The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-19 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1848.

Until the meeting of the National Assembly,
France will necessarily be subjected to continual dis
quietude. Until the aggregate representatives of the
country shall have met together in the capital, and
shall have consecrated the Republican Government
by their cordial and unanimous acceptance, Paris will
remain a prey to the turbulent and disaffected, to the
audacity of Anarchists and the schemings of Com-
munism. Not that we anticipate any disaster
whatever to that cause of moderation which has
again and again obtained the encouragement of the
multitude, or any peril, even the most momentary,
to those Provisional Ministers who have repeateely
received the homage of the population. No—the Re-
publican Cabinet which was inaugurated on the 24th
of February, has been confirmed on the 16th of
April ; the statesmen who were elevated on the
shoulders of the people during the downfal of the
Deputies have been rewarded by the unpurchased
aceamations of the million on the platform of the
Hotel de Ville. There is no immediate danger to the
Provisional Government. Frenchmen of all classes,
of all factions, of all sentiments, have fraternized
for their protection. They are armed with the love
of the populace, they are rendered invulnerable by
the prestige accruing to them as the recipients of the
national confidence. Confidence I—that is the word
which they should wear as an amulet against destruc-
tion. Confidence l—it is the symbol of their unity,
A their wisdom, of their devotion, and of their
valorous and patriotic ambition. Confidence !—it is
the epitome of those heroic truths which have been
delivered to France by the inspired lips of LAMAR-
21NO. Listen to the words of that Great Tribune,
as he addressed himself, on Monday morning, to a
deputation of the Parisians:—" At the peri,id of the
First Republic," said he, " there was a fatal word
which destroyed everything, and incited the best
citizens to turn their arms against each other. That
word was distrust! And, nevertheless, it was then
explained by the situation of the country, menaced by
a coalition abroad and by enemies at home.
Now that the mere proclamation of our principles of
fraternal democracy and respect for nationalities has
opened in all Europe the horizan of France, and in-
duced all nations to salute us as friends, instead of
waging war against us—now that the Republic is
accepted everywhere, without opposition at home,
and protects the prosperity, security, and liberty of
all—there is but one word corresponding with that
situation, and that word is corfidence !"
" Yes, yes l" cried the Deputation, " Confidence in
the Government." _ _

" Inscribe that word," continued LAMARTINE, "in
scribe that word on your banners and in your hearts
Let it be the watchword of all citizens and of all
parts of the empire, and the Republic is saved. The
Provisional Government sets you an example by the
deserved confidence which each of us evinces to-
wards his colleagues, and which he receives in
his turn. It gives you to-day a proof of
it by refusing at any price to disunite and
separate themselves from any of the members
who constitute its force by their unity. 'I he indi
visibility of the Provisional Government wi:l thus be
the civic conquest of this magnificent and unanimous
manifestation. Paris and the departments, re•as-urt'd
respecting its power and the attachment you bear to
it, shall unite, in imitation of us and
you forus theto
salvation of the Republic, and
willt
deliver entire to the National assembly
the country which the people of the the of
enable4-h
February
had committed to our hands. That confidenceihesenti
which
tthis
I recommend you, citizens, is the word,
meat I heard expressed on the days of battle a
very spot, on these steps, in these Courts, b
by the
mouths of the wounded in the heroical struggle of
the people. Yes, I heard it expressed by those who
expired here for the Republic, and who seemed to
wish thus to bequeath to us at that supreme moment
the word which is to save the new Republic and the
country."
After this persuasive and impassioned appeal, it is
scarcely surprising that the deputation should have
withdrawn, crying
cc "live le Gouvernement Pro-
visoire tout ether!" No : the Spirit of the Genius of
the Revolution had already diffused itself over the
assemblage ; the auditors already appreciated that
sentiment of Confidence which the Orator had apos-
trophised.
liewever solicitous we may be to recognise in the
"limits of the Provisional Government that una
nimity which can alone inspire this saving confidence
in the Public Mind, we cannot possibly expect any-
thing approaching to a cordial reciprocation of feeling
between the Moderate Republicanism of LAMA R
TINE, D131.01.4T
ARMAND Istutade
AsTL'Eure, G ARE I E ES, and
in,toand that Ultra-Republicanism'
which merges
the doctrines of the
Communists in the imaginations
aof L EDRU ROLLIN,
LOUIS BLANC, A LBESTFERDINAND FLOC 0 N
Beautiful as is the trustfulnessthat poetic heart
which throbbed to the delicious ofrythm of Jocelyn
we can by no means instill into our
addressed by
him
those sanguine ideas which were
Citizens," said
bosom any of
to the members of the deputation.suo,h,
,4 if any difference of opinion,
• be,
love
petted in the great councils of the country rY should
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prevail respecting administrative questions, b ex.
s, the unity
sexists in their patriotism, in the ase
Republi&, in the same devotedness with which hOf the
are animated towards Paris and France. Their
:
union is the symbol of that of all the citizens l"
Yes, it is the symbol of that popular unanimity which
influences on the one side the devotedness of the pa-
triotic chiefs CO CRTA IS and DUVIVIER, and on the other
the anarchical predilections of the disaffected leaders
of the Clubs and the Cornrneei- t-. :Au(
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members of the Government as is discoverable among
the different sections of the community. The au