The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-05 00:00:00

EH EREP DOERS IN LONDON WHOSE NAMES ABE S V HSCHIEID.

Will yon be debased? Will you be enslaved? Will
you become henceforth an object of eternal contempt sad
ridicule to the oppressed peoples who awaited their deliury
ance at your hands ?
Louis Bonaparte has just crowded into a few hours more
crimes than it would have been thought possible to Mamie
I in the life of man.

Like a thief, he has seized upon the liberties of his coun-
try by a nocturnal surprise—a ♦ulgar artifice, which oat-
lain people have been rash enough to call courage.

B. has audaniously trißed with the sanctity of the
dommitie hearth.
By the help of his swaggering soldiery and police,
le has silenced every voice in Paris except his own. At
one blow be has suppressed all the journals, and has east
forth into the streets of Paris, without bread, those of your
brethren whom the press supported. He has ineraged,
stricken down, and trampled under foot the national repre-
sentation, lot only in the persons of your enemies, but also
in that of tireppo, the energetic and loyal representative of
the workmen of Lyons; and in that of Nadaud, the mason,
who has so often and so nobly defended your interests in
the tribune.
Do you wai.t to have a master? And do you wish that that
master should be Louis Bonaparte? You have seen tho
air with which he traversed the streets of Paris, hedged in
by soldiers, covered by cannon, and causing himself to be
borne in triumph by his staff ; adding to the crime of high
treason the insolence of a conqueror, and treating France
as a conquered country—ho whire military &nimbi can boast
of nothing except the opprobrium of the Homan expedition !
That the members of the majority are expiating the ill
which they have dune ; that the constitution which they
have violated in yuu is violated in them; that the are
undergoing the chastisement through that universal suf-
frage which they have destroyed; that they who have
made a portion of France pass under the yoke in the state
of siege, now feel upon themselves the full weight of the
state of siege; that they who have sanctioned the transpor-
tation of our brethren en mane and without judgment, now
find force where they sought justice—is a lesson not more
hard than merited. It is the penalty of retribution which
is inflicted on them, and it is not for us to complain.
Hut what it concerns us to understand now is, whe-
ther you are in the mood for a change of tyrants ?
For does thin crime belong to that Assembly of which he
was the inspirer and accomplice?
Was it not he who, by his ministers, proposed and passed
that odious law of May against which he now rises up, be-
cause the candidature of Joinville has made him afraid?
Is nut he, still more than the Assembly, charged with the
responsibility of having drowned the Italian republic in the
blood of the Romans, mingled with that of the French
soldiers ?

Among so many shameful and liberticide measures, let
one be mentioned, a single one, which did not exhibit Louis
Bonaparte acting in concert with the Assembly.
As soon as his ambition was threatened by the Assembly
he became the enemy of that body. But forget not that he
ha. been its accomplice, so lung as it acted to oppress you.
He now comes forward to tell you that the people is
sovereign; and at the same time be dares to demand ten
years of power—that is, the abdication of that sovereignty
torten years.
lie sets himself up as the man of the republic—of that
republic which is the government of equality, and at the
same time he propose* the establishment of a senate—that
is, an assembly of dukes, counts, barons, and marquises.
let us hasten, debased and clownish as we are—let
=hasten, in virtue of our sovereignty, once more to instal an
aristocracy, after so many battles fought, and so much
blued shed, to .at down that aristocracy for ever. It is the
man of the r. public that invites us.
He boasts of restoring to you universal suffrage, but on
condition that it be worked for his private advantage, and
not for your.; since he is going for ten years to be your
matey. _ .

"No scrutiny of the list," be says. Do you quite under-
stand what that mean.? It means that the elections are to
be made by registers lodged in CI. offices of the mayor. The
great Marne lyre which has been practised upon
}Mier once iu her history, is to be renewed. Will you
permit, precisely when it is pretended to restore your
right, that it shall be filched from you ?
Moreover, to onereise the right of the suffrage, you must
be free. Let him begin, then, by restoring free speech to
the journals; let the doors be Haug wide open to popular
meeting,. ; It t very man speak his mind, and learn that of
others. Why those bayonets? Why those cannon? To
restore universal suffrage with the state of siege, is to add
mockery to falsehood. A people proclaimed sovereign,
it is tte neintle of slavery which is thrown over
your shoulders, even as the barbarian chief, in the time
of the Liwcr Empire, threw the purple over the Homan
emperors iii placing them among his camp followers. Do
you wish to be enslaved ? Do you w ish to be debased ?
Such is the cry wrung from us by an indignation inspos-
tilde to restrain. We, who in our cede can at least speak,
do speak. But we owe more than speech to the repulilie—
our blood belongs to it. We know it, anal shall not for-
get it.
Bernard le Curbiste, Louis Blunt, Lan.lolphe Lyonne,
Lemard, ltohillart Suireau, Percy, Lyaz Boneccur, Le
Capitaine Frihnent, Cadet, MiteyJer, Colin, Shanbv, Paget
Levkas, Baron, Merrier, Nersoy, Cachet, Philippe,
lathy, Bourn, Sahli, Itotillon, Mangenet, Languedoc,
}lorentin. Rousseau, Frosaard, Bauer, Auroy, Daranchi,
Michon, Bartholomi, Charles.
December 3,