The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-10-08


country, except. as legal conflict may
create excitement and deepen existing
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same Peace Congress, it devolved upon
Victor Hugo to close the Congress. He
called for the embrace of the republic
and socialism" he went on to say:
s'0ur enemies say, If necessary, So
cialism would accept the empire It is
not true. Our enemies say, 'The repub-
lie ignores socialism, It is not true.
The high and defnitive formula which
have just recalled, while it expresses the
whole republic, also expresses the whole
socialism. At the side of liberty, which
implies property, there is equality, which
implies the right Of work, a lofty formula
of 1913; and there is also fraternity.
which implies solidarity. Therefore, re-
publican and socialism are one. Citizens,
I am not myself republican of the eve,
but am socialist of the day before the
eve. hMiy socialism dates from 1928;
therefore, I have the right to speak of it.
Socialism is vast and not narrow; it en-
braces all human problems, the social
conception in its entirety. While it
evokes the important question of work
and wages, it proclaims the inviolability
of human life, the abolition of war, the
abolition of the gallows, the abolition of
murder under all dts forms, the substitu-
tion of instruction for penalty. It pro-
claims the gratuitous and obligatory edu-
cation; it proclaims woman equal to
man-it proclaims the right of the child
and the responsibility of man; lastly, it
proclaims the individual sovereignty,
which is Identical with liberty. What is
all that? 1T is socialism; it is also repub-
licanism. Citizens, socialism is the
affirmation Of lie; republicanism is the
affirmation of right. The one raises up
the individual to the dignity of man !;
the other raises up the man to the dig
nifty of citizen. Is there an accord
more perfect? Yes; we all agree. We
do not want a Cesar. I defend social
ism, which is illuminated. On the day
when the Question is put between slavery
and we'll ell-being-pa,aem ei circenSeS on the
one hand, and liberty with poverty on
the other, no one amongst the Republi-
cans and the Socialists will hesitate; and
ALL declare it, affirm it. answer for
it-all will prefer to the white bread of
servitude the black bread of liberty.
Therefore We must not let antagonism ap-
pear and germinate. Therefore, my
Socialist brethren, my Republican Ire
thren, let us stand close and serried
around justice and truth; let us face the
enemy. Who is the enemy? The one
my is more and less than man. It isa
compound OF hideous facts, which weighs
on the world, and which devours it. It
is q monster with thousand claws,
although with but one head The enc
my? Is it that sinister incarnation of
the old military and monarchial crime
who stiles and spoliates MS; who put his
hand on our mouths and in our pockets
Eyes, yes; true, true)-who has the
millions, the budgets, the priests, the
Wallets, the civil lists, the palaces, all the
armies, and not single people. The
enemy it is who reigns, governs and or
ganizes ut the present moment. Citi-
zens, let us be the enemies of the enemy;
let us be our own friends; let us be only
one soul to fight him; let us have only
one heart to love each other. Citizens,
let us cry fraternity! Another word and
/ have finished. Let us look at the
future; let.,us think of the day, certain,
inevitable, near at hand, perhaps, when
the whole of Europe will be cultivated
like that noble Swiss country which well
comes US, at this moment. That little
country has its grandeur-it has o coun-
try which is called republic. it has a
mountain which is called the Virgin.
Like Switzerland, let us have republic
for q citadel, and may our immaculate
and inviolable liberty be like the Jung
frau, n virgin freak in full light. I salute
the future revolution"
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man and woman arrived at o hotel
in Cincinnati, and asked if they had any
marrying facilities" about the house.
They were soon spliced, when the man
told the clerk to change the register, and
put them into one room, with first-rate