Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-06-08

tenn OF open diplomacy mas produced Tor
France, and what it will in all likelihood
still produce for hereafter; that policy com
handed the Minister of War to adopt meas
ures in harmony, with system of armed
negotiation. He established with energy
discipline which had been shaken; he call
ed back with honor to Paris the army,
moment removed from our walls, when
the people were given arms for themselves
The people, thenceiorward invincble, soon
demanded with loud cries that their broth
ers in the army should be restored 10 them
not as security, but ms ornament to the
capital. The army in Paris WIS no longer
anything but a garrison of hor Or, destined
to prove to our brave soldiers, hat the cap
ital of our common country belonged to all
her children. We also, in addition to this,
decreed the immediate formation of coun-
Gil of defence, and the instantaneous estab-
lishment of our armies Of observation name
ly, that on the Alps, the Rhine, the North,
and the Pyrenees.
Our navy confded to the guidance Of
the same minister, was placed under the
command of officers who soon brought it to
such a state of discipline as vigilance de-
play our colors to the friends of France on
the shores Of the Mediterranean The ar
my of Algiers had not an hours, not a min
ute's hestation-the republic and the coun-
try were mixed up together in their thoughts
in the same sentiment of duty. An officer
whose republican sentiments and whose tai
ents were pledges alike to the army and to
the revolution, General Cavaignac, received
the command of Algeria Corruption,
which had penetrated into the most sacred
institutions. obliged the Minister of Justice
to effect certain publications, called for
most loudly by the public voice. 1t was
necessary TO separate promptly the judicial
situations of the country from every thing
political. The minister, with great regret,
but with an inlexible hand, effected the sep
aration.
In proclaiming the republic, the cry of
France had not proclaimed merely form
Of government, it had proclaimed princ-
pie. The principle in question was that Of
practical democracy, equality by rights, and
fraternity by institutions. The revolution,
accomplished by the people, ought to be or
ganized, in our opinion, for the profit of the
people, by a continual series of ffaternal
and tutelary institutions, calculated to con-
fer regularly on all conditions, individual
dignity, instruction, wages, morality, ele-
ments of labor, comfort, assistance, and ac-
cession to property, which should suppress
the servle name Of prOiftaire, and elevate
the working man to the height of possessing
the right, the duty, and well-being of the
hrst-born to property. To elevate and en-
rich some, without degrading others; to
preserve property and render it more fruit
full, by multiplying it and dividngA among
greater number to so distribute the taxes
as to cause the heaviest weight 10 fall on
the strongest to create by the state that
labor, which should happen to fail by the
fact of the capital being ntimidated, SC
that not workman in France should remain
without bread; in fine, to examine with the
workmen themselves the practical and true
phenomena of association, and the theories
still problematical, Of the various systems
in order to discover their true application
such was the idea of the Provisional Gov
eminent in all the DEGREES of which it con
fided the execution to the Minister of Fl
nances, to the Minister of Public Works
and finally to the Committee sitting at the
Luxembourg, Laboratory of ideas, pre-
paratory Congress Of labor, presided ovel
by two members Of the Government itself
(Applause.)
The fall of the monarchy, the disorder o
the finances, the momentary Reconsideration
Of an immense mass of workmen from the
various manufactures; the public debt o
nearly milliard which the fallen Govern
ment had accumulated the industrial ant
commercial crisis which prevailed every
where on the continent, and which took
place at the same time with the politica
crisis of Paris; the enormous accumulation
of railway and other shares; in fine, Tho
Imagination of the country, which Away!
goes beyond the truth in periods of politica
disturbance or social terror, had dried NJ
the capital that gave work-had caused spe
Gle TO disappear-and had suspended free
and voluntary labor, the only labor sufii
cient for 35 millions of souls. 1t was nee
essary to supply that wan. Professionally, OF
to be false to all the principles, all the sen
timents cf prudence, and all the necessltie:
of succor put forth by the Republic. The
Minister Of Finance will tell you how these
difficulties relative to labor and credit were
met, WINE waiting lOT tlle ilolHcUt--WnlCI
has at length come round-when confidence
restored to mems minds should restore cap
tal into the hands of the manufacturer, anC
give wages to the workman. The depart
ment of Public Instruction and Worship
placed together in the same hand, was, will
respect TO the Provisional Government,
manifestation Of intention, and for the coun
try a forecast of the new situation which
the Republic has determined to enter into
in order to meet the double necessity Of ;
system of national instruction and NOR,
real independence of worship, equal anC
free before the human conscience and Tho
| law.
The Minister of Agriculture and Com
MERGE, department quite separated, by IL
nature, from political matters, could only
prepare with zeal, aud sketch out with sa
! gacity, the new institutions chilled for t.
turn to better account the first of usefu
arts; he stretched forth the hand of thu
State to the suffering interests of commerce
which you alone can restore by establishin,
general security. Such were our diiieren
and incessant solicitudes Thanks to Prov
idence, who never manifested, in more ev
ident manner, its interference in the caus
| 1c ,bo ,ao,,lo o.J of tho human Mind