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"JUSTICE—BOIUTABLE , UNIVERSAL , ETERNAL . THE EMPIRE ANP PEA . CE . The last act of the tragical farce of which the bastard Buonaparte is the hero , is rapidly drawing to a close . There will be another scene or two . This day ( Saturday Oct . ] 6 th ) the impostor is to make a triumphal (?) entry into Paris . He will be received with " enthusiastic acclamations" by his brigand accomplices , his prsetorians , gend'araies , spies , priests , and Decembrist rabble . The lie will be trumpeted through the universe , that Paris
—entire Paris—lias placed her neck beneath the foot of the assassin . Perhaps that scene will conclude the performance . It is not unlikely that the conspirators will proceed to the Tuilleries and there and then salute their chief as " Emperor ; " pretending to elect him "b y " popular acclamation . " Or it may be that there will be one more scene , —that the arch-hypocrite will affect to restrain the hireling devotion of his adherents , and will once more submit
his " claims " to the decision of " Universal Suffrage ; " in which case eight million of votes will elect-him to the throne ! This is already announced ; the number of votes is already decided on ; there will be eight millions , and no dissentients , —save , perhaps , some few paltry thousands to keep up appearances . It would be useless to discuss this premeditated fraud . All the world knows that any such vote will he a lie : witness the recent mock-elections
In Paris , under the new " Constitution " (?) there are 80 , 000 inscribed voters . Of this number 42 , 000 responded to the appeal of the Society of the Revolution , and the dictates of their own sense of duty , and refused to record their votes . Besides the above , there was a section of 19 , 000 moderate Republicans who appeared at the balloting urns to give their votes to the anti-Buonapartist candidates . ( The candidates of the Government could muster only 21 , 000 votes out of 80 , 000 ; and this notwithstanding that Paris has been " purged " of the most ardent Republicans to the number of many thousands ! Where elections
have occurred in the departments , the like significant spirit has been manifested . At Montpellier , out of 13 , 000 electors only 1 , 250 recorded their votes for the Government candidates , the remaining 11 , 750 electors abstained from voting . At some of the municipal elections the electors have abstained en masse . Yet when the question is put , " Shall Buonaparte be Emperor ?" there will be the required eight million votes . Mister Buonaparte knows how to turn to account his adult-education amon *
our " west-end " black-legs , pigeon-pluckers , and thimble-riggers . Whatever may be the peculiar and particular features of the last scene of this grim , blood-smeared comedy , the finale promises to be immediate and exactly as the arch-traitor desires . The very name of the " Republic" is to disappear , and give place to the " Empire . " Every preparation hasbeen made , every sign of Imperial usurpation and Imperial flunkeyism is ready . * Apparently , never was fortune more propitious in bestowing her ' smiles upon triumphant crime .
But the newly manufactured throne will stand upon a volcano . The newly-crowned tyrant will live in constant terror of the doom which , sooner or later , must overtake him . When least expected , the hand of the tyrannicide , or the arm of popular insurrection , will smite him to the earth , and , punishing his crimes , avenge Humanity . There can be little doubt that the Marseilles infernal-machine affair-was a police-plot-, designed to subserve the greater plot of ' the- ^ Empire ^;? If satisfiedvthatvit . was really . , a . Republican . conspiracy , every true . man ; could entertain but one sentiment , —that
of regret at its failure . The mawkish sentimentalism that feels or affects to feel shocked at the thought of a tyrant falling by what is comnibnl ^ ferm ' ed"assassination / ' is worthy only of contempt , ( jf the two courses , it would be preferable to see Buonaparte brought to punishment by solemn trial and formal execution . But whatever end the Future has in store for him , one thing is sure , — that the hour he ceases to af&ict the earth with his presence will be one of jubilee for not only Frenchmen , but men of all nations who detest crime and perfidy , and desire the onward progress of the human race .
Among the principal features of Buonaparte ' s tour in the South of France , there are two that demand some words of comment : 1 st . the blasphemous adulation with which he has been received by priests and prefects ; 2 nd . his " pacific speech" at Bordeaux . It would be unbearably nauseating to repeat only a hundredth part of the disgusting adulation with which priests and prefects have done their best to make religion hateful and their own country a subject of scorn to the world . As a specimen , take the following "loyal" parody on the " Lord ' s Prayer . " &
Our Priuce—You v , -ho are in power by right of birth and by the acclamation of the people , your name is everywhere glorified ; may your reign come , and be perpetuated by the immediate acceptance of the imperial crown of the great Napoleon ; may your firm and wise will be -lone in Prance as abroad . Give us this day our daily bread by reducing progressively the customs duty , so as to permit the entry of articles which are necessary to us , as also the exportation of what is superfluous . Pardon us our offences when you shall be certain of our repentance , and that we become better . Do not permit us to yield to the temptation of cupidity and place-huntiue , hut deliver us from evil—that is to say , irom secret societies , from vicious teaching from the excesses of the press , from ' elections of every kind ; and continue to mate it more and more a matter of honour the practice of morality and of -religion , respect for authority , agriculture and industry , the love of order and of labour . Amen .
