Current:

Northern Star (1837-1852), 1st June 1850, Edition 1 of 3, Page 2, fjN THE PREVENTION, CURE, AND V/ General character of SYPIirLUS ,. STHICTUIIE3,

Page 2
Page 2
2 of 8

On this page

  • Departments (2)
    • ^ foreign tmelltgenr f.
    • fjN THE PREVENTION, CURE, AND V/ General character of SYPIirLUS ,. STHICTUIIE3,
  • Adverts (1)
  • Text (4)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      Untitled Ad

      nuecuonsot tlie I'KUS'HIATE GLAND , A EN £ UEAL-, ni SCORDUTIC ERUPTIONS of the face and body . Mcrcu ^ excitement , &c ., followed by uniild , successful and kk& . tiousraodeoftreatment 0 . Thiity-first edition , Illustrated by Twenty . § ix AimtORiical Engravings on Steel . Nsw and improved Edition , cnliirffed to 19 C ra-es , just published , prief ' s . Gd ; or by post , direct from tha bstabliRhmcnt , 3 a . (! . l . in postase stamps . " ™ B SILENT FRIES 1 V a MedicalVvork on Venereal ¦ l nrt S ? P V = »' ^ i ? . > ? £ : ?»^ T Spmptoms , Gononhra . icith PKBSOlUlTIOSf

      Untitled Article

      : W . ti .: : FRANCE . r * :. - . 1 THE E LECTORAL BILL . . . * On Wednesday the principal-speaker was M . MonUlembert , who , of coarse , spoke in support of tfte bill . —We are reproached with violating the Constitution , and with attacking universal suffrage . As to the violation of the Gonstitntion , I stand here , the second of the seventeen members who prepared the bill , to give to that affirmation an energetic , conscientious , and complete contradiction . No , we have not aimed at violating the Constitution . Had that been our design , we are the sort of men who would iave at once declared it . Bat such certainlr was

      altogether remote from our intention , as will he de-Honstrated to you when the articles are under discussion . On the contrary , we entered on the preparation of the bill with the firm determination to respect bath the spirit and letter of the Constitution ,, and in the same frame of mind did we complete our task . "We desired to go as far as the Conttitution would permit us , but no further . I may even add that perhaps we have respected it too ttuch , and thai if our bill 13 open to objection in any respect , or , in other words , if it is inefficient , the Reason is that we have bowed sa humbly before the fatal trammels of the . Constitution . ( Movement . ) i say fata ' , because we have respected them ; had

      we not done so , they would be of nn avail . Having laid so , I proceed to discuss this question of the violation of the Constitution , which has been the pretext of the constant attacks made against society flaring the past year . I am so much the more at ease in this discussion that I voted against the Constitution , for I bad ray doubts that it was so perfect as its framers fondly represented it —( Iaujhter ) * -but I hasten to declare that that act of mine by no . means liberates me from the obligation of obeying it ; I leave that theory of disobeying a law which one has not voted to the Republicans of the ttiUe , and to those old conspirators whom the revolution o ! Tebruary has caused to surge

      up from the depths of their concealment . After an attack upon Victor Huge , who was absent , the speaker continued—For my part I take the Constitution for what it is—the fundamental law of the Country . I ata its subject , you are its friends ; but I cannot help remarking that yon , its friends , render its life a very hard one . ( Loud laughter . ) You do go in the first place by permitting Socialism to take it as its ensign , and nest by constantly representing it as being violated , or on the eve of being so . I say that it is childish and , shameful . The violation of a Constitution is not disenssed , it is felt . I repeat that such . conduct is puerile and ri dicnlous . It reminds one of the silly shepherd who

      kept crying'Wolf ! wolf ! so that when the real wolf arrived —( prolonged laughter and approbation ) ¦• no one came to his assistance—no one ran to the tid of the lying and cowardly shepherd . I hare often asked syselfhow I should proceed to destroy the Constitution , if ever such an idea should enter my mind ; and I am compelled to avow that , after mature reflection , I decided that I should do precisely what its defenders have done—render it at once ridiculous and odions . A 3 they have done , I would represent it as a sort of vestal to produce mirth whose mock-modesty would be the laughing Stock of the public ways and of nations . ( Loud laughter and applause . ) I would make it odious in

      this manner : I would interfere , Constitution in band , in every question which interests the honour and prosperity of France , and I would say , ' You cannot do that . ' Thu 3 I would have said , ' You Cannot go to Rome to re-establish the influence of France , the Constitution is opposed to it ; you can-BOt regulate the right of meeting , it is contrary to the Constitution ; you casnot put an end to the scandals ef Prussia , the Constitution is opposed to it ; you cannot , for the same reason , modify the electoral law . ' Between the country and honour ,

      between her and her welfare , I would always place the Constitution . That is the plan I would pursue . ( Renewed applause . ) I would always place the Constitution between the couutry find its dignity , like a barrier , or like an abyss . ( Sensation . ) This is the conduct I would pursue if 1 had at heart to destroy the Constitution . But there is another thing which I should not have imagined , and that is , to make the Constitution the pretext to organise the right of insurrection in the country . For the last month , insurrection and civil war have been discussed as if

      it were the programme of a fete . ( Sensation . ) This is the regime to which society has been subjected . I know of no example in history of such a state of things . I say that it is incompatible with social nature , and that it carries us back to a state of barbarism . I knew of only one government which can bear analogy with such a state of things , and that is the government of the Dey of Algiers rising on the body of its strangled predecessors . I repeat that it woald lead us into the path of the most atrocious barbarism . What is the difference between our adversaries and ourselves ? We say that the . Constitution ought to be compatible with the interests and the honcur of the conntry ; you sav

      that it is incompatible with social life vaA with-the grandeur of the country . Tbat Constitution , nevertheless , recognises anterior rights , and certainly the first of rights is to give life to society . It is , therefore , necessary to make war on Socialism by every means—( Cries of 'Yes , yes ! ' )—by every mean ' s which the law allows . ( Yes , yes !) I say that it is necessary to undertake against Socialism , which is devouring us , a Roman expedition at home . ( Loud applause on the Right , and violent exclamations on the Left . ) In the same manner that an expedition was undertaken to Rome sgainst a Republic with which it was wished to unite our reipausibility , should aa expedition ba entered on at home against Socialism , in order to i . rove that it

      has nothing in common with the Republic . ( Hear , hear . ) The position is so much the same that the cry is now raised about a violation of the Constitution , as it was at the period of the Roman expedition . The same accusations are brought forward which it was tfcen wuhed to follow up by a commencement of execution ; the same has been wished at the present time , bnt those who advocated it have shrunk from it . "With regard to the expedition to Rome , there were three paths to be pursuedneutrality , complicity , or hostility . Neutrality would have bsen the abdication of the influence of Prance ; complicity would have been disgraceful , for we should have assumed the joint responsibility of a revolution which was inaugurated by assassination .

