The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-01-22

the nsb 10 take hs own course. The socialists went
10 work, and threw up the barricades and the army
remained passive-for Louis Philippe was man Of |
peace, and bis name his person had no associs-
tions which could rally military power around
him. The result was that revolution was accom-
plished before even the actors in 1t thought it was
begun. Had G uizot or Louis Philippe SO much Is
dreamed Of this result, they would have taken the
necessary precautions, and easily have nipped the
incipient rebellion in the bud, as Louis Napoleon
has since done by his coup deta in the case Of the
Assembly.
When the revolution was finished, and every
vestige Of royalty swept away, all were puzzled
to know what to do. No class seemed to wish for
a republic. Even the subterraneans did 10. want
one-at least not such republic rs we have here
in the United States, under which every man must
work for living; but what they wanted was to
have good living without work. Such was their
idea OF liberty, and it was an der this impression
that some man in blouse pro posed republic, and
the proposition was eagerly adopted by the
eanaue, who believed that their dreams of socialism
were about to be realized at last.
Lamartine, Ledru Rollin, Louis Blanc and
Others. installed themselves as provisional GO
vernment at the Hotel de Vile They were
asurrers and dictators but they wanted the capa-
city for holding the reins they had assumed. The
other nat ions that adopted the example Of the
French, in agitating for coostitu tional parhs-
ments, now followed in their wake, in upturning
the existing morarches and, If they had only
been assisted by the government of the new
public, they would have been everywhere success
f,a. When Lamartine was appealed to, he said
the alton was too weak to engage in revolutionary
struggles be yond her own pale, and he even went
the length Of declaring in favor of the moral force
doctrines Of O'Conn Accordingly, he let the
republic slip through his fingers, and liberty was
lest in Europe. To engage the army in the pro-
psgsndism Of republicGnism was the very best pos
sible mode of consolidating his government,
uniting the nation, and preventing mischief at
home, by the discomfort Of such an Immense mill
tary organization unemployed
Louis Blanc made socialist experiment upon q.
vast scale, and sustained in idleness hundred
Thousand oucr'ds at the expense OF the nation.
The people became tired Of this An attempt was
made at another revolution. Cavaignac became
dictator, and sho. more o. he population than
we're killed at tie battle of Waterloo. Thus one
usurpation was putting down another, to be put
down itself in turn. Cayaignac was not supported,
as the vote Of the pee lie showed and Louis Napo-
leon, who was working quietly in the dars came ia
cunningly at the opportune moment, and was
placed in power by the sufrages of the people. He
has been sustained by them ever since, and in all
human probability will DO to the end, showing very
conclusively that the socialists Of the faubourgs of
Paris are not the people of France.
Thus, republican government and constitutional
parliaments have been suppressed on the continent
Of Europe, and nothing remains but military des-
potisn, as far as human ken can reach into the
future.