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%\t Star jtf Jx e.ebi)i SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1852.
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Justice—Immutable , Universal , Etersal ! THE EEPUBLIC . The Empire is at hand . There is every probability that on , if not before the ensuing 2 nd of December—the gloomy anniversary ot Treason ' s blackest triumph , the bastard Cesar will consummate his perfidy by proclaiming himself " Emperor of the French "—the legitimate and right divine sue cessor to thatCorsican usurper whose aim was universal despotism , but whose end was well nigh as -humiliating as that of the fallen tyrant of the Turks . Bajazet perished in his cage . Bonaparte , chained to a rock in the \ nidst of the
far distant ocean , had time to contemplate the nothingness of that vanity which had been his guiding impulse , the hollowness of that grandeur for which he had bartered his country ' s happiness , mankind ' s freedom and his own true fame—and , then , all was over . Baffled ambition , the mortification of irreparable hopeless defeat , consigned him to the tomb , —his death-bed haunted by . the fiends of Rage , Remorse , and Despair . < 4 0 pevisii all , Who would man by man enthral .
The new tyrant of the French is on his tour through the South of France preparatory to his assumption of the Imperial purple . " Enthusiastic transports explode " along the line of Iris triumphant inarch . There is the explosion of powder and fireworks duly forwarded from Paris ; the explosion of applause on the part of the hired gang of Decembrists who regularly accompany their worthy chief ; the explosion of blasphemous sycophancy on the part of the scoundrel-priesthood , who hail this blood-besmeared Judas as the " elect of Gcd . " and present him to their wretched dupes as the " chosen
of Providence , " " the Saviour of France , " and the " most worthy and sanctified son of the Church . " Oilier congenial spirits have striven to do honour to the hero of December . At Lyons the butchers were foremost in hailing their adopted brother . A triumphal arch " painted in the Prince ' s colours , was raised in the centre of the quay , near the slaughter-house . On the top was placed an Eagle , &c , " A befitting emblem : the bird of prey snuffing the odour of blood and offal . " The master of the corporation of Butchers presented the Prince with an address e-xnressinc ihc devotedness of the men whom
he represented . " Edifying fraternity ! The " Saviour " may count upon the devotion of the butchers . Could Haynau or Rosas desire more . But Lyons received the arch-traitor with enthusiasm Lyons the theatre of those herioc contests for Liberty and Social Justice in the reign of Louis Philippe ! Its entire population—300 . 000 souls—was on foot . Surely the
Republic is dead ! Perhaps so . Still it is curious that "the garrison consisting of 15 , 000 men was dravm up in order of battle on the Place de la Charite , and the Quai du Rhone , thecavalry resting on the Place do la Prefecture , the artillery with their guns on the Place Bellecour , the engineers in the streets opposite , the Place , the infantry and the Chasseurs of Vincenncsin double files in the streets through which the President was to
pass . " All Lyons may have been on foot—for a spectacle will always command the attendance of the multitude . Were Louis Bonaparte going to the guillotine he would bring together a larger assemblage than has been or could be collected by his most brilliant fets . But Lyons is not yet imperialised or why this army of infantry , cavalry , sharp-shooters , and artillery dravm up in order of battle ?¦ The reader would
be grievously mistaken if he imagined that this military display was merely to add to the pomp of the false President ' s reception . Those masses of troops armed to the teeth were ready for action . At a sign those cannon would have vomited death upon the multitude , The report narrates that when the forts fired their salute of 101 guns , the formidable explosion appeared to shake the city to its foundations . Those forts were erected not to protect Lyons from any foreign foe , but to guard against , compress , and if necessary annihilate " the encmv within . " Warsaw has its citadel and so lias nianv a
city crushed under the brutalizing weight of despotism ; but no other place in the world is so surrounded and overawed by fortifications , designed and maintained to crush its own population , as is Lyons . An insurrection in Lyons unless preceded or accompanied by a revolution in Paris , or a general rising in the country , would be sheer madness . These facts considered , it cannot excite wonder that the " loyal " cry of Vive VEmpereurT&feedi'by usurers and soldiers , priests and butchers , was unopposed by any counter-demonstration . The Republicans bide their time .
