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      72 The Star Of Freedom. September 11 , ^

      72 THE STAR OF FREEDOM . September 11 , ^

      Justice—Immutable, Universal, Eternal! T...

      Justice—Immutable , Universal , Eternal ! THE TYRANT BONAPARTE . —HIS FRIENDS AND FOES . The brigand who , for the time being , humiliates France by Ihis rule , and outrages Humanity by his very existence , has 1 both his friends and his foes , each comprising two stronglyi marked and widely-differing sub-divisions . His friends consist of two bodies—his partizans and his apologists . In the J first class may be numbered the horde of spoliators and

      { assassins—military , civil , commercial , clerical , and literary—^ who share his dominion over prostrate France , and share , too , Ithe rich spoil of a nation ' s wealth and resources . From ; Magnan , to G-RANiEit de Cassagnac , the entire crew of vampires who swear by Bonaparte the 2 nd , ( of December ) ; are to the full as guilty as the chief they serve , and even still : more vile , for they partake of his crimes under the pretence that he is " the destined Saviour of France from anarchy ;" while well they know that he is simply a low , cunning pickpocket ; an impudent spoliator of a nation ' s liberties and riches ; possessing no pretensions whatever—neither those of birth , talent , courage , nor popular election ( for the pretended

      " Universal Suffrage" is a wretched farce ) to justify and sanctify his domination . They inwardly despise , while outwardly they exalt him . Yet , in spite of the insincerity of their partizanship , they championizc the cause of their worthy perjurious leader . Of course they have a sufficient reason . The ascendancy of Bonapartism is for them the reign of Rapine , a thieves millennium , in which might is right , and the polity of the State may be summed up in the poet ' s exposition of the political and social creed of ancient brigandage : —

      The good (?) old way , the simple plan : That they should take who have the power , And they should keep who can . Bonaparte ' s less immediate supporters also include those enemies of Democracy , from Nicholas , the Autocrat , to England ' s Prime Minister , the Earl of Dsrijy , who , though they would prefer that France should be ruled by the wretched Bourbons , the representatives of retrogression , obscurantism , hereditary imbecility , and " the right divine" of privileged banditti , nevertheless accept the usurper as a necessity , a barrier against" the encroachments of Democracy , " a power

      commanding the force necessary to " compress the Revolution . " By these magnates of " legitimacy" the bastard head of the Bonapartes is regarded with sovereign contempt . Yet they hate , none the less that they despise him ; but they may not dispense with him , for he is their only bulwark against the

      seething waves of the Revolutionary lava . Yet a little—a little more of patience , suffering , and retribution deferred , and that bulwark will be undermined ; that fiery torrent will burst through the djdve and overleap the barrier , and then the great and mighty ones of the earth will vainly rue that they trusted for safety to a power so innately rotten and fore-doomed to perdition as that of Bonaparte ' s usurpation .

      Bonaparte s apologists consist of all shades and varieties of politicians , inspired by interest , misled by prejudice , or blinded by passion . Some , like Proudhon , pretend to look upon him as a necessity , the consequence of the impotency of the Republican , Legitimist , and Orlcanist parties . Others affect to regard him as the mere blind instrument and tool of the usurers and landlords of France ; and with no slight assumption of profound political wisdom , will declaim against those who have a word of condemnation for the tyrant , and who do not direct the entire of their hostility against the aforesaid landlords and usurers . There needs no "Daniel

      come to judgment , " no Samuel from the tomb , no Wise Man from the East , or Prophet from the "W est , to make plain that which must be patent to the meanest capacity : that the Cormorants of the Bourse , the holy impostors who live by the Church , the Algerine adventurers of the Army , and a large number of tie landlords , big and little—especially the latter—the miserable , bigotted , priest-led possessors of a few acres , or diminutive plot of soil are in league with Bonaparte , to uphold his supremacy , and stave off the Reign of Justice . But Bonaparte is no " innocent , " no political suckling , no blinded misled man of " good intentions , "

      subserving the ends of conspirators against Humanity , and unaware of tlie odious part he . is performing . On tlie . contrary , it is precisely because he is the chief of villians , the very incarnation of cold , crafty , calculating crime , that he is sustained in his bad eminence by the landed , commercial , military , clerical , and literary enemies of the Revolution . His apologists who affect to regard him as blameless- —wholly or comparatively—do but insult Reason , and outrage Common Sense . They may deny that they are his " friends , " but the part they play—from Piioudhon downwards—is calculated

      to strengthen his position , subserve his aims , and weaken that Republican cause with which is bound up the last hopes and holiest aspirations of the good and true of all lands . Bonaparte ' s foes comprise two great and strikingly dissimilar divisions . The first may be denominated Constitutionalists— a title they will not disclaim ; the second consist of the Democracy of Europe and America , the soldiers of Liberty , the advocates of Social Justice : in short , the men on whose banner is inscribed the words— " kepubli que universelle , democratioue et sociale !

