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    • THE IMPERIAL MANIFESTO.
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      No. 79.] London, November 7, 1868. [Pric...

      No . 79 . ] LONDON , NOVEMBER 7 , 1868 . [ Price Twopence .

      The Imperial Manifesto.

      THE IMPERIAL MANIFESTO .

      People Of France ! Hushed And Expectant,...

      People of France ! Hushed and expectant , one hand to her listening ear , the other grasping her sword , stands Europe , waiting for the voice of France to speak . France speaks through her ruler , whom the People ' s voice raised to the throne , whom , the People ' s arms

      still firmly support , whom the People ' s heart loves and reveres . while War recoils Peace , , wearied smiling , with passes exhaustion over the , land sick , and of her heals blood the y wounds work ; which the sword had made . France wishes for peace , France is determined to have peace , and therefore France trains her

      million of soldiers , and forges her millions of arms ; soldiers who are the sureties of peace , arms which are the sceptres of tranquillity . Though thus peaceful and secure , France keeps her watchful eyes on the nations that surround her . Prussia , merging her

      identity in a united Germany , gathers under one rule the small . States that surround her , till she presents a formidable phalanx of united peoples against the hosts of the invader . But France views this success of her neighbour with no jealous eye ; the People ' s voice has ever been heard in France , and , as

      Liberty extends its beneficent sway , and spreads its golden wings gradually over the whole of Europe , the grateful thanksgivings of France mount up to heaven , the heartfelt blessing of France falls upon the liberated people I The silken cords of commerce rep ¦ a . lace the chains of slavery w and the g »^ listening »^

      links of an " entente cordiale" unite with France , the Mother of Freedom and of Liberal Government , the nations released from the desolating darkness of oppression . But the Ruler of France still remembers with sublime prudence the proneness w of all human -creatures to err , rremembers that

      fair promises may bring forth evil , fruit , and that greed of conquest , or lust of power , liiay turn the friendly neighbour into a fierce invader ; and therefore is it that he provides his beloved People with an army of defence , not of attack—with cannons that ensure respect without exciting apprehension . Answering , once for allthe mischievous and

      malignant cavillings of those who would , , by their angry clamour , deform the guarantee of peace into a menace of war , and would ascribe to the calm self-conscious purity of intention , which We have never lost , that crafty dissimulation which is the habit of their own corrupted hearts , We point with a just pride to those

      evidences of plenty and happy security which meet the eye at every step in France . Founded on the love of the People , and on the rock of order , sanctified by the holy odour of religion , the Third Empire dreads no traitor at home nor foe abroad . While it needed the bloody field of Sadowa before the

      buildbloodless ing of Prussia victories ' s power , has could enlarged commence her frontiers , France , to by the a series widest of Al limits ps , the that , yrenees even in , her and proudest the Ocean time guard , they her ever on reached three . sides The , while on the fourth the great success of our diplomatic efforts

      justifies us in the hope that the Rhine may soon be the only barrier between us and a free Germany . Great ends are reached by costly means ; and the vast improvements which hare been carried out in every department of the State have necessitated the contraction of a loan on

      the part of the Government . Those who have the ruin of their country so much at heart that they shut their eyes to her prosperity , and imagine their hopes are realised , have commented with their usual venom on this fact . But they could not poison the hearts of our beloved People ; and so eager were they to

      show their trust in their Ruler that nothing but two or three more loans could give any practical estimate of their generous confidence . When the time comes , France may rely that her Emperor will not forget the stores of wealth which she so nobly proffered him .

      The advance of knowledge brings with it the advance of freedom . France sets an example which all nations might well follow . Blest with a beneficent and wise Government , which knows how to make the law respected and the law-giver loved , the People of France value useful restraints above dangerous

      license . Free they are in the highest sense of the term , because their freedom is protected by provisions which prevent its abuse by those who love revolution better than order . The attacks of licentious libellers , who hate the rod that corrects them , will never move us from our judicious firmness ; but the just

      aspirations of those who would see some of the safeguards removed , with which confirmed tranquillity can dispense , shall ever receive from us the kind attention and gracious concessions which they deserve . It is therefore with sincere pleasure that we announce to our

      beloved People that a fresh edict , extending still further the liberties of the Press , and giving to our civil and criminal code a still more popular aspect , will be shortly issued by us , in perfect confidence that the People of France value too much that liberty which our sway has assured to them , to abuse the

      trust which we thus place in them . At peace with all her neighbours , happy in herself , seeking no aggrandisement and able to resist any encroachment from others , prosperous without and more prosperous within , France remains the admiration of all countries . Let other rulers cower

      are befo firml re the enthroned shadow of in the Revolutio hearts n of w a hich devoted threat nation ens th . em , —we y Napoleon III ., Emperor .

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Nov. 7, 1868, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_07111868/page/1/