a mere name more or less to an paper but the know perfectly well that the people are not for in their sense of the word if they did not fear this they would restore universal by clinging with desperate to the law of may st they confess that their hopes of success involve the continued of three millions of from the of when they therefore of the people s desire for the republican retort is ready and � the law of may st and we can then the people really desire but so long as you maintain that law you confess that you dare not abide the verdict of the whole people you appeal to a jury which you have one whose right to try this we utterly deny restore universal and we can then tell what the people really do wish and demand but until you do this we shall resist every attempt to change the even so much as a hair who can at therefore representatives of the people deliberate in peace says after proving to his own satisfaction that the army will not level their arms against the assembly in support of a so the friends of republican france throughout the world may give thanks and take courage the is the skies of the future are red with the coming day time is on the popular side and every hour s endurance adds strength to the republic it cannot be and should force and be attempted its will not shrink from the encounter nor dread the issue for well they know that the mind and heart of the people are on their side � that the french who earn their bread and are not ashamed to be seen a so far as they have any opinion at all are all for the republic � that france a an class a party and a republican nation the is composed of the personal of louis napoleon and certain military officers mainly relics of the empire the class a good part of the lucky shop and government during the reign of louis the party embraces the of the anti aristocracy most of the influential and a small section of the rural all these combined may number four millions leaving thirty millions for the nation such is france in and being such the of the republic whether by foreign assault or domestic treason is hardly possible an open attack by the and his would certainly it a of louis napoleon s power no longer probable would have the same effect four years more of tranquil though would render a return to more difficult wherefore the party will never assent to it and without their aid the project has no chance to obtain op secretly swear that after four years more he will turn france over to henry v this promise only the list extreme of desperation could from him and then to no since he could not it and the could not trust him and thus alike by its own strength and by its enemies divisions the safety of the republic is assured xvi paris social and moral paris thursday june a great capital like this is not seen in a few days i have not yet seen a quarter of it the general magnitude of the houses usually built around a small court near the street whence the court is entered by a gate or arched passage is readily remarked also the minute of shop keeping many if not most their attention to a single fabric so that their stores and stocks of goods are small also the general or social of the people i lodge in a house once famous as s the most celebrated house in europe it stands on the corner of the with the italian in one direction and in the other my windows overlook the for a considerable distance and there are many of the most fashionable shops s c in the city no one in new york would think of ordering his bottle of wine or his at a fashionable resort in and sitting down at a table placed on the s to discuss his leisurely just out of the ever passing throng yet here it is so common as to seem the rule rather than the exception hundreds sit thus within sight of my windows every evening do likewise during the day t ie frenchman s pleasures are ail social to eat drink or spend the evening a i i to and moral i him he reads his newspaper in the or the public gardens he talks more in one day than an englishman in three the balls c which to the afford occasional are to him a nightly necessity he would be lonely and miserable without them nowhere is amusement more sought than in paris nowhere is it more abundant or accessible for boys just escaped from school or paternal restraint intent on enjoyment and by conscience or this must be a rare city its people as a community have signal good qualities and grave defects they are intelligent courteous obliging generous and humane eager enjoy but willing that all the world should enjoy with them while at the same time they are impulsive and paris is the paradise of the senses a of enjoyment not of happiness nowhere are youth and its more nowhere is old age less happy or less respected paris has of thousands who would eagerly pour out their hearts blood for liberty and human ess but no class or who ever thought of denying themselves wine and kindred in order that the masses should be rendered of liberty and thus better fitted to preserve and enjoy it such notions as total from all that can are absolutely unheard of by the majority of and incomprehensible or ridiculous to those who have heard of them the necessaries of life are very cheap here many support existence quite 