      The Times and the Daily News may be taken as representing in this country the Constitutionalists . The Times is notoriously Orleanist , while the Daily News leans to a " moderate Republic . " But this point of difference—difference only as regards tlie m » ie of the government , tlie externals of the Executive authority , is a matter of no real importance Both

      mean by their constitutionalism the reign of the bourgeoisie ( not merely the Lords of the Bourse ) unfettered by co-partnership with priest and soldier . Both mean the establishment of that " English system" which has been proved by experience to be so much more profitable and less troublesome than unalloyed , undisguised sabre sway . The aim of the constitutionalists , both British and continental , is to ex-

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      tend over Europe that system of miscalled Freedom by which " the people are cheated with a show of Liberty , " while the produce of their toil is wrung from them by means of rents , profits , taxes , interest , & c ., & c . As this party can command a vast proportion of the venal talent in the literary world , and , moreover , has no lack of all other means necessary to overcome an enemy , and change defeat to victory , it is , for

      the time being , the most menacing to tho French usurper and his partizans . With almost illimitable resources , the Times can command proportionate pen-power , and it must be acknowledged that its almost daily onslaughts upon Bonaparte arc matchless for telling crushing effect—matchless , unless in the immortal collection of Junius ' s letters , or the most trenchant of Cobbett ' s epistles . But while doing justice to the talent of the Twi-s , it must be borne in mind that , the

      thunders launched at the head of Bonaparte are not launched for us , but for those who if less truculent , arc not less deadly foes to Right and Justice . Up to the time of the coup < Vetat the Times encouraged , applauded , and instigated every attack upon , every act of treason to the Republic , whether perpetrated by the traitorous President , or the re-actionary Assembly , or both combined . It was the same with other journals now opposed to the imperial pretender . Indeed , certain characters , at present taking credit for ( heir hostility to Bonaparte , did , at the first moment , applaud his usurpation ;

      the editor of the Morning Advertiser to wit . In common with the Post , Herald , Sun , Globe , and other infamous prints , the Advertiser at the commencement applauded the coup detat , but , finding tint the public opinion of the country revolted at the contemplation of the crimes of the arch-Decembrist , the judicious and " canny" editor of the Tap-Tub of " Random Recollections" notoriety , suddenly wheeled round and became the bitter assailant of the brigand , whom he had at first

      applauded . At this moment the organ of " publicans and sinners" is gaining some notoriety in consequence of having provoked the ire of the Elysean bandit . Jamie knows which is the paying side and so can afford to "do" the patriotic , and masquerade in the guize of an indignant friend of freedom and humanity ! Such is your " unfettered press , " such are your " best possible instructors , " 0 ; free and enlightened Britons !

      Next to the Times the Daily News has done the best service in unmasking the hypocrisy , and exposing the crimes of Louis Bonaparte . But no more than the Times is it the friend to true Freedom , and the rights ( political and social ) of the millions . In its impression of Monday last , the Daily News renews its assaults upon the usurper ; but couples therewith a malignant attack upon the French Socialists and Red Republicans . It denounces the Socialists as " crafty theorists who seek to promote their views by argument and

      experiment . " Crafty , forsooth ! Might not that term be better applied to its own friends , to the chiefs of the Commercial and competitive world ?—to Rothschild and Cobden , to the " devil ' s dust" and " shoddy " men of the North , and the Stock Exchange gamblers of the South ? But the Socialists seek to promote their views by argument and experiment Surely the censure of the News is praise 1 The unlucky Red Republicans are more than a shade worse than the Socialists . They are described by the Manchester School organ as " those

