The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-12 00:00:00

LOUIS BLANC.
TO TUN EDITOR OF TEE TIMES.

Sir,—Threo menti;:: aro pti,st f2ii;CV, 121
Assembly, I se.cus( d tin p of reaction in Sneera iNc"
studied tieiertninai ion to mislead:public o t' -
construing and twisting the sense of try , _
odious runner, and of having warped -
most dangerous of conspiracics—the . • sfr-14,1-,:le
Here, in this country," find the deplor
,n- s. • -IV' fif,t",i42!': ti
conspiracy in the deceit practised uponl
When, Sir,\yeit'shall be better acquainte ii, t
you will have occasion to regret, on you's-
the violence of your own attacks; for it cantiMVpirslotag
that every one must feel unhappy in havidr immitreh
an act of injustice.
You-attribute to my systern-and to the National Ateliers
—senwthsiictiluaytiooun.c:fllmmyyc•.o,Autnetl47—Atilli.oll.vmeliserietoos orefptehle,
wpirteh-
all 'the- Indignation eon honest man, \minded—in. the •
most sensitive part of his heart, such a horrible responsi-
bility. What! sir, toy puhlio asseveratiozis, _0 times
rep( ated, never contradicted; the dccl• rations
of M. Emile' Thcrots, e!or of the Na-tio-unl Ate-
liers; -the .recent debates of the French A:saniblYr
documents published in the" second _volume of ille
.Enguete ;—atl these hare not .• conviaced you that
I was: not the person who orgsnizrAl the National
Ateliers I that-they were brought into exiienee r-gainA
my wishes, agaiost my will, in opppsiticn to all my
principles, and even with the avowed object of in unt:
balancing the influence over the people that-was a:lo,
bated to me. No; Sir, no I Absolutely, I was nothing
in the creation of the National Ateliers. It Ras Ti!.
Marie, then MiciSter of Public Works, who established
them ; it was M. Emile Thomas who was by M. Mario
appointed to the direction of them. As 'for myself—l
affirm it, and I defy contradiction—l took no part in the
formation of the National Ateliers, neither in their or-
ganization, nor in their direction, nor in their superin-
tendence. If; then, there has been imprudence—aod I
believe there has—in assembling pell•mell, in the
National Ateliers, workmen taken by chance from all
professions ; if there has been lolly in giving them au
uniform unproductive task, and in pajing them for this
unproductive labour wages which were but alms in dis-
guise ; if this deplorable institution has become for the
State so flagrant a cause of ruin that it has been neces-
Eery to crush it ; if the workmen of the National Ate-
liers, when they ceased, to receive their habitual
wages, fell into despair ; if, in short, a party among
them have produced the insurrection of-June unc:er the
influence of the most terrible misery—by what strange
reversal of all the laws of justice can be imputed to me
such .results?: to me, who—l repeat -it—was a com-
plete stranger to the'National -Ateliers, who disapproved
of their being celled into existence, who never put my
foot into them, and who never -interfered in what con-
cerned them, neither in their establishment nor in their
organization Tin their direction, nor when -the question
arose of their dissolution? To each, then belongs the
responsibility of his own works.
You impute to my system, Sir, the bloody disorders
of Paris. 1 may remark that my system has, up to this

time, received only two applications, altogether partial
and confined in a very narrow circle. But, far from con-
demning my doctrines, these two partial applications
term the most striking justification of them ;*for the
association of journeymen tailors, and that of journey-
men saddlers, which 1 founded, still exist ; they prosper,
Rotwithstanding all that has been done to decry them,
to ;,destroy them ; and it is to be remarked that they
did not join in the insurrection of June—a decisive fact,
which I recommend to the attention of all men of good
faith! _ _

Is it meant that the popular agitation emanated from
the very nature of my principles—from their moral in-
fluence? It is this that you assert, Sir; and you reproach
me with an imputation of having sought the happiness
of one class at the wretchedness only and the misery of
another. As Ido net, Sir, doubt your honour or your
gentle loyalty, I ought to believe that you are unae-
quaihted with my writings, and that you judge me only
by the calumnies of my interested detractors. It is,
then, by quotations that I shall request permission of
you to reply—a kind of answer evidently the most pe-
remptory.
It is thus that in. L'Organization du Travail I express
myself upon the natural and necessary bonds which
exist between all interests:—