Have they, then, no claim to an equal participation
in the blessings which have grown out of the national independence for
which they fought? Is it just, is it magnanimous, is it safe, even, to
starve the patriotism of such a people, to cast their hearts out of the
treasury of the Republic, and to convert them, by political
disfranchisement and social oppression, into enemies?
THE SCOTTISH REFORMERS.
"The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He
all."
FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU.
The great impulse of the French Revolution was not confined by
geographical boundaries. Flashing hope into the dark places of the
earth, far down among the poor and long oppressed, or startling the
oppressor in his guarded chambers like that mountain of fire which fell
into the sea at the sound of the apocalyptic trumpet, it agitated the
world.
The arguments of Condorcet, the battle-words of Mirabeau, the fierce zeal
of St.
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