The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-24
LIBERATED FRANCE.
Victor Hugo ON the Great Change.

The first number of the Paris Rappel on its reap
DER the heading adm La Depacle fragment Of rhetor
cal and prophetical denuncatioH against the
Empire at once SO characteristic OF ts author and so
gerry that at the present moment our readers may,
perhaps, thank us for its reproduction
preston Of the right of public meeting, thanks to
the suppression OF the press thanks to the suppress
pressiOns OF which the result has been to permit
anything and everything to NJ Bonaparte, but which
his acts, without exception-thanks we say, to this
stining of all rem monstrance and all exposure, no
thing 70 no G Its 5ae likeness
is not crime; it Is called M necessity;
M. Bonaparte's thefts not thefts they are called
measures OF State; M. Bonaparte's murders are not
murders, they are called public safety; M. Bona
parties accOmplices are not malefactors. they are
called magistrates senators and councillors OF State
NJ Bonapartes adversaries are not soldiers Of law
and Justice they are called agraran butchers dema-
gogues, and spectators, In the eyes OF France IN
e What " Write hs Is nothing IN Else tSan hsnd
put forth from the darkness to pluck off its mask.
Come, we are going to expose the triumph OF
stable Gogernmenf, which has on its side a mob OF
paltry fellows with more ambition than shoes, hand
the % Bourse by Foud the jew, and in the Church by
Montalembert the Catholic esteemed by women who
prefecture; supported by coalition of prostitutons
giving galas; smaking cardinals; wearing white
Ties, gloves III lemon COlOF, MOIUys DldCkcu un
bright as Maupas; new-brushed like Perslgny; rich
elegant, smart, gilded, brushed, gay, born in a
swamp OF blood.
"Yes, there will be an awakening! Yes, there will
be an arising from that torpor which, Tor such a
people, is disgrace; and when France IS awakened,
when she opens her eyes, when she distinguishes,
when she sees what she has before her and beside
her. she will recol that France, with a shudder OF
alright fy0m the misbegotten monster who has
dared TO pcuse her in the dark, and whose bed she
has shared. Then the last hour will strike
'"The skeptic smiles and insists, saying, "Haye no
nope. This Government, according TO you, ls the
disgrace OF France Granted; this disgrace has
friends at the Bourse. Have no hope. You are
poets and dreamers II you have hope. Only look
public meeting, press, intelligence free. speech,
thought all that was liberty, has vanished Yester-
day IL all moved stirred, lived to-day ia petrhed
Well, folks content: they put up with the petr
faction, they make the best of 1t, they get profit
out OF 1t, they live the top OF it, just usual
Society goes on, and plenty OF honest people like it
Why do you want this situation to change? Why
do you want this situation to end? Don't deceyt
youIself this soid this is stable this is the pre-
"We are IN Russia. The Neva is frozen. IroI
houses are building, heavy carriages rolling, on II
back. 1t is no longer water, 1t is rock. Passenger
come and go on that marble which was river. 4
town springs up streets are planned, shops opened
They SELL buy, drink eat, sleep; they light fires oI
that water. They can venture anything and every
thing. Have no fear; do whatever you please
laugh, dance-the firm ground Is not so solid. Truly
it rings beneath the foot like granite. Hurrah 10
winter hurrah for the ice here we have them Sc
in for all eternity. And look at the sky-is 1t day
is IL night? wan and sickly light trails along TN
snow Il looks as though the sun were dying.
me, thou shalt not die, Liberty One OF thos
az the very hour when thou shalt have been mos
profoundly forgotten, thou shalt arise, splendoI
on a sudden we shall see that day-star, thy face
yise from the ground ana name at the horizon. Vpo