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      ' " JUSTICE- —IMMUTABLE , UNIVERSAL , ETERNAL . " THE POPE AND THE EMPEROR . Names of fear in the olden time!—rival claimants for the rule of Europe , —the sovereignty of fraud and force over the minds and peisons of tlie tranipled-down people . What seas of blood were shed , what atrocious crimes were committed , what afflictions imposed upon Humanity , by the abominable struggle between Emperor and Pope , soldier and priest , to determine whether the brigand-license of the military bandit , or the cold-blooded craft of the sacerdotal impostor should prevail over prostrate Europe !

      It was a contest , not of the powers of Good and Evil , but of Evil only ; and in the end . the combatants saw that the interests of each would be best served by their mutual agreement . The conflict , though fertile of suffering for Humanity , had not been absolutely unproductive of beneficial results . Princes , by resisting the arrogant pretensions of the church , and bringing the thunders of the Vatican into scorn and contempt , had thereby shaken popular

      faith in the priesthood , and given a stimulus to those daring souls who , beginning by doubting the infallibility of the church , ended by spurning all its bands and fetters , and answering ghostly anathemas with the war-cry of Tree Inquiry : - " Prove all things—Prove , or die ! " On the other side , the priests had shaken the blind devotion of the peoples for their ldngs . Affecting to regard

      the throne as but the footstool of the church , —pretending to the ri ght of releasing nations from their sworn allegiance to their monarchs , —assuming the power to dethrone princes disobedient to the decrees of "God ' s Vicegerent , " the priests thereby initiated the inquiry as to whether kings might not be cashiered by the people as well as by the priesthood ; and speedily Republicanism revived : Democracy arose from the tombs of Grecian and Roman

      greatness ; the thinkers of Europe emerged from the mass , and coming forward to beard priest and king , lifted aloft the banner of Civil and Religious Freedom . Our puritan fathers led the van . Other nations followed . Political freedom was established on an indestructible basis in the new world . On the European continent mig hty , intellects sapped tlie foundations , and hurled their thunderbolts of Thought against the battlements of monarchical and

      sacerdotal institutions , until , like an Alpine avalanche , came the crash of ' 89 , overwhelming and crushing the royalty of a thousand years' duration , and sweeping the impostures and organized hypocricies of centuries into one mass of ^ distinguishable ruin . Unhappily , this glorious victory of Reason and Right over Fraud and Tyranny was the work of the few , rather than the many . The

      crimes of corrupt men , the gigantic treason of a military adventurer , and , above all , the ruthless conspiracy of usurers and landlords throughout Europe , headed by those * of England , brought about the fall of the Republic , the ' triumph of the Reaction , the banded alliance of despots , and the more perfect organization of that military power which , with gauntlet of mail and heel of iron clutches at the throat and treads upon the heart of Humanity . '

      The free thought of Europe protested b y word and deed in 1830 ; and again in 1848-49 . History , when no longer written by the venal sycophants of Wealth and Power , will do justice to the heroism and self-sacrificing devotion of the men of both those memorable epochs . It must be confessed , that terrible errors were committed , —errors of omission as well as commission ; and the result is that which we see , —the deplorable prostration of Europe , the rule of the

      sanguinary Beactionnaires . Recovering from their temporary defeats , the enemies of Freedom exhibit * increased cunning , audacity , and ferocity . Wiser than their opponents , they accurately estimate the power of union : and thus we see Pope and Emperer allied , soldier and priest in fraternity , the legitimate autocrat and the bastard usurper combining in one unholy phalanx to arrest the course of Progress , enchain the human mind , annihilate Liberty by Terror , and render enduring and perpetual the frightful ascendancy of Fraud and Force . °

      There are political philosophers , wise above all men in their own conceit , who contend that Pope and Emperor , priest and soldier are of no account ; that they are the mere instruments of omnipotent capitalists , —the real masters of the world . They add , that His Rothschild not Nicholas , Baring not Bonaparte the Bourse not the Vatican , against whom and which should be in voked the organization of the peoples , and the thunders of Demo craey . Granted that the money-power is all that it is represented to be ; suppose that the Kaiser could not occupy his throne but for the help of the foreign loan-monger , and that the French tvrant has for his accomplices those gamblers of the Boursp

      Whose game is Empire , and whose stakes are thrones , Whose table earth , whose dice are human bones , — What then ? Must not the outposts be captured before the citadel can be stormed ? Must not the guards of tyranny be vanquish ^ before that tyranny-be it of whatsoever character it may-can be overthrown ? Emperor and Pope , soldier and priest , bar the way of human progress ; the battle of the hour is with them

      Bv all means labour to enlighten the masses respecting the frauds and cbcanenes of our anti-social system . Let them be tati 4 t that political reform accomplished , the work of regeneration wili We but commenced . ; but do not place obstacles in the wavof that in dispensable reform , wanting which the rei gn of social mlit must continue to be an Utopian dream ° st

