New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-05-26
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

the woke OF sOrdd and paitry OUT "''' "''" f''"
c-fpl desnot by the almost unarned bravery ana
Devotion Of the daylaborers Of her Capital alone
t.,;,,, Perfected her liberation with an amazing
economy q. boodshed and preserved She popular
,riumph from the stain OF single act OF vengeance
the Nation has lust assembled by Delegates m
Convention TO devise and mature Constitution
which shall secure the future sway OF Liberty and
Order. Of Universal Justice aud General llapPi-
ness The task is indeed arduous one and the
n.,rcurial. volatile genius OF the French People
thoir deolorabe passion for War the ignorance
al the masses AMI the systematic corruption OF the
more fortunate classes throughout the last seven
teen wears by Louis Philippe, all combine to M
crease rs natural difficulties. Revolutions are
never exempt from their peculiar evils and perils
they teach contempt of lawful authority and even
Of law itself. they enable demagogucs and adyen-
trrers oven the weakest and worst OF them, 10
seize pOwerOr to acquire apermcious consequence
and notoriety. hey give irecr rem to turbulent
aspirations and lccn,ious passions. The public
morals suffer by them, sind the generation whose
characters are formed amid Revolutionary influences
imbibe Jacobinic law-deiyine spirit which IS Tar
easier acquired than shaken of. revolution IS a
lesser evil than tame Submission to dcspotism' be
cause II is necessarily temporary hut he who
dreams that It's conyusions will be instantly sue
cseded bv the quiet and comfort OF golden age Of
plenty. peace. and fraternity must be sadly isnor'
AIT Of History aud Human Nature. Revolutions
are uniavorabe to habits OF sobriety and industry
the laborers who yesterday demolished Bastile
Or overturned throne are not likely to fancy re
turn this morning punctually 10 planning boards or
LAYING brick at seventy five cents day under the
rigid discipline OF the workshop and the overseer
Worse still: the rascals aud wage bonds who every
where abound, but especially in country as old and
oopulous ms France, regard a season OF popular con
ulson and governmental perturbation as their har-
Y ct: they rush into the midst OF the airing elc-
nlcnts with the natural eagernessoi men who have
everything to gain and nothing to lose they are
the most vehement patriots, the most determined
That the Revolution shall narch'-that is. that
anarchy and violence shall continue at least until
they shall have filed their pockets sufficiently TO
Withstand broad Sahara OF order and peace
These swell the clamor for the punishment OF the
defeated aristocrats and the confscation of their
property; they are vociterous iorwar with desPot-
ism every where, aud socitous for quiet nowhere
and never-Such are a few Of the mallen Influences
which France has now TO encounter and transcend
We believe she will triumph bnt we appreciate
the pcrils and difficulties which besethcr path, and
shall be most happily disappointed II she energies
into the broad sunlight Of Constitutional Freedom
before passing through farther mazes OF convol-
sion, disaster and blood.
A crisis like that now presented IN France is
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violent dissensions Honest men confronted with
entirely new yet momentous responsibilities VIII
differ widely TO the proper manner oil meeting
them, according TO their various educaiions and
tomperaments they are liable to misunderstood
aud misiudge each other; and knaves will interfere
10 increase their mutual NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Jeal'
oueies, as we have seen. The tricky and the pal
try will always fancy that their personal interests
are to be subserved by propagating iasehood and
perpetuatng delusion. We have had striking eX
amples of this in the unblushing, persistent repet
ton by leading journals of this City OF their often
rciuted misrepresentation respecting Socialism,
Fourierism and Communism IN the French Capt.
tai BY iumbhng these terms together and play
ing upon the popular ignorance OF their various sig
nifcations and bearings, these journals expect to
increase their own patronage and consequence, and
probably do so for The reader OF their col
umns only would naturally suppose that Commun-
ism and Fouriersm' mean nearly or quite the
same thing, when they as different as the North
Pole and the Equator; aud that what Is termed
Socialism in the language OF the day is synonym
Gus with one or both of the foregoing when their
own columns, fairly understood, would reiute amy
such presumption. For instance, while Ledru Rol
lin and Louis Blanc, who III the broadcast sense
Socialists or ultra Democrats received IN Paris 49,,
So aud 2l. liO votes respectively, Victor Consid
Grant the admired oracle OF the Fourierists, and
who doubtless received the vote OF every one OF
them had but 2s,673, and CADET, the great apostle
of Communism, had but 20,6l6, which is doubtless
the full strength Of absolute Communism in that
City Sobrer, esteemed Communist had 20,
400 so that the Communist strength cannot vary
much either way from 10000. Eugene sue, the
highest on the list of all who are known to us
friendly to Fouriorism. had $3.50 but he doubt
less obtained some votes ON account of his genius,
his writings and his position in society, from those
whose opinions do not accord with his own. 1t is
fair 10 estimate the number of Communist voters
in Paris at 10000, OF Fourerists at 10000 while
number 100000 Probably most Of the Communists
voted with them Tor the Radical members Of the
Provisional Government, swelling their vote as we
have seen.
1t is undoubtedly the idea of the Day Laborers
of Paris-the blouses'-the men who made the
Reyolution-that the Revolution ought to do some
thing for Laborthat it should cause u, to be shield
ed from the necessity fbegsng from door to door for
employ men, of accepting the most inadequate re
compense under the pressure OF necessity and Of
dying or being driven to intemperance, crime or
suicide because employment is denied IT, such rs
a very prevalent idea among the Laborers oi Tar
is II may be vaguely termed Socialism but II Is
not Fouricrism nor Communism, both OF which nm
ply great deal more than this. Louis Blanc s
National workshops are the practical expires
sion OF French Democracy, or Socialism IN TINS
vague sense but they mol Fourier Phaansteries
and involve no Communist denial of the rghtiuncss
OF Individual Property. Wecsnnot, indeed, imagine
why even journal so unprinciped and character
less as the Empress should assail the Partisan De