his head , aud looking sadly on the mutilated limha which theopw&ict seems almost to gloat over , — ' Oh , eir / said he , ' why do you make a choice among the victims I *
'Because , ' replied the surgeon , raising bis head at thiB interruption , < because 00 one will care for the poor if I do not think of them , and the rich are always well looked after . Lower your lantern , and search upon the ground ; you ' nill find a hundred poor people for one rich er noble , In this catastrophe , with a good fortune which will in the end weary even Providence , the noble and the rich have paid the tribute they generally payone in a thousand . ' The young man ' raised his torch to a level with his blseding forehead . Then I am that one , ' said he , without the least anger ; 'I , a gentleman , lost among so many others in the crowd , wounded in the forehead by a horse's hoof , and my left arm broken by falling into a pit . You eay that the noble and the rich are sought after and cared for ; you see plainly , however , tbat my wounds are not yet dressed . *
' You have your hotel—your physician . Return home , since you can walk . I do not ask for your cares , sir ; I seek my siater , a beautiful young girl of sixteen— -killed probably , alas ! though she is not of tha people . She wore a white drees , and a chain with a crass round her neck . Thongk ehe has her hotel and ber physician , answer me , for pity ' s sake , sir , havo you seen her whom I seek V ' Sir , ' said the young surgeon , with a feverish vehemence which shewed that the ideas he expressed had long boiled within his breast , « sir , humanity is my gnide . . It ie to her service I devote myself ; and when I leave the noble on their bed of death to assist the suffering peeple , I obey the true laws of humanity , who is my goddess . AH this day's misfortunes havo been caused by you . They aroee from ysur abuses , from your usurpations . Therefore , bear the consequences . # 0 , sir , I hare not seen your sister . '
And after this harah apostrophe , the operator returned t » bis task . A poor woman had juat been brought to him , whose legs were fractured by a carriage , c See ! ' he esolaimed , calling after Philip , who was rushing away , see ! do the poor bring their carriages to the public festivals to break the legs of the rich ?' This young surgeon was Marat ; Philip goe 3 on Ma way looking toe Andree , and in Uis search encounters Rousseau , —' a man already advanced in years , dressed in a grey cloth coat and milled BtockingB his right hand resting on a stick , while with the left hand he held pne of those lanterns made of a candle enclosed in oiled paper . ' Rousseau and Philip examine tlie dead bodies together : — ' What a fearful sight ! ' said the old man , turning away from a rroup of corpses clasped together in death . ' Yet it is there we must look , ' replied the young man , resolutely holding his light over the heap of dead .
1 Oh ! I shudder to look at it , for I am a simple and unsophisticated man , and the sight of destruction causes in me an unconquerable horror . ' ¦ I had this same horror ; but this evening I have served my apprenticeship to butchery and death ! Hold , here is a young man of abaut eighteen ; he has been suffocated , for 1 see no wounds . Is it he whom you geek ?' The old man made an effort , and held his lantern close to the body . No , sir , ' said he , ' no ; my child is younger , has black hair and pale complexion . ' Alas ! ell are pale to-night , ' replied PhiHp . ' Oh ! Bee , ' said the old man , ' here we are , at the foot of the Garde Meuble , took at these tokens of the struggle . This blood upon the walls , these shreds of garments upon the iron bars , these torn dresses on the points of the railing . ' It was here—it was certainly here , ' murmured
Philip . ' What sufferings !' Oh , heavens !' What !' Something white under these corpses ! My sister had a white dress on . Lend me your lamp , sir , I beseech you . ' In fact , Philip had seen and snatched a shred of white cloth . He let go his hold , having but one hand to take the lamp . It is a fragment of a woman ' s drees , held firmly in ayouDg man ' s band , ' cried he—' of a whita dress like my sister ' s . Oh ! Andree ! Andree ! ' And the young Eian uttered heart-rending noba . The old man now appeared .
