The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-02

| coup d'efaf Touching The method in which
the vote was to be taken. Tame wrote to his
friend Edouard de Suckau on Dec. 8. 1851:
1T was thought at first that the ballot would
be pubic, and that whoever refused to
acquiesce lin the coup d6tdN would be dis
charged. ! had quitciiecided to go and give
| private lessons in Paris Or else you and
considering the purity of our lves) might
have founded a Young Ladies School Blu,
all these fine projects are fallen, seeing that
| the ballot Ia to be secret. No protest al
| lowed! We are atoms; We should toe ar
ridiculous as the Carpentras townsmen
! marching on Paris! Great bodies and great
personag's alone can protest. But We need
| not submit or give our adhesion if IL is asked
| Tor; We can vote rightly, az all men Of honor
| will do That will be- my conduct and yours
also, think.' Taine records in this letter
that The same mean cowardice appears AT
! Nevers as AT St Etiennc. | have seen and
/ heard people who used TO abuse ana insult
| NJ. bonaparte now say openly that they
would vote for him, because, utherwise
they might lose their situations; owning
TO similar rule for their general conduct
| stupidity. violence, ignorance and cow
ardice are the ingredients which the Creator
mixed together When mauufaCt uring the
| human race After mentioning that a
Republican or SOcialistic mob had pillagea
and burnt little town in tie neiglR orhood
OF Nevers. incidentally numbering some
: gcndarInes, Iaine calculates, What All
/ ugly thing is politics! People IN high places
steal public liberty, shoot down -four or five
Thousand men and p"rjure themselves; the
| lower classes, their adversarics. steal private
| property and cut throats. / would rather
| lose my right hand than give 1t to either
| l dare Wish success TO neither side. Which
| " best, Presidency Ia Russo, or the
| Jdcquere OF the secret societies? The vic
I tory OF the people might mean pillaging.
| and would certainly mean civil war They
would attain power whilst full of fury and
! cupidity, but either without a single idea
| to guide them, or else divided between four
! OF fve absurd or dis,reditcd systems. |
can but wish for the triumph Of al idea, and
| on either side | see but contempt Of Right
| and brutal violence NJ BoLaparte IL not
worse than the rest The Assembled lin
which the reaCtionists had IA ma orityl hated
| the Republic more than he does and would
| like him, have violated uatls in order To put
| Henri V, or the Orleans on the Il rome, or
NJ Changarnicr in power. DO you thiuk
that VI, Cavaignac, or other honest iucn,
/ have any authority in France: Right l.
nothing; there are but passions and inter-
ests. Dear friend, notling can drag lis
! from this mre save Science, literature, cdu-
cation and the slow progres, Of ideas am
resigned to belong TO no party many
years, to detest them all To aru,,.'!y wish
for the advent # the only one worth follow -
ing, thar Of science and honor. In he mean
,xI,t | ia, n, -. 81.
altar and the sanctuary. There you and
can meet and join hands" Bcfore closing
the letter. 1ainc points out that III was evil
dent from the first day that ". B,napaTte
would lean On tine clergy First in memory
Of his uncle; then through a wish 20 have
, the support Of the clerical body the last
powerful body left in France lie viii lean
upon everything that l. autagouistic to
thought: the brutal discipline Of the Army,
the seifshne>s ana Cowardice of landuwn-
ers, the legends Of the country districts. the
clergy that great sitter, The epaU!.ttc
| will defend the Casso, X.
wiring TO Provost -Paradol on Dee. IL
| in the same year, Tanc expresses tho opinion
that the government of Louis NAPOLEON
will last: Il, has the army WITH it; ii has
already made advances TO the clrrgy; the
provinces will give ii an ,uoruous ma Jority.
The trades and the great landowners wish
for nothing better than a Russian kind Of
State and what II wor~., | sse number
/ Of young men who think likewise. We
are not the outcome uf a century of ideas,
rs the men Of IL" French Revolution were.
J our philosophy, an illrEi'matr ocsrriup
/ IF Christ iauity, amounts to nothing Outside
our schools, and II l. now the fashion "a
mock at principles ana to defy facts, TIE
Socallstic philosophers, inGrod, have in
! vokcd az "A principle love, which was a
good thing III III" mystic times of Christ
they have attacked the independence and
the divinity Of the individual, which Ii con-
trary TO the whole modern movement;
they have preached material comfort
which produces Jdcqu,rics. but not Revo-
lutloHs |, therefore. see nothing that can
stand against a man supported by 400 ,0OC
bayon"ts, 10000 Censurs and all the old
country legends Ii he is not stupid he vii
observe happy medium, abstain from
disturbing established customs, speak of
his love for the people, and subsist Oh that
he will perish, but only when doctrine If
proved. preached, accepted and propa-
gated 10 such ali extent that its adcpts
become capable of scizinE power" Tain,
adds. is not this what We have had foI
ATTY years. Napoleon, the Bourbons, Louis
Philippe. NJ Louis Bonaparte, are the corn-
promises born Of circums' ancer The idea
itself in 80 and in is, only roigned for q
moment, and by accident. 1t will only
reign when 1t becomes "a religion for all
ono religion Il not quickly substituted for
another. What determinations did not
NJ. Proudhom excite when he put man :
divinity in the place ~ the divinity Of God
We must wait work and write. We alone
AZ Socrates said, are busy with true politics
i. 81, with science. The others are mere
clerks or tradesmen
To one of his female relatives who seems
10 have expressed fear lest he should los,
his Assistant Proicsscrship if hc did not
rally to Louis Napoleon, he wrote OH Dec
~, 1851: Though you do not read politics
you know that NJ Bonaparte, violating his
oath, has contiscated public liberties, and
CAUSED the defenders Of liberty to bc pat
To death. Our rector "a pricst) sent Us
two days ago the following, circular. The
Undersigned, funCtiunaries of public cdu'
cation at Nevers, declare that they adhere
TO the measures taken sn Dee. 10y NJ l.
President de la kdpuhliquc, aud offer hin