The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-28
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lie Conssiiisr du Psspls La RspabGqus Ct r.7n@ehs.
Par A ox I.AnARrINE

lie Conssilisr du Psupls, La Rspabdqus ct ran@ehis
Par A. Or LAAARrisE, ~
This is a beautifully written sketch, filling six
columns of The Courier DIES Eials- Uns, and richly
worthy of preservation IN more permanent form.
Ii is a distinct and plain argument against the
terrible designs Of the Mountain and that Socialist
party which sought TO depose by violence Chief
Magistrate elected by the votes of 5000 900 persons
Lamarine unfolds the folly of their enterprise,
showing that even had it won temporary success,
it could have lasted twenty-four hours, an inn
mense majority Of the people of France being OPP
posed to it. The accomplices of the leaders in this
plot, he maintains, were the laboring class who
either were ignorant and knew not what they
did, or aborers collected in Paris, without work
and therefore in want. The consequences of using
this large force would have Been the necessity of
paying them, and this could only have been done
by the sequestraton and appropriation of property,
and change of the republic into anarchy. Property
thus sequestrated and sold would have brought no
fair price No assurance Of title could have been
given; and even the purchaser Of the soil, Lamar
tine says, s.woud have left the field he had unjustly
acquired, uncultisated as that Potters-6ed which
was the reward Of the betraying of Christ
.assgnais could not have been forced into circua-
ton; they would have been more valueess than
those of the first revolution, which were the repre-
sentatives of church property, &c. There this re-
vouhon, proposed by the Socialists, could have re-
presented only the abrogation Of all property War
would have been the only resource. There would
be triumphs and their dictatorships; interference
with other nations, and coalition which would
make valueess and useless all the blood that has
been shed for freedom, or else France would tri-
umph, but come from the contest weak, feeble, and
prostrate Drawing his conclusions from the early
history Of the confederation, before the adoption of
the present constitution Lamartine advises the i'm
mediate suppression Of all clubs, and the substitu
ton of patriotism for party zeal.
The realization Of Napoleon's prophecy, that
Europe would be republican or Cossack, he thinks
is near at hand, but believes that not Russians alone
merit that term Of reproach, but the mad enthusi-
asts who, by their criminal ambition, would deyas-
tate France.
addresses at the Inauguration Of Jared Sparks IL d.,
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Tpogrufia de u Cr6nica 1s4e
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