      unreasoning blunderers who always appeal to arms , and to arms alone . " Undoubtedly the Red Republicans blundered in a way which , circumstances favouring them , they are not likely to blunder again . On the 17 th of March , 1848 , every man of them , but Blanqui , blundered ; and he who saw farthest was powerless . Had the manifestation on that day resulted in the purging of the Provisional Government , of Lamartine and the rest of the gangrened majority , possibly , probably , the Revolution would have progressed both within France and beyond the frontier , and in that case it is likely that at this hour not a throne would have had existence on

      the face of Continental Europe . " Their only idea , " observes the News , still speaking of the same party , " their only mission , is destroying by brute force whatever exists . With such men there is only one way of dealing , they must of necessity be encountered with their own weapons . " They have never been encountered by aught else than force . Will Nicholas disband his Cossacks and argue with Kossuth ? will Bonaparte lay aside his sabre , resume his pen and enter the lists with Victor Hugo ? Will Pius enter into fair and free

      discussion with Mazzini ? Kossuth , Victor Hugo , and Mazzini , are not Red Republicans" and if even they , moderate men , by comparison , —arc compelled to rest their hopes upon the argument of force , is it to bo wondered at that men of the stamp of Barbes have no hope of effecting Europe ' s regeneration by milder means . The calumniated Red Republicans in their day of power shed no blood . Dare the Daily News assert the same of its favourite the " honest and moderate "

      Cavaignac—the butcher of the workmen m the fatal days of June ' 48 ? The peace-at-any-price journal has naturally a holy horror of men " whose mission is to destroy "; but let it not calumniate nor exaggerate ; let it rather turn the lightnings of its indignation , the thunders of its wrath , against the executioners and frcc-booters , who render Red Republicanism a sad but indispensable necessity . Yes , the mission of the Red Republicans is to destroy—the destroyers of nations ; and to put down by force , animated and directed by reason , those enemies of the human race who are inaccessible to every toher kind of argument .

      The Daily News admits that " socialism is an opinion , a faith that cannot be eradicated by prohibitory laws or force . " The Socialists , in spite of their jarring theories and crude conceptions , are the apostles of the better Future ; and the Republicans , bo they termed " Red" or otherwise , are their pioneers . Ths second division of Bonaparte ' s foes need no elaborate portraiture . Incidentally they have already been described .

      They arc not confined to his own countrymen , but belong to every clime where exist men who detest profligacy , perjury , hypocrisy , and murder . True , the usurper stands not alone . He is but . one of the chiefs of a vast and truculent conspiracy organised to keep the nations in perpetual slavery—mental , political , and social . But he is the foremost and altogether the most hateful unit in that conspiracy ; and in the proportion that a man loves Liberty and Justice , and abhors

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      Tyranny and Crime , in the like proportion will be his hot towards the French despot . Frenchman or English ! European or American , it matters not , every true man will ?' thought , word , and deed , proclaim himself the political i sonal , inexorable foe of the tyrant Bonaparte . * ' CT * L'AMI DU PEIT PLF

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      don as speedily as possible the credit system , upon whicl most of the agencies of the Star had been conducted . \\ t knew it to be opposed to the general practice of Kewspa , ) ei ! business , as we know of no other Newspaper which does not demand " Cash with Orders . '' Impressed with these vieir s we issued circulars by post to the News-agents , requesting them to obtain their papers from the Publishers , who supply them with other journals . Notices to the same effect , hivjj been repeatedly inserted in these columns . Having ' ai ven ample warning , we were justified in concluding that * t ]] 0 se

      Agents who had not written to us , had transferred their orders as we had requested them to do . We now learn that many of them bad neglected to do so . In a northern city which recently has been extensively placarded with announcements concerning the Star of Freedom , and where , consequently the public demand had largely increased , not a copy of last Saturday's paper was to be had , not a copy having been ordered ; the principal agent having taken no heed of our repeated notices . Thus occurred the non-delivery of the papers in many districts . We submit to our readers , that having

      given timely notice , the fault is not with us ; although the loss and injury principally falls to our own share . Some of the agents who owe us money consider it a great grievance if they are required to cash up . Some have paid but have thrown up the agency ; others , finding there are no more papers to be had on credit , have thrown up the agency and intimated that they will pay that which they owe when it suits them ; others treat our demand with sovereign contempt . Nor is this all . Our readers would be astonished , amused , and probably disgusted could they peruse certain letters with

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 11, 1852, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_11091852/page/8/