New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-10

of arbitrary laws against the press, the abo-
lition of universal suffrage, and thus the alb
roeation Of every democratic principle, for
whose establishment. the agitation before the
revolution and the revolution itself were set
on foo. and carried through.
We admit most fully that there is neces-
eiiy in all this. Liberty 10 Europe, amid
that old, out.grown, long-decaying Society,
is pregnant with radical and novel conss-
quences, which are naturally far more
agreeable to the masses than to those who
have become hsbituased to ruling them and
living upon the products of their unrequited
toll. If, then, the usurping masters and
proprietoTs Of the world would not be crowd
cd from their places and their privileges by
this new offspring Of Freedom, they have
but one resource, namely, to kill Freedom.
They accordingly commit the crime. There
is no choice between Social Reform and
Despotism, and they cling to the latter. The
density and poverty of the population, the
intelligence Of the masses as to the sources
Of property and the fundamental rights Of
Man, the universal conviction that a great
and profound change is necessary and i'm
pending, all render it impossible to main
tain things as they are save by the most
unyielding and INSCRIPTIONS restraints
Let the People be permitted to discuss the
new ideas and those ideas will soon have
such control of Legislation that they will be
embodied in the laws and brought into prac-
teal application. In this country the situa-
ton is different We have, for example, a
large unOccupiod territory, and the earnest
refcrmers who preach the right of man to
the soil and the principle Of land limitation,
arc not regarded as at all dangerous to So
ciety. But had we no such territory; we're
the entire soil Of the country in the hands of
a few, and were there large majority Of
poor and landless workers, il is not difficult
to understand that the dissemination Of such
principles would either have to be forbidden
altogether and prevented, no matter by what
means, or else the demands of the people
must be acceded to. Now, the case in France
10 precisely analogous to this. There is no
choice. One course or the other must be
adopted and followed to the end. Either the
suppression of all popular liberties, Of the
common political rights Of the masses, or
else the realization of new liberties, and Of
rights more than political. Such is the d.
lemma. The Government, the Assembly,
the money lords and labOr-lords have chosen
that part most agreeable to their habits and
interests; they have adopted the principle
of tyranny. 1t has led them very far al
ready, through worse disgrace and worse
wrong than Louis Philippe ever dared to in
fict on the nation. And the climax is not
yet.
In this situation nothing is more natural
than that conspiracy should be upon the
alert. We know that it is so. The Sc
cret Societies which after February, for
time fell into total disuse, are once more nu-
merous and active They are organized
throughout France, having their center at
Paris. In them is kept up an ardent and
untiring revolutionary propaganda, and pre-
parations are constantly made FOX coming
national paroxysm. The more thoughtful
and solid men among the Democratic Social
lists are not engaged in this movement
though they must at least suspect its exis-
tence it is composed of the impassioned
and enthusiastic, who burn to free their cOun-
try, complete its revolutionary cycle, and
open wide the door for all practical amelio-
rations in the condition Of the people. For
the gradual operation Of peaceful means
these men have neither faith nor patience.
They plot necessarily the overthrow Of the
government and the establishment in its
place of one more democratic. They re.
gard themselves as not bound by the Consti-
tuition to respect the existing authorities,
since the latter have set the example of tram
pling on that instrument. They spread their
plans, send forth their missionaries, discov-
er new instruments Of warfare, devise more
efficient arrangements Of insurrectiOnary
strategy. They have invented new sort
of powder, as one of the most active of them
writes us, which has greater force than the
old sort by at least quarter, is cheap,
white in color-theugh not made of cotton
and easy of fabrication. They count their
men and know how great is the reliable
force they can command at Paris aud else
where. On the night after the new electo-