MEMOIR OF DANIEL TRBADWELL. 



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of the Assembly of the mob, and reinstated the members of the Assembly, made prii sen of 

 Blanqui-Barbes, Sobrier, Raspail, and their own general coinmanderin-chief, I lourtais, from whom 

 they took his sword and epaulettes, and placed him under guard, charging him with treason in 

 permitting the Assembly to be invaded. By this noble and seasonable rail) the National Guard 

 has saved the government for the present from dissolution, and Paris from blood. For sev< ral 



hours all was panic. The anxiety about the Bourse was remarkable; the people were runnii 

 to and fro as if their last hour had arrived; government stocks fell four or five per cent, and 

 many other securities almost as much. But to-day confidence is restored. The rappd was 1 hi 

 at an early hour this morning, and the poor National Guard again assembled in all the stn - ts. 

 Bodies of them were placed in the gardens of the Tuileries, which were eld I to the public, and 

 in the Place de la Concorde and all the other public places. The sittings of the Assembly wen 

 declared permanent. At the same time they passed a decree authorizing the prosecution of sucl 

 of their members — Barbes, Albert, and General Courtais — as arc accused of taking pari with 

 the insurgents yesterday. At present, then, all is quiet, and the government is str< agthened by 

 having put down a faction that threatened its existence. But this facti Q will probably ralh 

 all its clubs will be at once at work, and no one can tell how soon it will be prepared for another 

 outbreak. In truth, France is disorganized, and possibly the only way to an efficient organiza- 

 tion is through another anarchy and another despotism, like those of the former Revolution. 



But we will hope. One thing is certain, that all business will be destroyed under the present 

 state of things, as all industry is at an end. The National Guard, who form the most efficient 

 of the industrial class, are constantly called from their business to quell disturbance . Then a 



great many of the journeymen have got notions of Communism, or the establishment of govern- 

 ment manufactories, in which all shall share alike, into their heads; so that they will not work 

 in their old way for their old wages. Thus from one cause or another then- seems to be nobody 

 actually at work, or at least the falling off in productive labor is seriously felt in France, and it 

 has instead idleness and insubordination. You have more faith in the good sense of the ; vk 

 than 1 have to bring all right; but I think that the text of the Democrats, " Wc have destroyed 



the feudalism of the chiefs, we must now destroy the feudalism of the Bourgeois," is very dan- 



Not exactly, but something like it. 



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Paris, May 17th. 



Paris is entirely quiet to-day. The true men are in great spirits, and believe that the factions 

 are crushed. Several of the leaders of the mobs are in the Donjon at Vincennes, — the old 

 military fortress where the Due d'Enghien was tried and shot. The Revolution does not vet 

 appear to have thrown up any great and leading mind to which all others give place, either from 

 respect or fear. It seems a sort of destiny that civilians cannot succeed in this way. Lamartine 

 has had a little run of popularity, but I think it must be seen from his reports that he is not man 



enough for the crisis. Arago has a certain degree of popularity, but the Parisian tradesmen say 

 that he knows more about the moon than he does about France. Probably the great one is now 

 in the Polytechnic School, or, if that is too young, with the army in Algeria. 



What an opportunity was thrown away by that false-hearted Louis Philippe! Bad he been 

 true to the principles that placed him upon the throne had he been a patriot king, France would 

 at this time have possessed a well-consolidated liberal government in peace and prosperity, and 

 he "that which should accompany old age, As honor, love/' etc.; but now an unpitied exile. 

 for I have not heard a person in France drop a word of pity for him ; on the contrary, all say 

 he has only got his deserts. 