      On the Left : You know very well that that is false . . ¦ On the Right : Yes , yes ! Assassination ! M . db 5 Iostalem 3 eut : War was made by France against the Roman Republic . God bless the undertaking , and on several occasions 450 votes in this Assembly have sanctioned it . You ' are in . precisely the same situation against Socialism at home . Neutrality i 3 death . If you cros 3 your arms you may as well make yeur will , but that will be of little use , for your he rs will tear it . Complicity is disgraceful , for Socialism dishonours the Republic . There only then remains for us war ; war carried on energetically , and by every means . ¦ M . Lagraxge . here again rose , and endeavoured to speak , but was pacified bv M . de Lamariine .

      » . de MoNTALEMBERT .: In acting tbus , we shall continue our campai gn of the days of June , 1848 , that campaign which was so well and so energetically conducted by General Cavai gnac . We have now the same enemies under the same flair I regret to have heard General Cavai gnac—I am anxious not to say anything unpleasant to the hon general , but he must allow me to ask him , and history will one day put the sane question to him —where are now those men whom'he fcuijht against , whom he chastised , whom he pulverised , whom he transported ? "Where are they ? They are at his side ! ( Sensation . ) He will vote with them to-morrow against us . It is the same combat , against the same enemy , who besiege the same citadel , but who have recourse to another tactic

      and conspire against society in making use ef the Constitution in the guise of barricades . They thonght they had hemmed us in their circumvallatioas , but they have left us one issue—that of domicile . It is our duty to avail ourselves of it . ( Murmurs on the Left . ) Offer up your vows that we may prove that the Constitution is compatible with the salvation of society ; for if it were shown that the Constitution is , as the Socialists state , the arsenal and the prelude of anarchy , there is no law in the world that could condemn society to death .

      It would be its death warrant to condemn it to Sadalism . ( Iroaicd laughter on the Left . ) The day on which that shall be shown they will be only ¦ "wftwn . or . wretches who will take part for tie tfSK ^ 'F ^' ^ ( Lbud applause . ) I society . ( . Hear . ) : Toe mest accredited trim cf Soaahsm say ,,- . From electoral Xm arose the republic ; in the eame way , from universal sufE Will come social reform . ' Social i » fn ™ ?„ cl 3 * 1 J * * ^ f ^ oS o ? aT , e , If inco be the Wie , itWS duly for us to provei that

      Untitled Article

      universal suffrage does-not lead to Socialism ; . it'is a duty for us to copfeotjito warn , and ; te-enUgbten universal suffrage , v ' - ^ ipropose to render uhiyeraal suffrage better by substituting sincerei for factitious majorities ; by having-electors who have some room in society' instead of wandering ones , r In doing this , we falsify none-of our previous acts . If ther ? ate by chance men who consider themeelwa injured , and unjustly deprived of a risht , do you know of whom they ought to complain ? It is aot of us , but of those who'have dishonoured and profaned universal suffrage ; it is of those who , m ^ -the condave-since . that -appellatien has been borrowed from the church , from that habit of sacrilege which

      characterises revolutionists—it is of those who , in his conclave , end in the clubs , have made an apology for Robespierre , for Marat , and those names which are abominable in our history . ( Sensation . ) There , is in the -minority a minority which performs its self-assigned daty with energy , and sometimes with frankness—that duty is to destroy society . We , on the other hand , have the duty imposed on us of saving it ; and C ask myself if we have done our duty with the same energy . Believe me . that we have not a moment to spare . If there are men in this majority , men who resign themselves to the triunph of our adversaries in 1852—to the triumph of Socialism- —why not decide on finishing the matter at once ? You know what was the custom

      in the middle ages : when the defenders of a citadel were determined to hold out to the death , they placed the keys on the end of a pike , and threw them into the quarters of the assailants . That is better than to perish by ' a slow death , which would have no other advantage than to be an end without fine phrases . If you will hot either render at discretion or die , yeu must no longer remain on the defensive ; you must assume the . offensive , and attack ! ( Loud applause . ) You must force the enemy from the positions which it has gained—you must prevent the laws of the land from becoming the arsenal and lurking-place of that monster , Socialism , which will thence , fall ' on society to devour it ! ( Laughter on the Mountain . ) We . have in our favour right and strength , numbers and

      courage ; but have we time ? ' No ; time is against us . We have already lived a year ; in six months we shall have turned the bill and commenced our downward passage . But for an Assembly which has not , perhaps , done all that was expected from it , the period of . its wane is a time of death-throes . Our dissolution ' will , in fact , be forestalled , and before we shall have finished our legal term we shall , like the Constituent Assembly , find ourselves squeezed flat between the party which desires the ruin of society and that other which will reproach us with not having been energetic enough in the fulfilment of our . mandate . I repeat to you , therefore , that we have no time to lose . A final wnrd relative to the men who have-received the appellation of the seventeen 1 We have been told in &

      democratic journal—and without any contradiction or retraction being made to the declaration—that our beads—of us , the seventeen—are devoted to the infernal gods of the revolution ( Sensation . ) On the Left : What does that prove ? M . be Montalembert : The history of the high deeds of your ancestors proves clearly enough what it means ! Can we forget the scaffold of the Revolution ? Are we not acquainted with the

      democratic dagger which assassinated Rossi ?< Well , then , the fate so threatened , I accept ! Yts , I prefer it a thousand times to the contempt which , amongst posterity , will hang on the memory 6 > those men whom France charged to place her in safety , but who failed in that sacred duty—those wen who , through pusillanimity , will" have left France abandoned to the shame , the servitude , the barbarism , which Socialism is preparing for us . ( Tremendous cheprinjr , which lasted some time . )

      Great agitation followed this speech . General Cavaignac at once hurried : to the tribune , but he was obliged to remain standing there for ten minutes at least before the sitting could proceed . General Cavaigxac : The Hon . Jd . de Montalembert commenced his speech by . passing an eulogiumon me . After having heard his speech , I ara entitled to say that I was right in receiving that praise only with mistrust ; I expected it to be followed by a censure . Once for all , what is the

      meaning of those reminiscences incessantly renewed in the tribune ? There is nothiDg in what I say , or in what I think , which tends to make me obtain in the Socialist party , ta which I do not belong , a falsa popularity . It is cot my fault if you have now . placed right on the side of your adversaries . It had been said that I had changed my part and my opinion , but that is not the case ; I do how what I did in June 1848 ; I then defended universal suffrage as I do at the present time ; such has always been my course of acting .

