Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-09-16

Of the 18th of May he had connexon AS for the nsur
ecton the Executive Commission took all the precautions
against that could be TAKEN They directed large military
forces be brought Paris and the vicinity but these or
ders not obeyed Gen. Cavagnac said he could not
leave the rest Of the country unprotected Finally he says
Is his opinion that unless prompt and sufficient
are taken to revive credit and industry the conflict Of June
will long be renewed He has from the first beey that
extraordinary financial necessary but the men
who had charge OF that department of the Government ad
mnlstered as II they were acting in ordinary times.
Louis Bagcs deposition consists mainly of an explanation
OF the affair Of the 18Th of May though be also usties him
self in regard to the charge of having excited the Cchy asso
citation of taors to join in the nsurection He was there
days before the 23d Of June give them advice about
the statutes OF their society, but nothing This
men completely confirmed by declaration of the directors
OF that association, published yesterday.
NJ. Goudchaux who, il will be recolected held the Office
Of Minister OF Finance for few days after the oath Of Feb
uay says that before the revolution himself and his friends
were convinced that the downfall of the monarchy was nev
table, Accordingly they met TO consider who should form
the Provisional Government and agreed the necessity
Of excluding from it Louis Blanc, and even Ledru Roin
Louis Blanc they knew pure Communist whose theory
was the destruction Of property he therefore dangerous
person, who could not be admitted secretary When
after the revolution, he that this dangerous
veheess chosen he resolved that be himself would not form
part OF It, though he had been named Minister Of Fl
He resigned, but persuaded to keep the Office
though ne that he could with Louis Blanc
As soon as he knew what doing the Luxembourg he
resigned for he Was certain that c, would it.
and he would remain connected with Government which
counenanced such proceedings He also istrusted Leru
Rolin and does still well Lamarne. As for the
workshops they the work Of Louis Blanc who had
the plan drawn up before the revolution.
Gen. Cavagnac says he does appear Justify himself
though that might necessary in view Of deposit
TONS During the instruction his great was that the
troops should not be defeated any point and accordingly
he concentrated them rather than spread them over large
space The experience OF July, $780, and February ls4S
showed him the necessity Of engaging them in the Streets
and OF having sufficient force at each point that should be
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monstrated the of his views The number of
troops in Paris and the envons at the breaking the in
sunecon he says, nearly thirty thousand It appears
however, by the official statement published in the second
volume of the documents that there were actually only
%, 4l9 men.
To so through the whole of these three volumes
the question: They worth it in any point of view
will simply speak of the interesting particulars among
their contents With regard to the famous bulletin APP
pears that George Sand the office of the Minister of
the Interior three bulletins choose from the chief clerk
took the most heated of Them and published it when the
Minister Ledru Roln, it the day, he enraged
and attempted TO stop at the post Office but late
From the minutes of the Government also learn that on
the 18th of March Led Rolln authorized by regular
VOTE to make arrangements with Madame George Sand
nlsh articles for the bulletin
TIouve Chouve project of police who is charged by MANY
witnesses with extreme nehcency, says that
the conspiracy Of the 18th Of May 100 persons arrested
OF whom Is were OF the party Of Babes sc of the party
Henry v 5s Bonapass and of the party of the regency
The national workshops were it appears perfect guph in
which the public money swallowed up the shame
less cheating Of the treasury carried by the subord
officers to whom entrusted the duty Of paying the
men, The money first delivered the chiefs of arron-
easements then the bgaders heads Of large divisions
by whom distributed the officers Of the next grade
There was system OF checks any part this process
and II 10 this day impossible to tell what part actually reach
ed the The whole number of persons EMPLOYED accord
ing to the testimony OF NJ Laoune, who appointed
pervise The establishment when Emile Thomas its inventor
and st director had come to be considered dangerous
600, while there really work for no more than three
thousand The total expense the State a. 9s7
Several witnesses express the opinion that if body of fifty
seven delegates from the national workshops who waited on
NJ Marie the day before the commencement Of the nsurrec-
on had been arrested the boodshed would have been pre-
vented The order for the given by the Executive
Commission, but not executed The fact that the ueu
who invaded Belgium had their expenses paid to the frontier
by the Minister Of the Interior clearly made out indeed
be does not deny it. but says it only of pu-
dence 10 large body Of foreign workinen from
Paris, where they would have increased the number Of
chancs Of employ, and ultimately been both danger and
burden to the State appears also that dev
cred to some OF them their arrival at the frontier but
though there evidently trick the in which
they were obtained does not appear by whose direction
nstigaton the trick was PLAYED off
The documents relating the clubs interesting 1t
seems that hundred and formed between
February and June. One Of the OF the
Chief Of Clubs which consisted Of three delegates from each
OF the other clubs and engaged principally the business
OF influencing the elections II had its agents in every de-
parment who instructed with the secresy,
cauton and esusm order the Of genuine
republicans to the Assembly To the agents of this body
and OF other clubs the Minister OF the Interior furnished
various times the Of $4,000 francs for the purposes
their msson according the document that subject
But the most formidable organization in the list OF the clubs
the Society Of the Rights Of Man. This body bound
by of perfect obedience their chiefs, all provided
with arms, divided into sections Of ten, battaions Of fifty
and divisions Of hundred with the necessary officers
There twenty different branches in various parts OF the
tween
and thirty thousand This club, according the documents
Of the committee actively concerned in the nsurrection
No doubt many Of its members behind the barrcades
but am well assured that il not engaged as body.
The chiefs thought the premature and did not 60
into 1t. This club with its organization hardly less complete
than ever, still in existence though Of kept
secret In Of instruction, should il be engaged
! IN u, iis power would not be uihing.
The only persons against whom the documents make
show OF criminal charge Louis Blanc and Caussidere
the accusations against Ledru Roln may be fairly left out OF
consideration, for they only extend back period
which the Assembly exercise Jurisdiction but they are
already disposed Of and reed in the estimation of the public
generally and Of theeouh Of the members Of the Assem-
bly, With regard the Monagnard and the Socialist Caus-
sdee and Louis Blanc is TO be observed that best the
evidence such would hang man, and both Of them
declare that they able prove their entire innocence
the truth of this declaration shall soon be able to Judge
Many the strongest points OF the testimony have been dis
proved by that Of other equally good Witnesses and the
time suspicion is thrown the whole publication by
the assertion, which not denied that the committee altered
the dispositions after they in type and allowed their au-
hos change only words but the sense OF what they
had testified.
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