Corydon Press, and Anti-Masonic Democrat, Volume 2, Number 11, Corydon, Harrison County, 10 November 1830 — Page 5

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'he president of the Counsel of Ministers, Prince de Pomonacy The keeper of the seals, Minister Secretary of State and of justice, Chaktelauze. The Minister Secretary of State for the department of the Finances, Mowtbel, The Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs and of public Instruction, The Count Guerhon Rantillm. The Minister Secretary of State of Public Works, Baron Capebeixe. Another ordinance of the same date is mentioned, making some important alterations in the law of election?, to prevent, as is stated in the prearn We, the manoeuvres which have exetcised h pernicious influence over the late operations of the electoral colleges. And by two other ordinances till, several persons are appointed nu mbers of the Council of State. The decree respecting the election, is?nid to be in contravention of the Charter, and limits the right of eufferage to about oneburthof thj present number of electors. REPORT TO THE KING. Paris, July 26, 1830. Sire. Your ministers would be unworthy the confidence with which your Maieety has honored them, if they longer delayed placing before you a concise statement of our internal situation, and to indicate to your Highnesa the dangers arising from the periodical press. At no period during the Iat fifteen years ha this situation presented itself under a more serioun and afflicting aspect Notwithstanding a prosperity unexampled in the annals of history, signs of disorganization and symptoms of anarchy are manifested upon almost every point of the kingdom. The Kurceasive causes which have conduced to weaken the springs of the monarchical government, operate to-day to alter and change its naturedeprived of it moral force, the civil authority within the capital and in the provinces, maintained but an unequal contest against fac (ions Pernicious and subversive doctrines openly profrgrfed are spread and propagated among all clashes of our population disquietudes too generally accredited agitate the public mind and torment society. From all quarters a guarantee i9 demanded for future security. A maliciousness, active, ardent, indefatigable, is at work to overturn the foundations of order, und to deprive France of the happiness which she enjoved under the sceptre of her kings. Active in working discontent and stirring up hatred it foments among the people a spirit of defiance and hostility against government, and seeks every where to sow the seeds of discoid und of civil war. And, Sire, recent events have already proved that political feelings confiued heretofore to the higher ranks of society, are beginning to be more gdberully felt, and to excite the popular "mass.

They have proved also, that this7r.

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siuve iu cure lis repose. A multitude of facts collected durincr the courstl

of the late electoral operations, confirm these statements, and afford a too certain presage of1 new commotions, did not your Majesty possess u power of remedying the evil. To an attentive observer, there every wherd exist a necessity for order, force and permanent cy, and the disturbances which appear the most opposed to such necessity, arc in reality but thb expression and testimony of it. x These agitations which cannot be increased without great peril, are almost exclusively pro duccd and excited by the liberty allowed to the pres. A law of elections nbt less prolific indis orders, ha? without doubt concurred, absisted to maintain them, but we must deny the evidence of our senses not to see in the periodicals the principal focu? of a corruption, the progress of which becomes daily more sensible as the origin of tho calamities which threaten the kingdom. Experience, Sire, speaks louder than theory enlightened men without doubt, whose patriotism cannot be supppcted, carried away by the exam pie of a neighboring people, have beeved that the advantages of the periodical pre?s would bet neutralized by contrary excesses. Jt is not so ' the proof is decisive and the question is now de U rmii ed. At all epochs the periodical press has only beeo, find from its nature must ever be, an instrument cZ disorder and sedition. How numerous and irrefutable are the proofii that may be brought to support this truth. It is by the violent and uninterrupted action of the press that we aie to attribute those too sudden and too frequent changes in our internal policy. It haa not permitted a regular and stable system of government to be established in France, nor that con tinued and strenuous efforts should be made toiatroduce ioto the various branches of public administration those ameliorations of which, they ana susceptible. Every ministry since 1814, though formed under different circumstances, and actuated by different impulses, have been exposed to the same attacks and to the same unbridled expressions of passion. Sacrifices of every kind, concessions of power, alliances of party, nothing; has been able to protect them from this common destiny. Thi? fact alone, so fertile in reflection?, suffices to assign to the press its true and unvariable character. It labors by continuous and persevereing efforts daily repeated, to loosen all the bonds of obedience and subordination, to weaken the springs of public authority, to sink and debase it in the opinion of the people, and to create for it every where embarrassments and resistance. Its art consists not in substituting for a credulous submission of the mind the healthy liberty of examination, but to reduce the most positive truth: to problems; not to invite a frank and useful controversy upon political questions, but to present them iii a1 false light and to resc-lre them by phisni;.