      M . E . Arago declared that he was opposed to the bill , and then , proceeding to criticise the speech of M . de Montalembcrt , he affirmed that tbat gentleman desired to bring on civil war . ( Loud exclamations ; marks of denial . ) The President , to M . E . Arago : You have no right to use such language . M . E . Arago : I am then prevented from expresing my sentiments . ( ' Oh , oh , ' and laughter . )

      Has not M . de Montalembert said , ' Let us wage the war of Rome at home ? . ' . On the Left : Yes , yes . A Voice on the Right : That means that Socialism must he put down by every legal means . M . E . Arago : Did General Oudinot wage war on the Romans with the laws ? The President : M . Arago , you are travestying the words and intentions of M . de Montalembert . From the Mountain : No , no ; we protest .

      The President : You have gone beyond the right of the tribune , M . Arago . You ought to regret your words . For ray part , 1 condemn them absolutely . ( Hear , hear . ) : . . MM . Madaud , Baddin , and others : He is quite right ! He is quite right ! The Presidekt : You can do nothing but interrupt . . M . E . Arago : I ask for nothing better than to interpret in a different manner the words of M . de

      Montalembert ; but it is impossible to look on his language a 3 that of conciliation . ( Applause on the Left . ) M . de Montalembert , too , appears to me to have a strange mode of respecting the Constitution , when he declares that he submits to it , but that he considers it detestable . The sovereignty of the people is a principle large enough to brave all efforts . Whatever may be the attacks made on the Constitution , the people will despise them , because it knows that it is eternal , and that you can exist only for a dav ! ¦¦ . - ¦• ¦

      The sitting was brought to a close at a quarter past six . " ' ' - "¦; Thursday , May 23 . M . Dupin , sen ., the President , took the chair at half-past one . .-. ;¦ -. The public tribunes were by no means so crowded as on the preceding days . Petitions against the Electoral Reform-Bill were presented by MM . Ceyras , Lagarde , Armand ( du Vaty ) Mathe , Bonr ' zafy Sauteyra , Rigal , Laraarque , So ' mmier , Laclaudure ; Ddpont , ( de Bussac /) E . Arago , Aubry , ( Du JNord , ) Versigny , Testelin , Madier de" Montjau , Pascal Duprat , Charms , &c . The order of the day was the adjourned discussion on the Electoral Reform-Bill ; - The President : M . Victor Hugo has expressed a wish to address the Assembly . ( Ah , ah . )

      A Voice : He has had time to commit his speech to memory . ¦ . M . Victor Hugo : I desire to say a few words in refese ' nee to what fell yesterday from M . de Monta-. lembert , and the day before from M . J . de Lasteyrie ; and in doing so I cannot but express my regret at being obliged to introduce any . personal matter across the grave question which we discuss . I mi ght leave aside altogether the attacks so full of passion , which were made on me by the two gentlemen whom I have just named ; they are of a nature onl y to excite a smile . ( Oh , oh . ) General Cavaignac nobly replied yesterday to those made on him but

      ; ss the attacks on me touch my honour newly , I will reply to thtm in the most direct manner . ( Movement . ) I have been accused of having been the enthusiastic panegyrist of various governments , of having opinions essentially changing in their nature , and of being now inconsistent with my former Hie . If this accusation refers to language in praise of monarchy , uttered many years back , 1 might dispense wiA replying to the charge , further than by declaring that it proceeded from feelings of the'most pure and candid nature , and was an emanation of , my infancy . ( Loud laughter on the Rights-responded to by cheers on the Left ; long interrujtion . ) . ,

      On the Kight : You cannot deny the charg ? . On the Left : How many governments have you ever . then . tetrayid ? ( Agitation . ) M . V . Hugo : I say , then , that if the allusion is to such'language and to such times , the wtiole ' matt'r is a puerility , and merits no further notice . ( Ob , oh . ) But if the gentlemen of whom I speak allude to the opinions of the man . and not of the child ,

      Untitled Article

      this is my reply ^( marks deep attention ) -. 1 deliver to the most searching scrutiny of my . opponents everything that lihave said or written since 1827—that is three arid twenty years " ago ~ and I , defy them to show me one expression that can bear out their accusation . ( Applause on the Left . ) , I defy them to prbduoe one page , or idea , or word ] in my whole career « ' f manhood , that can in the slightest degree contradict what I have expressed in these latter time ? . { Loud cheers on the Left . ) If you

      do not accept this challenge I tell you lhat you must recoil under the pressure of an unfounded accusation . ( Great agitation . ) Further , I declare , once , for all , that henceforward , af ; er this day , I will not reply to the attacks made on me with the utmost disdain—I shall leave . them to the appreciation of the public . ( Agitation . ) M . de Montalembert has said I have flattered and denied every government . I summons him to come forward and ' state in what instances I have done so . ' Was it Charles X . ? I

      have honoured his exile and paid respect to his tomb I Was it the Duchess of Beni ? I branded with reprobation the seller , and condemned the buyer , in her . transaction . Was it the Emperor Napoleon ? It was ' . I who moved in the Chamber of Peers for the re-admission of his family into France —of that family by whom M . de Montalembert and his friends were loaded with benefits . ( Loud cheers on the Left . ) Was it the Duchess of Orleans ? On February 24 th , 1848 , at two in the afternoon , on the Place de la Bastille , I spoke to 30 , 000 persons in most eulogistic terms of that most excel ent lady . I

      am , in fact , a strange man . I have taken many oaths , and kept them all . But perhaps the reproach thrown on me is that 1 am in favour of the Republic . Yer , no ; that can scarcely be brought forward as a crime . At all events , I can fling back the reproach of abauaoning opinions , and say to M . de Montalenibert , that the colours which he has abandoned are those of Poland and of liberty . ( Hear , hear . ) One word more : M . de Montalerabert has alleged it against me , as a crime , . that I was absent when he was speaking . . ¦ Voices : Yes , yes ; you always are so . -

