Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-11-19

Alscned Origin of French Socialism,.
Nj, Paul J.oei, mevlber OF the French lnsl
tutr, has written learned ard curious paper
Oh the Odsin Ct C1utt mporsry SoclAIl:m
in the c.urss of which be brings out the slogu-
lar fact ,hst great many Of The most positive
and radical doctrines of modern F,el Oh aud Gel
man socialism had their germs 10 thlr uutry
during md l.. 5distcly after the revolutionary
war. At that tins some OF the leaders OF
French thought ard Frepch progress CAM
hers on visirs Of interest ard curiosity, std got
from the naDoers and thoughts Vt our people
tho hirts whicn Trey threW out later IL tho
pamphlets precedeLt to aud durlug The FfeLch
revolution [. is said. hcw3ver. on the other
side. that men like Frsnkllp, Adams, JetterSon,
Madisoa aud others, who took leading parts IN
our rev: lurion were ia like manner indebted 10
Rousseau, Vol.sire, D DAlembert and the en-
cycloped SIC on the one side, and to Turgot,
Necker, and iber economls's 90 the other, ftr
the sources of some Of their ideas which they
mt in orac ical shape in rhe bo6y Of our cun'
stii iuton. = N oil the coinc d'nces pointed out
by Nj. Janet sre however sufficiently striking.
Thus B.issot dc Wnrville, who afterwards died
by tue ssuteuce OF R5baspierre as the ohIet OF
the Glroodist fac!iOn, not only visited the Uol'
ted States AID travelled here ex'eDsVFly, but
published curious history of bis Impressions
cf the c5uutry and of The simplicity OF cur
u,aupers The Uniformity of our f9rtudes
seemed to strike him mos. forcibly; We gave
him the beau ideal OF the comnuuo OF his
Dreams Brissot began writing tracts on his
return, in one Of which be advocated The abo.
Iitioo Of Lateral uoeritauc;: iu another, com
prSiug "PaiIosophic Researches into Proper
ty," hs laid down the maxim which h's sirc,
80 often been quoted as Ptudho!n's, to vii ::
that property is robbery"-the very key note
of socialism. The Able Fauchet was another
most yuluminaus of these writer's, aud 1t may
be said 10 addition ooe of tho most dlslpterested
of them, Fsuchat, who IVES the predecessor OF
The famous, or ra her infamous, Auachar:Is
KIoots, wrote that he was able to hnd 10 the
d .clarssion of Independence OF the Unlted
States the complete and clear enunc'atlon OIL
the doctrine OF the right to labor with lis equiv
aleut, The right to be supported, about Whlch
modern socialists to day make snoh to d..
This pricclple, according te Fsuohet. ls every
one must I've, sll must have something, all
would have sonethlug 1t some persons d'd not
have TOO mnoh." This is Rousseau's dec rloe
and 3 ,boeui's also, bu! it is curious that Fau-
| cbet SHOULD fad it N the Declaration OF lude-
peudeuce. In the same way tho communist
doctrines of St. j ost sud Robespierre are some
Of them halksd back by NJ. Janet to American
origibs, aud others, Of the most violent chsrac
ter. to " Necker, the conservative minister Of
Louis XVI sud the oppouent of the luminous
teachirss Of Tureot l. is uot to be deni led that
after the American rev, lu.ion, uotil sfter the
worst excasses OF the Frs och revolution. a COD.
siderable portion of our people we're imbued
with ultra red republican ideas aud extreme
notions in regsrd to the liberty of the person.
| All this, however, has long sire, been sue.
oeaded by more rational ideas and actioo.-
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