      Those inclined to underrate the importance of Pope and "Fm peror-that is , of priest and soldier-will do well to Inderonthe SSSS ^ ' ^ ftasfi ? ^ SSSSSa a ^ w SSffi 3 SaSEiB § fc £ came simu taneousl y with the above intellig ence n ^ f f * f condemnations to death and chains at Naples- andW * " ^ worse than death captivity can be made bvthlkw * m ^ our Conservative countrvman Mr Cr *™ ^ apditan vampire Italy turn to France ? SS be ^ id ™ \ 1 s shown - &m ^^ t ^^ Z ^ J ^ T ^^ the Ms treason by abolishing ^ l ^^^ T ^ S ^^ ^ JLnf ° I ? ? 5 ™ 1 ^ <* the Republicand

      srnmn * A * « , . , aserect a blood-cemented throne ? CmseLl £ , ? ™ APARTE s ^ wSsKSStF strKiKS BiiSS

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      in other days . But he is of importance viewed as the symbol and representative of a power yet potent for evil . He is the head of a Church having its ramifications throughout Europe ; a Church eternally allied with despotism . The Pope is sustained by foreign bayonets not merely because the French and Austrian conscription can furnish soldiers for any work of infamy but because also of the besotted ignorance and

      superstition of millions of the population of Europe . Even from the free mountains of Switzerland come willing recruits to bear arms in the service of the triple-crowned impostor of the Vatican ; and if the British Government would oppose no obstacle , there would be no difficulty to enlist , in Ireland , any number of volunteers to join " the Army of the Faithful . " The ignorance of the French peasantry makes them the willing tools of an unscrupulous adventurer . It is necessary to look at facts as they really are ; and it is useless to deny that among the priest-led peasants of France , Bonaparte is possessed of an influence fatal to freedom . There

      can be no doubt that the enthusiasm in the cities and towns , and especially in Paris is manufactured to order , is a mockery and a sham ; but it is not the less certain that among the ignorant masses of the rural distracts the name of Bonaparte yet possesses atalismar . icpower . From these benighted multitudes the conscription collects the great mass of the French soldiery . The Church nurtures blind instruments for the service of the State , The State , in return , affords its protection to the Church . Both combined unite with the Bourse to hold the nation in mental , political , and social thrall .

      But nil desperandum / - — " the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph . " We , in this land where ' free thought may find utterance , are summoned to again take the field as the pioneers of European Liberty . We have to educate our own uninstructed population ; we have to wrest fro . m Class-Privilege'the right of Universal Suffrage ; and , at the same time , we are not to forget that service which we may render , and are bound by every

      consideration of duty to give to our brothers of other lands . The evil weighing upon this nation at present is not priestly tyranny , not military despotism , but the want of public spirit . Let only public spirit be revived and on this soil maybe found ample means for conducting the struggle for Europe ' s liberation , to an early and triumphant issue . Here may , and let me hope will , be organized the democratic forces for the overthrow of Pope and Emperor , and the permanent establishment of European Freedom . I / AMI DU PEUPLE .

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      . W . B ., Bradford . —So far from the "Star" being dead , we can assure you and all our readers . that the permanance of the paper may be considered secure . In spite of the unscrupulous attacks and false statements of our enemies , we have been able to overcome all obstacles , and with the continued assistance of our friends we shall be enabled to set all hostility at defiance . The Frkhch Exms . —The Society La Commune Hevolutionaire , has published a letter , addressed to the people of France , in which the members of the Society have expressed their opinions in regard to the present their hopes for the future , and the principles on which the democratic and social republic should be founded . A translation of this pamphlet shall app in the next number of the " Star of Freedom . ' '

      I . Longfellow , Glasgow . —Received . A Factory Lad , Huddersfield . —We have no knowledge of any work on the first subject you speak of . The best Mesmeric Books are published by Bailliere in Regent-street . The Rev . Mr . Sauby ' s Work is the best defence of Mesmerism 2 vols ., 4 s . the two , published by Bailliere , Regent-street . Mr . T . Sturgeon , Finsburi\— -Your complaint , we regret to say , was too well founded . The disgraceful manner in which the paper was printed last week , was owing to an accident to the machine , and the impossibility of procuring another in time . Arrangements have been made by which the occurrence of a like accident will be effectually guarded against for the future . The stamps have been handed to Miss O'Connor . i

      William Rigg , Bridgefordgate .- —He was Charge d ' ojfain in Switzerland under the Whig ministry . He has not been a member of the Cabinet . ' ' Robert Sutcliffe , Halifax . — -For the future you may have no fear of want of punctuality . There will be none on our part . If you fail in getting your pnpers in time , it will be the fault of your agent . Miss O'Connor ' s addl-ess is 31 , Queen ' s-road , Bnyswater . Monies Received for the Refugees . —John West , Granttey , is 2 d G . Holloway , Kidderminster , Is . ; Cheltenham , per J . Hemmin , 4 s . ; J . i ) e Co-an Liverpool , 6 d . . ° '

      The Refugees . —My position in respect to these unfortunate men is a most painful one . One instance will suffice to show the harrowing scenes I have to witness daily . At the meeting of the Refugee Committee last Sunday evenina number of destitute exiles came before us in succession . One of tbem formerly an officer in the Austrian army , came in a borrowed coat ( all his ' own clothes being pawned to procure food ) to solicit aid for his mother and sister who were starving . There was no fund , and the few shillings given to each unfortunate had to be raised from private sources . It is most disgraceful that while money can be procured for the sustenance of political charlatans and Deggliig-letter impostors , no assistance is rendered to the political exiles . If this be notremedied at once ~ if something be not done within the next week , I shall be compelledto renounce all connection with this committee .

