Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1849-12-04
From Lanartine.

lIlOSe laws ana IOrInS q SoFOthiliOh' F"
give to the greatest lumber, and presently
10 all citizens, the mct equal share of per
sonal participation ir the government, and
thence eventually ia the moral and material
benefits of human society j..
Still Lamaytine recognized the rule OF
reason as superior to the brutal sovereignty
of numbers; for reason being in his view
-sslite reaacsion of God upon the human race,
the sovereignty of reason was the soVe-
reignty of God. He did not push to a
chimerical point the violent and actually
impossible equalization of social condl-
lions. He could lot conceive OF any CIV
iIized society without three bases, winch
seemed given by instinct iiselt, thai gfea,
revealer of eternal truths-thc STATE, Fam
lily, and Property. The community OF
goOds--which necessarily implies the com.
munity of the wife, child, father, and
mother-and the degradation of the spe-
cies, inspired him with horror. Socialism,
under It's different formula of Saint Simon
ism, Fouriprism, Appropriation of Capital
under pretcnce of freeing and multiplying
It's produce, inspired him with pity.
These opinions, whose principle was a
chimericaI fraternity realized upon earth,
all lead to the suppression of individual
property. They lead, by direct conse-
quence, to the suppression of the family.
The family is the trinity of the father, of
the mother. and Of the child. The father,
de mother, anu Inc child who perpetuates
t1.m. renew. without cessation, this trim
ny, wtuch alone completes and continues
man. Without personal and hereditary
property, This family, the source, delight,
ard continuation of humanity, has no foun-
daton TO germinate and perpetuate itself
here below. FIRE man is a male, the Wo-
man female, and The child little one OF
the human flock. Thc-ao!A&wilh2ut,
master, ceases to be fertile. Civilization,
the product of wealth, Of leisure, and of
emulation, vanishcs. The destruction of
the family is the suicide of the human
race.
There are always two classes of people
in the population; or, rather, whatever
NAV be the equality in rights, there IS al
ways an inequality in manners and M
stincts. The most virtuous man has III
his nature certain elements of vice, and
even certain possibilities of crime, which
he subdues and destroys by his virtue.
Humanity is made like man. 1t is only
man, multiplied by millions. Crime is an
element of humanity. It is found in fatal
proportions in every large collection of the
people. It's for this that laws ana public
forces are established.
Lamartne describes a young man, the
champion of the Red Republicans, who
demanded of the provisional government
the following agreeable items:
HeSpoke not as man, but in the name
Of the people, who wished to be obeyed,
and who did not mean to wait. lie pre-
scribed the hours and minutes for the SUBJ
mission of government. He commanded
it to perform miracles. He repeated TO 1t,
with .ccents of greater energy, all the con-
ditions of the programme of imposslbllItIes
which the tumultuous cries Of the people
had enioined it to accept and to realIZc on
the instant the overthrow of all known
society; the destruction of property and
capitalists; spoliatlon; the immediate ~
sfalIation of the destitute into the commu-
nifty of goods the prescription OF the
bankers, tie wealthy, the manufacturers
the bourgeois Of every condition above the
receivers of salaries government WIN
an axe in its hand, to level all the superb
critics of birth, competence, inheritance
and even of labor; in fine, the acceptance
without reply, and without delay, oil the
RED flag, to signify to society its defeat; &c
the people, their victory to Paris terror
TO all foreign governments, mtas.aN. aa.
: of these injunctions was suPiorte., 'y Hs
orator, with blow of the butt OF his mus
ketupon the floor, by frantic applause IRON
: those who were behind him, and salute
of shots, fired on the square.
LIVE FOR SoMETHING.-Thousands o
, men breathe, move and live-pass oil 'h'
5 stage of life and are heard OF no more
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