New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-03


iIg to be done; nor will Revolutions ever l4ck
leaders ms long ss there is possibility OF uccsss
Soon after the coup d'ttai the Socialist chiefs VIII
hid escaped the tet der merces Of the yrsnt nve5t
cd plsnof secretly organizing the Revolution, and
the Dtuocracy. The chief founder Of this scheue
1ss Martin b rDsrd, Montagnard aud an eI-
| deputy from the Hsute Loire. He was friend OF
Bartos, and was implicated with him in the af.
fair OF l-39 ard, of course, a warm partiz,a OF
La R{puJliqut DemOerat'que ct Soeiale. In com.
psny with Felix Pa,t he formed the society known
,s the Marianne toward the middle Of 1852. Its
pame came from its word and countersign of
recognition among members, Of which the one
was; do you know mother Marinnne =" and
the other "Yes, she has good wine, aud is well. a"
This was abridged sfterwsrd to "And Mari
sme?" "Well." 1t proposed to oppose Re-
yolutiorsry Dictatorship totbe Military one, which
was to ircluce all France. Its main purpose was
the overthrow Of the Bonaparteen dynasty snd the
supremacy Of the working classes.
AS means to these ends the assassination of the
Emperor and the pillsge and burning of the houses
Of Bcnaparti,ts and rtaetionnares were authorized.
Some reports said that general plunder would be
allowed. This does not seem to BE- satisfactorily
established Of the recognized NE thods Of op-
era'ion: but il would have been rather difficult ~
enforce Ihe distinction, should the taste for plsse
b. once given. Every member WAS bound By the
most rgbtul mprecaticns to sacrifice his life, his
property, ard hs family, IN obedience to rhe orders
Of b- superiOrs. 1t is believed that this Society
exter ded to all parts of France and the evidence
that WIS brought out at some Of the trials of
persons accused of seditious outbreaks such as
those Of the sate quarters at Angers and Pont dc
Ce last September and October-after making all
deductions for the tricks of the police would seem
to lend countenance and the suppostiOn. Arrests
ard trials were had in many parts OF France, some
as late as last June at Bois of persons implicated
by the confession efl by vine dresser who CON.
mitted suicide from distress of mind caused
by the terrible obligations he had taken upon him
self 4 physician aid an advocate were among
the parties arrested, the latter a member of the
Constituent Assembly, which seemed to Indicate
that the Marianne was not confined to the lower
orders only But it was ASSERTED, that proofs were
abundant that the laboripg classes were very ex.
tensisely connected with it in all parts of France
This is said not to be the only secret society hos
tile to the present Government. The one cs,led
the Pere de FamiHe is composed of groups of five,
governed by one who is called the father Of the fam
n.y. who alone knows the power above him, al the
rest OF the family knowing only their own group.
i. 4 L.. Il
ence Of these societies on the part Of intelligent
persons. They are regarded as bugbears dressed
out by the police under the direction of the Gov
eminent, to frighten the shOpkeepers and re-
conce the properry.hOders to the iron hand that
crushes down the masses. But we believe in the
substantial truth of these accounts because it sp-
pears to us that they are in accordance wirh the
constitution of man and the nature of things--and
especisly of Frenchmen and of things in France.
Hostility, bitter aud deep must be felt toward
Bonaparte and his creatures, and as this eau at
preset take LO open shape, it is unavoidable tAat
it shouId assume secret one The details given
by the Loudon journal may no. be the exact ones.
it ia altogether probable that the more offensive
features are exaggerated and distorted by the me-
dunn through which they struggle 70 light. But
to ray that secret conspiracies exi-t throughout
France is but to assert that live there with the
ordinary passions of man, and Frenchmen with the
characteristics that have always marked their race
Some persons, and those not ill.nformed neither,
believe that BOnaparte himself, when the time
comes that it can no longer be delayed, will put
himself at the head of the Socialist movement, and
lead the crusade Of the poor against the rich. No
doubt, if he cannot be on the imperial throne, he
had rather be the chief of the Social and Democra-
tic Republic than TO 60 back to Leicester square
and insighifcaDce. But that the Democrats and
Socialists Of France would trust him again with
their fate is scarcely conceivable possibility.
When the crash comes, as come it must some day,
terrible ss 1t my be, We will at least hope that
it will have the mitigating circumstance of swallow
ing up the Brummagem Bonaparte under the ruins.
History demands some poetical justice. That
dealt to the first Bonaparte was poetica in the
finest stnse of the word. Nohing could be more
tragic than the fate of that new rock. chained Pro-
metheus. None such can q should be in store for
bis puta,iye nephew. The pllory, the whipping
post, the penal seryitude in malariOus colonies, to
VIII ch France dooms her felons who have nothing
Ext. nuating in their circumstances-sucA Ia the
kind of penalty which should crown the career of
this jore0t, who returned from merefu exile
only to asssssirate ard plunder hi. country.
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