An equestrian statue of the first Bonaparte was inaugurated at Lyons , and the occasion was seized upon by the " nephew of his uncle " to deliver a speech in the course of which he alluded to the cry of his sycophants and accomplices , observing " If the modest title of President could facilitate the missjon- " eanMed to me , and from which 1 have not recoiled , it is not I who from personal interest would desire to change that name for the title of Emperor . " Admire-his modesty ! He
would be content with the name of President , but if France will have him Emperor why France may crown him ! If he must submit to the imperial dignity , so be it ; he will resign himself even to that new burthen . O ! hypocrite ! how well you combine the character of Jerry Sneak with that of Macbeth ; swindler and eut-tnroat , you deserve and shall wear the diadem of eternal infamy .
I have said the Republicans bide their time , it is true . The Republic is not dead . No number of bayonets however numerous , can utterly stifle the pulsations of its heart ; no masses of cavalry completely trample out its life ; no deathdealing power of cannon-shot annihilate its spiritual essence . It is immortal . Apparently expiring in the midst of Persecurion ' sfires , it only seems to die . From the ashes of its past it phoenix-like rises to renewed life and glory . Thousands of Republicans in captivity and exile , tens of thousands
momentarily stricken dumb by the frightful stroke of military ruffianism—nourish in silence and secrecy their hatred of xhc usurper antl their hopes of the Future . No well-wisher to France and Freedom need despair . In spite of Bonaparte ' s progress towards the coveted object of his ambition— " the plank decorated with velvet , " commonly denominated a throne , the Republicans are full of hope and confident of their ultimate temmph . Let the usurper mount his throne , he "will be only so iriiich the nearer to the scaffold . ' Let his accomplices com-• piste fhsir coisgpiraoft t \ # ? will osly ensure the speedy
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coming of a more sweeping and radical revolution than the world has yet witnessed . They have gloried in their reaction ; woe to them when reaction sets in from the opposite side . The hero-and-martyr-spirit still animates , inspires , and exalts the French Eepublicans . The Leader has accused them of " the fundamental folly of making the ' Republic' a standard of patriotism , —an empty name , without the virtues it demands , and the liberties it is supposed to guarantee . " The Leader ' s accusation proclaims its editor ' s pitiable
ignorance or wilful misrepresentation . Precisely because " the Republic" has been set up as a standard of patriotism . Its adherents and defenders have shown themselves possessed of the virtues it demands . Trace the history of the reign of Louis Phillippe , review the career of the statesmen , journalists , and other public men of that period , and having done so , who will dare to dispute the honour due to the Republicans for their virtue in the midst of surrounding corruption ,
their chivalry and truth at a time memorable for its venality and falsehood ? And from the 24 th of February to the present hour , by tongue and pen , in the tribune , and on the barricade , in prison and exile , by word and deed , by the lives they have led , the sacrifices they have made , the sufferings they have endured , and last , not least ,. by their unshaken hope in the future , they have proved and prove themselves worthy of the Republic by their virtues , and certain by their faith and heroism , to inaugurate its triumphant and lasting glory .
Ihepartizans of the Republic did establish " the liberties it is supposed to guarantee . " Not upon the defenders but upon the betrayers of the Republic , must and will rest the odium of destroying the liberties inaugurated by the victors of February . That which the Leader , in its self-sufficient wisdom , deems a " fundamental folly , " is really the fundamental strength of French democracy , —that of making "the Republic" a standard of patriotism . The Republic m the ideal not merely of a fcirm of government , but of a state of society differing from the
present aslight diners from darkness , and truth from falsehood , in which equality of rights and duties being the recognised rule and law of the political and social commonwealth , there will , of necessity , bo no place for those individuals and classes whose privileges and monopolies are founded upon the debasement and poverty of their fellow creatures . The Republic supposes equal freedom ; equal opportunities for educational culture ; equal protection to the citizens in their social relations to each other ; absolute justice to all ; duty , the guardian of liberty , and the surety of general happiness .