      M . V . Hugo : Yes , when my chest h shattered with answering the systematic interruptions to which I am always subjected when I ascend the tribune . ( Loud denial ; agitation . ) I might well allow M . de Moulalembert . aridM . J . Lasteyrie to cover me with the thunders of their eloquence , for-when I attacked the bill on public instruction , they were silent ; when I attacked the transportation bill , they were silent ; when I defended the application made for the amnesty , they were silent . ( Loud cheers on the Left . ) But of this they may be certain , whenever anything is to he done in favour of democracy I am sure to be here . ' ( Loud applause nn the Left . ) M . DE Montaiembert : I shall not take four and

      twenty hours to reply to the honourable gentleman . ( Laughter . ) I accused him of having sung the praises of every government , and then proved renegade to it . I repeat the accusation . He sung the praises of the restoration ; and the verses exist which he published on the cpronationif Charles X ., and on the birth of the Duke de Bordeaux . ( Loud cheirs . ) He then sung the " praises of the heroes of Juk , after Charles X . had departed . ( Hear , hear . ) But I will allow some latitude for poetry , and , renouncing that mode of expression , take up the honourable gentleman ' s sober prose . 1 affirm then , without fear of contradiction , thatM . Victor Hugo uttered language of the most adulatory description relative to Louis Philippe . ( Cheers' on the Right . ) Last of all came

      the Republic ; and the hon . gentleman , it , is well known , praised the people in the most enthusiastic manner for having burnt the throne of Louis Philippe , the throne of him who made the hon . gentleman peer of France . ( Loud cheers . ) The hon . gentleman now imagines that he sees in the political horizon the coming of the people to power , and . with his ordinary prudence , he joins . with the leaders of Socialism , in order to afterwards -avail Hithself of its triumph for his own purposes . ( Cheering on the Right ; great agitation . ) . He will-then celebrate its accession , as he did the coronation of Charles X ., and breathe forth the same incense of praise on the workman , as he did before on the crowned Monarch . ( Continued cheering . ) .- ¦ ¦ : '

      M . Victor Hugo : I asked for facts , and not for words . ( Oh , oh . ) I defiYd any ons to bring forward a single fact against me , and I do so again . ( Laughter on the Right ; applause on the Left . ) Has the hon . gentleman forgotten his own proclamation to the workmen after 1848 ? ( Loud cheers on the Left . ) He has done a strange thing in rpeaking of my language as a peer of Frauce ; for the occasion to" which-he refers was a . secret deliberation tbat ought not ta be made public . ( Movement . ) Since that gentleman has lifted up the veil , I will say that it was when the King had been fired at , and when two other members and myself desired to have the man's life saved .

      The President : 1 his incident being terminated , we have now to decide whether the articles of the Electoral Reform Bill are to be proceeded with or not . A division has beun moved for on the point . The division then took place , and gave the following result : — . Number of votes G 89 Absolute Majority 345 Ayes 462 Noes 227 , . Majority 235 In consequence , it was decided that the discussion on the articles should commence . The President : There are thirty seven amendments in all . The following is . the first article : —

      • In the twelve days which follow the promulgation of the present law , the electoral list shall be drawn up in each commune by the mayor . ' M . de Lamartine said that he felt it his duty to oppose the present measure . The motive which actuated the committee and majority in bringing it forward vras a feeling of impatience . Men found it often difficult to wait for thc . proper tima to act . Ii was impatience which had produced the attack on the Assembly on May 15 th ; led . to the insurrection of June ; caused the exile of Charles X ; , in 1830 . from his impatience to disconcert the party which he conceived was plotting against him ; and led to the downfall of Louis Philippe , in 1848 , from his riot waiting patiently for the proper moment to discover

      the plans of those who were plotting against him . [ After a speech in interruption from General Bedeau , M . de Laraartine continued . ] In hi 3 opinion thfi new Electoral Law , besides being destructive of the Republic , would ultimately prove fatal to socic'y and civilisation , lie . then denounced various act ' s of the government , denoting their anti-republican ten T dehcy , and amongst others the permissioii granted to the director ofone of the theatres to bring out a play entitled Monti , that ideal of traitors . ( ' What did Monck do ? ' inquired ' a member ; on the Right . ) M . Laraartine , having satisfied the iuterrtipler , told him in conclusion that he would not have dared to ask him such a question two years' ago . ( ' Bravos ' on the Left . )

      Friday , May 24 . . ; Mi Thieus ascended the tribune , and spoke as follows : —Gentlemen , someof the members who have already spoken have summoned , me'to cowrie forward and state the reasons . ' which have produced , the present bill . It ' appears To me . that , inosi powerful , most decisive ones . have . beeii givWn . Still , I will endeavour also to ; reply ,, and , to use the expression of a celebrated Socialist , I will try to do so by the right line . The object of tbe bill is this : we are convinced that the danger U real arid iitamense . We ' would fain say that it was an illusion , that we were maniacs from apprehension , and not men qf " 'foresi ght . ' "I fear however , that the illusion is on the side of our adversaries . It has been said that the bill has originated in the two late elections ; but that is not

      wholly true , though correct to a certain degree I . have never been a convert to universal suffrage ; if , during'the last two years , I have resigned myself . to many things , 1 have never been converted to any . ( Laughter . ) - Neither I nor i my friends have concealed fro m ourselves the danger of universal suffrage , as it ' is at present organised . I will examine the two last elections , and sae whether tie dangters we apprehend . are illusions . To begin with that of the 10 th of March , I will ask what was the motive for choosing the candidate who was then elected ? I can understand that he was chosen ' for himself ; but let there be no hypocrisy in the matter ; from what motive was he named ? One fact is certain , that Hi . de Flotte fought in the days of June . : On which side ? Was it on the side of General

