The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-27
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In nrevious numbers Of our paper, we have sad
that in our opinion the causes which led 10 the it9
v,lf of the Partisan workmen seemed generaNy
TO he misunderstood, ifH0t willuy mIsrepFesehleu'
Ills TOO true that our information of French aIairS
comes TO US almost entirely through English chan-
r,aIs and in this manner everything receives the
coIoring of the medium through which 1t mas pass
ed MI for this reason that is so difficult 10 form
any accurate opinion, deceived as we are by the
direct falsehoods, and specious reasoning OF the
British press.
In order to account for the last Partisan insur-
recton. it is necessary to go back to the causes
which produced the revolution of February, Tor
those engaged in this revolt were the same men con-
tending for the same principle, who accomplished
the overthrow of Louis Philippe. The people We're
at that time not struggling merely Tor change
in the form of government-they We're not ann
ing only at a political revolution by which they
would be transferred from few masters to many;
but they wished a great and radical change IN the
social system. All must admit that it makes but
lille difference to the working classes whether
the ruling power be styled Monarchy, Republic,
OF an Arslocracy, if their physical condition be the
same under each. The same power which gov
erned under Louis Philippe has continued TO gov
ern since his fall, and its influence has steadily
been employed to prevent those reforms which are
so necessary and which the laboring classes hoped
and expected they would obtain from the Republic.
II is the m0ueycd yoleer to which we aiiude II Is
true that Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, were
adopted as the motto of the new Republic, and
equally true that uI ersal suffrage was granted to
the people, in the first ardor of revolutionary eN-
element But universal suffrage becomes Jest,
mockery, when the tremendous power of capital is
left free 10 control the popular will That this IS
true has been exempiled by the course Of events IN
France 1t was believed that the Assembly to be
elected for the purpose Of forming constitution
being chosen by the whole people, would contalna
radical minority. This result was dreaded by the
proparty-hoders and Immediately the whole ma
chinery of the moneyed power was put in operation
to defeat it. The effort was successful, for the very
first consequence of universal suffrage was 5eTctHrn
ola Conservative or ArjSiocraHc Cham5er. But even
before this the same means We're resored to, In or
der to hwarthe great objects of the revouIonsts OF
February. The brilliant elOquenCe OF LamartIne
was employed to seduce the people into false Sc
curtv until the tmeIor the election Of the Assem-
bv. The theories Of Louis Blanc We're ridIcuieI,
as perhaps they deserved to be, and by this means
dscredit was thrown upon the whole mass Of social
reflrners while the sincere and well directed effort
of Ledru RUn the most far-seeing OF all the mem
bers of the Provisional Government, to crush in
time the designs of the conservatives, drew upon
hu such a torrent OfarstOcratic abuse that he was
only enabled to maintain his station by the iuterpo
sition of Lamartine. In what, then, is the comd-
ton of the workmen improved by the establishment
ofthis ideal Republic? So far from being betered,
they are now actually worse off than before, and
this not only as the inevitable effect Of great pO-
itical CONFUSION, bat as a consequence Of the at
tempt of the property-holders themselves to pro-
duce this very state of things that they might re-
| tain their power unmpaired, and then taunt Re
publicansm with its failure to achieve what II had
| promised. These are the causes which produced
| the revolt of the Partisan WOrkmcn, and they are
amply sufficient TO explain ALL That The insurgents
are not the mere idle rabble or caHtaiHe Of Paris.
is proved by the fact that that portion of the popu-
Iaon Of the capital was most energetic IN queIIng
! the insurrecton. The men who were most violent
against the insurgents were the Garde Mobile,
| which is known to be composed Of the very dreg>
Of society
The insurrectionsts, on the contrary. in all
accounts, are designated as emphatcaIly the ~orF-
men, 1t is possible that many acts of barbarity may
ponents are not by any means exempt from the same
| imputation. Yet we should be slow to believe
| that the men could be guilty of such crimes who
refused to imbrue their hands in the blood Of ty
rant, but told linn to go-thcy were not ass0&SjnS.
! We have no intention of iustifying 70 the utmost
! the desperate measures Of the workmeu; but we
! think there are many eNtenuatng circumstances
which have not been properly considered Neither
/ L. Il,
should not lightly condemn, without hearing
! doctrines which propose to effect such vast i'm
provement in the condition of mankind. Whether
the insurgents, had they been successful, would
have established second Reign of Terror, we
cannot now determines but we do know that the
present Government sustaius itself by that very
principle. The deliberate murder of five hundred
unamed men, who Were taken prisoners by the
! Government forces, and shot down, like wild beasts,
without the fomaIity of trial, surpasses the worst
excuses of Jacobinisin, and shows to which side
! applies the stigma of Terrorism
o. Mr.. Edwin Forrest is playing a farewell en-
gagement at Buffalo, in his layorite round Of char
acters.
o. Rufus Choate was 10 deliver an Grafton
before the Literary Societies of Amherst College
Gz- We perceive that Brook Farm, near Boston,
the citadel of Fourierism is advertised for sale by
the sheriff
0s- A rumor which attained currency that the
King of Naples had been assassnated has been con-
tradicted by the King himself, who says he was not
assassinated. We believe his Majesty
GE- From the ReveiIle Of the Goth we learn that
the 18Th.
PLANET MErIs.-The British Royal Astrononi-
| cal Societys has named the planet discovered
in April last. Metis and the name has been adopted
at the National Observatory in Washington.
~ The health of Gov. Dorr, Of Rhode Island,
IS 50 far restored as to permit him to take active
part IN the canvass for Cass and Butler.
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