' It is he ! ' er claimed he , opening bis arms . This exclamation attracted the young man ' s attention , 1 Gilbert ! ' exclaimed Philip in his turn . ' You Iirow Gilbert , Bir V ' Is it Gilbert whom you seek V ¦ These two questions were uttered simultaneously ! Tbe old man seized Gilbert's hand ; it was bb cold as death , Philip opened the young man ' s dress , pushed aeide the shirt , and placed his hand upon his heart . ' Poor Gilbert !' said he . My dear childl' cobbed the old man . 'He breathes!—he lives ! He livea , I tell you , ' exclaimed Philip . ' Oh ! do you think so ?' J I am certain ef St—his heartbeats '
1 It is trse , ' replied the old man . ' Help I help ! There is a surgeon yonder . ' 1 Oh ! let us succour him ourselves , sir ; just now I asked that man for help , and he refused me ' He must help my child ' cried the old man indignantly . ' He miut . Assist me , s ; r , to carry Gilbert to him . ' « I have only one arm , hut it xs at your service , sir , ' rep lied Philip . 1 And I , old as I am , feel Btrong again . Coma 1 ' The old man suzsd Gilbert by the shoulders ; the voung man teok his two feet under his right arm , and in this manner they advanced towards the group in the midst of which the surgeon was operating ; Hd ! help ! ' cried tho old man
p « The men of the people first ! Tbe men of the people first'' replied the surgeon , faithful to his maxim , and sure ' each time he replied thus , of exciting a murmur of anpUuse ameng the group wbich surrounded him . It is a man of the people whom I am bringing , rs-
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plied tho old man , with vehemence , but beginning to share in the general admiration which tho firm and re . solute tone of the young operator excited . After the women , thea , ' . aid the surgeon ; ' mea have more strength to support pain than women . A simple bleeding will suffice , sir , ' replied the old man . ' K Oh ! is it you again , my young nobleman ? ' said the surgeon , perceiving Philip boforo ho eaw the old man , - Philip did not reply . The old maa thought that these words were addressed to him . ' I am not a nobleman , ' said he , I am a man of the people ; my name is Jean Jacques Rotuseuu , ' The doctor gave a cry of astonishment , and makini-an imperative gesture , — ' Give place , ' he ssid , « to the Man of Nature ! Make room for the emancipator of the human rac «! Place for the citizen of Geneva !'
1 Thanks , eir . ' oaid Bousseau , 'thanks !' Has any accident happened Jo you ? ' asked the young doctor , ' h Not to ma , bat to thin poor child . —See . ' 'Ah ! you too , cried the phys-cinn , ' you too , like myself , represent the cause of humanity . ' Rousseau , deeply moved by this unexpected triumph , could only stammer forth some almost unintelliuible werds . Philip , dumb with astonishment at finding himself n the presence of the philosopher whom be admired so highly , remained standing apart . Those who Btood around assisted Rousaeau to laj the fainting Gilbert upon tha table * It was at this moment that the old man glanced at the person whose assistance he was Imploring , He was a young man about Gilbert ' s age , but bis features presented no appearance of youth . His sallow complexion was withered like that of an old man ; hie heavy and drooping eyelids covered an eye like a Ber . pent ' s , and his mouth was distorted as if in an epileptic fit .
He gently opened Gilbert ' s sleeve , tied a band of Hhob round his nrm , and opened the vein . The blood flowed at first drop by drop , but after some moments tbe pure and generous current of youth spouted forth freely . Ha ! we shall save him , ' said the operator . 'But he will require great caro ; his cbost liaB bees rudel y pressed . ' 1 1 have now to thank yeu , sir , ' said Rousseau , ' and praiee you , not for the exclusive preference you show for the poor , but for your care and kindness towards them , All men ate brothers , ' Even the noble , even the aristocrats , even the rich ?' asked the Burgeon , his piercing eye flashing from beneath his heavy eyelid . « Even the noble , the aristocrats , tho rich , when they Buffer . eiiid Rousaeau .