      Cavaignac or . on the other side of the barricades ? I do not pretend to dictate to democracy whom it should choose , but I have a right to form an opinion of Us selection ; I therefore ask my opponents whether they did not select an insurgent of June ? I now come to the second election ; the whole ef France was astounded , not at the choice of the candidate , but at ( he intention which dictated it , -I have no right to examine into the opinions of M . Eugene Sur ; when he shall liave given them an official character by stating them from this tribune , then I will speak of them , I

      Untitled Article

      skalf now merely look at the . intention which dictated his election '; " There were'two candidates in presence " ; -it D . upqnt deTBure , wbo ^ represented trie republican opinion , and M . Eugene Sue " , who represented ideas which we consider as subversive , and which were much ¦¦ more frankly , declared , at the electoral meetings thanhere . ( Murmurs ) M . Eugene Sue " obtained the ; majority .: . Twice following did elections take place in PariSj- 'tbe'significance of- which-was—for the first ; the apology of insurrection ; and for the second , the acceptance of rSocialist . ' doctrines . !; This must be clear to every one's mind , ;« hen they reflect on , the-cry , of triumph raised by pur adversaries after each . of

      those elections ., It has been , said that there , is no dangerto be apprehended , but ' Ihave shown ' . ' you that there was nothing in . the ,. two ; last elections calculated to tranquillise the friendsof 'society . ' ,: V On the Left : What society ?¦ ( Murmurs . ) ^ . ' M ; Thiers ' I speak of that eternal " society Which , it is not allowable to change . '( Hear , hear . ) On the Left V The society of Uesus I ( Criea of Order / order lit is disgraceful . ' ) . : ' ' ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ?¦ ¦ M . Thibrs : In the ; electoral meetings society and its eternal laws were attacked without ; ahamej and when the question is in this place to resist a law , against public danger a very difftjrentlanguage is made use o . " That is what I callfa ' sehood and hypocrisy . ( Hear , hear , from the Right . )

      On the Left :. What you now say is a falsehood . ( Order , ' order . ) ,., ' . . ,.. ' . " . ' . ' -,, .. ¦ . M . . Thiebs : You have allowed yourself to ' accuse by nanio . 'the seventeen persons who havo prepared the bill ; you havo accused them of falsehood , of want of good faith , and of a factious spirit ; . arid . yet I must not say , that there is . falsehood when in the electoral meetings abominable principles are supported which" are" disavowed from this , tribune . ( Sensation . ) M . do Lamartin » yesterday'defined three elements of Socialism ; allow me now to

      explain what are the three kinds of Socialism which I sec . There is one which is criminal , senseless , and impracticable ; that is Communism , or the agrarian law . That cannot oven be attempted . There is a second kind of Socialism , which is neither less criminal nor vl . qss-impracticable , but which may b . p comrhdn'ced ; that is universal '' association ' . ' . * ' There is a . third kind , which is innbeeht , which has but one danger ; it has a double faco ; it promises much without , hut does nothing here . . It"may , however , become the instrument of the two others . ' The

      accessibility to ; labour has been talked of j that is to say , that credit should be placed within the reaoh- of every workman , for capital is an infamy which oannot be obtained but by paving interest . for it . It is necessary , . therefore , to ( lisembaviass the people of that infamous' capital . ' ( Laughter . ) * For that purpose particular . ' . batiks ' , must be ' -created , which may give credit to every . one with the money of the state . '¦ ¦ Salary also is a tyranny .. ( Murmurs . ) You find that opinion detestable to you—so much the better ; JI / am anxious to obtain a disavowal , which riiay " sorve tp enlighten at the next meetings . ( Laughter . ) Salary is therefore a tyranny ; for when that ia done away with it will bring all . workmen together , who , instead of being Blaves , will be

      all masters and speculators . What is to be done to accomplishtMs ? Thpromustbqa general expropi'iation of all capital . ( Sensation ;) . ; But where is tho capital : toVcome from to provide . for all this enormous expense ? : _ You doubtless imagine that . it can all bedone by credit ; no , it must be done with a capital-which has never been wanting to democrats , which is ' unlimited , which is made with the stamp of the Republic—with paper money . ( Renewed sensation . ) It is , therefore , the second kiiul of Socialism which I fear—naniely , the general expropriation with paper money . -. As for the third kind of Socialism , it is nothing , and we defy it to produce anything ; , 'Should ; we in presence , of such a danger foMotir arms ? Certainly not . ' I appeal to your reminiscences . I am beforo : men who have never felt themselves compelled to respect the constitutions under which they lived , who ^ have never

      hesitated to violate them ; And why ? To obtain the Republic and . advance liberty .. In order to procure that result thoyi have not hesitated to rebel against the laws of their country , to tetir up her Constitution . They have considered it their duty to do so . ; But if in the presence of a higher interest—that of the salvation of society—we had imitated your conduct , if we had torn the Constitution should wo . have been more blameablo than you ? Certainly not . We should havo-had tho same right , and we should have had a ; more' serious interest . ( Hear , hear . ) Do you think" that we want motives for ' so doing ? Oil tho contrary , ivn have beenreproached by a great part of the country for stopping before legal obstacles . We are every day asked why we . hesitate bVore men who made ' a government in February without consulting Franco . ( Applause on the Right . Murmurs on the Left . ) On the Loft : And in 1 S 30 . ¦ ¦ :. ' . " ' '

      M . - Tdikrs : We are . in the presence of men who never respected any law , and who nevertheless have enchained our future in spite of tho tendencies ' public opinion , 'and we are told that it is before such men that we . hesitate when ; the salvation of the country is at stake . ( Sensation . ) Do you know why wo did not follow this impulse ? On tho Left : You did not dare do it . M . Tiuers : 1 have been told that ' wo dare not . Attempt ' to violate the laws , and you will see whether . wo dave not . ( Murmurs . ) Remember thisexpression ,. for it ia " a very serious . one . ( Sensation . ) We imposed on ourselves . the duty to remain faithful to the constitution ; not that our adversaries have set us the example , —( laughter , )—

