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The Two Processions

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
July
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The nrws of il e Revolutiort of the Tliree Day's in Paris, and thfi triumph ot the French people over Charles X and hls ministers, ns n matter of course, acteH witii greit effect upon our natii ml susceptibility. We all threw up our hats in excessive joy at the sppctacle of a King dnshed down heidlong from lus throne, nnd chased out of his kingdom by his long-suffi-ring and oppressed subjects. - We took half the credit of the j manee to ourïelvps, innsmuch ns Laf.ivette was a principal actor in it. Our edilnrs, from Passnmnquoddy to the Sahine, nHited pnragraphs fora ihouaatid and onr newspapers, congrr'.ulating tho Parisian patriota, nnd prophesying nll manner of evil to Huly Alliances, King, nnd nristoerncies. The National Inieiligencer f)f September 27, 1830, contains a full account of the public rejoicings of the good peple of VVa-hington on tlie occasion. Bellswere rung in all the steeples, guns were fired, nnd a grand proces sion wns furmed, including the President of the Unhei States, tha heads of Departments, and (ther public functionaries. Decirnted with tri-colored ribbons, ond wiih tri-colored flngs mingling with tlie stripes and stnrs over tlieir hpnds, and gazed dnwn upon by briglit eyes fmm window nnd balcony, the " General Symiatbizers" moved slovvly ond m'ijpstically tluough the broad avenue tnwards the Capit"!, to celébrale the revival of Freneh liberty in a manner hecoming tho chosen rulers of a free people. What a speetnele was this for tlie rep-" respntntives "f European kingernft al our ;-eat of Government! How the titlcd agents of Metternic-h nnd Nicholr.s must have tramUed, in view of this imposing dmonstrotion, fr the safeiy of their " peculiar iiiftitutions !" Unluckih', höwever, the moral effect of this gr.md spectai:ie ws maircdsnmc ivhnt by the appeirance of nnother rore-sion. moving n a contrary clirection. li was a gang of slaves ! ílancícufled in I pairs, vi:!i tha sullen snön- 6f ■'■■ in Iheir face, they marchei wenrily onward to the imisic of the driver's whp and tho clanking iron on their limlis. - Tiiink of il ! Shouts f ti iumph. rpjoicing bells', gny b'innors, and glittering cnvalondes, in honor of Liberty, in invneiiüte conlrast with men and women chnined j and driven like catile to makfit. The editor of the Amrican Spectator, a paper pubÜsiied nt Wnsln'ngion nlthni tune, (pcaking of this black procession of slavpry, describes it as " driven along b_V what had the appearance of a man on horsebnek." The miserable wretche who compo.seH it we re douhtlessconsigned lo a slive jail to awnit llieir pnrchnae and trnnsportaiion to the Soulh or Soithwest and perhaps formed a pnrt of thnt drove of hutnon tjeings whii-h the s'ime pdilor sta'es that he saw on the Sutu ixiny following, " rnales and femnles ch:iiried in ciuplps, starling Trom Robey's tnvern, on foot, for Alrt.xandrin, to eiiibark on

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Signal of Liberty
Old News