Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-12

She goes on In this vein; she says that the
government chosen by the people must be
essentially revolutionary; that this provisory
government must choose men as commission
ers who will "Laaeer PeiectiOa dams une voie re-
pubHcainen Such were Nine. Sands ideas
on the elections which we're to give to France
a constituent assembly. She felt that France
was not republican in the provinces, and
that she needed little pressure. Politics were
to her like a NOVELETTE, lover cannot succeed
at once; he must be tender at times, and at
times threatening.
PRAISE FOR THE PEOPLE
Her peculiar horror was what she called
Pesprit bourgeois. The reign Of Louis Phil
lippe bad been the triumph OF The bour-
geois; Nine. Sand loved the workiDgm IN
and the peasant, especially the workiugman.
"U ny a plus de demdgogie,n she said; she
would not allow that odious word to be pro-
nounced. Democracy and demagogy were
the same thing. "The people has proved 10
be handsomer (plus beau), greater, purer
than all the wealthy and The savants in the
world" She would not hear of an aristo.
cratic republic; she was essentially social
ist Her enthusiasm at that first moment OF
the revolution knew no bounds. This il her
style:
have seen the people great. sublime. candid,
genersus--the French people in unison with the
heart of France, with the heart of the world the
most admirable peop'e in the universe / have
spent many nights without sleeping, many days
without sitting down. We are mad, drunk, happy
at gone to sleep in the mud and walked up in thu
skyI The republic is safe; we will all die rather
than give her up.
She adds Immediately that the members
of the provisory government are all little
incomplete and insufficient. The people will
do everything. She personi6es constantly
| the people, as she does the revolution; che il
| ready 10 die on the bsrricades 10 the defense
4 of the new republic. She writes to her SOD
who had been made mayor of Nohani:
lam as busy statesman Ihave written two
l the otber for III the
the interior What amu'es me is that as these art
addrt ssed to the mayors you are going to receive
| Mr.. Mayor, you will walk straight. aud you viii
read every Sunday one of the Bulletins of the
/ have read it. you will explain it, and then yor
will post the bulletin on the door of the church.
| Here and there curious details are found
| in the letters to Maurice: "Rothschild il
| gardc rue by the provisional government
they will not let him run away with hi
money. The government and the people arr
| on the lookout for bad deputies, and ar.
! agreed to throw them out of the window
You will come; we will go together, and W.
will laugh" When Nine. Sand says the
people she means the people of Paris. 1t ii
| impossible TO express more candidly wha
she thought of the rich people, of the ma
| iori.y of the French electors, and of popular
representation. ii the elections are good
that is 10 say, good for us-very we'll if the
| are bad, we will throw the deputies out o.
the window. The theatrical part OF the re
public struck Nine. Sand more than any
thing: We plant liberty trees every day.
met three yesterday, great pines, borne or
| tbs shoulders OF fifty workingmen; al
their head drum, a flag, aud bands o
thess fiue men, strong, grave. crowned
with folisge, with ak or pick on theil
shouldrrs-it is magnifceniW In April
1913, she wrote letter TO Lamartine
very characteristic, full of illusions, o
hopes, of childish aspirations. 1t is al
most apocalyptic in style; she prophesies th,
millennium, the reign of the people. eth
reign of the people is nearer than you think
and if it is near, it is legitimate, it is holy
il is marked on the dial of the ages.
| You believe that ruin has set In, that tn
last stones are falling" and 60 she goes on
| / doubt if Lamartine, who was then at tb
head OF the government, paid much atten
lion to this rambling epistle.
POPULAR DEMONSTRATION AGAINST HEE
Poor Nine. Sand! While she was in thi
state OF fervor the elections took plac
in the provinces, and we learn from her ow
letters that in her dear Nohant mauifesta
lion was made az ainst her; the workingme
of La Chatre came In a procession befor
her chateau, screaming: Down with Nm,
Dudevsnti Down with Maurice Dudevant
A reaction was beginning in Paris again:
the Communist. The National Guard an
the workipgmen, who were kept at work
the SO called Atcliers Nationditr. at the ez
pense OF the state, were at war. NM
Sand had given ali her warmeet sympathie
to The cause OF The workingmen, but almo
all her personal friends were on The side {
order, of conserv atism, of the moderate r,
public. Her heart was torn with contiictip
emotions. She describes in her letters III
numerous manifestations which we're takin
place almost daily around the Hotel q
Vile. She had the most extraordinary fa'
ulty Of admiration. Barbes was s'lt
most honest character she had ever com
across; he is hero" Caussidiere W,
"very good" he was une belle arle, and so OF
with all the gods and demigods of demo-
rscy. She calls 1884 Pdnnee de Ia petr, an
che wants TO reassure every body, and is fl
rious with those who are always on the aler
waiting for the noise of the guns One of b.
bulletins, conceived in a sort of terror
spirit, had produced great irritation again
her. Jes stsis Pourtant fort tranq9iile, said sh
To be sure she was; but the passions whic
had BATTERED were at work, and were far frol
being tranquil. The republic of 18zS W;
very sensational and operate.
The feast of fraternity has been the finest di
of our history. million of men, forgetting q
the future. embracing each other from one end
re-. $40 20 uni 1tner to the cry OF Vtrs Ia JrGterH't
From the summit of the Arch of Triumph Il
sky, the city, the horizon, the green country. Il
domes OF the great buildings in the rain and
man scene ever producedi From the Bsstile, fro
the Observatory TO the Arch of Triumph, and evt
400 900 guns like moving walt; the artillery, 8
the arms Of the line, of the mobile of the Nation
army, ali the rags Of the safrfe cdhaiIle this G
preston is taken from the Ianbes of Barber
Alssl alasl these 400, 900 guns were n,
+ celebrating feast of fraternity, and civ
war was approaching. As soon as the ne
National Assembly met in Paris the clu
made manifestation against it; the Assem-
bly, was invaded, the deputies were expelle
. Fortunately The National Guard met at on
: and saved the Assembly. Barbes, the her
i the leader of the manifestation. was throw
into prison. Nine. Sand left Paris, and r
E turned 10 Nohant. The bloody insurrectit
) OF June put an end to the struggle betwe,
> the National Assembly of France and Il
: clubs Of Paris
AN EXILE AT NoHANT.
Nine. Sand was new almost an exile
Nohant; she cou6ded her though hts only
distant friends-to Mazzini, for instanC
She did not like the National Assembly;
!. was 10 her the personifcation Of the bou
geoisle, though it bad been elected by uI
versal outrage. All her tendencies were E
, ciaiisiic. and the Assembly was not socis
istlc. When she speaks of the bourgeois
she becomes enrsged. "Foolish castei
rash as expiring monarchy, you are plsyil
your lSst card" ETC. She writes TO Mn
Marliani, in July, 1913: 81 believe
d longer in republic which begins with XII
+ ing iIs protefaires" To Mazzini she writ,
i in September, lS4S: ''Fhe majority OF 4
; French people are blind, credulous, ignorai
: nngraieful, wicked and stupid; in one wor