1 , ' said the operator , ' excuse me . I am from Bauilry , near Neufchatel ; I am a Switzer like yourself , and therefore a democrat . ' Acouatryraan f cried Rousseau , ' a native ofSnlt . zerland . ' Yenr name , sir , if you please ?' 1 An obseure name , sir ; the name of a retiring man who devotes his life to study , waiting till he may , like yourself , devote himself to the good of humanity . JT y name is Joan Paul Marat . ' ' Thanks , Monsieur Marat , ' said Rousseau , ' But whilst enlightening the people as to their rights , do not wolte them to vengeance ; for if tkey should ever rovenge themselves , you will perhaps be terrified at their reprisals , ' Uarat smiled a fearful smiio . ' Oh lif that day should happen during my llfp ! ' said he , ' if I could ouly have the happiness to witness it . "
Rousseau hoard those words , and , alarmed at the tone in wbich they were uttered , as a traveller trerablee at tbe first mutterlngs of the far-distant thunder , ha took Gilbert in" his arnm , and attempted to carry him away . Two volunteers tohelp Monsieur Rouseeau ! Two men of the people ! ' cried the surgeon . ' Here ! here ! here I' cried twenty voices simultaneously . Rousseau bad only to choose ; he pointed to the two strongest , who took the youtfi up in their arms . As he was leaving the place he passed Philip . 'Here , sir , ' said he , 'I have no more use for the lantern ; take it . ' ' Thank you , sir , ' said Philip ; ' many thanks . ' He Seiztd the lantern , and while Rousseau once more l « &k Ac v » &y to the Rie PA&slrltre , ae continued bis search .
'Poor young man ! ' murmured Rousseau , turning back , and seeing Piiilip disappear in the blocked ; up and en . cumbered streets . He proceeded on bU way shuddering , for he still beard tbe shrill voice of the surgeon echoing over the field of blood , and crying : — The men of the people ' . None but tha men of the people ! Wo te the noble , to the rioh , to the aristocrats ! We again recommend thia work to our readers .
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Ilouse , and to all the authorities appointed by the Government , as God may stand mo in my need . ' This manifesto will be inserted in the Government Journal , transmitted-in separate sheets throughout Poland , proclaimod from the pulpits of all churches , and placarded in all public places . Cracow , February 22 nd , 1846 . ( Signed , ) Ludwibl GonzK . r . wsE . 1 , John Tisbowski , Alexander Gbzegorzewski . The Secretary of the Government , ( Signed , ) Karol Rogawbki .
The Chairman made a speech remarkable for Us truth and energy . He took ocoasion to glance at the position of democracy in Switzerland , France , Italy , Germany , and Ireland ; that , like chivalroua soldiers , were cheering their sad , silent sister , Poland , with the best comfort—goad example . He showed hew even from Russia were coming the wordB of cheer ; aDd democracy was storming the serfs and soldiers of the Tsar . He vindicated democracy from the charge of destructiveness ; and showed how in the great French revolution , only a few thousand were punished by the easy death ot the guillotine , or the noyade , whereas constitutional oligarchy in Christian England had destroyed , by slow torture , one million in one year . The speaker , who was interrupted by frequent and enthusiastic plaudits , concluded hia ad dress by calling on Julian Harnei to move the first resolution .
Julian Harkey , who was received with great appkaoe , then moved the adoption of the following resolution : — ' That we—Democrats of several nations—record our unquenchable and ardent sympathy for our cruelly persecuted brethren of Poland ; we express our devotion to the principles of the Cracow Manifesto , and our determination to unceasingly labour for the restoration and regeneration of Poland . ' _ Juxiaw Habnky said . " : Citizens—Again we meet to lift up our voices fo ? Poland , and renew our vows of foalty to the cause of mankind ' s progression . The resolution I have proposed expresses your sympathy with the oppressed and your hatred of the oppressors ; your determination to aid in the holy work of
uprooting tyranny , and your devotion to the principles of Equality , Liberty , nnd Fraternity . Two years have passed since the Cracow Insurrection , and many noble patriots whose hearts beat high with hope this night'two years ago , are now the ' perishing inmates of the silent grave . They have left to us the duty of avenging their fall , and placing in the ascendant those principles for which they lived , laboured , struggled , and died . ( Applause . ) Talk not to meof peace , and love , and charity , as long as the Galician victims are unavenged . ({ Iear , hear . ) Remember the patriots who were quartered alive , thbirlegs and arms broken with flails , their heads skinned , their eyes torn out . and their living flesh chopped into mince-meat for hogs . ( Sensation . ) Remember the Polish lady who , pregnantjwitb . twins , was "killed with a dung-fork , and the twins torn out of the corpse ; the asvagsios committing this hellish Abotniti&tion . that tkey might set the
