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€\t Sto nf JwbtiL SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1852.
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" JUS TICE—IMMUTABLE , UNIVERSAL ETERNAL !"
THE REPUBLIC AND THE EMPIRE .
To the French Exiles . "He lias neither friend , nor wife , nor father , nor brother , but in his country , The Exile is everywhere alone ! " Sorrowful words—the utterance of your great countryman , Lamennais , struck with anguish at the sight of so many sufferers doomed to the pains of exile , because of their devotion
to their Country , to Freedom , and Humanity . Lamennais , had seen the -war-worn defenders of Warsaw , and many a patriot from fair Italy and sunny Spain , wanderers in his own land and claiming , by their presence , the sympathy of strangers . He little thought that in the future his own countrymen—the bravest and the best—would terribly augment the
numbers of the proscribed . Yet so it has come to pass . Where there was one European exile when the Paroles d \ n Croyant were written , there are now , at the least a hundred , belonging to every country in Europe and scattered over the face of the earth ; too many of whom realize the bitterness of the lament of Lamennais : — " The exile is everywhere
alone !" Yet not absolutely so ; there are some even among this " nation of shopkeepers , " and their trans-Atlantic kindred , the dollar-worshipping Americans , who comprehend thenduty to their race , and who let no accidents of birth , no difference of language , no fratricidal traditions of the past , hinder them from expressing by word and deed , to the best
of their poor ability , that sympathy which should unite , as with links of love , men o f all nations aspiring to free-mankind from slavery , poverty , ignorance , and the blind follies and hatreds of the temble Past and unhappy Present . It behoves such men—it is a duty enjoined upon Englishmen in the possession of comparative freedom , —the freedom "to utter and to areue according to conscience "—
to miss no opportunity of testifying their sympathy for your cause , and their hostility towards your , shameless persecutors . This testimony is the more imperatively demanded , seeing that the name of Britain is defiled by aristocratic representatives who take care to omit no opportunity to afford countenance and aid to the oppressors of France . Every Englishman has cause to remember—with burning , shame-stricken brow —that in full Parliament and
in presence of the universe , the chiefs of our rival aristocratic factions vied with each other in extenuating the crimes , and extolling the virtues (!) of the brigand , whose unholy sway is the present curse and humiliation of France . The trickster , Palmerston , was the eulogist , —the sneak MALMESBURYjis thehumblelacqueyof the tyrant Bonaparte-It is for every Englishman who detests perfidy , brutality , and selfish ambition to show that he is represented neither by
Palmerston nor Malmesbury . Base , though titled , sycophants , may dishonour their English blood by haunting the halls of the Elysee ; statesmen who wouldtmhesitatingly signthe death-warrant of an ordinary murderer , may consent to recognise and pay homage to the successful assassin who has made himself master of France ; but the example of both , far from being accepted , should and will be repudiated by every Englishman , loving justice and right , and anxious for the honour of his country ' s name .
The second Feast of the Eagles , or rather Vultures , has just terminated , and again the usurper has shrunk from clutching the outward and visible bauble of empire . It is not because he is content with the power , and heedless of the paraphernalia of despotism ; on the contrary his imperial crowns , eagles , and other mummeries , his ridiculous apeing of the magnificent mockeries by which the first Bonaparte dazzled while he enslaved , prove and attest his anxiety to
consummate his treason by abolishing the last vestige and name of the Kepublic . Yet he shrinks from the fulfilment of that which he affects to regard as his "destiny ; " and the empire is again adjourned . Why so ? The Eepublic is but a phantom ; and shall " the man of destiny "—Proudhon ' s mandatory and incarnation of the revolution (!)—shrink in
presence of a shadow ? Even so , Bonaparte knows and fears that phantom as the disembodied soul of popular sove-Teignty , but which will anew take flesh and form , and tread the earth a dominating and conquering power , in whose presence the mummeries of Imperialism shall perish , and disappear for ever . The murdered Republic awaits a glorious
resurrection . A sinister rumour has found currency through the English press , to the effect that the British Government was disposed to make some concessions to the French tyrant , in relation to the Refugees . This rumour appears to have had its origin in a paragraph circulated by the Morning Herald , to the effect ,
that it might be necessary to interfere with the free location of the Refugees in Jersey and Guernsey . The wish of the Herald ) is father to the thought ; but it is a thought that will not be tolerated by the British people . You , the exiles , have wisely kept aloof from the agitations and parties connected with British politics . But should the indirect
menace of the Herald prove to be of serious import , your course will be plain : —to throw yourself upon the British people and demand that your safety and their honour be protected from Tory assault . It cannot be that England is so fallen as to "be compelled to imitate over-awed Belgium ; it cannotft ^ that oven a Conservative ministry will
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interdict Victor Hugo from residing in Jersey , or will dare n any other way to curtail or fetter the right of asylum . If any such outrage really is contemplated , the sooner it is openly avowed the better , as the sooner will popular apathy be dispelled , and ministers be brought to account before the bar of Public Opinion . Courage , friends and brothers , and despair not of your holy cause . The hesitation of your great enemy proves his weakness and forshadows your triumph . The voice of Victor Hugo is like that of John the Baptist in the Wilderness announcing the coming of the New Life . In the
Halls of the Elysee , his eloquent words will strike terror to the guilty soul of the tyrant . Courtiers and courtezans , pimps and parasites may fawn upon and flatter the convicted bandit for the sake of sharing the spoil ; but they will be powerless to conceal from him the truth . That which the hand writing on the wall was to Belshazzar , the words of Victor Hugo will be to Bonaparte ; warning him that his race is nearly run , that the days of his usurpation are numbered , that his lath-and-canvass Empire is a ridiculous impossibility , and that the new and true Kepublic is destined to be the salvation of France , the regeneration of Europe , and hope of the world . L'AMI DU PEUPLE .
