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      Justice—Immutable , Universal , Eternal ! THE TYRANT BONAPARTE . —HIS FRIENDS AND FOES . The brigand who , for the time being , humiliates France by his rule , and outrages Humanity by his very existence , has both his friends and his foes , each comprising two strong ] ymarked and widely-differing sub-divisions . His friends consist of two bodies—his partizans and his apologists . In the first class may be numbered the horde of spoliators and assassins—military , civil , commercial , clerical , and literarywho share his dominion over prostrate France , and share , too , the rich spoil of a nation ' s wealth and resources . From

      Magxan , to Granieii 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 championize the cause of their worthy perjurious leader . Of course they have a sufficient reason . The ascendancy of Bonapartisin 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 Derby , 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 dyke 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 Orleanist parties . Others attect 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 West , 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 Algerinc adventurers of the Army , and a large number of the landlords , big and little—especially the latter—the miserable , bigotted , priest-led possessors of a fe ; v acres , or dimimv . i p $ ) t 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 the odious part he is performing . On the contrary , it is precisely because he is the chief of villains , 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 . Plis 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 Proudhon 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— " kepublique univeu-SELLE , DEMOCBATIQUE KT 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 the name of the government , the externals of the Executive authority , is a matter of no real importance . Both b

      mean y their constitutionalism the reign of the bourgeoisie ( not merely the Lords of the Bourse ) unfettered bv 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 the 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 Jwiivds letters , ' or the most trenchant of Cobdett ' s epistles . But while doing justice to the talent of the Tinvs , 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 , are not less deadly foes to Right and Justice . Up to the time of the coup d ? eiat 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 their 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 applaudedthe coup d ' etat , but , finding that 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-Tubof " 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 proyoked 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 gnize of an indignant friend of freedom and humanity ! Such is your " unfettered press , " such are your " best possible instructors , " 0 ye 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

      avIio 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 ! 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 Lamarttne 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 di *

      cnssion with Mazzint ? Kossuth , Victor Hugo , and Mazzini , are not Red Republicans" and if even they , moderate men , by comparison , —are compelled to rest their hopes upon the argument of force , is it to be 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 in 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 frec-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 other kind of argument .

      The Daily hews 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 , arc the apostles of the better Future ; and the Republicans , Be 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 are 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 he h « h * towards the French despot . Frenchman or Endk ed European or American , it matters not , every true man w'ru ' thought , word , and deed , proclaim himself the nolitinl ' }' sonal , inexorable foe of the tyrant Bonaparte . ' per " I / AMI DU PetjpLe

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      TO THE HEADERS NEWS AGENTS AND FRIENDS OF THE ST V FREEDOM . ' Op AYe are grieved to learn from several sources , that many of « subscribers to the Star of Freedom , were in several p ] * ° disappointed by the non-delivery of last Saturday ' s numb ^ We feel bound at once to declare that we arc in no decree t blame for this negligence . We have long contemplated , and endeavoured to effect a rational change in the mode of ' c ducting the business of this journal . We felt that to sustai " it as an exponent of Democratic principles , we should aba

      don as speedily as possible the credit system , upon which most of the agencies of the Star had been conducted , ty knew it to be opposed to the general practice of Ncwspapc ^ business , as we know of no other Newspaper which does nil demand " Cash with Orders . " Impressed with these views we issued circulars by post to the News-agents , requesting them to obtain their papers from the Publishers , who siipnij them with other journals . Notices to the same effect , hive been repeatedly inserted in these columns . Having ' rm- « ample warning , we were justified in concluding that those Agents who had not written to us , had transferred their orders as we had requested them ro do . We now learn that

      many of them had neglected to do so . In a northern city which recentl has been extensively placarded with announcemen ts 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 lia vin * 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 tin ' s all Our readers would be astonished , amusedj and probably disgusted could they peruse certain letters with which-we have been favoured . We are not speaking of the majority of the agents , only a small but mischievous

      minority . The majority we have found to be honourable men . The credit system was the bane of the Northern Star . When Mr . O'Connor gave up that paper the agents were indebted to him many hundreds of pounds . A large sum is already owing to the Star of Freedom , although it has existed only a few months . That it may continue to exist , it is necessary that the credit system be completely abolished . We pay weekly for paper , stamps , printing , publishing , and all other items of

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      < J ©" We trust our friends who may hear of ( would-be ) readers being unable to obtain the Star , * will make the above known to them . Letters to the Editor . All communications intended for publication , or notice , in the Star of Freedom , must be addressed to G . Julian Hakney , 4 , Brunswick Row , Queen ' s Square , Bloomsbiuy , London . V . Correspondents will oblige by writing on one side only of their letter- paper ; and by forwarding their communications as early as possible in the week .

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      72 THE STAR OF FEEEDOM . September 11 , i 852

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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/vm2-ncseproduct1695/page/8/