The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-06-29
FRENCH REPUBLICAN, ADDRESSES.
How Franco Can Be Re9cnerntod-A Warn
ing-Beware or the HTohnrchy-It Leads to
Cm,arism aud Natural Decay-Bcurboninn
Agitation-The Republic the Only True
Government for France.

Government for France.
VERSAILLES, June 16, 1871.
On the 18th number OF the deputies OF the left IN
the National Assembly published the following man
desto to the eicctors:-
DEAR FELLOW CITIzENs-The moment has arrived
when every Frenchman ought 70 declare what he
desires, thinks and believes. To abstain under pre-
What Is the task before us TO reconstirute France
to regenerate her. But regeneration will commence
by you, by the vote which you are about to throw
rcsuscltatlon That resuscltation IS once more
n your hands, a,o The monarchy has Again
ours. Do not allow yourselves to slumber. and sud
denly awake under a monarchy. Monarchy can
dna ana hopeless decay. To escape such q fate you
have only one issue. You are separated from the
abyss by the republic. Therefore cling fast to that
last means OF safety, as beyond 1t there is only
are in one Of those hours when . natlon
illusion on that point would destroy you
inevitably. Death Is the return to past which
ter by what name It has been calied-oid regime,
Napoleon Charles X, Louis Philippe or Louis Bona
parte These various regimes only call to mind
failure and ruin, Enough Of ruin. Let us at last
rest on what lives, on what exists on the
spirit Of modern tunes, or IN other words,
not struggle against the force OF Things
which carries away. dead things-dynasties mon
Let US make an alliance with living things, for they
will cure our Ills, give us hope and mpart strength.
"Vtue Ia Repetbiqste~
Edgar Quinet A. Peyrat schnlcher, Edmund
Adam, Langlois, Henri Brisson.' =. b. Celas. p.
(ionne, Tolan, Taberlet. Lepere tlonne) Louis
Blanc, .. Farcy Lahize. Ancelon, Viox, Bcret.
Michel Renaud, Martin Bernard.
The preceding was not, however, the only mani
resto, for on the following day another address by
the same party, coucned in somewhat similar
terms, was issued. The following Is the text OF lt
When the National Assembly met at Bordeaux
the sentiment OF common duty-that OF saving
France-unlted for moment the various parties.
All agreed to postpone the political questions
which divide us, IN order to solve together the
points Q, pubic saety on wach we e%gat and
called the compact Of Bordeaux" We remained
faithful TO 1t SO far as to undergo the charge OF luke
warmnes5, from our silence on what above all was
most TO our neart-the defnitive recognition Of
the republic by the Chamber. Have the monarcbi-
deaixg
civil war had succeeded in our unfortunate Paris
to that engaged with the foreigner An anti-socal,
anti-national faction had led part OF the people
astray While pretending 10 defend what IL aimed at
destroying. namely, the republic, municipal liberty,
the country itself. Before the Commune had
crumbed TO pieces 10 blood and fire.
manifesto, seeming distant ecno OF the past,
proposed TO France, as a remedy for Communist
anarchy, legitimacy, supported on the re-estabiish
ment or a state religion. The partisans OF that
doctrine are now completing the Count de Cham.
bord's manifesto, by hawking about in the country
districts petitions praying for both the restoration
OF the ancient req me ana an armed Intervention in
the internal Affairs or Italy. or, in other words,
other war;
Scarcely had the civil struggle been brought to a
close when the majority of the Assembly thought 1T
to abrogatc at once the laws which lnferdict the
French territory to the two branches OF the Bour-
bons anu, Notwithstanding the reservations eX-
pressed by q great part OF those who supported the
Immediate abrogatlon. public opinion outside, ex-
Cited by the manifestations which had been made
in Iavor OF what Is called the House OF France,
saw In that grave measure a Bleanacc against the
republic The Bourbonian agitations encouraged
another monarchy to again raise It's head, ana the
Bonapartes, still so little separated from Sedan,
already come and claim the shattered morses or
France, precipiiate0 by them alole into ruin, and
delivered over bloodstained and muuated, into the
hands OF the foreigner
For the perlls which environ MS what Is the rem
edv? III Is there before us, under our hand-thc
to complete the National Assembly. Let her, by
her choice, declare that she thinks, what she de-
sires What IS wanting TO THIS country now issuing
from such frtghtlul tralsf Internal peace, labor,
features and agriculture. She wants at present
new truce Imposed on political passions, the con-
Taep q Ing aSt I9Gna situation YIN
Is not called IN question by any one, and who has
promised to guard intact the deposit OF the republic.
L. wants, for the future dennltive order, the de-
velopment OF the State now existing and the coa.
hrmation OF the government OF the nation by itself
Such order can only be the republic There must
be no more civil list, no court, no sterile and cor.
rupting luxury! NO more revolutionsl There are
return Of men favorable to any one or those three
would augment the pubic agitation and retard
Indefinitely the evacuation OF the territory still
trampled under foot by the foreign armies.
Liberal republicans, old or new, patriots who de.
sire republic founded on order and the law, on the
respect vi all rights and the practice OF every duty
those alone can give to France stability anu repose
IN progress ana liberty. Electors 1t Is Tor you TO
choose
Signed by seventy-cght deputies, with an &c. at
tached 10 the last name.