The republic., 1851-09-03

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institutions.
'The necessity of supplying the needs, the lux
ury, the prodigality of kings and king craft,
which depTves the people OF the largest part OF the
fruits of their labor, is still another perpetual at
tack upon the family relation, which Is thus de-
spoiled In great measure OF the means OF physl-
cal preservation of food OF clothing, and of heal
fu lodgings; from hence arises misery, epldemlcs,
vice. and the deplorable separation, especially in
the large cities, of the mother and her children.
"We, Socialist Republicans, who are regarded as
enemies of the family relation understand il in to-
tally different manner.
awe desire that it be holy, and involable in all
| its physical and moral conditions.
eve desire that, freely entered into by the at
traction of pure affection, il continue pure and
exempt from all PROCLAMATION and all the disorders
engendered by the bad suggestions and tempta-
tons of hunger and want
owe desire that, instead of the cares and suffer
ngs of the present and sombre anxieties for the fu
ture there be seated at every fireside confidence,
security, contentment, the happiness Of living in
the bosom of ones family, copjugal, hlial and fra
ternal love-n short, all those ineffabls blessings
that God has sown between the cradle and the
tomb.
eve desire, too, that the merely physical wants,
once satisfied, the mind also has its aiment, that
instruction be developed, that the hight OF know
ledge penetrate through the thatched roof as well
as through the fretted cornice, and that the poor
may claim some portion in the enjoyment of those
arts which elevate the soul and charm away the
sorrows inseparable from all human life.
I" Between the family relation as it exists under
monarchy, and the family relation as the Repub-
lican Socialists conceive and understand it, let the
people pronounce"
BY a similar train of reasoning, it proves that
monarchy has always been unfavorable to the in
teress of religion and of property, and that con-
| sequently the Reactionsts, who have dubbed them
selves the great party of order, are guilty of an
| absurd solecsm. The doctrines that have just
given certainly do not breathe spirit of revenge
or of violent revolution. Blood does not seem to be
necessary as the cement by which fraternal union
is to be brought about; not word either of the
guillotine as an instrument of publication. The
worst that be said of the manifest is, that il
aims at arriving at the millennium before its time,
and at seeing the lion lie down with the lamb some
centuries too
The local councils in the various communes of
France beginning to hand in their adhesions
to the petitions in favor of the revision of the
stution. They thus act under the pressure Of the
invitation of the majority i'll the Assembly, and
of the well known desire of the central govern
ment at Paris. The real attributes of these coun-
ellis purely local; they relate to the commune,
the ward of the department to which they belong.
They have, no doubt an interest in the action of
the general government, since they live under it
influence; but they have political connexions
with it, more than the seectmen of any yil-
lage in Massachusetts, have with the Senate Of the
United States. Several, indeed many, of these
councils have, since they have come together for
their annual session, petioned for the revision Of
the constitution. One of them, however, by pur-
suing slightly different course, has given M.
Leon Faucher, the Minister of the Interior, an op-
portunity to eclipse all his past acts, and to
plish the chef d'Guurs of his many triumphs. This
council, instead of following M. Faucher's lead,
and expressing its wish that the constitution be
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be preserved intact.
This was dangerous precedent, and it was i'm
minently necessary to quash it. So M. Faucher
issued the following bulletin: Considering the
law of such date by which the power is given to
the Minister to check any OF the lesser authorities
should they exceed their mission, and considering
that the ward council of Limoges notoroualy
abused the object of its creation in expressing the
desire that benceforM the constitution be strictly IN
trpreted, especially those clauses of IL tohich relate 10
the right of assembly and the liberty Of the press, the
action of said council this occasion is hereby
annulled!'' This is signed by the President and
| countersigned by M. Faucher. So it is perfectly
legal and unquestonably proper for these councils
to petition for the mutilation of the constitutions;
but when they are 30 outrageously republican to
petition for its the crisis
to call for ministerial intervention, and the Presi
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mistake not, pass into the history of the times and
will form of its most curious pages.
| Since | wrote you last, Madame Poievin has
| made another successful descent in a parachute
Yesterday the plus ultra of aerian navigation was
attained by the ascension of three horses suspended
| under the car and each one mounted by rider.
Mr.. and Mrs Poitevin. and their servant, were the
equestrian aeronauts. The balloon called the Globe
| which is only used these extraordinary occa-
sions. leaving the lighter work to be done by the
| Zodiac, is as large good sized house. When
the word is given to the assistants to let go the
ropes, the balloon waits second or so before talk
ing advantage of its newly acquired liberty There
certainly is moment of hesitation, a perceptble
lapse of time before the huge winged creature puts
| its marvellous power into requi5iton. But when it
does start, it is without pause looking back or
staggering; it has not single regret for the earth
it leaves below it, but away into the regions
of space, though it's family lived there, and it
was going home to spend its vacation. don't
| know whether person living here in Paris in the
| year of grace 1851, at the half way house of
the nineteenth century, need be very much as
tonshed at any thing. But il wonder can be
permitted at all, II person may be even al
lowed to ask himself, " What are we coming to,
and where under the are we going to ?" it is
in contemplating one Of M. Poitevin's aerial
| flights Three persons, with cool heads and
strong nerve, mount on horseback with the
usual accoutrements Of saddle and bridle nothing
more nor any thing less. and without being in
any way fastened in their seats or bound to
their animals backs, place themselves under
monstrous pear inverted bell. At the word of
command, the pear or inverted bell seems to seize
them by the hair Of the head, and fly away
with them far above the clouds, where moth and
rust do not corrupt. As neither eye nor telescope
can pierce the veil that hides them, you think no
more about them for day or two; you then learn
that, having reached the upper regions, they all of
them climbed up into the car above by the
aid of rope-adders and other frightfu con-
trivances of the sort once comfortably seated,
they proceeded to discuss cold chicken and
! glass of Bordeaux. Experience soon warned them
that, though bread daylight there, it was getting
dark down stairs; 80 they made momentary hole
in the pear, and let out some Of its life; this DONE
they camo quietly down again. The horses re-
covered the use of their legs the moment they