Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1852-01-31
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A Sketch from French history

The 18TH OF BRUMAIRE.-Previous to the
9th of November 1899, the French Govern
.ment consisted of Fare Directors-Sieyes,
Ducos, Barras, Gohier, Moulins; 4 Council
of Ancients; Il Chdns6es of Five Hundred
On the 9th of November, Sieyes and Ducos
made report. TO the Council, Intended to
awaken tho attention and excite the alarm of
the French people. Paris, they said, was 6ll-
ed with enemies of public icoFIeE-ptrsons dan
gerous 10 the welfare of the Republic. The
Council rendered a decree transferring the
seat Of the legislative body to StClOud, charged
Bonaparfe with the execution of this decree,
and placed the whole military force at his dis
posAL On receiving these orders, the Gener-
al thus addressed the Council:
The Republic was about to perish: you
foresaw it and saved it by your decree. Wo
betide those who threaten it with trouble and
dscerd! Aided by Gen. Lefebyre, Gen. Ber-
thier, and all my faithful companions in arms
l will defeat THEN designs. They need not
search the past for precedents by which our
action may be arrested. Nothing in history
resembles the close of the present century
Nothing in the close of this century resem-
bles the present moment Your wisdom con-
ceived this decree: our arms will know how
to execute il We want Republic founded
upon real liberty We will haveit swear
| il! swear itp'
After Ihis Bonaparte reviewed ten theus-
and troops at the Tuileries. The three direc-
Tors, who perceived they were about to be dis
placed, then sent an agent to offer terms to
him; his reply is well known 1t was couch
ed in the most indignant terms
What have you done.' be cried, with that
France which l left so glorious in your hands
l left you peace; find you at war. ! left
you victories; find nothing but disastera
left you millions of the treasures of Italy; and
find on all sides extortion and wretchedness
What have you done with the hundred thous-
ane Frenchmen, companions of nay glory, sll o.
whom knew? They are in their graves
This state of things must cease; itwould lead
US all to despoiism. What we want is the
Republic the Republic seated firmly upon the
foundation of equality and liberty
On she next day he sudden!y appeared in
the Chamber Of the Five Hundred at st. Cloud
with-a chosen body of armed grenadiers. Al
his presence the Deputies rose in tumult and
filed the Hall with cries of Dictator! Crom
well! Caesar! down with him! So energetic
was their resistance at first, a resistance only
IN "OIoSS lhdh N0C SOoH H0O'SA "a suO 1A0tAAiN'
fAltered in his design He turned back from
the Assembly and retired from the hall.
twas upon this occasion that his brother
Lucien, who occupied the chair as Presdsn
OF the Assembly. decided the fate of France
Stepping over the threshold of the hall, h'
gave instant order to battalion of grenadier
to enter the Assembly with bayonets fixed
They cleared the room; the deputies rushing
out in wild dismay, and many escaping thro
the windows. That same night the two coun
sils were called together by Lucien. Th'
Bonapartsts appeared in force; decreed th'
abolition of the Directory the institution of
provisional consular government, and legis
iative committee of fifty, and France becamt
a Consulate. With Napoleon Bonaparte for be-
Chief Magistrate and thus entered upon tn,
beginning of the Nineteenth Century.
The conduct of Louis BOnaparte, at the be
ginning of the second half of the nineteenth
century, is intended as close imitation of tn
part played by his uncle in this affair
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