      but because wo owed it to ' ojir party , which always respects established governments , and never seeks to destroy but to improve therm We have not violated the constitution , and your : charges on that subject are not better founded'than they wore oil tho 13 th of Juno .- If , wo had not confined ourselves to all the articles of the constitution ,- we might have obtained many ameliorations , the efficacy of which could not be contested . The fixing the domicile- presents a moral guarantee . A man only possesses all his moral value in the place where lie has always resided , under tho eyes of his fellow citizens , observed and judged of by them . A man who has no fixed residence has no moral value . ( Hear , hear . ) An outcry has been raised at tho

      arbitrary state of dependence in which servants and workmen will he plnced , but why complain of us—did wo say that these classes shoulil be electors ? ( Exclamations on , the Left . ) I see that there are great logicians . who do not understand my reasoning ; I must be , therefore , more explanatory with them . . Arc not workmen and servants now dependent on their employers and masters ? But is it the poor man : whom , . We havo . excluded ? No , it is tho vagabond—tho vagabond who gains money without having any domicile , and who , on leaving his work , . hastens to the wineshop where ho spends what lie has earned .., These men , having no family , care nothing about a domicile .. I look . on them as the . mosi dangerous portion of society . . It is these

      men who . merit a title always employed in history to imply . contoinp ' t—the title of multitude .. I can very welrimagjne that certain men are unwilling to give up i this instrument ; I can . conceive that- tyrants should put up with them , give , them food , sometimes punish them , always despise them ! ( Sensation and applause . ) Hut , for . Republicans , to seek out tho men of- the : multitude , and defend them —oh ! believe mo , such persons are false Republicans ! Examine history , and you will see that it is the vile multitude that has at all times betrayed and deliveredupltberty . It gave it to Caisar for

      bread and the Cii'ccnsian games ; and , after , rhaving allowed the Emperorsto take it , butchered them ! It ts . this vito . multitude--thai delivered up to the Medici the liberty ; of Florence—that , ' in placid Holland , murdered de : Witt and Baylc—who applauded tho execution of .. the Girondists , andafterwards rejoiced at the merited death | of , ; Robospierre ! It is this multitude which , after being subjected to the great man who know , it well , ' in J 815 . placed a cord round tho neck-of his staimo to drag it , through the mire . ( Innnenso applause . ) ,:,, , [' , ] . ' ,. ' ... M . ? N ; : Uuo . \ apabie ( from' his ' place ) : ¦ I demand pCL-mission to speak ; -. ) ,.: i : . .

      - . The President . .:.-Not now .. You can speak at a later moment . ; .. .-., • , ' ¦ ' .. : ~ M . N . Buonaparte ( sharply ) :. I ( iomand— . . The PitKsiDKNT : You must not thus interrupt . I call you ( border ! > ; ., M . : N . Buonapao te : . But ) M . lo President , when— . ¦ ¦ . ¦¦ ' ..-... - Tho PitEsiDEXT : I call you to order a second time . ' ¦ : ' . . ; ' * ' ¦ . M . TuiEna : Although I-nover refuse , when in tho tribune , to allow any nun to make any . observation

      in reference to what' , I say , yet , to-day I shall depart from my usual custom ; . for I am unwilling to add to thoamiction of tho Assembly by contributing to exhibit to . it a man who boar ' s the illustrious name of Napoleon defending : such opinions as lie professes ! . ( Tremendous applause . ) M . 'N . Buonapaute (\ yith great violence ) : I must insist on speaking . ( Interruption . ) . .. . Tho . President : I consult the Assembly as to whether II , S . Buonaparto' ought not . to bo censured . . : ' ¦ . " ... '¦

      The Assembly , by an immonso majority , decided the question in the affirmative ,, '' , ' . '' ¦ From tho . Mountain : Let us go ' away . ( Agitation . ) : ¦' . ¦ . ¦ . , ' ¦¦ ¦" . ° A considerable . number of the . members of the Mountain then left their places . Laughter and applause arose on tho Right . ¦ Some of the members who had risen then hesitated , and at last resumed places . . . , . , ' nStt'Sm ? - ' ' Go ' you ploase ' al 1 of y °

      ^ Some other members of tho Mountain returned to then-placesmtho midst otMaughter . M If Biio naparte appeared in the midst pta group " of them gesticulating violentl y . MJ' Bertholon Wended into tho semicircle , and entered into an alteration mik a representative near General ChangaS "

      Untitled Article

      the generol spoketo him with animatjoh . A crowd gatheredfround'thefspot , and the utmost confusion prevailed ;); ' &- *• :, - \;[ : " * .-r :-v : r - - M . N ; : BuokAipai-te then approached the tribune , and appavently ; . asked , M . Thiers to allow him to apeak . That gentleman gave way , descending the steps of the . trib . unc , which ; tho other gentleman ascended . ' f ; ' $ ¦ ,-v- ' ;¦¦' ¦ y-M . N . BcOKmRTE ; I lvavo been called to order , and even censured ; I can , therefore , according to the regulations address to you' an explanation / I was , I confess , carried away by . a hasty movement , which I could not master , when I heard M . Thiers say that it was the people . ' ( Interruption . ) On the Right : No , no ; he said the multitude !

      . The President : M . N .. Buonaparte has a right to give-his . explanation . You would he just as culpable as hojias been , if you should interrupt him . M . N . BuosApAnTE : 'I admit that I was carried away when I heard M . Thiers affirm that it was tho multitude who in 1815 , tied a cord to Napoleon ' s statue . So remarkable an historian as he is surely must know that it was tho Royalists who did so ( Applause on tho Left . ) MSI .. Favreauj Lbo de LABonbE , and de Tisout protested in the midst of tho noiso against the assertion .- "i . ' .. - . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ : '• •

      : M . N . Buonaparte : It was the friends of the C . oss . acks : who tied a cord to the great man ' s neck ; and a man , whom I will not mention , but who bears a great name . ' ( Interruption j cries on the Loft of ' Name him ! Name him ! ' ) A man who bears a great name was ,. if I am not mistaken , the first ; in committing ; that shameful act . ( Interruption . ) ..- ... ,, M .: Benoist b'Azy : Tho person who did so was named Maubrouil . . M . N . Buonaparte : M . Thiers has thought proper to remark on my political opinions . I deny his

      right to . do so ; he was no more entitled to call on me to account for my . opinions than I have to interpellate ; the gentlemen on tlio Right in a simihu ' manner . But it is because of the name which I heai" that I defend tho interests of the people . (' Oh , oh ' . ' 'Enough , enough ! ' ) And since 1 S 15 has bodn referred to , -I do not hesitate to say that I prefer being on the side of tho conquered of Waterloo rather than that of tho conquerors . ( Exclamations on the Right . Applause on tho Left . ) ¦ A Voice : And your application for a peerage in ¦ ¦ ¦

