New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-24
Manifesto Of French Refugees.


A proclamation. Of which the following
is a translation has been semitic Paris by the French
refugees In London, whose names are subscribed
70 ut
70 THE PEOPLE, THE REFUGEES IN LONDON WHOSE
NAMES AR3 SUBSCRIBED.
Will you be debased VIII you be enslaved
Viii you become henceforsh an object Of eternal
contempt and ridicue to the oppressed peoples who
awaited their deliverance at your hands
Louis Bonapdrte has Justcrowded into few hours
more crimes than 1t would have been thought posi-
bic TO include in the life OF man.
Like thief, he has seized upon the Liberties OF
has country by nocturnal surprlse-a vulgar arti-
ace, which certain people have been rash enough 10
call courage.
He has audaciously tried with the sanctity OF the
domestic hearth.
BY the help of MS staggering soldery and po-
lice he vhas silenced Gerry voice IN Paris except
his own.
At one blow he has suppressed all the journals.
and has forth into the streets OF Paris without
bread, those OF your brethren whom the press sup
ported.
He has outraged. stricken down, and trampled
under foot the national representation not only In
the persons of your enemies, but also IN that OF
Greppo, the energetic and loyal representative oil
the wo1kmen OF Lyon, and IN that OF Nadaud the
mason who has so often and so noby defended your
interests in the tribune.
DO YOU want to have master And DO you wish
that that master should be Louis BonapaHe You
have seen the air with which he traversed the streets
Of Paris, hedged in by soldiers, covered by cannon,
and causing himself 70 be borne IN triumph by his
staff, adding to the crime OF high treason the Inso-
lence of a conQueror, and treating France as COZ
quered country-he whose military annals can boast
Of nothing except the opprobrium of the Roman e1-
petition
That the members of the majority are exDiatlny
the i'll which they have dOLe-that the Constitution
which they have violated IN you Is violated In them
that they are undergoing the chastise through
that universal suffrage which they have destroyed
That they who have made portion OF France pass
under the yoke in the state of siege now feel upon
themselves the full weight OF the state of slegethat
they who have sanctioned the transportation OF our
brethren en- ndSSe without Judgment now find force
where they sought justice, is lessen not more hard
than merlted. 1t is the penalty OF retrbution which
inflicted them, and it is not for us to complain
But what 1t concerns US 10 understand no is,
whether you are in the mood for change OF tyrants.
For does this crime belong to that Assembly OF
which he was the inspirer and accomplicel
Was 1t not he who by his Ministers, proposed and
passed that odious law of May against which he now
rises up, because the canGidature of Joinville has
made him afraid
Isnot he still more than the Assembly, charged
with the responsibility of having drowned the I.al,
ian Republic in the blood Of the Romans, mingled
with that of the French soldiers
Among so many shameful and h6erticide meas
ures, let one be mentioned, single one, which did
not exhibit Louis Bonaparte acting IN concert with
the Assembly.
AS soon as his ambition was threatened by the
Assembly he became the enemy oil that body. But
forget not that he has been an accompllce so long
as 1t acted to Cypress you.
He row comes forward to tell you that the people
mand ten years OF power-that is, the dDclcau0n OF
that sovereignty for ten years.
He sets himself up as the man OF the kepuelc, OF
that Republic which is the Government OF equahty
and at the same time he proposes The Establishment
of a Senate that is, an Assembly OF Dukes, Counts
Bsrons and Marqulses. Come, let us hasten, de-
based aud cownish as We are-let us hasten, IN VIZ
tue Of our sovereignty, once more 20 install an ans
tocracy after so many battles fought and so much
blood shed to put down that arstocracy forever IL
rs The man OF the Republic that invites us
lie boasts of restoring to you universal suffrage.
but condition that be worked for his pnvate
advantage. and not for YOURS, since he 10 going Tor
ten wears TO be your master. NO scrutiny OF t1s
list he SAWS DO YOU quite understand what that
means Ii means that the elections are 10 De mas
BY registers lodged In the offices OF the Mayor me
great swindling maIeuver winch has 0een practicei
upon France once III her history, IS TO be reoewed'
VIII you permit, precisely when II Is PRETENDED 70
restore your right that II shall be hlchec from You
Moreover to exercise the night OF the suffrage you
must be free Let HIM begin tGen, ~ restoring uee
speech 10 the journals let the COOS De nChR wife
open to popular meetings iet every han spear ,iis
mn and learn that OF others why those BAY one's
WHY those cannon To restore universal suffrage
with the state Of siegeis to ad To fasehood
people proclaimed sovereign, II IS the mantle 81
slavery thrown ovef your shoulders even as the DAT
bauan chief in the time OF the Lower Empire, tire
the purple over the Roman EmperOrS III placing
them among his camp followers Do you wish TO De
enslayed Do YOU wish to be debased Such is tue
CRY wIung from us by all indignation Impossible 10
be restrained We who. III our exile, eau al le Isl
sDeak--do spe All. But We owe more than speech 10
tie Republlcour blood belongs to It, we kho" It's
and shall not fOreetn.
RerbsId lie Ciubiste. LOUIS Bsrc. Landolphe Lyonue
RobulaIt Su,besu emard Percy lyaz Bcnceeur, LeClp
itsine Nsmo,t Cadet, Mtte,er Colin, shsnly, Pseei
l. ppan Baron MERCER Mercy, C0chet Phipps faihry'
Boua. Subj, Rotillon Msnsenet. Lansuedcc FleTsa'n
Rousseau, Frosssrd. bauer, AnrsJ. Daiancm m'"'a'
barholOpe Charles.
Dec. ), 1901