Baltimore commercial journal, and Lyford's price-current. [volume] (Baltimore, Md) 1840-1849, 1848-07-22


July A. Sch Gen. Tay lor, Bennett, Baltimore
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Origin of the late French Insurrec ton.
We have seen several accounts in the public pa
prrs, ALL however, assembling to the same cause the
origin Of the Instruction which took place in Pari.
22d jane, to which advertcd in our last. The
correspondent Of the New York Courier and Enquirer
says
s,,rhe origin of the rebellion seems involved in
some obscnrlty but is clearly enough raccablc to
the influence Of Socialism upon the Government cs-
tabshcd in February last. One Of the first acts OF
that Gov .rnmCnt was 10 provide workshops III which
workmrn were hired and paid out Of the Treasury
| avowcdiy upon the principle proclaimed by the So
calisS, with Louis Blanc at their head, that was
the duty Of the governm mt to secure laplr to all the
people. The workshops were soon filled by more
than 10000 persons, who were drawn from other
fields of labor, made dependent upon the government
and taught By its action, to hold the government
responsible for their enjoying constant labor with
far remuneration.
But SOON as was clearly foreseen from the beginning,
the Treasury proved unequal to this demand and TN
der the pressure Of necessity, the Government deter
mined to suppress the national workshops. Such a
step would OF course throw out of employment and
| reduce starvation beggaTy, the lOOOO0 men
| whom government had hitherto employed. 1t is not
at all surprising that under these circumstances, these
men should have taken up arms against the govern
mcnt which had so cruelty deceived and betrayed
, them They felt that the government had first, by
seductive principles, got them completely in their
power, aud then, after it had deprived them OF all
other means of support, turned them over TO misery
and want Men full of such thoughts, lacking work
and lacking food with their wives and children sarv-
ing by their side would naturally fight with DEEPER
ate and tiger like ferocity against those whom they
regarded their heartlcss and cruel tyrants."
The correspondent of the New York Courier de
Etat Uns, (M Gaillardet, its former Editor, French
man, and in Paris at the time,) writes thus:
"The breaking up of the national workshops in Pa
ris has been the origin and preteXt OF this social war
which has had for its victims the workmrn on one
side and the National Guards and soldiers of the reg
uar army the other.
} "Ihc establishment Of these national workshops
the unfortunate act of the Provisional Gov
ernnent. They supplied a refuge 10 all the ldler:
and hangers on who had swarmrd, from every par
Of France, to this of general a!m~housc, whrr,
labor fiction and pay was the only real thing.
The number of these birds Of passage who had perch
cd upon this rOoSt amounted to nearly l5D,Wu, o.
whom it is said, 10000 were released Or abscondIne
convicts, and from 1000 10000 portrrs aud dc
mcstcs, who thus added to the income OF their rea
business the profits of an assumed title. The cX-
haUstgd public Treasury could no longer distribute
the wealth of France among this host Of idle hands
and hungry mouths The National Assembly tn erc.
fore resolved 10 shake them off, but it was seconded
only fccbly and irresoutclr in this bold design by
the Executive power, whose part the creation oil
the national workshops had MT been without an Ill
Innate purpose.
"In the view of certain members of the Provisional
Government, belonging more or less closely TO the So
cialist Communist school, suchas Louis Blanc, Al
bert Lcdru Ron and FloCon, this agglomrrltlon OF
workmcn, taken into pay by the state, designed
for two objects One, disclosed by Nj. Goudchanx,
temporarily charged with the portfolio Of finance,
was TO form a sort OF PrGtorian Guard which certain
members of the Government desired to have always
at command instrument of coercion always
ready against their political adversaries; the other
to lay the foundation for sl stem OF concrnra-
ticn in the hand Of the state of all public wOrks-a
system which should serve as common practical ba
sis for the doctrines held By the various sccts of the
Socialist school. Thus the Executive power was cen
proposing the National Assembly, in succession,
two PROJECTS of law having for their ends the appro-
praiOn of all the railroads and all the companies OF
Insurance against fire, for the profit of the state. En-
Toying the sole control of these great establishments.
the state would thus individual into national
wealth, and in the distribution of this wealth, would
substitute the rational element OF capacity for the
blind element of hereditary succession, which is the
grand theoretical panac Of the modern phtlosophies
for all the Is OF the social state. AT the tlmc
whiI, Withdrawing industry and property from two
Other NAL vol mt influences of these philosophers
sp .culaon aud competition, the state would gain the
add tonal advantage OF having at its command the
OF w.r BY The fact that the LIN of railroad are also
to be those of the electric telegraph. These addi-
tIonal motives arr OF some weight admit; but their
validity is more than nentrallz"d by the immense
dangers of favoring the ideas OF Communism and of
placing und r. til, control of any Government thOus
anls Of employees, no would b so many means of
influence, 50 much nduccmtnt TO corruption.
These results being well considered the commit
toe to which the matter referred came 10 the
clusion that the projected appropriation of the rail
ways ought TO be refused and its report TO this effect
found numt rous supporters in the Assembly. A dis
course bv NJ. Montalrmbsrt, on the Odd of June,
boldly revealed the secret tendencies concealed be-
meath the project, and made deep impression
after obtaining the conscation of the railroad and
fire insurance Companies" exclaimed the courageous
orator, ''thry will demand that of the marine insn-
rance companies, and the monopoly of salt works,
factories, machinery, &c Vote this law and YOU will
have no plea against host of projects of the same
nature. Individual industry will BE- crushed and de-
stroved in this great machine of the state"
''rhc cfIct wrought by the speech OF NJ. Monta-
lcmbcrt such that the partizans OF the PROJECT
could entertain no hope OF success: Urged by the
energetic resolutions of the Assembly the Executive
power was constrained to take measures for the gra-
dual extinction of the national workshops. 1t d.
creed that the workmcn from the provinces should
return to their former places OF residence, whittier
they should be conveyed at the expense OF the state
and employ ment be given them the public works;
they might enlist in the army even at the age OF
II and set off for the frontier. But this alternative
little the taste of these Pratorians in bouses.
and the hour of conflict was recognized as come, by
who had iorescen the result and been preparing
for it. These men were undoubtedly the associates
and accompces Of the bands who on the 18th of May
attempted the overthrow of the National Assembly
and TO place the reins OF authority III the hands oil
Barbcs, Banqui and Others of the same stamp.
Therefore, the morning of June D, sinister reports
were spread among the workmcn, by the managers
of the plot, that they would be maltrcatcd in the
provinces; that some who had gone thther had been
beatcn that the country about Soognc to which they
were destined, as a poisonous soil where they would