The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-05-13 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND
EXECU FIVE.
VERSAILLES, Moudey.
The Government has caused to be diatributed in
P.trie the full min; pruclatnation
"The Government o, the French Republic to the

P.ristana.

" France, freely consulted, elected a Government which Is
the only legal one, the oily use which can command
obedience, if Government ben it an empty word. This Go-
vernment has given to you tne lame rights whin are en-
joyed by Lyons, el •reetiles, Toulouse, noel Bordeaux. With-
out depart leg from the principle or equality you cannot in.
mend eeter rights than are possnrsol I y the ther cities of
the territory. it is the Government of the Commune—that
lx, of the ainority—which oppresses you, and, while dating
to cover Itself with the Infamous red nig. claims to Impose
Its will upon France. By Its Work you can ridge of the reyinte
wpich it propose. to Indict upon you: it violates the eights
of prorerty, Imprisons citizens to nee them as hostages,
converts your streets and public places into deserts, puts a
atop to all work in Faris, paralyzes It throughout all ?render,
arrests the prosperity which WA about 10 revive, retards the
evacuation of our territory fly the Germans, and exposes you
tea reeewed attack from them, which they declare they ate
ready to commence without mercy it we do not contrive by
onreelves to put down the insurrection We hove ourreiveri
listened to all the delegations which have been tient to us,
and nct ore but has presented to us as a c.. 11,1 ikon the ohe-
e hence of the national sovereignty to the revolt—the sacrifice
of all liberties end tal all tuterests. W. band repeated SO
these delegations that we would continue to pay the subtle),
to necessitous workmen. We promised, and we prorelle
it still, but the inaurrection must cease, for it cannot
be prolonged witi.out cawing the ruin of Frence
The G ‘vernment which specks to you would bare
preferred that yru should 'thereto younelves from •
few tyrants who are playing with your liberties and your
lives, bet since you cannot do no it must itself undertake the
duly, end for that purpose it has coils clod an army beneath
your walk—an army which comes, at the price ot its blood,
not to Cot intl., but to denier r yore. Up to the present time
It has colonised itself to attacking the outer works. The
moment has now arrived when to abridge your se fittings, It
mu:Matlack the enceinte itself. It e ill not bombard Faris,
as the people of the Commixes and Committee of Ssfety will
not fait to tell you it intends. A bombardment threatens
a whole city s,ti I renders it uninhabitable, and has for its
object to Intimidate the Ogle ins and constrain them to a capi-
tulation. The Government will not fire a cennon except to force
one of your gate., and will endeavour to limit to the point
attacked the ravagea of war of which It Is not the author.
The Government knows, &IA would have understood even
if you had not on all hands informed it, that Immediately the
soldiers shall have entered through the elle, lute you will
rally round the national este in order to contribute with our
valiant army to the destruction of a rangulnary and cruel
Weeny. Is depends upon yourrelves to prevent disorders
widch are inseparable from an assault. l'cu are a hundred
hid more numerous than the Communiet sectarians Untie,
thee, open your gates, which they have closed against law,
order, your prosperity, and that of France. The gate. once
opened. the cennon will come to be heard ; order, plenty,
pe:see will reappear within your walls ; the Germans
will evacuate our ker.:tory, and the traces of our mis-
fortunes will rapidly dleappear hut if you do not act the
Government will be obliged to adopt for your deliverance the
most energetic meane, the meat prompt, and the newt certain
It is bound to do so for your sakes, and especially for the
sake e f France, because the entreat 10,1 of productive labour,
which is ruining you, has extended to it. and it has a right to
sane itself if you know nut how to aave yr urselves. Psrtelans
think over these things quietly. In a very few days we seal'
be In nuts. France desires to put an end to this Civil War.
She will, she ought, and she can do so. She la marching to
deliver you, and you can aid and save yourselves by rendering
an easault useless, and by reeuming from to-day your place
among you fellow-citizens and brothers.
" A. I amts.'

SNUG QUARTERM

A search made on Friday afternoon, In the cellars of the
Cite barrack at Pada, led to the discovery of six Republican
Guard. Wding in the midst of a considerable quantity of
military ebthing. (Me of the Federates proposed to ehoot
them on the spot, but the t Ricer persuaded his men to con-
duct them to the Prefecture of Police. The prisoner., On
bang interrogated, stated that they had been concealed ever
*ince the ISth Starch in the place where they were fund,
and that each day • lad, who ssi:s newspapers, had 'optic,
them with bacon, Wichita, and bottles of water,
through the air-hole. No perenasion could Induce them to
aldose the name of their kind attendant.