The Pamphleteer, Vol. 3: Respectfully Dedicated to Both Houses of Parliament; No. Vi, May, 1814; To Be Continued Occasionally, at an Average of Four or Five Numbers Annually (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Pamphleteer, Vol. 3: Respectfully Dedicated to Both Houses of Parliament; No. Vi, May, 1814; To Be Continued Occasionally, at an Average of Four or Five Numbers Annually

This great and important change has too little engaged the attention of a very numerous, perhaps the most nu merous, class of speculative political reasoners. They forget that even oppression has its limits. It'did not occumto them that though ignorance and slavery may subsist to gether, abject bondage and diffused intelligence form foo discordant an alliance to remain long in a state of union. To impose the galling chains of universal subjection upon enlightened Europe, was an enterprize which folly and madness alone could suggest. The scheme could only succeed under every possible modification of well-organized tyranny, while it extended to a certain point; beyond these limits the machinery becomes too complex the engine no longer works with effect, but becomes gradually clogged, until the main and original spring, which should give life and vigor to the whole, is first impeded, and subsequently arrested in its action. Against the resources and efi'orts of ordinary governments, the military energies of a state, so naturally, artificially, and extraordinarily powerful as France, might prevail even to an alarming extent; but when a course of successful tyranny is felt to be universally subversive of all human happiness, the spirit of resistance is awakened; the nation and the government have 'no longer a distinct and separate interest; the ordinances of the latter are anticipated by the voluntary oblations of the former, and, from. Their united skill and labor, the pillarof state is erected upon foundations that may safely resist the most. Impetuous assaults.

Such, then, has been the erroneous scheme of universal, conquest which France has vainly attempted to pursue. While acted upon to such an extent only as to provoke and contend against the ordinary forces, at the disposal of most of the continental states, she was, from the Superior mili tary organization of her armies, from the martial genius of her troops, from the more splendid rewards she conferred on military merit, and from. Many other obvious causes, to a certain degree successful. But, from the moment the necessity of resistance was nationally felt - from the moment war was conducted by her enemies upon principles of national hostility - from the moment the interests and efforts of the government and of the people were identified against her - from that moment her career of conquest was checked. Against the armies of a sovereign prince, France might contend with many chances of success against the national resistance of an energetic and powerful state she must inevitably. Fail.

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