Austrian price for more than one head . ( Expressions of hovror ' . ) It has been said , "if there were not a God it would be necessary to invent one , but I say if there were not a hell it would bo necessary to invent one for miscreant Mctterniou and his murder , ous myrmidens . ( Cheers . ) I trust , however , that the tyrants of this earth will not be left wholly to the justice of another state of being—I trust that before they depart hence they will have a taste of justice here . ( Hear , hear . ) The execution of Wi « - zniewski and Kupuscinski at Lemberg inHhe month of August last , proves that the people of Galicia had no part with Metternich's hired assassins , but , on tbe contrary , tbat they are thoroughly devoted to tho principles for which those patriots were put to death . The march of "Wiszniewski and Kapuscinski totho gallows was an ovation—a triumph , far more glorious than ever a Roman conqueror enjoyed ; proving in the sublime word 3 of eur Byron , that
' They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gora ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strnog : to city gates and castle walta—But ctill their spirit walks abroad , Though years Elapse , and others share as dark a doom , Tbey but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpoiv « r all others and conduct The world at last to freedom . ( Great applause . ) The Cracow Manifesto is a noble document—the baptismal record of Young Poland . ( Cheers . ) Old Poland , exclusive , aristocratical Poland , died in 1831 . The last effort of the most chivalrous aristocracy of Europe was then made , and made in vain '; and from
that hour all men have seen that Poland can only be redeemed by her Democraoy , aided by the Democraoy of Europe generally . Konarski ' and his glorious fellow-martyrs laid the foundation of the Dome cratio life of Poland , of which the insurrection of Cracow was the first manifestation , but not the last . Mieroslawski and his noble brother-conspirators , have been condemned to a life-long incarceration in Prussian dungeoDs , but they will net end their lives there . ( Hear . ) There is a spirit abroad will break through their dungeen-walls and set the captives free . ( Cheers , ) We applaud the Uracow Maeifesto because it recognises the equal Tights of all classes , and prepares the way lor the destruction of classusurpation . It recognises the social as well as the
political rights of man , and holds forth to the multitude , tbe assurance of a real reward for the sacrifices they are called upon to make for their country ' s regeneration . " ( Applause . ) The social and political elevation of the people must now be the grand obioct of revojutinnary struggle ? . ( Hear , hear . ) The Emancipation of Labour , is the enly worthy object of political warfare . All schemes of so-called Reform : all Revolutions not having for their object the Emancipation of Labour are delusions , and frauds ; and the pretended reformers who excite the passions of the people for any other purpose , I pronounce the worst enemies of the human race . I mean by the Emancipation of Labour , not the conferring upon the poor-man the privilege of being robbed by a monopolist—instead of a landlord ; not the supremacy of a cenventicle Cantwell instead of a privileged parson ; not the rule of the bourgeoisie for that of the
feudalists ; I mean hy the Emancipation of Labour that the masses , as the majority , shall rule the state , —that hereditary humbug , and class usurpation shall give place to popular sovereignty ; ( cheers ) that the laws shall be few and simple and lawycrcraft abolished . ( Applause , ) That those who will hare priests shall alone pay for them , and wise men who can be priests to themselves shall suffer neither plunder nor proscription , fApplause . ) That those who till the soil shall be its masters . ( Applause . ) That those who raise the food shall be its first partakers . That those who build mansions shall live in them . That those who weave linen ? , cottons , cloths , and silks , shall wear them . ( Cheers . ) That those who make railways and carriages shall have tho use of them . That Capital , the offspring of Labour , shall be its servant and not its master . That equal education shall foster the intellect of all . That none but
