The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-12-30

has always been most improbable and the recent voic,
of The people in the elections both North and South ha,
now made il absurd
manifesto OF Preach Refugees.
After the recent overthrow Of the French constitution
By Louis Napoleon was known in London. the French
political refugees in that city issued the following procla
nation 10 the French people. |, is far We know
the only formal document of interest in relation III,
even, Of which speaks which has not already
in our columns
10 The Peoy the Refugees London uhOse ar.
subscribed.
Will YOU be debased? viii you be enslaved' Will
YOU become henceor,h object OF eternal contempt and
Iidcue the oppressed people who awaited their dev
erance at your hands,
Louis Bonapare has iust crowded into few hours
more crimes than would have been thought possible
include in the life of man.
Like thief, he has seized upon the Liberties OF hi.
country by nocturnal surprisea vulgar artice which
certain people have been rash enough TO call courage
He has audaeously fed with The sanctiy OF the do
nestle hearth.
has sienced every voice ii Paris excep, his own.
AT one blow be has suppressed all the and has
cast forth into the Of Paris without Bread those
OF your brethren whom the press supported.
He has outraged stricken down, and trampled under
foot the national not only the persons
Of your enemies, but also in that OF Greppo the energetic
and oyal representative OF the workmen Of Lyons and in
that OF Nadaud the mason, who had 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 Bonapare You have
seen the air with which be aversed the streets of Paris
hedged in by solders covered by cannon. and causing
himself to be borne in triumph by his staff adding to The
crime OF high treason the insolence OF conqueror. and
treating France as a conquered country-he whose mill.
tay annals boast Of nothing except the opprobrum
Of the Roman expedition. :,
That The members Of the majority expiatng the i'll
which they have done; that the constitution which they
have violated you violated in them that they are
undergoing the chastsement through that SUI
irage which they have DESTROYED mat they who nave
state OF siege feel upon themselves the full weigh,
Of the stage of SIEGE that they who have sanctioned
the transpoIta OF brethren ase without ludg
ment now lind force where they soush. justice, is les
son not hard than meIted II the penalty OF ret
rbuon which is inflicted them, and it is not for US &c
complain.
But what concerns 10 understand now u.s. whether
you are ia the mood for change OF tyrants.
For does this crime belong TO that Assembly OF which
be was the inspirer and sccompice
VAST not he who. BY his ministers, proposed and
passed that odous law OF May, against which he now
Uses up because the candidature OF Jonvs has made
him afraid -
il not he still more than the Assembly, charged with
the responsibility OF having drowned the Italian republic
IN the blood OF the Romans mingled with tina. OF the
Among 40 many shameful and liberticde measures
lei one be ment,oned-a single one-which did not ex
hibi Louis Bonaparte acting in concert with the As
semby.
A, soon as his ambition was threatened by the As.
semby he became the enemy OF that body. Bot forge,
that he has been its accompce SO long as II acted to
Cypress you
sovereign and al the same time he dares TO demand ten
years OF power--that 10. the abdcaion oil that sove
reign,y for len years,
republic which the government OF equalityand al the
same time be proposes the establishment OF senate
that is, assembly Of dukes counts barons, ane
marquses Come, lei us hasten, debased and clownish
we arelwt hasten. in virtue OF our sovereignty
once more to install arisocracy, after so many battles
fought and much blood shed 10 put down that ars,oc
Tacy forever II is the OF the republic that invites
lie boasts OF restoring 10 you universal suffrage, bu
condition that il be worked Tor his private advantage
and for yours since he gong Tor ten years TO bt
your master " No scrutiny OF the list" he says Dc
you quite understand what that means II means tha
The elections be made by registers lodged in The
Offices OF the mayor The great swindling man1uvrc
which has been pract.ed upon France once IN her hso
~ is 10 be renewed Will you permit precisely when II
prelended restore your right that II shall be hlchec
iron your
Moreover TO exercise the right OF the suffrage you
must be free. Let him begin, then. BY restoring free
speech the journals let the doors be fug wide oper
and learn that OF others Why those bayonetsi Why
those cannon, To restore universal suffrage with the
OF siege TO ada mockery falsehood. people
proclaimed sovereign II - the mantle OF slavery thrown
your shoulders. the barbarian chief, in the
time Of the lower empire. threw the purple over the Ro
man smperors in placing them among his camp followers
DO you wish 10 be ensavedi Do you wish TO be de-
based Such is the cry wrung from us by an indgna
ton impossible 10 be restrained We who in our exile
can a, least speak, do speak. But we owe more than
speech TO the repueic-our blood belongs to IT, We
know il, and shall not forge, il.
Bernard le Curbis,e, Louis Blanc Landolphe Lyonne
Lemard, Robillar Sureau, Percy, Lyaz Bonc9ur, l.,
Cspaine Fremont Cadet, Meeyer. Colin. Shamby
Pagei Lussicn, Baron, MERCER, Nerzoy Cachst, Phil
ippe, Pathy. Boura, Subit, Rotion, Mangenet, Ian.
guedoc, Forentin, Rousseau Frossard, Bauer, Auroy
Daranch. Michon. Bauholome, Charles.
DECEMBER 3, 1851.