And the following : — "Monseigneur , — -The Government of the world by Providence is the most perfect . France and Europe style you the Elect of God for the accomplishment of His designs . It belong to no Constitution whatsoever to assign a term to the Divine mission with which you are invested . Inspire yourself with this thought to restore to the country those tutelary , institutions which preserve the . stability of power and the destinies of nations . " ' ' The authors of the above moreeaux ure too modest . Why do they stop short at paying , homage to a liar and an assassin as the " elect of God ? " why do they not go a step farther ,-dethrone Itod himself , and offer up their pure-hearted worship to one so well fitted to be the
Lord God of such wretches ? They would not hesitate to do so if they thought jhat was the better card to play . But that might be too gross for the stomachs of even priestled peasants , and so the pious scoundrels content themselves with sycophancy that might have disgusted even the mad-brained son of Macedonian Pniu . rp . If it could be believed that the utterers of the above sentiments represented "France , it would bo hHi time to . abandon all hope of such a country , —a nation of < rr oVellino slaves , —a people viler than the vilest horde ever ( in this world ' s history ) doomed to perdition . Indeed , despair of our common liumanity would necessarily overcome even those disposed to be
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most hopeful of a better future .. But these blaspheming priests and prefects libel , insult , and outrage their country ' s name ; and at the bar of inexorable Justice they will yet have to answer for their crimes .
One of the great faults of the Revolutionists of February , was that of fraternizing with the priests : . The reader cannot have forgotten how those holy hypocrites bestowed their benedictions upon the Republic , and moistened the " trees of liberty with their ( crocodile ) " tears of love . " The Republicans will know better next time . Unhappily , the day has not yet arrived in which men will exhibit sense enough to abolish priests as a class , treating all
pretenders to that craft as conjurors ' and fortune-tellers are now treated . But , at least , the Revolution may , and must ; denude this corporation of impostors of all political power , and punish with inflexible severity every attempt , of these jugglers to perpetuate the ignorance and servility of the . masses . On the other hand , the educator must be made the chief moral guardian of the Republic . Knowledge and Public Spirit are the sureties of Freedom .
Remembering , the career of the first Buonaparte , it is only natural to associate the idea of universal war with that of the Empire . The nephew , of his uncle knows how to suit himself to his audience . In presence of the arsenal of Toulon he is warlike ; on the shore of the mercantile port of Bordeaux , he is as pacifigw as Quaker Sturge . At the banquet given to him by the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce , ho gave vent to a carefully prepared speech
designed to announce his " acceptation" of the Empire and his devotion to peace ! .. Like a Brummagem counterfeit , in imitation of his uncle , he had his fling at the " Ideologists . " " It seems , " he added , "France desires a return to the " Empire . "—[ "Yes , — Yes ! " prolonged applause ,- — " Vive VEmpereurF ] lie proceeded : — ' .
There is one objection to-which I must reply . Certain mlmdsseem to entertain a dread of ivar ; certain persons say , the Empire is only war ; but I say the Empire is peace [ sensation ] , for . Prance desires it , and when Prance is satisfied the world is tranquil , [ enthusiastic cheer *] .