the idle shall die of hunger , and none but the vicious suffer reproach . ( Great cheering . ) And that the absurdities and usurpations of ranks and classes shall disappear , and men be tbe equal lords of this earth , ( Renewed applause . ) I shall be told that I indulge in the dreams of a frantic Utopianism . Yes , ' Utopian' as long ns the millions are blind ) disunited , and cowardly , but no longer Utopian when onca the scales shall fall from tho people's eyes—when once they comprehend their strength—when once they unite , and from their intelligence and union derive cournge to combat against their opDresaors . ( Applause . ) In ail revolutions the working men have been the principal workers and sufferers . They have poured out their blood in torrents , but never yet have they reaped a reward equal to their toils and sacrifices , —they have but changed their masters , and have usually found that change was for the worse . Why has this been ? Because the working
men have fought for party cries instead of principles , and abandoned to clashes , who could have no sincere sympathy with them , the { rule or remodelling of governments . Now , that the claws of kings are clipped , and' aristocrats have had theif teeth drawn , the people find in the bourgeoisie their most deadly enemy ; on enemy which by turn uso 3 fraud and force to delude and crush tho Proletarians . We have , however , more to apprehend from their fraud than their force . They are everlastingly throwing but some new tub to the whale . Bat let them beware . The next time Leviathan bites , it may be with the bite of the shark not ofthegudgeon . ( Hear , hear . ) Proletarians , why should we follow at the tail of tho bourgeoisie , thankful for any bona they may fling to us ? Why should we waste our energies clamouring and struggling for a little bit of cheap bread—a little bit of cheap church—a little cheaper taxation—a ' contemptible bit of constitutionalismor a nonsensical bit of nationality ? ( Loud cheers , )
Why 1 in a bondsman s key , With bated breath and whispering humbleness , ' beg the charity ef those robbers , when we have but to put forth the gigantic energies of our _ own order , to take fully and entirely that which is our own ? ( Great applause . ) But . citizen brothers , to do our work well , with the certainty of Buccess , we must unite the Proletarians of all lands . ' Divide and conquer' has ever been the policy of despots ; ' Unite and triumph' must be the policy of Democrats . ( Applause . ) The working men of any country are not of themselves nble co effect their own deliverance Let the working men of this country engago in a
death-strugglejwith their oppressors , and forthwith those oppressors will be assisted by the forces of every existing usurpation . Let the Proletarians of France again raise the battle-cry of 'War to tho Castle , Peace to the Cottage , ' and immediately the ' holy alliance ' of kings , and aristocracies , priests , and profitmongers . will march to the rescue of their Gnllio com rogues . But Jet the working men of Europe advance together ami strike for their rights at one and the same time , and it will be seen—that every tyrannical governn ent and usurping class will have enough to do at honte without attempting to assist other oppressors . ( Loud cheers . ) The age of Democratic acendancy has commenced . The triumph
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af the Swiss Radicals was the beginning of the end . " 'Applause . ) As yet wo hare seen but act the first of bhe Italian drama , but when the curtain finally falk it will be amidst the acclamation * of liberated naiions , rejoicing at the rending of the Austrian empire and the annihilation of tho Austrian despotism . [ Cheers ) In France—glorious France—tko strugg le has commenced , and will never cease until again , in solemn conclave , tho representatives of the people rtacliire thai ' tho history of kings is the mar . yrology of nations , ' ( Applause . ) But , more than that , the rule of the bourgeoisie ia doomed ; like Belsbazzar , they have b ' en rreiffhrd in the balance and found
wanting , and their kingdom will be given Jo the Proletarians , ( Great applause . ) The hour of conflict between tho millions and their maaterB is at hand , and , therefore , I say to the Pol& » , hope and feat not , —and to Poland ' s oppressors believe and tumble-, - 'Ddom thoy tli [ a an idle throat ? Crimson tears will follow yet !' ( Thunders of applause . ) 8 Carl ScnAPrcR , who was received with en thusiastic applause , seconded the resolution , and said they had met to commemorate an event which , would be one of the most conspicuous in the history of the human race . The Poles were a brave and gallant people . In ths course of the last seventy years
