The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-01-14
Address of the French Exiles to
their Countrymen.

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To THE PEoPLE-Will you be debased q
Will you be enslaved? ? Will you become
henceforth an object of contempt and ridi-
cule to the oppressed peoples who awaited
their deliyerance at your hands?
Louis Bonaparte has just crowded into al
been thought possible to include in the lifel
of man.
Like thief, he has seized upon the liber-
ties of his country by nocturnal surprise
yul gar artifce, which certain people have
been rash enough to call courage.
He has audaciously trifed with the sane
tity of the domestic hearth.
By :he help of his staggering soldiery
and police, he has silenced every voice in
Paris except his own. At one blow he has
suppressed all the journals, and has cast
forth into the streets of Paris, without bread
those of your brethren whom the press sup
ported. He has outraged, stricken down,
and trampled the national representation,
not only in the person of your enemies, but
also in that of Grcppo, the energetic and
loyal representative of the workmen of Ly-
ons; and in that of Nadaud, the mason who
has so often and so nobly defended your in
terest in the tribune. N s"' IT, s@i 0#f n
Do you want to have a master7 And do
you wish that that master should be Louis
Bonaparte? You have seen the air with
which he traversed the streets of Paris,
hedged in by soldiers, covered by cannon,
and causing himself to be borne in triumph
by his staff adding to the crime Of high
treason, the insolence of a conqueror, and
treating France as a conquered country
he whose military annals can boast of moth
ing except the approbium of the Roman ex-
pediton.
That the members Of the majority are ex-
plating the i'll which they have done that
the constitution which they have violated in
you is violated in them; that they are under
going the chastisement thro' that universal
suffrage which they have destroyed; that
they who have made portion Of France
pass under the yoke in the state of seige,
now feel upon themselves the full weight of
the state Of seige; that they who have sane
toned the transportation Of our brethren en-
.masse and without Judgment, now find force
where they sought justice-is a lesson not
more hard than merited. 1t is the penalty
of retribution which is inflicted on them, and
lit is not for us to'complain. '~-'''7Rs'a 'a-
But what it concerns us to understand now
is, whether you are in a mood for a change
of tyrants?
For does this crime belong to that assem-
Ibly of which he was the inspirer and accom-
Iplice?
Was it not he who, by his ministers, pro-
posed and passed that odious law of May a
gainst which he now rises up, because the
lcandidature Of Joinville has made him
afraid? Is not he, still more than the As
sembly, charged with the responsibility of
having drowned the Italian republic in the
blood of the Romans, mingled with that of
the French soldiers.
Among so many shameful and liberticide
measures, let one be mentioned, single
one, which did not exhibit Louis Napoleon
acting in concert with the Assembly.
AS soon as his ambition was threatened
by the Assembly he became the enemy of
that body. But forgot not that he has been
its complice, so long as it acted to oppress
you.
He now comes forward to tell you that the
people is sovereign; and at the same time he
dares to demand ten years of power--that
lis, the abdcation of that sovereignty for ten
years ."#.HEg .
He sets himselfup as the man of the re-
public--of that republic which is the gov
ernment of equality, and at the same time he
proposes the establishment of a senate--that
is, an assembly of dukes, counts, barons, and
marquises. Come let us hasten, debased
and clawnish as we are---let us hasten, in
virtue of our sovereignty, once more to in
stall an aristocracy, after so many battles
fought, and so much blood shed, to put down
that aristocracy forever. 1t is the man Of
4 the republic that invites u.s. s4
i He boasts of restoring to you universal
!. suffrage; but on condition that it be worked
for his private advantage, and not for yours,
\ since he is going for ten years to be your
master. l5r 3H'5r E.4 4lu4 aEatgt
mo scrutiny of the list, he says. Do you
quite understand what he means? Itis that
the elections are to be made by registers
] lodged in the Office of the mayor. The
great swindling maneuvre which has been
praotised upon France once in her history,
J is to beurenewed Will you permit, pre-,
). cisely when it is pretended to restore your
} right; that it shall be flched from you. "a
\ Moreover, to excuse the right of the isuf
/ frage, you must be free. Let him begin
then, ,7by restoring free speech to the journ.
ais; let the doors be flung wide open to pop.
ular meetings; let every man speak his mind
!, and learn that of others. Why those bayo
} nets? Why those cannon? TO restore uni
, vsrsal suffrage with the state Of seige, is tt
add mockery to fslsehood. A people pre-
claimed sovereign, is the mantle of slavery
; which is sthrown over your shoulders, even al
!, the Barbarian chief, in the time of the Low
, er Empire, threw the purple over the Roman
emperors in placing them among his camJ
followers. Do you wish to be epsaved p
Il Do you wishto be debased? g~col1ai
!. Such is the cry rung from us by an indig
J nation impossible to restrain. We who arr
in our exile can at least speak, do speak -
\ But we owe more than speechto the repuh
}, lic--our blood belongs to it. We know it
! and shall not forgetit. ia -a a p.a..
4 #r. ST.. OIL a'v ---------~-----
A FIRE IN WELLsvnLE.--On the evening O
the 9th the Wellsville Manufacturing CO. ;
Foundry was burnt up, as was also all tn
contiguous buildings, including McDonal,
4 d. Norrison's batting factory, Loss no
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