The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-11

and whose eve could not discern shadows from re-
atty In this the king was OF the same opinion
as the bolvgeoisie They do not pardon certain men
for being destitute of the mediocrity OF the crowd
or the vices Of the time The name o. M t he La
of the king. The people alone could think OF MN;
and vet the people repeated this name, as an echo
repeats the word which is cast to 1t.
THE EDITOR OF 'sLA PREssE."
He was of that small number of characters who
always seek opportunity to enter ON the stage,
as it were accidentally since they are impatient
from their activity, theiS energy, and their TALENT
and believe themselves equal TO all emergencies
nj. de Girardin had no fanatcisIh for royalty, nor
antpathy to republic. In politics he loved only
action. Ambitious of intellectual superiority rather
than Office, of his character rather than power, ne
had come from other call but his own impulse
The journal La Presse, which he edited, gave him
celebrity in Europe, and publicity in Paris,
which brought him constantly in connexion with
public opinion. He was one OF those men who
think aloud in the midst of the people, and whose
every thought is the event the controversy OF the
day. Antiquity had only the orators OF the forum:
journalism has created the orators OF the freside
A PICTURE.
Every minute. distant discharges and volleys of
musketry shook the glasses of the dome, and
blanched the cheeks of the women i'll the tribunes.
Lamartine seated alone on his solitary bench.
He did not exchange word with his colleagues
during the two hours of this session. His fear was
as silent his hope, or rather he knew not whe-
Their he feared or hoped; he was sad. Revolutions
are sphinxes; they have meaning which Is only
solicited in terror.
LEDRU RoLLIN.
Almost the only republican in the assembly dur
ing many years Of his membership, the inspirer of
the republican press, the orator Of the democratic
banquets, the declared enemy of the arrangements
and the reservations of the halfway agiations of
the dynastic left; pushing opposition, in the Cham
Der, to that point where faction commences out of
the Chamber, to the limits where it becomes sedi
ton; M. Ledru Rollin, with youthful, large, and
sanguine head, fiery in voice and gesture but pre-
serving the studied GOODNESS of the politician under
the apparent impulse Of the orator, seemed to be
man fitted for the crisis, and looked for by it, His
words, strongly impressed by study of the form of
plebeian eoquence, had little of the posthumous
tone of the Convention. His discourse savored of
the lamp of Danton.
LOUIS BLANC.
His little figure buried him in crowd; the peo
pie were astonished at the strong voice and lofty
gestures proceeding from so feeble body The
multitude always confound the strength grandeur
Of character and ideas, with the stature of orator
Apostles may be slight of fgure-tribunes must
challenge attention by their size, and rule with their
aspect the public square The sensual people mea-
sure men by the eye The tumult increased; the
instruction was aggravated.
FouRIERIsM.
II was dream in action. The community,
which preached under the forms ofits pdlansttres
klHu Vi iluu5lTldl anu agricultural UOHdSteTleS,
supposed angels to- practise it, gods to govern ii,
mysteries to accomplish it. II was these very mys.
teries, in vain undermined by reasoning, and in
vain insulted by ridicule that seemed to attach its
sectaries to it more closely. Mysticism is the
ment of illusions. 1t renders them holy in the eyes
OF those who partake them. Enthusiasm is incura
ble when the enthusiasts believe themselves in
spired, and when the inspired believe themselves
martyrs.
If Fourierism had, in its principal adopts, the
illusions and superstitions of religion it had also its
honesty and virtues 1t had always refused to unite
itself with political parties hostile to the established
government
THE RED REPUBLICANS AND THE REAL.
The terrorists and communists inspired horror
and fear in the enlightened and courageous repub-
licans, who pressed, since the evening, around
undertaking centre of government. These, like
the vast majority of the people of Paris, in the
republic a humane and magnanimous emancpa-
ton OF all the classes without oppression for any
They saw in it reform of justice, equitable,
rational, and progressive amehoration OF political,
civil, and possessve society. They were far from
seeing in it subversion of property of family, and
of fortunes sacrifice of one or two generations,
for the realization of impracticable chimeras or
execrable passions
LAMARTINE BEFORE THE PEOPLE.
Lamartine, overwhelmed by eighteen hours of
physical Efforts and stretched the floor arose at
these cries, and went out, accompanied by Payer,
Jumelle and Marechal, young and intrepid pupils of
Saint Cyr, and by group of generous youths of
the Polytechnic School, and few citizens who pro-
tected him with their bodies He passed through
the corridors; he advanced as far the landing of
the staircase; he descended the steps, bristlng ON
both sides with swords, lances, daggers, musket-
barrels, and pistols, brandished over his head by
excited and sometimes intoxicated hands borne
and, as IL were, swimming over the very waves Of
sediton, he thus came upon the steps which open
upon the square. He showed himself; he spoke;
his form, which the people beheld with curiosity,
his gestures, his frank and open countenance,
more than his words, which were often drowned in
the tumult, reused prolonged acclamations from
the multitude.