they had suffered many defeats , but they had never yet been conquered . ( Cheers . ) The insurrection of Cracow was a glorious manifestation of popular progress . Formerly , it was the noble 3 who raised the standard of revolt against Russia , not for the purpose of freeing Poland , but that they might take the place of the Tsar , and re-establish the tyranny of their own order ; but in the Cracow Insurrection the people were seen coming forward to put down all tyranny—domestic as well as foreign . ( Applause . ) The Cracow Revolutionists declared that they desived to have Poland for the Polesfor all the S 0113 and daughters of Poland , and bo longer for a class . ( Loud cheers . ) There were
certain Poles in England , as -well as in Belgium , and France , who are vexed at the demonstrations of our sympathy . They say they don ' t want our sympathy ; but he could tell them this meeting did not sympathise with those aristocratic Poles-it was with the people of Poland they sympathised . ( Loud applause . ) The Democrats of Europe had no sympathy for th « Polish aristocrats , and Prince Adam Czartoryski . He could tell them there never would be another king of Poland . ( Loud cbeers . ) Honour to the patriots who , two years ago , poured out their blood for the regeneration of their country . ( Applause . ) Honour to those patriots now suffering in Siberia , in Russian mines , and Austrian and
Prussian dungeons . ( Cheers , ) From north to south a movement was going on tbat would shatter the thrones of kings , and destroy tyranny in every shape . ( Loud cheers . ) He repudiated tiie cant of ' peace / He was for liberty first , and then peace . ( Applause . ) There must first be a Holy War fot the destruction of tyrants , and when they were swept from the earth , then—peace ; but , until then—war ! ( Raptuvous cheering . ) England had set noble examples ^ to other nations . Two hun - dred years ago they sent a king headless to his grave . France had repeated the same lesson , and Germany would , before long , perform an equally striking act of justice . ( Applause . ) The last prop
of despotic governments was failing them . The soldiers were becoming enlightened , and woald no longer butcher their brethren . T ' e king of Naples Had ordered his soldiers to fire on the people ,. but they refused , and then Ferdinand yielded , dodaring that he was pleased to grant a constitution . Ye 3 , he was devilishly pleased ! ( Laughter and cheers . ) The King of Bavaria had been compelled to send away his dear Lola Montes . He , too , had ordered his soldiers to shoot the people , but they refused ; and then he declared that , moved not by
fear , but by h \ e , he had resolved to do as the people desired . ( Cheers . ) So it will be with England some day . The soldiers here , too , will become enlightened ; they will refuse to take the lives of their fathers and brothers , and then the English ' government , ' moved not by fear bat by love , ' will be ' pleased' to grant the Charter . ( Thunders of applause . ) Let them persevere , and make this earth what it was intended to be—a home of Equality , Liberty , Fraternity , and Happiness for all . ( Great cheering . )
Henreich Buner supported the resolution in an energetic speech , delivered in the German laaguage . The resolution was carried unanimously . Charles Keen moved the second resolution as follows : — 'That remembering the horrid butcheries and tortures inflicted upon the people of Poland by the atrocious Russian despotism ; the horrid massacres in Galicia perpetrated by coraraand of the imperial Austrian assassins ; and the perfidiouscriraea of tae despotic government of Prussia ; we invoke against those despotisms the execration of the human race / C . Keen said , I think that the resolutiou does
not go far * enough , inasmuch * as it , in my opinion , does not touch the real delinquents , it blames the governments of Austria and Prussia alone ; now it is well known that no one can perform work without tools and material , —the men who compose the armies are the tools , —the money to pay them for fighting is the material , —without it they would not fight , and who is it that supplies the money ? Is it not the base , money-grubbing , profit-mongering middle-classes ? For though such men as Rothschild may be . the ostensible money-lenders , they are but the go-betweens of the tyrants who want money and the usurious money grub who has money to lend ; therefore , considering this , I assert that the
