Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-04-22


realized in the present social and political state of france
Already before the 10 P4ans upon the fall of the Orleans dy
nasty have ceased the difficulties OF The Governnnt in
this respect have proclaimed themselves Columns OF Tel and
fifteen thousand workmen daily wait the Administrator TO
insist the immediate recognition Of the rights Of bo
Their demands promptly acceded to by the decree 81 3d
March, which fixes the hours Of labor ia Paris ie, hous
day and ia The provinces al eierea hours They were for
nory eleven hours Paris and twelve the provinces lhs
is quite inegbe il is reasonable that the Civil PIetoian
Guards of the capital should work less than the ser Of he
provinces Cutting off hours labor whole couIfry
would be deemed pretty serious matter in industetse
but on the other side OF the channel we suppose
il is bagatelle, important chiefly showing from whit
quarter the wad Other prognoscs of coming
already visible Monster meetings OF operatives and wokmdn
IN and around Paris continue 70 be held IN the Champ d
Mars 10 take the interests and rights of labor into consder
ton probable that they will still uher reduce the hours
of toll, and proporonaey raise its wages Already the stone
cutters have insisted minimum of pay and maximum OF
work, and got IT, Eight hours day and ten hour
their utimaum The journalists early canored for the i'm
mediate removal OF all duties affecting them. They succeed
ed in shaking of their burdens other classes will be slow
IN following their example. Meanwhile Government is bur-
dened, in the worst days of the first revolution, with the
maintenance immense body OF cizens with their
hands, and very little bread put into their mouths. How
to feed this immense body, with continually failing,
from the erros Of capital the flight English from Paris,
and the diminished expenditure OF all the weaher casses
would according the former maxims Of government have
been deemed matter Of small difficulty but suppose
the egeneraos of society have discovered method Of
irving, with railway speed at pablc opuence amidst private
suffering.
The melancholy progress of the FIRST revolution has natural
y made numbers Of persons, not intimately acquainted with
its events appehensve Of the immediate Of the Reign
of Terror and the restoration OF the guotne into terrible
and irresistible sovereignty France Without disputing
that there is much danger in the present excited and dont
ed state of the population Of that country there several
which induce believe that such is
very probable at least in the first instance and that is
from different quarter that the real danger that threat
ems France is in the outset at least, TO be appehended
In the first place. although the Reign of Terror over, and
few indeed OF the actual witnesses still in existence yet
the recollection of it will pass away, has affixed
stain to the Of revolution which will be efaced
but which its subsequent leaders anxious be freed
from Its numerous tragic scenes its ghfu atrocty, its
heroic suerngs have indeby sunk the minds of
To the end Of the world they will interest and melt every
ceedng age. The young will find them the most
crossing and attractive themehe midde-aged, the most i'm
poran subject for efection-the old, the most delightful
leans OF renewing the emotions OF youth History
weary of recording It's bloody ca,asophes has al
ready arayed them with The colors of poetry the drams
long, will seize upon them the finest subjects that human
events have furnished for the awakening of tragic
ton They will be immortal in story the heroes OF the
HAD, the OF the Atrides the catastrophe OF dpus the
death of Queen Mary. So strongly have these fascinating
tragedies rveted the attention OF mankind that nothing has
created powerful moral barrier against the encroach
ments OF democracy. The royal like the Christian martyrs
have lighted fire which, by the grace OF God will be
extnguished So strongly the popular leaders in every
country impressed with the moral effects of these caastrophe
that their first efforts always directed clear every
successive convuson Of their damnng influence Guzot and
Lafayette a the hazard of their lives, in December $780,
saved Prince Pognac and NJ Peyronnet from the guionc
and the first act OF the Provisional Government of France in
sds to their honor he il sad proclaim the abolition
of the punishment of death for political offences, order
save, as they intended, NJ. Guzoi himself.
In the place. the boodshed and conscaton of the first
Revolution have subsequent writer's have repeatedly demon
stratsd completely exngushed the elements Of national
in France that dangers which threatened
oil
easy matter the monarchy and church of old
France 1t interviewer with the nobest because the
most dntsreed feelings Of nature touched the chords
of religion and loyalty; supported by historic and
the lue OF ancient decent rested the strongest and
most dgn6ed attachments Of modern times. The overthrow
Of such fabric like the destruction Of the monarchy o Great
Britain al this time, could not be effected but by the shedding
Of torrents of blood Despite the esoluton OF the King,
the detection Of the army the conquest of the CAPITAL and the
emigration Of the noblese accordingly, most desperate
sance in the provinces and the revolution
soldaed only by the mtraades of Lyons and Touon the
nOyades Of the Loire the prescriptions of the Convention the
blood of La Vendee France then ensaved by It's
capital But these elements Of resistance the govern
mcnt Of the dominant multitude OF Paris longer exist
The mobiles have been destroyed and their estates concaed
the clergy reduced To humble spcndaes not superior
station influence to village schoeImases the corporations
OF dissolved the house of peers has degeneIated
into body Of well dressed and titled employees Six mil
lions OF separate landed propreios without leaders, wealth.
information, influence, have seized upon aud cult
the soil Of France. Power is the whole realm
synonymous with Office. Every appointment in the king
dom flows from Paris In these circumstances how is it
possible that resistance the DEGREES Of the sovereign power
possession of the armed force of the capital the treasury,
the telegraph, and the post Office, arise in France else
where than in the capital Civil war; therefore,
tndd scale the country, is improbable and the vcto
rous leaders of the Revolution, delivered from immediate APP
pehenson in their metropolis Of domestic danger
have motive for shocking the feelings Of mankind and
dangerng their relations with foreign Powers by needless and
unnecessary deeds of cruelty twas during the uggewh
the Parcians that the prescriptions Of Sa and Marus de-
luged Italy with blood After they destroyed, by mu
tua Slaughter and the denuncations of the Triumvate,
hoagh there often the great possible tyranny and OPP
under the Emperos there OF the whole
sale destruction of life which dsgraced The republic when the
rival factions ronted each other yet undmnshed strength
Although however, for these reasons, do not anticipate
at least al present. those sangunary prescriptions which have
forever rendered infamous the first Revolution, yet fear
there TO apphend changes not less destructive in
their tendency, misery still wide spread in its ecis,
destined perhaps TO terminate at last in bloodshed not less
universal Men have discovered that they not beasts
of prey they cannot live flesh and blood Bot they have
learned also that they live very well capital and pro-
pey aud il against these in consequences that the pre-
revolution will be directed. They will not be openly
assacd direct conscaon Of posse ssons have fallen almost
much into dsrepute the shedding torrents of blood the
scafoh The thing will he done covery, but not the
less efecuay They will take leaf out of the former p-
vate lives Of the Italians aud the public history o Great
Britain. We have shown them that under Of cry for
the emancipation of slaves property TO the amount Of
hundred and twenty millions lie quietly and securely de
soyed IN the colonies that vel ed under the disguise Of
placing the currency basis third be added