      1847 ?; - ^ ¦'¦ . ' ¦ - ... - - ' •; . , • . . " ' ... The President went over tho , details of the incident ,, and observ ' cd that the explanation , which had just been given did not seem to him ofsuch a nature as to call for the removal of the censure ordered by tho Assembly ; He would again , however , if any hon . gentleman desired it , consult the Assembly on the point . ( ' Yes , yes , ' on the Left . ) , The . Assembly ,. being consulted , maintained tbe yote . of censure by as great a ' miijority as before . ' ' M . ' Thiers : If I have committed any impropriety in ' ' speaking' of M . Buonaparte ' s opinions , lie was himself the original cause of my doing so by interrupting . me . ( Hear , bear . ) lam of opinion ,

      notwithstanding all . the calumnies littered on the subject , ' that , in France ' . there are no conquerors of Waterloo , that there aro only tlio vanquished . ( Hear , hear . ) But , to go back ta the pouit at which I had arrived when I was interrupted , I have to remark that the expression whichl mnde use of was not . people but multitude—the vile multitude . Franco rogards us , and sho knows what is meant l > v these words . people and ¦ multitude . It is not , the people who set fire to palaces , who butcher men , who overturn : statues—oh , no , the' people suffer from .. these crimes . of the . multitude . It is the real people of the ^ country districts . who suffer and who . labour . ( Applause . ) As-tb us , we desire to

      give them good laws —( ironicil cheers , and laiiirhtcr on the- Left ) — and if public repose be troubled tho fault will be with you , not with us . France will judge , us all ; and I , repeat , that it is not the people whom wo desire to . exclude from voting , but the confused multitude of vagabonds who possess neither' family nor home ., ( Loud approbation . ) You tell us that the bill is a provocation ; if you had said a prevision you would havo uttered the correct word . 'I ask you . are there not places whore it has been discussed , whether war was to bo declared oh society or not , and b what means that should be ' effected ? I ask you , if it has not been also discussed whether to refuse taxes would not be preferable ? ; Is all that true or not ? "Answer

      ( 'Hear , hear , : agitation . ) , Against these wellknown facts , so afflicting to all good citizens , the government has taken its . precautions . The army is ready to do its duty—its chiefs are energetic and devoted—all is ready if you do not porsovero in a prudent course . Every preparation has been made . Inthat unfortunate society , whero the father sees thn .. bread of his . children torn from his hands beneath . the , threats of insurrection may be heard these painful- words— ' Sinceblood is to b ' e shed it is as well first as last ' . ' This expression , however , is not a provocation—it is-a cry cf despair ,- the cry of society at its last gasp . It is the strongest accusation against'those who have-thrown it into such an awfu ' situation . , ( Long continued Qheeriii " . ) iwiu . » situauon . , ( Long continued Qheenng . )

      The Assembly rose in great agitation at half-past seven . - . ¦ Satordat , May 25 . > ¦ ¦ This day , the man whoso election on tho 10 th of March was one of the main motives of M . Thiers ' a virulent sallies against , democracy , M . de Flotto , made a speech of great parliamentary talent ; its colour and logic strangely contrasted . with the fierv vehemence , denouncement , and personality of the Conservatives . After a speech of M . Loon Faucher and the rejection of several amendments , tho first- 'article of the bill for the reform of the Elector al Law was adopted without a division . The following is the article : —

      'Art . 1 . Within tho thirty days which follow tho promulgation ^ . the present law , the electoral list shall be made up by the mayor , assisted by two delegates nominated for each commune by taojuge de paw , and domiciled in the canton . The dolcntcs shall have the right of recording their observations on tho procte verbal . ., The proces verbal shall be deposited by the mayor with the electoral list at the office-of the secretary of tho mayoralty , to be communicated to all who may require it . ' ' " The discussion on Art . 2 was postponed till Monday . Monday ,. May 27 .

      In the sitting of the Legislative Assembly to-day the debate on thu Electoral Bill was re-opened upon the second article , which makes domicilution in the canton for three consecutive years a condition of the franchise .. M . Pierre Loroux commenced upon this subject the . speech which he had attempted to deliver on ~ Saturday ; but was overwhelmed by the darn -urs of the Right , who , at last , upon the proposition of the president , availed themselves of the regu . lation which permits the house to interdict ' a niemher from speaking , who persist ? , ' after having been twice called , to the question , in repeating the same deviation from the . question . M . Duuont de Bussbc developed an amendment presented by himself and several other memoirs , which would substitute for the system of the committee the drawing up of a permanent list for three years , of all citizens 61 twenty-one , years of age who had resided for six

      months , in the same commune . M . Leon Faucbei opposed this fimendnif . nt , which , on being put to t ' oe vote , was rejected , by the Assembl y . M . Come then proceeded to develop an . araendment which he had presented in concert , with General Cavaignac , Ferdinand de Lasteyrie , and ' M . Coquerel , proposing that the condition of domicile " shou- 'd be established by roal habitation in theconimunein which ibe obligation of drawing lots for the recruitment of the army and navy bad lieen salitfi . d , this . domicile to be trans ' erable to every commune . where thecitiee . i shall have fixfd his principal establishmein , piovided that he . rmake , six months before the rev ^^ iolv of ili is electoral-list , ; the double declaration prescribed ; bv Art . 104 of the Civil' Code . This amendment having been . opposed by M . Vatimesnil , wa 3 rejected by a considerable . majority .. M . Larabit proposed , ' sis months'domicile . . . ,-. .

      This and a series of other amendments were rejected , and the 2 nd article was voted as proposed by the committee by a large majority . Tbe voting was by assis el . live . As this is the most important article the bill may be considered as voted . It is said that MM . ' . 'Beaumont and Vesin have withdrawn their amendment . \ ' ¦ '• ¦ ' ¦ '

      • • ' . " ' Tuesday , May 28 . The debate was ' resumed ion the Electoral ' Law . The discussion opened upon the third article , which relatesto the modes orattestiiig the electoral domicile—namely , by . assessment for the personal tax , highway duly , or the certificate : of master or emttl . oyer . ; = M . Randot opposed the article , MM . Sain uKd . Larabit . moved amendments ; which were recced- M . Monnet proposed an amendment tendmi , 'to admit all kinds of evidence calcuhued to establish the existence of the-princi pal residence , as rsqmrcd by Article 2 . Nothing can be a better sample of the unfair dealing of tbe majority than t sen- refusal to discuss M . Monnet ' s araendmen ! .

