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VOL. 1. No. II. LOMDON, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1852. JS£ TS=2 tCiktJIim * H&k'£lv ' i.i THE : FALL OF TH IS FRENCH gfWHCE—.DOfUTABlB, IWITJ3BSAL, EIERNA1! REPUBLIC. THE TRUTH TO THE PEOPLE. By Xavikr Durkiku. Gireme the liberty to know, to utter, and to argae fn e'.y ae;ord (Translated• expressly for the ' Star of Frssdom') iog to conscience, above all liberties.—Mimon. JUDAS ISCARIO T.—THE ARREST. and men' is this Gene- Wiiat * a spectacle for gods I have already said that towards nine o'clock in the ral Election, not yet terminated, bat now rapidly- evenin Rue Montor- « g the last musket shot was fired in tbu drawing to a close. The boroughs have pronoaRced,' gueil ; the bloody work of the soldiers was consummated; and the counties are in coarse of doing the same. the policeman had now to pursue his in proportions until Another week and the farce will be over ; and there then unhear d n ^. Aft er the massacres, tlio arrests (n masse. will be collected, ready for legislatorial action, the On llie 3r(j and .];h Ljj ui s Hoiiapar tc iiasl made of Paris a most mindless, soulless, heartless crew of shams, fri gh tful shambles ; on the 5th aud foUoalng days he con- tricksters, counterfeits, and impostors, ever got toge- verted i t into a« immense mousa-hap. ther since Parliaments had real existence. Since the 2nd the police> 3gan<s had four times presented themselves, for the purpose of arresting me at the Rue Sainte- The election here and there of a man of principle, A-nne, and at bureaux of th e " Revolution. " It was but and here and there of a man of talent devoid of prin- , time lost , as will be seen hy my recital . I passsd the night ciple, cannot invalidate the charge of unfitness— of the ath and the whole of the inquiries re- - | ! ¦¦ !! II I. .II U MIII I IIIM.III H I M BIIIIMM IILW I I M il HUmUlM HI II' IIIMI I 'um i 4th in making ¦ ¦ ¦ l. .I ¦ ¦¦ —•¦ ¦- and i 1 -^^— ¦ ¦ . 4- ^wp w ^ .^-- " I i ' ¦ - - -' moral mental—chargeable against the House as I in i F ' ' ' , gardin .s: the fate of otic of my brothers , whom I could 10- a whole. Not under the Boroughmongering system, whfiv f ind, and whose disappearance caused the greatest iu- not under the Premiership of Walpole the corrupt, No , , JULY 17, 1852. JS£ TS=2. quit tud e. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 5th I re- not under the sovereignly of Charles the dissolute, VOL. 1. II. LOMDON SATURDAY paired to the divan Lepelirti-r , oposite the o;:i»-a, where 1 could be found bo hoped to have some news ot him. There I fcund many of base a Parliament. For in those are resolved to support those politics only, which, while^tlu-y wilt them with perdition in a world to come ? For work- immaterial and inoffensive kind, found in his house were the enduring welfare my frieads, almost all Journalists, who bswailrd tho issue of days, amidst the general corruption and debasement, used as indications of new persons to be arrested , the police emancwate' Europe, will lead to of the United ing men to fight the battles of aay of the sects or States. Now this is a view which , if I nad tue honour to be a native even ts, and who, no more than myself , could conceal their there stood out as in hold relief men of great minds, hoping that the very multiplicity and promiseuousness of spcci.il tu-s to Europe, and onl parties info which their oppressors are seemingly American citizen , bound by no y consternation. None of them had seen my brother. I was daring hearts, lofty aspirations, and unpurchaseable the arrests would lead accidentally to discoveries. Perhaps determine ray patriotic duty, I would take as my guide, divided, is be guilty of the most writ.bed self- anxious to a bout to depart when a man, fillin g, I cannot doubt it now patriotism. How many such will bo found in the to the most significant fact connected with these arrests is l'.ven my enemies, who heap me with calumnies and stale jests, , abasement. One of two courses : The People should parsons arrested. tliem but not me, and who indulge lit the most maiig. an odious police mission, begged me to wait. Re told ma new Parliament "With few and rare exceptions, the the condition in life of the Among the which defile . ? either absolutely and entirely hoi J aloof fr/>m such a forfj'-serefl arrested, are tho heuda of the clergy in their man pervasion of my l»»suage, cannot deny that I have never tha t Frederick Couroet desired to meet me in the Sue des constituencies have deliberately set aside patriotism, spoken to the