As is the ideal so will be those who adopt it for their standard of duty . The Russian serf who believes in the divi nifcy of the Tsar , and in his own nothingness , contrasted with the might and ( supposed ) right of his master , will necessarily bo a grovelling slave . So , on the contrary , the Republican repudiating all man-worship , and giving his devotion to the imperishable principles of Justice , Right , and Duty , will
necessarily in his own conduct exhibit a contrast directly the opposite to that of the ignorant , brutalized , crouching serf . Doubtless , there are unworthy , or rather , false Republicans ; but let Truth speak , and her voice will declare , taking the party as a whole , it has proved itself to be inspired by the loftiest political virtue—the pledge of its future and not distant victory .
Would that in this country we had some such " standard of patriotism" as " the Republic ; " then might the popular cause give birth to patriots worthy of the name . Sore need have we of some loftier ideal of justice and rightthan hitherto has been recognised by our popular parties . " But , " objects the practical man , " your Republic is a dream—Utopia , neither more nor less . " Perhaps so . to-day , but to-morrow !
Phanks to the labours and the sacrifices of the idealists of the present , their Utopia , will be tTie realized fact of the future . By all means let us seize upon the practical , and wrest our manhood ' s right from the clutch of monopolizing Privilege ; at the same time let as not forget the duty we owe to others . At least let as from insult and calumny protect the good and true men who , no matter their country or national name , are marshalled and march under the banner of the Universal Republic . L' AMI DU PEUPLE .
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Mr . Davidson , Ayr ; ' and R . Payne , Abingdon — iw Mr . Crantz will in future supply the paper . " ^ eiv ^ T . Williams , West Ham . Our columns are over crowuVl John Ward , Wakefield . The tone of your letter would i forbade any notice of its contents , hut for the fact that there nnv i e as blindly prejudiced as yourself . Stereotyped " sympathy for M r " n < r ° ^ ers lias been , and is being made a trade of . It would have been . a « t nor '" me , as for others , to have won the applause of admiring dunes h Tt ' * lor so inclined . You should remember that I never fawned uwon 1 bl ! en libelled Feargus O'Connor . I -worked with him as long as I Co , ur " conscientiously . I opposed his political proceedings when < li ? S ( l manded . I warned him of the base sycophants who were loadhi 11 ° ~ ruin . My warning was unheeded . Look back and remember wh T to that , in his Chartist romance , weekly pictured Fcargus O'Connor n VftiS tieal and private swindler and traitor ,-the creature who now toi- ft p 0 ^ for his " sympathy for O'Connor . " If Mr . O'Connor is neelectcrl h 7 ** n r , i .,. Ii . 1 . 1 .: li » _ .. .,-X ! i ... i . _ . 1 II £ » -1 .-J 1 .. - \ i , . _ . O' ^^ HAl , [ lift f . > ., U ivoimwi
'o m ;> auu- U null SympatHlSCrs ] f 1 need of money , why do not the two Committees cash up , they lJ -V ' " in hand , I have enquired of certain members of one of the sin o i ] fi mittees , whether money is wanted for Mr . O'Connor , and have been an in the negative , they professing to speak on information obhiiwa t " ^ Mr . O'Connor ' s nephew . I have tried to obtain exact information J ? 0 Connor ' s circumstances by writing to Dr . Tewko , but I have > ™ no answer . Others have written , and been equally unsuccessful * Tv Mr . O'Connor ' s sister to be in need of help , and privately I hw rT get her aid : hut I have shrunk from any public appeal , wearied Sir gnsted as I am at seeing so many good appeals result in next to lint 1 ou , John Ward , before flinging your venom upon me , you should bo , '¦?" sure that you do , at least , as much in the service of humanity is hi by the person you abuse . What I do for the unhappy Kefumcs fir ¦ stance , is not limited to mere words . You sympathise " with one limn " i " is well . I have to feel for , and work for hundreds of the most If tunate and most deserving of our fellow-men . Do you do your clutv i I will perform mine . If Mr , O'Connor is in need of help , such-is i ! give shall bo rendered . But I must have facts to go upon ; and if T im'l " vith others iu svwlx a work , it must be with honourable men notmitli schemers and traders in " sympathy . "—G . J . H . ? 0 l l ° Mical
