Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-09-12
RICHMOND WING.


FSom ths London 7Irses Aug. is, 1885.
Nothing reminds 20 how mach society differs from
that Of the Continent and from the England Of past
tme than the Of associations which
noe and then reach from abroad In the present day
organization fos overthrowng the British Government
thing Of which not only cannot suspect, but
hardly conceive the existence. The want produced BY
bad harvest Eat may Its stkes orts local
io but the very fact that such receive the
pubc attention for mouths enough show how free the
body potc from any settled and mslady. Con-
tras with English society the present Of France
revealed In the Intelligence lately received from Paris
Externally the great nation with which allied pos
sssscs like US peace and prosperity Enterprises Of all
Kinds for material improvement sprngng upin its cap
ita and large There lack Of demand for those
tasteful Of which has the monopoly in the
markets Of the world The Sovereign has conquered po
stsu Europe, and receives the homage both Of friends
and opponents The eager appetite for national glo
~ must be appeased by tho events OF the late
France has again proved her claim to stand FIRST among
the military Po~ers OF Europe II we sought to imagine
circumstances which should produce in people
ne could hardly 6x anything favourable than the
present condition OF honoured wise
In the experience Of many political changes, with
great mission before her. and conscious OF ability TO fulfil
the highes: expectations of the world Yet learn
that this community 10 pervsded Throughout by secret
societies. their object being the destruction OF all that has
been established and the reconstruction OF every rstu
ton in accordance with theories that have hitherto prov
ed fruitful Of nothing but anarchy and boodshed. Some
time since stated how certain departments OF France
were especially imbued with Communstc doctrines, how
the principles of the Socialist writers carried up and
down the great rivers and the chief roads Of the country
by the class Of whose occupations take them from
place place among community which is stationary To
much greater degree than in England. The Society OF
the Marianne its to the ardent propsgs
ton of such The West and South OF France seem
the chief Of ts operations Tor unlike most OF
the associations which have hitherto influenced the country
IL Partisan in origin, and IL does not appear to have
yet affiliated many OF the working classes in the capital
The Marianne In origin and organization the work OF
the provincial artisans lsbourers and peasants The bar
DIV workers in metal and stone throughout the country
be its supporters and even more devoted to the
cause than and vinegrowcrs Iron founders tim
workers. quarters together with all the OF hargeme
and boatmen, deeply implicated; "the manufacturing
towus the Loire the Rhone and the Soane, besides
'various manufacturing centres in the North East and
"South, incorporated in the Mdridnne at least
CLOSELY connected with it," Its principles be well
imagined The Democratic and Social Republic for the
end for the MEANS anything that be necessary.
system OF oats OF implicit obedience, OF secrecy enforc
ed by threats of the deadest vengeance, is of course
the handspring OF its machinery The obstacles to its
ends may be removed by crime and the neophes
instructed forget friends, family and even their
safety the bidding of the secret central authority.
This society, it said has taken root throughout
the greater part OF France We do not Indeed look up
on its dongs with the trepdaon OF old time polti
clans do think that its existence causes TO the Go
in Paris the alarm that might be naturally looked
10 effect much They represent the wide diffusion
OF unhealthy feeling than the machinery OF any definite
1t is not likely that the Grand Master OF the
Marianne will carry through his hierarchy active
plan of revolt In the first place, these societies
have from the police. With much soemnity OF
initiation aud great apparatus OF signals and passwords
is really little that the youngest discipline does not
know He learns that the society is promote nsurcc
ton when the time shall come and the chiefs themselves
know little Out of these thousands of affiliated la
bourers aud peasants there OF course many poverty
fects and their officers The police know all that hap
pens aud possibly not seldom urge overt acts When
the time has for a decisive blow. Of two genera
tons of Frenchmen numbers have spent their lives in
conspng and yet conspiraces have not overhrown any
Of the Governments of France They may have been the
expressions OF that public feeling which caused revou
tons but actively and Immediately they have effected
thsg Charles Y fell by acts Of outrageous tyranny and
folly which raised his capital both bougeosie aud work
men, against him Louis Philippe threw away his crown
by indecision at moment when word could have saved
him. Secret societies could neither overthrow CavagnRc
prevent the successive elections OF Louis Napoleon Ia
the highest place in the State There therefore, per
haps fear rising IRON the widespread
citation have described Its members will long
tnue declam in secret TO exhort another TO drink
together organize and reorganze with much minute
detail but action will always be deferred the IA
vourabe opportunity which, in the opinion Of the chiefs
will have arrived. Yet the existence Of the Har
is not less gloomy porteOt Ii shows that France
still is-how far distant may be the term which close
the period of revolutions
We have had in this kingdom something resembling
these as30clauOus hlOandnen oil Ireland
ded together against the law and the Irish peasantry de
PRAYED by -trcatmen and the bad advice OF their
guides shrank rom crime. The annals Of the Rband
confederacy boOdier than those OF continental
conspraces for the Irish wasted in planning aud
theozing but carried actively their principles OF
ed resistance aud assassination Yet since the rising of rs
the State be said have been directly endar
gered The evil lay III the presence Of this moral cancer
eating the strength aud morality OF the country and
is in France the present day The Marianne
muster its hordes for march Paris but long
~ eli nda laapn hr
DRY OF murder and pilage, the land have peace
France be always it were, in OF siege
Property rely force for its protection and
is inconsistent with the development Of truly liberia form
OF government Whatever may be the origin Of these
ceties-whether il be the actual distress OF the poor
the unwaaned hopes they have conceived from the teach
ings OF a false philosophy, meiely morbid love Of
plotting and mystery which leads subjects conspife
always and every where, with without reason thu
suit is the They il they do require any
gor OF military rule THE first objects of society are the
preservation Of life and property Even liberty
held subordinate TO safety and liberty Of person and
speech is incompatible with the prevalence Of such
ties as that OF the Marianne.