      M . Leon Faucher said lhat the committee opposed tha- amendment . M . ' Monnetisa member of the tiers-parti . His ameudm < mt drives only at facilitating ' the proof of-three years' doraiciliation . There can be only one motive for throwing out such a proposition , which is to keep in the hands of the masters arid parents of voters the control o . ver the cevtificate . of domicile : which is given them by the bill , and . to reduce the number of voters qjualified asio . domicilialion , by besetting with : as many difficulties aspossible the way-of " attesting the qualification . Mi Won ret besought the " majority not to drive from thair side jnembers like himself , who supported their general policy , by manixeitingan uuconciliatory

      Untitled Article

      and illiberal disposition . - A voice ^ i ^ kT ^ S plied that doubtful auxiliaries wereZt ^ S General lamoriciere inquire d wheC' !' porter of the committee would assign am , be for rejecting the amendment of Monnet ' «! Ni The committee , then , would give no r ' ea hCt ) Baroche said the amendment was similar t ' ' % which had been already rejected . Gen L ° llle t inferred that , the amendment was rei » ct / i Oricie '& it was comprehensive . . Much had been «» vj ^' necessity of moralising the elector bvm v ° % vote among his neighbours ; ] j e ai i * hi accepted that object , but could not 8 eehn » ¦ ^ t he impeded by admitting as many facili . i / ' ^ sible for establishing the electoral domfeS ' " l" » - the object was to impose an obli gation S , ^ grantmg a right , the law ' was much morP ea < 1 « dating ., Thus for the recruitment T 1 ^* 1 were made first on the declarations of vl *^ . ^ ai 80

      _ ....... . v ,.. o , uuv on information C pift by all sorts of persons . But such iX /? 81 ** rejected in the present instance . niOrma t ' « n « M . Berryer replied . Finally , Jr . Monna ( , ment having teen put to the 4 J ? Jf ^ i large majority . The amendment III ^ H Combarel de Leyval , that the lists air Td ^ * should serve for attesting the domicile if '? "P without discussion . The first paiglR ^ was then vot , d by a large majoritv 8 P ° At { - 3 , Design op t * Conspirators ' -tk pondeni of the'Daily News , ' wrhin * « / Orrej ' says-The eventuality oftheitesS mi ?> hitherto loomed vaJelv hvL ^ L ' ' .. hich h £ ni nerto . oomeu vaguel y bsnatches fc

      y on .. ^ mind , begins , to gather a more 13 nt ? i * « al bulk . It is Lwn to Toll { S ^ « to the last two years n egotiations wP ** ing on with a view to the reeoneiul * ' ? *« J . branches of the B . aurbons wE La lbB " ° heritedfrom the throne of F L ^ ' 6611 11 * stood that these / nego tiation , have termfn ?^ " * transaction aiJcdrdin ' jr to which til p minated 'na would be adopufdby thP oret , ! ? - ° ™ de p « 3 " • "cdeuor / If ¦ Jjjeig 2 J" ; wHenri V . ^ still delay the ra . ificaium . ™ ^ J . » W g « i doubt they will disappear before ifS * f n ° sity of analliance beKeea SoSmS ^ S ^' m-5 whenthocritica . moment cSsKS kUC ciiuuiic

      « , aunng me few dav 3 » tiMi ; T'S areHjemandedfor . thee xecutioh ftLnnV ' 1011 V . rtually the . united . Bourbons are ahJ ! T ' of the situation . The wfclderoMh aS S prmer ^ s reported from good sources toSforfe ranches under the pact alreadv mentioned S gsssasl 0 lS r l edt 0 be flsV 9 tedl ° the iJS BSSSSJ iP-ssI head of the state , it llas no f ! oubt i ) een ., mdJ r 7 a

      with a due knovvlerWe nf ii ,. t . ;„„ .., ' . ?"?* rcun a a « e knowled ge of tbat singular blindMB with regard to ths state of public opiuum ^ S still charactenses L- > uis Napoleon as ; strong ! a when he braved the penalties of de-perate & i prises . Everybod y knows that at this moment S Napoleonist party in France is reduced to a mere shadow . -Yet Louis Napoleon confides so rashly in the magic of his uamp , as lo believe that , u-rehe to submit the question o . f his re-election to France to-morrow , he would be relumed by nearly thssams overwhelming majority as before . ' The mon d'i

      tp . roua negotiator could hardl y affront positiveiv such a belief with the most splendid offers of wealth and position as a private subject . It is supposed how ever , that the matter has been shown to him ' at hall lights , and that hints have been thrown out that he mi ght do worse , than accept the princely post of Cpnstable of France , with t he ajivanag ' e of Ram . bouillet and a million of francs pension . In tVi I understand from a good source , that if the Ppiice-President does not within' a certain period clo'e with the offers of the dynastic coalition , means mil be taken to put him in a position which would

      prove equally ruinous to him in bis public or private capacity . ¦ . - The ' Ptesse'is being printed by a fresh printer , the old printer having apparently feared the re . sponsibility . M . Girardin is cited before the trihunals for clandestine printing . ( Continued to . the seventhpage . )

      ^ Foreign Tmelltgenr F.

      ^ foreign tmelltgenr f .

      Untitled Article

      { / i ; ' . ;" 'V ' '¦; ¦' . , ' " . 'in .- ¦ ; , .. IS ^ y - " T-JIIB N O RT HE BN ' ; ST AR . , , l ' ' ,, "Z ^ ^ Vl ^^ tf ^ i "' " ' " : ' "" ' - June ' l , isnn ¦¦ '

      Fjn The Prevention, Cure, And V/ General Character Of Sypiirlus ,. Sthictuiie3,

      fjN THE PREVENTION , CURE , AND V / General character of SYPIirLUS ,. STHICTUIIE 3 ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 1, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1576/page/2/