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FRATRICIDAL WAR AND ITS ABETTORS . The enemies of freedom aro of more than one species . There are those , who , weak minded , though well intentioned , allow themselves to be borne along the wrong path by sophistry and deceit . Others from interest or ambition pander to the passions and the prejudices of the people , and this in the name of freedom itself , with the view of acquiring power or popularity for themselves . Lastly , there are the avowed and open foes , who are ready to seize the opportunities opened to them by their insidious and more dangerous abettors .
The last intelligence from the United States brings us word that the excitement relative to the fisheries question was , thanks to the good sense of the people , rapidly declining . But this in no way lessens the guilt of those unscrupulous intriguers who take advantage of such misunderstandings , to hurry the two Anglo-Saxon nations into a sanguinary and insensate strife .
It is mournful , very mournful to see the regeneration of Europe , and the future freedom of the world endangered by such a contemptible dispute as this of the North American fisheries . But it is more mournful still to see the flame of selfish passion and ignorant prejudice , fanned by those who call themselves the leaders of the people , the vanguard of popular progress . ' Brute f orce rules throughout Europe . The people are deprived of every means of progress—of
obtaining political freedom or social amelioration , and unprincipled demagogues shout for a suicidal war between the two only nations who are able to strike the fetters from the peoples—would have them bathe their fratricidal hands in each others blood , at the very moment when all their energies should be turned to the task of delivering injured and downtrodden humanity from the iron grasp of degrading despotism . And what is this fisheries question of which there has been
such warlike talk ? America , in 1818 , entered into a treaty with Great Britian , by which the American government " renounced for ever any liberty , theretofore , enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants of the United States to take , dry , or cure fish on or within three marine miles of any of the coasts , bays , creeks , or harbours of the British dominions in America
&c . " There was , however , a proviso that American ships might enter such bays or harbours for shelter and repairs , &c . In 1845 , leave was given by the British government to the Americans to fish in the Bay of Fimday , providing they did not approach within three miles of the shores , or smaller harbours or bays on either side . But this was a mere matter
of privilege and not of right , the renunciatory treaty remaining unaltered . It has frequently been a subject of dispute between this country and the Republic of North America , whether the treaty intended to exclude American fishing boats from the bays and harbours altogether , or whether it was only intended that they should not approach the sea-beach
nearer than three marine miles . From cupidity or ignorance , American fishing boats have frequently infringed the stipulations of the treaty . Occasionall y the trespassers have been seized , tried , and condemned by the British authorities , and on these occasions , the American government has protested , but taken no ulterior steps—a course it is not its wont to
pursue when the interests or the honour of the American nation is attacted by a foreign power . This in itself may be taken as sufficient proof that the British interpretation of flic treaty was the correct one , one which America herself could not deny . And , when we take into consideration the clause relative to admitting the American ships into the bays for shelter and repairs , it is evident enough that the treaty did not recognise any right of entry on their part for the purpose of fishing .
Legal right is undoubtedly on the part of the British ; but the surly and discourteous manner in which those rights have been asserted is one which only an insolent and ignorant Tory government would have had recourse to . We have seen no sufficient reason for the sudden withdrawal of the liberty of fishing in Funday Bay , granted in 1845 . The colonists may have some reason for upholding their monopoly , inasmuch as while the American fishers have a ready market , for the result of their labours in the United States , the colonists are met in the States by an import duty .
Mr . Webster , and the war-organs across the Atlantic , have shown how little they understood the true dignity of the American nation , by bullying and blustering when a privilege was withdrawn from them , however discourteous the withdrawal may have been . It would have been more honourable conduct had they endeavoured to obtain a more advantageous substitute for the present treaty , whether by a system of reciprocity between themselves and the British provinces , or by other means .
^ Webster has an object to serve in bending to and flattering the momentary passion of the American people . The Dublin Nation has the same . " Shoio the wide world what a dream this Anglo-American alliance is" says the exponent of Irish democracy (!) "Make the old enemy lend her Jcnee once more : ' In its number of last Saturday , the Nation a
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1 DEATH OF AN EMINENT POLISH EXILE . I 1 M Di « L of consumption , after two years illness , on Thursday , Ii I AuPt 19 th , 1852 , ALBERT DARASZ , aged 44 years , 1 g one of the Polish Emigration of 1831 . The deceased was I if a native of Warsaw , and educated for the legal profession , i H In the revolutionary war of 1830-31 , he served in the n El national army as a lieutenant of Infantry . B H On the unfortunate termination of the Revolutionary 1 H Str aggle , Albert Darasz passed into exile . He was editor H of the Democrat , a Polish newspaper ; member of the Com- I H mittee of the Polish Democratic Association , and of the 1 H Central European Democratic Committee . Further par- I H ticulars of his political life will be given in next Saturday ' s 1 H Star of Freedom . I I A PUBLIC FUNERAL I H of the deceased will take place on Sunday ( to-morrow ) j § 1 August 22 nd , at Highgate Cemetry . The procession will I H leave Grafton Place , Euston Crescent , ( near the New I I Road ) at 12 o ' clock . I M < gf * Ledru Rollin , Joseph Mazzini , and other eminent I 13 continental patriots , will deliver orations over the grave . I fa Let Democrats of all nations attend . 1 i I
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24 THE STAR , OF FREEDOM . August 21 , 1852 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 21, 1852, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1692/page/8/
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