Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1852-01-08

eloquent address of the French exlies
to their countrymen;
Addsess Of the French RxiIes 70 thsir Ceuns
The following proclamation has
been sent to Paris, from England, by
the French refugees whose names
are subscribed to it:
To the People:-WiIl you be de-
bassdl Will you be enslavedi Will
you become henceforth an object OF
eternal contempt and ridicule to the
oppressed people who awaited their
deliverance at your handsl
Louis Bonaparte has just crowded
into few hours more crimes than 1t
would have been thought possible TO
include in the life Of man.
Like a thief. he has seized upon
the liberties of his country by a
nocternal surprise-a vulgar ariihce,
which certain people have been rash
enough TO call courage.
He has audaciously trifed with the
sanctity of the domestic hearth.
By the help of his staggering
soldiery and police, he has silenced
every voice in Paris except his own.
At ons blow be has suppressed all
the journals, and has cast forth into
the streets of Paris. without bread,
those Of your brethren whom the
press supported. He has outraged,
stricken down, and trampled under
foot the national representation, not
only in the person Of your enemies,
but also in that Of Greppo, the ener-
getic and loyal representative of the
workmen Of Lyons; and in that of
Nadaud, the mason. who has so often
and SO nobly defended your interests
in the tribune.
Do you want 10 have master!
and do you wish that that master
should be Louis Bonaparte? You
have seen the air with which he ira
versed 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 conquerer, and treating France
as a conquered country--he whose
military annals can boast of nothing
but the opprobrium OF the Roman
expeditionl
That the members Of the majori-
ty are expiating the i'll which they
have done; that the constitution
which they have violated in you is
violated in them; that they are un
dergoing the chastisement 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 siege; that they who
have sanctioned the transportation Of
our brethren en- masse, and without
judgment, now find force where they
sought JUSTICES a lesson not more
hard than merited. 1t is the penalty
{ of retribution which is inflicted on
them, and it is not for US to com-
plain.
But what it concerns US to under
stand now is, whether you are in a
mood for change of tyrants?
For does this crime belong TO that
Assembly of which he was the in
spirer and accomplice?
Was it not he who, by his minis
ters, proposed and passed that odious
law OF May against which he now
rises up, because the candidature ol
Joinville has made him afraidl Is
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 that of the French soldiersl
Among so many shameful and
hberticide measures, let one be men-
toned, a 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 be.
came the enemy of that body. But
forget not that he has been its ac-
eomplice, so long as it acted 10 op-
press 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 is, the
abdicalion Of that sovereignty for
ten years.
He sets himself up as the man Of
the repubIic-of that republic which
is the government of equality, and
at the same time he proposes the
establishment Of senate-ihat is,
sn assembly OF dukes, counts, barons,
and marquises. Come let us hasten,
debased and clownish as we are
let US hasten, in virtue of our
sovereignty, once more to install an
aristocracv. afIer so many battles
fought, and so much blood shed, to
put down that aristocracy forever.
1t is the man OF the republic that in