New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-04

and to minds spoiled with false notions Of violence
and force quite inapptcable to the foundation ola
rev Industrial order which is the only object ana
viii be the only result Of the great critical epocH
commencing with the sixteenth century.
It was quite enough il, with the single purpose
Of inspiring the Republicans of France, aPpafeau'
10 well disposed il. the beginning Of 1911 VII.
prudent and reserved conduct; oil HnlieS'"s
Them with the feeling Of their own Strength "no
efeneaging them to better proportion the" a'1 10
,h.;r r'ssns. I should try to make them UNDER
800 tho eros, fault committed by Messrs. Ledru
RoIIn Mazzni. and Others who responded to the
f.,oI blow sustained by Italian constitutional
unity. German Constitutional unity, and the
National regeneration of the Sclavonians, by the
t,spseendental programme of universal Repub-
lie taking its start in social revolution in France.
Allow me to recall to the memory Of your read
ers what | wrote upon this subject at the end OF
1850 and how, placing myself at point OF view
unite opposite to that of Messrs. Mazzin and
Jedu Rollin, advised all who were faithful to
the Republic and Liberty, to concentrate Their ei-
forts upon France only, and even in France 70
limit those efforts to securing second PRESIDENT
Of the Republic, and to proposes candidate, VINO,
If need be- could even pass through the narrow
door left to universal suffrage by the law OF May
81.
That candidate was Carnot, an honest man, a
man religious and moderate, one OF the first foun-
ders of socialism in France, the son Of General,
dreaded. yet honored by Napoleon, the only name,
the Only prestige the Republic had to oppose to
the name and prestige Of Bcnaparte.
You know. doubtless, that towards the end OF
1851 this Idea which seemed fancidl at first finally
preyajled in the intimate councils Of the Repu1li-
can party; that the retreat Of Cayaignac before
the name Of Carnot, gave the latter part of the
real force Cavaignac possessed in the ranks of the
electors devoted to the constitution of 1913, aud
greatly diminished the reluctance of the regolu-
tionists, and stu more of the socialists to keep
themselves within the limits of the constitution;
but the aspiring dictatOrs OF the revolution aud
socialism resisted still. The supporters OF Ledru
Roln, as a revolutionary dictator, believed iii his
accession to power by breaking open the electoral
gates. in the name of universal suffrage. The So
cialst dictators who thought to succeed without a
revolution, would also have opened wide the
frape could be restored without coup dGtdt, or
without a revolution, by the Assembly which had
voted the law of 1851, or in still more mar
yelous way, by magic operation of the peace
ful votes Of the electors in 1852 And as the
socialist dctators were in co npetition with each
other and as the chiefs Of particular schools, or
their friends would not yield the precedence to each
other the singular notion of making workman
President was taken up. For this purpose, Mr.
Nsdaud was fixed on, mason, at that time
representative Of the people, who was going to
solve with the trOwel of toll the GHtinOmieS OF So
cslism, Just as Emanuel Kant had solved the an
tinomies of pure reason by the moderating inter
position Of common sense.
But while they wasted in these miserable and
childish hestations time hardly sufficient to con-
centrate public opinion upon name known al
ready and perfectly satisfactory to every man OF
sense, anarchy in the Assembly, added to cOnfu-
sion and silly pretensions out of it, prepared Ma
poleon's coup d6tdt, or, more strictly speaking
that 6iaadeT6Ot Of Providence, which yet
has not dispelled all the dreams of delrious ambi
lion.
That thunderbolt has created IN France and
throue hout Europe quite and NEST critical
situation.
IL is at this moment that it becomes my duty &
express the thoughts have kept back for many
wears, and it is to fulfill this duty that now re
sumo my pen.
At the same time, in returning to politics and to
the study of these religious questions which ar
going to obtain every day more prominent inter
est in the affairs of Europe in general and in thos
Of England in particular shall still have to speak
OF that spontaneous organization Of industry now
m its very gro With upon the English soil. Although
for to- day am confined TO general views, will
give you concsey some interesting facts, never
theless.
1t is impossible that your attention has not been
attracted to an event which happened some time
since and was termed by the newspapers, &" The
Strike of the anal dmated Engineers Society,""
but which the workmen, on the other hand, called
" The Strike Of the Masters"
In fact it was coalition on both Sides The
struggle ended as might have been foreseen, by the
victory of the association of employers but still
there resulted from it very important fact which
IL, the formation even in London Of four assoc-
atoms Of working machinists the promoters
Of the earlier associations in other branches have
greatly contributed to this result, and it has given
10 their movement much higher Importance.
While the masters said /" Let us alone" the work
men claimed an arbitration. For the first time the
social question was laid down as it ought to
be; for truth and justice consist not in the
triumph Of labor over capital, nor in the triumph
pr capital over labor, but in equitable arbitrator
between these two material elements of produc-
ton.
The students of the University of Oxford have
been discussing the principle of Association at
several successive meetings of their Union. |
was present at one of their sittsgs and shall give
you an account OF it in my next letter, as we'll As
OF the Cooperative Ieasne md nf a n.etinr