money-finder is the most criminal of the whole , and especially deserves our deepest execration . ( Cheers , ) Why was it that the insurrection which we are met to celebrate failed ? Firstly , I believe it to be the ignorance of the great mass of the working classes , who do not understand their social rights , consequently the noble men who fought for their liberty were overpowered ; secondly , because it was an attempt to gain the land for the entire people and not an insurrection to secure middle-class power ; however hostile the aristocracy and middle-classes are generally , they perfectly agree upon one point , that is , excluding the people from the possession of the land . The landholder who possesses it desires
to keep it ; the money-bag bolder desires to get it ; consfiquently , whenever the working classes show any desire to endeavour to get any of it , the influence of the aristocrat and the power of the money bag are immediately united , and common cause made by the whole gang of plunderers , for the purpose of suppressing all attempts tbat may be made by the honest and earnest advocates of the rights of man towards removing the vice , misery , and destitution that afflict the human race . ( Loud applause . ) And this will always continue whilst the working man remains what he is . He boasts of being' the Lord of the Creation ; of ' possessihg intellect above the other races of animals ; ' tis true he does he can sci-ze the elements and make them subservient to
his will ; write witli the lightning and paint with , the sunbeam ; this shows that he is the Lord of the Creation ; but the way he uses those powers shows him also in the light of a wonder of Creation . All his energies are employed for the purpose of creating and accumulating wealth , but not for himself ; he is content , after his day's toil . to crawl to the pothouse , or sneak to lus home to Ins hungry children and ragged wife , leaving tbe fat-bellied thief to calculate and gloat over the amount of profit he has wrung from the toil of tbe ignorant working slave ; who , coutented with his lot , waits for a reward when he dies for all bis sufferings here , persuaded tbat the sleek-coated hypocrites , the whole of whose lives are a living lie , would not deceive him ; when , if he were but to think for oue moment for himself . he would see
that while he was sucking in their delusions they were laughing at bis simplicity , and enjoying all tbe luxuries that tbe earth was capable of producing . Lord of the Creation , indeed ! why the name is all that he has left , the reality has passed away ; the hungry wolf would laugh him to scorn and spurn him with contempt . Would tbe wolf , after hunting down his prey , give up the best of it to some fat lazy wolf and 'be content with liis leavings ? No , he would first enjoy the fruits of his toils , and leave the bones to whoever chose to come after ; but man , —the ; Lord of Creation , the animal with the intellect , —bunts down tbe prey and . thanks God that he is allowed to pick the bones . I shall conclude with repeating a toast that I have often beard in days gone by : ' Liberty for all who dare contend for it . ( Great applause . ) the brilliant speeches
Thomas Clakk said : After which have been delivered by the gentlemen who have preceded me , I feel it incumbent upon me m 1 he outset , to declare how inadequate are my feeble powers to do justice to the resolution winch I have risen to support . I am fully impressed with the ereat importance of that event which we have mefc here this evening to c ommemorate . To my judgm &A it appears one of the most important occureRcasfJ which has transpired in Europe within the last n $ rV >>' century . ( Hear , hear . ) To Poland , especially , it apv important , because it developed a new power in thS | p ! country ; and to the world at large , is it in tbj ^ L . highest degree important , because it gave birth tog- v | new element in revolutions . I mean that by t £ | i w
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COMMEMORATION OF THE CRACOW IN . SURRECTION . A public meeting , called by the Democratic Com . mittee for Poland ' s Regeneration , was held on Mon . day evening last , Feb . 21 st , at the German Hall , Drury-lane . The room was densely crowded by natives of England , Scotland , Ireland , France , Germany , Poland , Scandinavia , Italy , and other countries , On the motion of Jvli \ n Harney , seconded by Caul Schapper , Ernest Jones was elected president of the meeting , . Tri . iAw Hahvey read a letter from Brussels .
detailing the progress of democratical principles in Belgium . The letter excited bursts of applause . The Chairman , after statiag that the meeting should have been held on the following evening , the 22 nd , but that tbe circumstance of another important meeting having been called for that evening had compelled the selection of this evening for the present commemoration , proceeded to read MANIFESTO OF THE POLISH NATIONAL GOVERNMENT . Feb . 22 nd , 18 i 6 .