      G . Julian Harney . Among the refugees in want of employment is a jeweller , for whom Borne of our Birmingham tnends could perhaps find work . Another could give lessons in drawing , and could draw patterns , A . E .-We will attend to your communication next week . anaSo « m hCinfOrmatiOn he re * uires in *» ««*¦<» Emigration

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      BONAPARTE AND ABD-EL-KADER . The formal declaration of the Empire is adjourned for two or th weeks . The " Senate" will meet on the 4 th of November , and through that delectable body will be submitted to the peopl ' e ' the question , of transforming the " Republic" into the "Empire" \ correct idea of the real feeling of Paris on Saturday last the reader will obtain from a perusal of our Paris Correspondent ' s letter . It will be seen that the much vaunted " enthusiasm" was regularly

      " got-up" for the occasion . Still , the best that can be said for Paris is , that a feeling of contemptuous indifference towards the usurper pervades the majority of the inhabitants . There is wanting that burning hatred of tyranny which would lead us to hope for the tyrant ' s immediate overthrow . Of course , we speak of tlie inhabitants generally , not of the revolutionary forces still formidable though terribly decimated . The Republicans , whom no temptation can corrupt , no force appal , are yet strong of heart and full of faith in the ultimate redemption of their country .

      On his way back to Paris , and at the end of his tour , Bonaparte visited the illustrious Arab—Abd-el-Kader ; and to the surprise , not more of the imprisoned chief than the public generally , announced to the Emir the approaching termination of his captivity , This , it must be confessed , is one of Bonaparte ' s master-strokes by which he contrives to turn the faults of others to his own advantage . He has performed an act the non-performance of which was a stain upon the Provisional Government . He thus shines by

      contrast with the men who were more specially bound to perform an act of justice , and redeem their country from the stigma d broken faith . Our readers , whose memories will enable them to recall the leading events of some few years back will remember with what admiration Europe generally was compelled to regard the chivalric heroism of the African chieftain—the not unworthy successor of that Numidian Jugurtha who nineteen centuries ago contested the supremacy of the Roman Empire . In another column we have given a biographical sketch of one of the most remarkable men of

      this age ; one , who while at the head of his people enjoyed the the reputation of patriot , warrior , legislator , poet , and saint combined ! Certain it is , that whatever allowance may be made for oriental colouring , Abd-el-Kader , at the head of his wild free horsemen , contrasted most nobly with such " civilised" butchers as the brutal . Bugeaud ! and we felt more than a passing pang of sorrow when apprised of his downfall . It was impossible to contemplate the savage warfare waged by France against the Arabs without entertaining the strongest feeling of abhorrence , and naturally , it became the wish of all true men , that Abd-el-Kader

      might succeed in driving the foreign invaders from Ins native soil . But fate had willed otherwise . The victim of Moorish treason , and a succession of misfortunes , the Emir found himself compelled to surrender to his enemies . On that occasion General Lamorigiere and the-Duke D'AumalE solemnly engaged to allow

      their captive to freely transport himself to Egypt or Syria , on condition of not again troubling the African ^ dominions of Trance . That engagement was shamefully broken by Louis Philippe and his ministers . Within a few days after the revolution of February , Abd-el-Kader addressed a letter to the Provisional

      Government reminding the new rulers of the pledge g iven to him by their predecessors , in violation of which he had been doomed to captivity on French soil , and urging that both in justice to bimsd , and for the honour of France , the pledge broken by " the son ot a i ii IJjg King , " should be made good by " the men of the people , n . appeal was in vain , and to the shame of Lamartine especi ally , ^ ii ' w ™ •** »*» i % «***> ivitvl W i / iav Kr KwAliV v » jl . ^'""" - *™—— * t

      the discredit of the revolutionary chiefs generally , the g allant i ra remained—like a caged lion—cooped up in a French P nson j s prison in reality was the p lace of his detention . Rep eated appea ^ have been made to Bonaparte , to liberate the captive , » ^ vain , until last week , when—within a few hours journey of a —he unexpectedl y stopped at the Chateau of Amboise , an «]> prised Abd-el-Kader of his intended liberation . .

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      SATURDAY , OCTOBER 23 , 1852 .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 23, 1852, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1701/page/8/