New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-07

AFTER all, n there q rev ,'tutsonst 10 the FRO
yisonal Government, and IL TO be a reyolutonist
could lead to any practical result Louis Blanc
and the other Socialists were as good revolution
lists as Messrs. MazziDi, Ledru RolIip and Others.
The spirit Of dscerd and division which Mr..
Mazzini reproaches the Socialists WITH ia the
name Of their individual systems, exists az well
among the reyolutionists in the name of their
pride and ambition-alas is not the spirit OF
division an original sin common to all revolution
airy fractions and factions, Socialist or not Social
st
IL was not The Socialists who hindered the Pro-
visional Government from intervening in Italy aud
Europe. The Socialist, wished aud demanded
that Intervention when France seemed disposed to
intervene for Charles Albert. II VAS nst the So.
calists who an ,wered "FItaiia faro da Sc" 1t
was not the Socialists who advised Maxim to
separate MS cause from shat Of those Sighting at
Novara TWAS not the Socialists who desired the
French Republic to abstain from sckno rsedging
the Roman Republic and fnally, when instead Of
acknow Lodging the Roman Republic Francs de-
cided upon a fatrcide expedition against il, it
was the Socialists who protested with the great
est energy. TIE first question upon VIII, n unsn-
| imtv was established IN all the fractions Of tho
Republcan-Socialist party, was the protest Of
June l3. 1912 The Republicans ocalist PARTY
was not afraid then to risk itself upon question
from abroad when the Republic was already
greatly weakened and nearly lost at home.
Many Socialists, aud am among the number
and il was this very act Of Socialist selEdenal in
behalf of European liberty which brought me into
exile and transportation for life. Many Socialists
took at that time to clearly establish that the
protect Of June l31h had no other object than the
defence Of the Constitution OF 1913 and the Liberty
of foreign nations.
concluded my de ence before the court Of YER
sales by paragraph entitled thus Socialism
rds net mired up wits the protest Of tie i3h Of
Jpnc. Tiaiprotcsf hal no otter ain hsa The de-
fence Of tie Constitution and Of tie liberty Of
foreign peoples
Mazzini has thus proved ungrateiul and unjust
towards the Socialists and towards France. will
soon come TO what regards France. Let us first
bring TO an end that miserable quarrel Of the blind
and merely routinia-y revolutionists against the
clear sighted and consequent reyolutiOnists, which
is reproduced under form in tho discussion
between Mazzini and those who replied to him.
| shall not stop at the accusation os sensualism
and egotism drectsd against various Socialist the
cries. One of the passages just quoted ab ,ve
spends very well To that inculpaton. All the So
calist theories having grownup as consequences Of
the democratic principle are at the bottom Chris
tan and spirtuaist. Saint Simonisni, which was
not democratic at ALL was religious, and held as a
principle the sacrificing OF the individual 10 So.
cety. The only Socialist doctrine, that Of Four
Ter, which could furnish pretext and but a pre-
text only, to the accusation Of epicurean tenden-
cies responds to Mazzni by the exile of Con-
sderant and Cantagrel, by tie imprisonment Of
Allyre Bureau, by the sack ef the Office of tho
Democratic Paeifque, and many other mslor-
| tunes, which were the consequences of the. part
taken by the disciples of Fourier in the protest
against the Roman expedition. Was it not in the
center OF Fourierism, in the very ofiic ,, Of the
| Democratic PGcifque, that the men met and
! combined, who composed the two republican COM
| mittees which MOI afraid on the 18th June,
1919, to expose what remained of the Republic OF
| 1913, on behalf of the Government naugurated at
Rome by Mazznl
Still, il to excuse so great blindness and ingrat-
| itude we could lind on the size OF MalL'Ei, and
those who call themselves, together with linn, tho
representatives OF the European revolution, Of tho
principle whose triumph ought to procode the
economical revolution laid down by tho socialists
as first condition Ofeyery political amelioTation--
five could find principle not tried by expert
ment. not compromised nor used up But they
have none.
But if he does not appeal to the principles of the
democratic and social Republic Tor a complete
change in the conditions OF education, work and
subsistence it is then TO mere form, to the right
1 4 tlaf i,as
for the destines the European Revolution, aud Of
the universal Republic Does there exist then
combination OF votes and suilrages which has
not been experimental on and tried and which has
not led to results altogether contrary TO its
primitive object
Universal 5 uiirage has been applied in France
| m the most extensive scale one can imagine. Its
first application turned out Of power tho very
men who inaugurated it. Its second application
gave us the Prince. president, Louis Napoleon its
third produced the Legislative Assembly, and
finally its last application has just helped in the
Inauguration of despotism unknown in the
records of history
Universal Suffrage IS, then, not g revolutionary
institution: and that course Of action which
would take fer its aim to establish or re6stablish
it purely ana SIMPLY, IS nothing else thah VehIaoe
nonsense, one Of these dangerous sOphisms that
help despotism not Liberty.
BY making the Socialist principle-that it is to
saw. the principle securing education, subsistence
AMI worh-to be the aim Of revolutionary action,
the sdyersaries Of Mazzini install themselves upon
the ysrtable ground Of the revolution, while MAJ
zin is but retrograding TO revolutionary Liberal
ism. tcnfod impotent, tenfod condemned for tbs
steriIty Of its results, unworthy of so much blood
and ruin.
II Is useless to stop at the incupation Of
HIM d.rectcd nrainst the Sncnllsta In