New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-11-17

Frsach corrssTortsses Of II. Trissn..
LONDON, Oct. %, l549
he,us Gre.lsy & McEdGA
GLsTLpaEs / have read al article in one Of
the last numbers Of Tie TTi5vHc which suns up
the situation Of o Europe in very precise and
felicitous manner and which takes for ito ttar,irg
point the radical and essential difference between
the socisl conditions Of this old Europe and those
Of America. Yes you axe in theright Since
l9l-, the European Revolution has arrived at the
consciousness OF itself. This new light has BROKE
forth, this new voice has made itself heard from
the bosom Of the people Of Paris. The representa-.
tiyes Of the old negative principle Of purely poti.
cal liberalism, Dupont de Eure, Marsst, La
martine, GARNER Pages Recurt, Ledru Rollin
himself, who since has nobly advanced toward the
future with an energy superior even to the
weakness shown by the others In falling back 10
the psst-el were dszzled and cOniounded.
Louis Blanc and Albert alone heard the voice
of the people and half-opened their eyes to
the new light They have also been the first 70
be carried away oy that rising sea OF reaction,
which in fact represents nothing but the brute re-
sistance Of preestsblished facts against the Right
which is yet il.dehoed and above ali, alarmed
for practical acton. But Louis Blanc and Albert
the one now in exile and the other IN prison, have
none the less saved from the deluge the ark OF
mutual alliance, OF Association.
Ip the rest OF Europe the Revolution, still more
i'll DE hn ed ia It's object and character, could not
have tailed to succumb still more easily before a
rejection of the same Kind, but far more compact
and uowerfuI than in France although the WORK
Of destruction accom- plished by the Revolution Of
1898 was not commenced Ia Germany, still less IN
POiand aud in Hungary, aud scarcely developed IN
Italy. What do sAyi Italy, stu under the yoke
OF rel gious des pOtism, deprived OF liberty OF wor
ship-ltaly, whose soil, covered with the brambles
OF superstition, has not yet been broken up by he
pillow share OF Prosestantism, and turned over by
the mattock oil philosophical analysls-ltsly was
perhaps still less ripe than the other portions OF
Europe for the radical and decisive movement
" hich alone can respond T. the desire Of genuine
hoerty--to that henceforth irresistible want OF
adult humanity whic h demands the fuii 'lment OF
the Christian prayer, " Give US this day our daily
bread; thy kingdom come thy viii be done On
EARTH as IT is IN Heaven; deliver us from evil
But the Revolution suppressed for nome ut on
the surface still bfOods Uuder Its own ashes, and
cannot be set aside IN IT'S terrible temperance,
or accomplished after this terrible temperance
except by the solution Of what Pfoudhon calls the
aatinOny between labor aud capltal,-by the ex-
,ncton OF paupertm, you say Ia more inteliglble
language-iu Consequence OF the organization 81
society on a new principle. Every revolution
that all not be animated W It'll TINS new principle
v Inch shall not have clear perception OF IT, " Ill
not succeed In establishing durable government
every government " Inch shall not taSe the lnitia'
tive IN the name Of this principle, v i'll necessarily
end IN new revolution. And here 10 the radical
weakness, let me say, by the BY, OF all revolu-
! nonary pretensIOus, when imagine that nothing
| is 10 be effected but the chastsement OF tyrants
/ aud oppressors. Even If two blows OF the de-
moniac wand of destruction, the revolutionary
| Nemesis should destroy all oppressive kings, all
/ a
the OppressOrs and tyrants OF the financial ieudal-
| IT, NiHgs would return under new Names ana
| with new outward arrangements Tho present
rocial mechanism, founded on antsgOnltm OF inter
e.ts produ es the strongest aud most cunning tyr
auny and the consolidation Of this tyranny, per
fds Fl Rcfas BY all means lawful aud unlawful,
produces It's Iuit with the same Inevitable neces
slty a. a tree Destroy the fruits OF the manchl-
neel tree, aud at the next bearing, II VIII produce
no less poisonous fruits than before. Cut OH the
branches, they Will again push iorth 10 produce
the same fruits. Pluck up the tree by the roots,
If YOU do not put IN the same soil, well cultivated,
a wholesome and nutritious plsst, the ground
which at first had 70 give only product iatai 10
man, and producing nothing more, Will leave him
to die with starvation.
VIVA. France and Europe have been IN pursuit OIL
in attempting all the different forms oil political gov
eminent was Liberty. We have thus lar seized
only the shadow. Do not believe IN relation to
| this the i'll informed men and calumuiators who
| tell YOU that Socialism leads to desp SIN and to
the oppression OF individuality. What France
and Europe stll seek IN the name OF the organlZa-
| ton OF labor, is once more and always liberty
| But this time, it is substantial positive liberty 1t
| 10 that liberty which. according 10 ID und and
luminous expression OF Louis Blanc, adds 10 the
! rIrtHdi notion Of Right, the effective means oil
transforming the Right into Fact.
| Thus the most important question IN the general
politics of Europe, at this mome nt is the study
and critical examination OF all TIE evoaiions, oil
| all the movements, OF all the commencements OF
the new social principle which, Tor twenty one
years have called Organizing Liberalism, aud
which has received from its enemies the happy
appe llRtion OF Socialism. Before, then speaking
OF the check given to the policy OF Napoleon IN the
Roman question, the PaPist triumph OF Montsi'
embert and de Faloux, the duel OF NJ THEIRS, tue
testimony OF Girardin before the Court oil ersales
which was quite an important event, and the
NJ ni,terisl summersets in Spain, must liquidate
with sou the account OF facts relating to Socialism,
the object and cause, the beginning and end OF The
European Revolution.
Iremember forwarding 10 you, some time since,
letter Of Enfantin to Lamartne. do not
know " hat use you made OF that letter but
consider it OF Importance enough 10 bring upon the
stage in the presence of the fallen angel OF lcie
O man who has done more than Lamsrtine, though
with less noise, and who, precisely because ne
has not lent himself, like the bamlng Messiah OF
Lady Esther S,snhope, 10 all the csprlces oil 'he
commercial booksell.ng humbug, occupies among
the intellectual powers OF our age different
place from that OF the Inconsistent author OF the
Meitatioas, OF the History Of the GtroEdists, and
of that ssms gundi OF sentimental baobie publish
ed in the Presse under the title OF Les CoehdeHces
The Socialist working men of Paris have hamor-
uusly called this last work Les C0nFtEres de ~ dc
"a TarfiAe Eufantin, with that calm dignity,
| aud must also add, with that some~ bat soft aud
| pantheistic conscience which characterize him,
| calls Lsmartine seriously to account, and re-
prosches him with psterns severity for the bit
ierness of bis language and his injustice toward
Socialism. He reprosches him especially for not
having made an exception IN his general In
vecuve against Socialists. In favor OF the Patri-
archsl family of ST Simon, and, above all, OF the
little preferred family Of St, Enisntin himself the
heir il not presumptive, at least presumptuous Of
the great philosopher so inopPortunely disguised
as q revea.or Ii is said that Lamartine has re-
| Piled to Enfantin. | know nothing OF this reply.
But L amartine would have given great emoarrass.
ment to his spondent II ne had oonhnsd hmsei
saying that, in speaking OF Socialists he od no.
allade to EnfsntD, and m st OF the persons des'g
mated by this last since they had al separated
their cause from that OF all other Socialists WI no,
at the decisive moment took part with the move
ment agalns, the Reaction and Ia spite oil al sac