New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-23

rsfr.a kn ohsd.nce and the executive povsr passes
with full force iato the hands Of tbs Assembly
Loui, NAPOLEON having, sin the presence OF God
"ard the French people" sworn hdelty 70 'A'
Constitution, committed perjury and high treason
in thus forcbly dissolvins the Assembly and there
by ceased to be President Of the kepuoiic' Inc
Government from that moment according 10 TAO
Constitution. vas vested in the National Assembly.
The few Republican members Of tho Assembly
WHO had escaped arrest AID imprisonment 81 Us
hands, accordingly melted he people to resstances
Bsrricades were raised on the 4th OF December
1851. The fight began. Orders were issued Q!
Louis Napoleon to the troops to show no qusr'er
to all found with ar rs, and even to shoot down al
unarned citizens who ventured in the Streets
Seven brgades simultaneously attacked seven sets
of brricsdes with cannon, and carried them st the
point of the bayonet At the same time the Boule-
wards we're occupied by $4,000 troops. Groups
Of unarned citizens, men, women aad cnu'
dren, were fred On. IS we'll as hidden
down by the cavalry. Artillery was
brought TO bear on dwelling houses, and ther IN
babitants were put 70 the sword. The number OF
Republicans who fell defending the Constitution OF
the barr;cades, and Of pesceabe and unarmed or
liens murdered in the streets of Paris by the usurp
ers troops, was 1850. Simultanee US uprisings of
the people in defense Of the Constitution occurred
throughout France, and the same terrible venge-
ance overlook them at the hands of the army
thoroughly in league with the usurper. Reign
of Terror was established. The cry of Long
"hve the Republic" was called seditiOus, and
doomed its utterer to instant death or imprson-
meut. Louis BoBaparte issued q decree as follows
published on the 9th of December, 1851:
"Au persons proved to be members OF secret so
cietes shall be transported to the penal settlements OF
Cayenne or Algiers.
This decree had particular reference to the men,
bers of the Republican Clubs. Other DEGREES BY
De Morny. Minister OF the Interior, and De Mau-
pas. Prefect Of Police, ordered the Projects Of the
eightysiI Departments to make everywhere
arrests on grand scale to strike terror" These
o,ders we're fulfilled literally ard the number Of
Republicans arrested was 80 immense that the pr-
sons oyeyAowed, ard other buildings had to be
used for ncarceratng the patriots. In the De-
partnent of Lot-et- Garonne, 1900 Republicans
were cast INTO prison; in the two Departments of
Aliier aid Cher, {. 900 were imprisoned; in the De-
paftment of Herault, there were 2.166, of whom
,574 were transported to Agiers; in Nievre, 5000
were imprisoned, Of whom 1000 were transported
TO Cayenne and Algers; in the Department of the
Seine, 80, 900 were imprisoned; in ths Department
Of War; the lumber imprisoned was 2,25l, and Of
these 743 were transported to Algers; in the De-
psItnent of Basses.Alpes, 1894 were imprisoned,
A.1 IA
to Agien. Imprisonments and transpOrtatlons
we're made on the came scale throughout France,
and according to the best authorities in the eighty
Fix Departments, 100000 were imprisoned, of
whom 40, 900 We're transported like felons to the
penal settlements, or simply exiled. The number
transported to Algiers was 1000. Some Depart
ments we're almost decimatec, and some towns
more than de cimated; for example, in tho little
town CT BOnpy, Department of Loiret, ct only
9, 900 inhabitants 400 were cast into prison for sus
tainiDg the Constitution which Louis Napoleon Bona
parte had sworn to uphold. Numbers Of women
ladies-were among the transported and even boys,
the council of war over which General Bertrand
presided having sent to Cayenne thirteen )ads the
eldest of whom was only fifteen years of age.
|
ard drum-head courts were the supreme legal
tribunals.
French history shows nothing equal in unpro-
vcked atrocty to Louis Napoleon's coup d'<tat
since the massacre of the Huguenots-the Rego
of Terror of 1898 hardly excepted; for be it re-
membered, the total number of victims of the
Paris Revolutionary Tribunal Of Robesplerre, in
tba fftse on months of its OK yistanca Was SD The
only crime Of these 200 600 victims of Louis Bona
parties Reign of Terror was devotion to the Re-
public and opposition TO bis usurpation. Many
were exiled for life for simply crying "Long live
the Republic " The Republican prisoners and
exiles included men of the greatest distinction, tai
ents wealth, worth ard political moderation,
though the usurpers confecerates stgmstized
them as enemies Of property, religion and order.
They were crowded in prison from ten to hun
dred in a single cell, in the dead Of Winter, with
cut fire, without beds, without change of clothing
without medical attendance for sickness and
wounds and without sufficient food. Pestlential
diseases ragged among them and their suferings in
prisons, in the hulks, and in Cayenne and Aglers
concentrated the horrors of the Spanish lnquisi-
ton. the middle passage, and the Bastile. 10
show the class Of men so prosecuted, we give the
names Of the occupants OF one horrible little ceu
at Moulns: ChsmpgObert, Journalist, imprisoned
for pubishng the 63th article of the Constitution
above quoted, and subsequently transported to Al
siers for the same crime; Bruel, rich iron ner
chant; Desetiveaux, principal lawyer of the town;
Dume., his clerk; MarceauI, tailor; Mcusset