Germans in Ametiea without saving that tluiv first contest as this General Election, »r taking part respective communes or municipalities. Professor Henry be Americans, and that they Martyrs, and that he had been instructed tc conduct me talent and upon and holiest duty in America was to , consistency, to bestow their suffrages therein, they should do so only to fight their own Tassoli, a priest, was arrested a few months ago, and has should take the true interests of their adopted land, without regard thither; 1 have since discovered that be did- not know the most contemptible" of Political Eunuchs : Protec- bsen , since then , in prison on bread and water diet, aud to their personal feelings, as their guide. I say that, to-day, virtue Frederick Courttet . He immedia tely went out by - himself, battle and conquer turn own emancipation. By , and there is no virtue which tionists who eschew Protection ; Free Traders who subjected to all kind* of tortur ing contrivances , in the h the basis of Republican government under what pretext I no longer remember and returned a taking the fi rst course they would exhibit some show hope of obliging him to make revolutions. Attilio is not patriotic . But as ma t ters now stand, philanthropy is the , shrink from Trade ; Mori , short, few minutes after. He had no sooner returned than a po- going the length of perfect Free of dignity, some sense of self-respect. By taki ng engineer, Louis Castellazzi, arch pricst of Bosaetti, and only true American patriotism- Selfish isolation is either a Conservatives read conserve si-hted mistake, or an illusion and treason of the passions. It is a lice-caramissioner, accompanied by six ager.ts-and nearly y to sacrifice the nation to the second they would do themselves honour, and others, were arrested at tlie same time. At Brescia they any internal question of this priticip'e of mine never ti> mingle with sixty Shassetirs de Vincennes surrounded the house, and their own selfish supremacy ; and Reformers, who gain the glory of achieved regeneration. arrested Tito Speri ; at Verona, Taocioli ; ut Milan , Gio- country—and 1 shall not do it. But no ono can regard it as an , differ in nothing essential from their rivals, and who vanni Pezzotci, who was found strangled in his prison the offence to say that Europe is profoundly coneerncd m the question, noisi'.y entering the hail where we were, demanded ou f The new Parliament will be that which the Elec- of the country tho will be as ready as tiicy to vote new Coercion Bills next day. Pezzotti was a man of high intellectual attain- as to what; course in regard to the foreign policy names and qualities. tors have made, and the Non-fifectors have permit- ments. future administration may pursue ; for my own country and Ger- and Gagging Bills, if by any accident the now de- that policy. It is proper, Amongst these agents there was one who bed acted a prin- ted them to make. And talk as we may about ' non- A letter, dated Milan , July 3, states that it has beea as- many and all Europe are the objects of cipp.l graded masses should arouse from their apathy therefore, to express my views on that head. And since my views .part in all these scenes of baseness. This one interro- representation,' that Parliament will too faithfully certained that his body, immediately after his arrest , was , future of America, and it is gated the persons present them in the exhibit anything demanding of that question embrace the whole , impudentl y looked and like earnestness in represent the corruption, the ignorance, the bow- instantly cut open, with a view to get possession of some that question which is to give the main direction to the ncxt admi- face to recognise thero and decided according, to his caprice papers which he had swallowed at the moment of his American patriots have to f 'Beforrn.' geoisc baseness of the Electors ; it will also^represent arrest. nistration, I say that the way which upon their arrest. This was—but no I will not stain my "W the result of a Napo- It is said, too, that the tale of his having strangled himself choose is clearly indicated by events. They must not be led by , ere this new Parliament (alas ! that I should hare to pen it!) the inertness, but by principles. Now, one party pen. j I will not write the infamous name of that ancient an Elec- is a mere invention to conceal the fact that ho was assassi- party names or party affinities, leonic ' appeal to the People.' the fruit of the folly, the criminal anti-patriotism of the great nated.
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