The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1848-10-03
Tremsh New York Tribune.
AFFAIRS In PARIS. aae


Ca,ues Of the hasurrserior in Paris-Lcaru Rol-
hn--Loui, Blanc Caussidiers.
OF the report itself shall not attempt TO
give an analysis. You will fiud il OF length
in the French journals, and It's character is
too papable 10 require any elaborate eifar
10 disclose il. II is enough tosay ofiithai
il attributes the insurseclion of June, the
affair Of the 18th Of May, and that Of the
10th of April, to Caussid4re, Louis Blanc,
and Lcdru Rolln! Hardly an alusicn 10 tic
real causes has crept n.o singteline Of the
long and minute accouut Not word of,he
corruption that The fallen dynas,y had spread
among all ranks Of society with which il
came in contact, is in the report; scarcely a
word Of the terrible and long0creasing mis-
cry OF The woiking classes. a misery above
which all institutions are AT the mercy Of the
earhquake II is nothing moro than mass
of charges against Louis Blanc, Caus-
sidere, and Ludru Rollin, founded upon the
most fling testimony, and detailed with a
minuieness worthy of a gossip at country
tavern. The testimony, too, was taken with
out any notice 10 the parties accused, with
no opportunity for them to confront the wit
ness,s $ and co;ltrat!ict their evidence. -
In the eyes of The reaction Caussidiere
and Louis Blanc are gully Of one crime ia,
exceeds and swallows up all others. They
are men Of the people, their sympathes are
with them, their hopes are with them, and
they are beloved by them. Caussidere is,
perhaps, the most popular man in Paris; moi
that he woulo receive the greatest rumber
Of suffrages for any Office, but that The peo-
pie, the masses, sre more atlsched 10 him
than any other public man. He is full Of
hearth great mass Of generosity and i'm
pulse, and bears the appearance OF a slraigh
forward honest in so striking dree that il
seems heardTy possible to suppose him gull
~ Of The opposite. Al the same time he is
10 logican, has little skill in debate, and
might fail entirely in explaining single one
the ideas which in private or public will
sometimes start up in his speeches like The
full eats Of wheai-feld. II he can now be
suppressed il will be done; sliat is one pur-
pose Of the report. ] do not say that he is
innocent OF ga lly Of the charges brought
agains, him; that question is 10 be decided
by the evidence, which is mt yet published; /;
nor do | mean to say iIis, the Committee
have willfuly belied him or either 81 his as
sociates in the accusation. The members
of the committee are all personally respect
| able men; but they arc the men Of party,
md when sas party spirit, especially in rev.
collation., ever governed by justice. humanity,
Or wisdom 4e ,,s
speak thus Of Caussad.ee ere from desire
that he may receive something beside thai;
indiscriminatc condemnation which ihe jour
nails of England, and afier them of America,
let fall upon the head Of every man against
whom slander raises a whisper, at a time
when the wisdom Of an angel could scarcely
guide Alright the steps Of any one charged
with public afflirs. And this condemnation
is all the more surely and swcrpngly iufci-
| I'D if tho victim be u friend of the people
if in his mind their welfare is Of more ac-
count than the present interests Of shop
keeping.
Louis Blanc is another man treated with
gross injustice by the public everywhere,
who--uness lam greatly mistaken-wll re-
ceive another character when the motives
and facts of these times come TO be impair
TALLY weighed and understood. An instance
of the universal calumny Of which he is the
object, is the notion so long current that he
established the National Workshops, and
was thus responsible for their impcrlec'ions;
when all the while they were the work Of
Nj. Marie, against whom not single re-
proach has been raised on account Of them!
In view Of this Iaci, would it moi be well 10
receive with the EXTREMIST caution any other
reports against him, no matter how positively
lthey may he asserted. Were Louis Blanc
on tho opposite side Of the great question
now at issue, and appearing at every irstSn'
in France, he would be recognized as man
Of remarkable qualities. lie is not an organ
izer certainly, not a man Of much practical
dexterity perhaps, but his head and heart are
Lboth on larger pattern than that after
which the majority Of his contemporaries are
made. History will also record j, to bis hon
or that Of all the men Of the Provisional gov
ernment he alone came 10 the work with n
clear PERCEPTION Of the the nature aud des-
tiny Of the Revolution. Whatever bunders
he may havs committed, that credit cannot
be denied him. aas.e ssis
As to the Revolution iet me here repeat,
and il possible more emphatcaly, what has
been said many times before. tits social
rather Than a political crisis. It's purpose is
not simply 10 change the form of Govern
meni, bu, 10 change the form Of Society,"
/ Ii will lc concluded only when new sucial
institutions are firmly established in the
place of The old; when ,he right to educa-
lion. 10 labor and the profit Of labor, are se-
!, cnred not onlv in words. but by organized