And then he added , that " like the Emperor he had conquests to make , " he wished to ' conquer by conciliation , all hostile parties ; " (?) to " restore morality , religion , and opulence ; " to " cultivate waste territories , open roads , dig ports " * * * " Lastly , we have ruins to restore , false gods to overthrow , and truths to be made triumphant ! " [ Prolonged applause . ] Though unable to conceal their misgivings , this speech has been received rather favourably than otherwise by our daily journals . If they could only trust him ! If they could only take his word , why then the Empire might not be so bad . Anything that would
ensure the peaceful progress of commerce would be preferable to new convulsions , whether of a Royalist or Republican character . Suppose so . Imagine the peace that would exist , —the peace of death and gagged despair ! The lying hypocrite talks of conquering by " conciliation , " while not a clay passes that does not see new victims swept into prison , driven into exile , or shipped to Cayenne . Suppose Mm Emperor , even if inclined , he dare not amnestize his victims ; for if he did , three out of every four who might return would deem it an indispensable duty to devote their first hours of liberty to his overthrow . There can be no peace , truce , nor terms between him and the soldiers of the Revolution . That he well knows . Hence he . must continue to rule or reign by terror : —
"Thrones got by blood must be by blood maintained . '' The peace therefore , reserved for France under the Empiresupposing no foreign war—will be very like that enjoyed (?) by Rome under Tiberius . ' And throughout Europe generally , the holy alliance of despots will drive the iron of oppression deeper and deeper into the Heart of Humanity . Italy , Hungary , Poland , Germany , will be prostrate at the feet of the banded homicides . Exiles will . die broken-hearted on foreign shores ; captives will
perish of slow torture in their dungeons ; wives and children will hopelessly mourn for the loved ones doomed never to return . There will be peace , such peace as reigns in the tomb ; broken only by the clang of the axe and the ring of the bullet despatching to their gory graves heroic-hearted men , who will continually aise to aim a blow at tyranny , inspired by the hope of arousing the downtrodden people to action . Accursed be such peace , though welcomed by 6 ur traders , writers , and other recreants to duty . —
" I love no peace which is not fellowship , And which includes not mercy . I would have , Bather , the raking of the guns across
The world , and shrieks against Heaven ' s architrave Bather , the struggle in the slippery fosse , Of dying men and horse ? , and the wave Blood-bubbling . : ; * * * * Such things are better than a Peace which sits Beside the hearth iii self-contented mood , And takes no thought how wind and rain by fits Are howling out of doors against the good Of the poor wanderer . What ! your peace admits Of outbide anguish while it sits at home ? I loulhe to take its name upon mv
tongue—It is no peace . 'Tis treason , stiff with doom , — Tis gagged despair , and inarticulate wrong . " But our " best possible instructors " mistrust even such a peace —the only description of peace Buonaparte' can confer upon Europe . And well may they doubt him ! He is the very incarnation of perfidy . Did he not , in 1848 , solemnly swear to maintain the Republic and uphold the Constitution ? Did he not , in the form of repeated asseverations and assurances , from time to time renew that oath , persevering in his hypocrisy up to the eve of the' 2 nd of December ? And did he not ' then shamefullv violate
set at nought , and trample upon every obligation he had contracted ? Did he not add the ferocity of the assassin to the cunning of the midni ght burglar ? How then shall he be believed ? Blind and idiotic must be that man or that nation that would place the least dependence on the word , the least confidence in the most solemn protestation , of Buonaparte . In the course of his southern tour he has not-hesitated , wherever it was likely to serve his purpose , to appeal to national prejudices , barbarous passions , and that thirst for misnamed " glory" which is the bane of France . Contrast
with his peace-preaching at Bordeaux—in those Pecksniffian phrases which would draw tears from the eyes of Eunu Burritt ¦—his acts within the last few weeks , ln ' his budget for 1852-3 , there is provision made for additional land and sea forces . In the French dockyards and arsenals they are working night and day . Enormous war steamers . are being launched , and the Erench navy , generally , is being placed in a state of formidable efficiency . The army is kept in the highest state of preparation for war , and , like hounds in leash , the heroes of Algeria and the . Boulevards are
ready to spring in whatever direction their " Emperor " may indicate , whether the game be Belgium , Switzerland , or England . His scribes
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talk of " effacing the stain of Waterloo ! " And ^^^ ^ : his professions of peace ! Ifc may be that peace >\\ a * to k ? M best calculated to erfaUish Ids throne , as it v \]\ . ° 0 lUs « . will port of the timid , calciilnrin * traders . But the day win ^ tlle C supposing- opposition within completely crushed , he nUr fi ° ? % ment for his army beyond the frontier . " Glory '" w - ] i , ei » iilo ' word , " Vengeance and Plunder ! " the aim of BurmJ 1 V !| teii torinns ; and then woe to England if she bo not prepare « itU ' 1 % Our ridiculous militia , an increase of t ' . itt navy \\ v ' > defences&cwill bo but insufficient preparation ' ' r"I 11 " 1 * * 0 ( % > j »» v ¦¦ » ^* i / j \ i / cll
, , n _ ,. _ . * 7 --- ' * *~ - ~ -- - ..., >>»« ua « w , tit |\| H iii 1 'ini lion will be , to summon the national . spirit , now dead a- ! ° St ^ " ' arenewed life and action ; which may be dona by esiawV ^ ' 11011 ' ' ' ^ of rights , and giving to all classes the opportunit y and tl , " 'V . to defend their home ? , institutions , and native soil pj ^ i England may , if she will , gather to her standard tli (» n- ^ , nations . She has but to hold out the band of fraternity ) ' ° will rise en masse . In the exercise of the duty vu ( Mve V '" it ur ° p « rests our country ' s . surest safeguard . * ° ^ Witj ' L ' AM DU PEUi'Ll /
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 16, 1852, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1700/page/8/
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