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APATHY OK ACTION ? What are the people doing ? The first session of a new Parliament is approaching , the government is in the hands of those who proclaim that it js their mission to stay reform , to preserve the constitution in Church and State , as by law established , and to arrest in England that progress of democracy which the hand of brute " force has arrested upon the
continent of Europe . Opposed to that government are a series of parties , comprising men of almost all shades of opinion , and bound together by but little in common , save the love of office—the desire for aggrandizement , and the hate of their political opponents . The old Whigs seeking to
preserve the oligarchical system called constitutionalism . The more modem Whigs leaning to the doctrines of Manchester . The economical school measuring the virtue of a nation by the extent of its trade , and its happiness by tw amount of its aggregate wealth . The Irish members asking wr "Justice" for themselves and their constituents alone ; and »
few Radical reformers—too few , alas , to exert much po ^ - These comprise " Her Majesty ' s opposition , -but not flic opposition of the People , they will debate furiousl v , son * of them for Whig principles , as they were , —others lor ti ^ indefinable something , which represents Whiggism as *^ some for cheapness in government , cheapness in a ^ * cheapness in production , cheapness in labor , cheapness everything but their own profits ; others for libertv to pn < - \ jj and the partial emancipation of the English ^ p fi tf , appeal to the memories and deeds of men great in then ^ but shadows now ; they will quote patriotic words ou ^ they do not mean to act ; they will tickle our ears , phrases about past glories and progress ; they will cxp the doctrine of '' buy cheap and sell dear ; " they ^ ^ the power of ¦ production to make a few men rich ; tn : jL ^ point to fleets of mercnantmeii as . reasons for contemn * ..
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" This is truth tho' owposed to the philosophy of ages' " MESMERISM AND CLAIRVOYANCE . ON Tuesday Evening the 28 th insfc ., GERALD MASSET , Aiithor of " Voices of Freedom , and Lyrics of Love , " Trill deliver the first of t ^ o Lectures on HtJJlAX Magxetissi and Clairvoyance in tlife Literary and Scientific Institution . John-street , Tottenham Court Road ! Syllabus . Opposition to new and great ideas— " Common Sense" not the best standard of appeal . Animal Magnetism , its friends and foes . The Antiquity of Mesmerism . Nothing new but what has been forgotten . Health contagious as well as Disease . Magnetism , a powerful curative a ^ ent . Spontaneous Somnambulism . A "Stomach-brain . " Somnambulism artificially induced . Magnetism the law of the Universe . The truth of Phrenology illustrated by Phreno-Mcsmerism , or excitation of the organ :, of the brain , mentioned by the audience and called into activity by the operator , without contact . Calalepsy induced by means of Mesmeric passes . Readings of Boob , Papers , &c , by means of Inner Vision , the ordinary visual means being suspended by any of the audience , closing and holding the eyes of the Clairvoyante with their own hands . The Clairvoyante , Mrs . Gerald Massey , long known as the " Somnamlnila Jane , " has manifested the peculiar power of Clairvoyance or Second Sight , for a period of eleven years , during which time she has been satisfactorily tested by numerous persona of all classes , and the Lecturer confidently invites all who desire to make themselves acquainted with the truth of ampterious phenomenon , to a fair and faithful investigation . It is also requested that the audience will provide themselves with their own books , papers , & „ for the . CMvvoyante to read , to prevent any supposition of collusion or deception : and that in every instance the print be legible . " There are more things in heaven and earth , Than are dreamt of in your philosophy . " Admission to the Hall , 3 d . ; gallery , 4 d . ; Reserved Seats on the Platform , 6 d . —Doors open at half-past Seven , Lecture to commence at Eidit o ' clock .
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104 THE STAR OF FREEDOM . September 25 , i 852
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 25, 1852, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1697/page/8/
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