Corydon Press, and Anti-Masonic Democrat, Volume 2, Number 11, Corydon, Harrison County, 10 November 1830 — Page 6

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,m the bosom of society a confusion of princi

ples which favors the most disastrous attempts-

Anarchy in doctrines is a prelude to anarchy in the state. It is worthy of remark, Sire, that the periodical press has never fulfiled its most eential condition, namely, publicity. It may appear strange, but it is no less true, that there is no publicity in France, taking this word in its just and rigorous acceptation. In the actual 6tale of things, facts

presented to many millions of readers curtailed, disfigured, and mutilated in a most odious manner. A thick cloud raised by the Journals disguises the truth, and in a measure prevents a perfect understanding between the Government and the people. TheKings your predecessor, Sire, have been desirous freely to communicate with their subjects, but this is a satisfaction which the press is not willingthat your Majesty should enjoy. ; A licentiousness which has outstripped all bounds, even upon the most soiemn occasions, end neither respected the express wishes of the King for the addresses made to them from the Throne. The one has been mistaken or perverted and the others have been the subject of pertidious commentary or bitter derision. It is thus that the last act of royal authority, the proclamation, fell into general discredit even before it was known to the electors. This is not all the Press has a tendency to subrogate the sovreignty and usurp the powers of the state. The pretended organ of public opinion, it aspires to direct the debates in the two chambers, end it incontestibly exercises an influence upon those debates, no less baocful than deceptive. This dominion in the Chamber of Deputies, especially for the last two or three year?, has assumed a manifest character of oppression and ty. ranny. We have 6een in this interval the journals pursuing with insult and outrage numbers whose vote appeared to them either uncertain or euspected. Too often Sire, the freedom of the deliberations in this chamber has fallen a sacrifice to the renewed attacks of the preos. We cannot qualify, in more moderate terms, the conduct of the opposition journals in relation to recent events. After having themselves provoked an address, attacked the prerogatives of the throne, they have not scrupled to consider the re-election of the 221 deputies who voted this address, as a matter of principle! notwithstanding your Majesty objected to this addre$3 as offensive; it attached public reproach to the refusal or concurrence which was there expressed, it announced its unshaken resolution not to defend the rights of your crown o openly compromised. The periodical prints have paid no attention to this, on the contrary they have considered it a duty to re- . new, to perpetuate, and to aggravate the offence. Your Majesty will decide if this rash attack should a longer time remain unpuniehed. But of all the excesses of the press, perhaps the O02t ?cr!oss remains to bo meet; wd. Vsvzi tho

rerv commencement of the expedition, the Icri

nation of which has thrown a gleam so pure and an eclat so durable upon the noble crown of France, the press hns criticized, with a violclwc un heart of, the causes, the means, the prepjfatives ant! chances of success of this expedition. Insensible to national honor, no thanks to it that our ensigr: does not remain tarnished with the insult of a bar burton. Indifferent to the great interests of human-

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longer SUUjeCl iu u uruti biuvci jr uuu pimiuciui m bute. ' This was not enough. By a treason that should be amenable to our laws, the press has engaged itself in publishing all the secrers-of the armament, in making known to the stranger the state of our forces, th number of our troops, that of our vesflels, the indication of the points of statioiv thfcmeans to be employed to overcome the inconstancy of the winds, and to land upon the coast. Every thing:, even to the place of disembarkation, has been divulged, as if to form a surer means of dc fence to the enemy, an unexampled ctrcumstanco among civilized nations; by ftlse alarms concern ing th- dangers to be encountered, it has not feared to throw discouragement into the army, and to mark for its hatred even the chief of the enterI , - It . t snAnlr rwfltoi itiO C( i? I I O r its

raise against him the standard of revolt or to desert their colors. This is what the organ of tha party, pretending itself national, have dared to do What it dj res every day to perfoiro in the inter rinrof the kingdom, tends to nothing lest, than to disperse the elements of public tranquility, to dissolve to bands of society, and unless they have deceived ihemselves, make the earth to tremble under our feet. Let us not fear to rt veal the whole extent of our troubles, that we may the better appreciate the extent -f our resources. Systematized defamation, organized upon a grand scale. and directed with unexamined perseverance, xtenda even to the most humble of the public functionarte?. No one of you object, Sire, if he receives the least mark of confidence or satisfaction, is secure from outrage. A large net, extending over France, envelopes all the public functionaries impeached before the public; they appear in a manner, shut out from society; none are spared but those whose fidelity wavers; none arc praised but those whose fidelity falls a sacrifice the rest aro marked out, sooner or later, to be immolated io popular vengeance. The press has not manifested less zeal in attacking with its envenomed darts, our religion and our clergy. Its object is to root out the last germs of religious sentiments. Doubt not, Sire, but by attacking the basis of our faith, corrupting the sources of public morals, and by heaping derision and contempt upon the ministers and altars of our holy religion, that it will accomplish its purpo.p. No force, we must avow, is capable of resisting so energetic a dissolvent as the press. At ail periods, when its shackles have been itricken off, it has burst forth and invaded the state. Notwithetscding diversity of circumstances and tho