Polbs!—The hour of insurrection has struck . The whole of dismembered Poland rises and greatena . Our brethren have already risen , and in the Grand Duchy of Posen , in Lithuania and in the Russian provinces , are fighting against the enemy . They are fighting for their most sacred rights , of which they hav .: been deprived by force and fraud . You know well what has passed and is still occurring . The flower of our youth are languishing in dungeons , the old , whose counsels guided us , are given up to contempt - ; our clergy is deprived of all respect ; in a word , all whose actions , or even thoughts , have shown resolve to live and die for Poland , hare been destroyed or immured in pmon , or are in danger of being so every moment . The groans of millions of our
brethren who perish under the knout , or pine in subterranean cells , or are driven into the ranks of our oppressors , and subjected to all the sufferings which humanity is capable of enduring , have struck our hearts and caused them to bleed . We have been robbed of our glory ; our language has been forbidden to us ; the profession of the faitk of our fathers prohibited . Insurmountable barriers havebeen opposed to the amelioration of our social condition . Brother has been armed against brother , and the most honoured children of our country have been reviled by calumnies . Brothers , one step more , and there would be no Poland , not even a single Pole . Our grandchildren would curse our memory , for having
left them nothing in one of the finest countries in the world ! but deserts and ruins—for having allowed ohains to bo put upon our warlke people , and forced them to profess a ( breien faith , and to ep ? ak a foxeign language , and having reduced them to be shues of those who have trampled upon eur rights . The dastof our fathers , of . those martyrs of the rights of our nation , calls to us from the tomb to avenge them ; the infant at the breast calls upon U 3 to preserve for him the country which God has confided to Us ; the free nations of the entire world invite us not to allow the ' sacred principles of our nationality to be destroyed . God himself invites us , He , who will one day demand from us an account of what we have done with it .
We are twenty millions . Let us rise as one manj and no ferce on earth can crush our power . We shall enjoy such liberty as never was known on earth . Let as conquer a etate of society , in which every man shall enjoy his share of the fruits of the eartb according to his merits ( earnings ) and his capacity , in which ho ( exclusive ) privilege , of any kind whatever , will be allowed to remain ; in which every Pole will find a full guarantee for himself , his wife and his children j in which every man disabled by nature in the use of his bodily or mental functions , will find without humiliation , the unfailing assistance of the whole social state ; a state in which those portions of land whicli have hitherto been merely in the condition ai , possession of their cultivators , will become their absolute p ' roperty ; in which all rent ( white and black , according to the feudal acceptation of the term , ) soccage labour and other similar burdens ,
( entailed upon these lands , ) will cease withonfc any indemnity ( to the landlords , ) and those who will devote themselves in , arms to tho national cause , will be remunerated by a grant of land from the national domains . Poles !¦ from this moment we recognise no " distinction among ourEelves ; brethren , henceforward we are the sons of one mother , our country—of one father , God , who is in Heaven ! Let us invoke His gupport , that Ho may ble 99 our arms and grant us victory . But to draw down His blessings we must not suily ourselves with intemperance or plunder , we must not disgrace our consecrated arms by using them for oppression , or for the murder of the disarmed dissenter and foreigner , for we do not struggle against ( the people of foreign ) nations , but against our ( common ) oppresaors . And now , in testimony of our union , let us adopt the national cockade , and take tho following oath : — ¦
< I swear to serve Poland , my country , by counsel , word and deed . I swear to sacrifice to her all my personal views , my fortune and my life 1 I swear obedience to the National Government , which has been established in Cracow , the 22 nd of thia month at eight o'cloek in the evening , in Kryaztofory-
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Will ) MPALMERSTOS'S COACH-W HEELS ! TO THE 1 D 1 T 0 K OF THE KOBTHEEK BTAB . SB . -A few friends to the cue of humanity seeing that the brave nvn of Tiverten are bestirring themselves to r&if e rt > e ntctssarv fuads to pay for Lord Palmerston s coach- * heels , and agreeing mth them that Ml men are crfctLien ' find oujht to assist each other m all cases of dislrcf , n ' e ecclose our mite ( four millings ond sixpence ) in postage stairps , towards the liquidation ofWs lorc ^ ip ' e debt subject to the same conditions as tnat of cur Tirtrion ' friende , tvitn this aaditioD , that he appiies for it ic pei > on . If these condition * are n&t complied with fc-., j , d it { the monet ) orer to Mr Clark for the fltitnee of Mr O'Connor ' s seat in Parliament . Yourt , in tbe eause of Chartism , A IEW CB 4 ETHTS IT CBUBWEIi . NEAB LlEPS . l T " oe i- . suntB hare been forwarded w Hr Clark . —
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