The French Revolution of 1848 , watercolor Cesare Dell'Acqua (1821-1905).
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" Province, admittedly, was not prepared to Republic: indeed, she was afraid. The word republic represented him as the Terror, and the Republic, was the blood and the scaffold. Today, she no longer feared, but it does not change everything at once, and it is not, to use the term revolutionary, at the height of Paris. We are talking about ideas that federalists would vote in some departments, if we hear that the province is considering splitting into independent states like those of America, united by a bond federal ago exaggeration. What moves the province, and what she wants at least modify, this is the excessive centralization, and all good minds agree with her. The province is not what it was twenty years ago: the ease and speed of communications, repeated trips to Paris, the current ideas have changed the provincial spirit. It is not as routine, it is more apathetic, and he allows himself to judge and criticize, and judge us harshly. Several editors of provincial newspapers came to be placed in high offices in Paris, is proof of his influence. Departments do not want a million men and always runs completely thirty-six million men, suffice it a nod to the whole body to obey, and a sudden movement of capital imposes its will on the whole of France. We do not want more in Paris, there will be no federalism, she will not be destroyed this magnificent unity of France which cost us so many centuries, so much money and so much blood, and from which we are the first nation in the world! What will be changed is the administrative system, we will break the network to millions of son orders, decrees, circulars and reports that chained the province, which stopped any action, which was a bridge could not establish communication between two cities without all committed ten offices had examined, weighed, checked, erased, and for months kept the ministerial order was to give movement and life to an entire population. The province has nothing to fear from this side, the capital will help, and, if necessary, members of the departments they would not unanimous to regain their rights?
But where the danger could begin, it would be if the elections are delayed, the magnanimous ardor that hangs over France would diminish if the narrow interests that pack and the bottom rencoignent provinces small individuals in small towns eager to happen to the podium to be heard in the universe, the long ambitious content and pale with envy, intellects withdrawn within narrow specialties, and strong despotism of their theories came to prevail over large and generous spirits, and came to the Assembly with their deaf rivalries and friendships more dangerous. They would be transplanted suddenly a thin soil and climate in a tepid burning earth and air ignited like the tropics, and some of a vigorous nature, will immediately recognize in the middle that is specific to their business and their noble thoughts, but the body weakened, which in the hot sun is not the blood run faster, they greeted by the cold and relentless mockery of the beautiful small coteries momentum that carries us, if they resisted, and wanted to stop by their composure, they would not cause anger and storms? would it not possible that the sessions of the National Assembly from becoming the struggles which the people would take him? only would it not be repeated invasions hordes armies in the Convention, and do we not govern by fever, riots and coups d' and pavers?
These fears are fortunately still had doubts, nor do we have addressed that because we wanted to tell the whole truth. We have a fair and strong reasons to believe they will be in vain; it matures quickly by revolutions, and perhaps already the interests of small towns fall into the shade, and a noble thrill of France announced the unanimous generous concerns.
We're not scared of these opportunities disorder; ideas that have penetrated the mass, and which form the substance of our character, that the evils that must call the reflection of serious minds, and unite all people of conviction, patriotism and enthusiasm for the fight and defeat them: it is the corruption that the deposed government has taught us, and to which we was used for eighteen years, and whose roots reached so many hearts born with the instincts of devotion.
republic, "said M. de Chateaubriand is the best government when the people of manners, or worse, when he has none. Do not believe that because we made a revolution, we have destroyed the corruption it is not deep but wide. There are many people who had gathered a greedy ear the words of a minister of Louis-Philippe: rich! and these of another man, the soul of his advice, Mr. Dupin Every home, every man for himself! They still live those fathers who threw their children's life by telling them: Go and -fortune! And we had clear evidence by the shameless scramble to which so many people rushed immediately after the victory. But, without wishing to stir hatred and flatter the people, let's face it, this greed, it is attached to the skin especially of the middle class, the bourgeoisie is the most really corrupt, it is she who darted to power and crying with more ardor: Vive la Republique! These are those which we must be careful, or they teach the youth at the corner of the fireplace in the family or they preach openly and publicly in the face of the people they stop employing the same words and the same means: they flatter the people, but this will be the same people who flatter kings. Our literature for fifteen years, was indeed, in the words of a thinker, an expression of society, most men who have acquired a literary reputation have won because they caressed inclinations sordid and degrading passions, they never thought to teach, they wanted to please and can find in their books all the maxims of tyrants and the rules of corruption, they presented as the most natural ways of governing. They explained everything, they all excused because they are excused and their vices.
The mass of the nation, fortunately, is not riddled with these maxims distressing: the people has not been like this groundwater welling up through the lower layers, and penetrate at distances infinite, like a raging torrent paused a moment, he overwhelmed furious, compelling, and has forced the barrier, then he returned peacefully in his bed, and runs powerful and majestic through its steep banks. This revolution, in fact, so strong, so spontaneous, was the sudden awakening of human dignity for too long abused. Retained under the mountain as the Titan of the fable by three hundred fetters we raids against the weight that overwhelmed us, and we are finally recovered, we have shattered the first layer that surrounds the volcano, and we are ready for great deeds and great virtues. This revolution has changed in a moment many souls it has been the lightning that struck down Saul on the road to Damascus, he rose purified, enlightened, and he went to conquer the world in the name of Christ and liberty.
We will fight with corruption and thus, hopefully, we will triumph. Will he the same with an idea that appeals to the mind by a specious appearance of justice, the idea of complete equality, unlimited? Our society is based on folk law, the principle of freedom, but in ignorance of the distinction between rights and duties, some believed that freedom was Equality: error minds of the century! Much freedom is natural to man, as he is unfit for equality, if God had created equal, it would have created unity, and the world would have been God! Also the principle of equality is it the pantheistic school. It will appear, and clubs already ringing of their doctrines, men who for fifteen years, have dreamed of in the loss, misfortune or prisons, chimerical institutions, which find that we do nothing, which provide smoke an imagination ever applied to a single object, and are claiming the achievement impossible. We talk too quickly perished, and the excesses of revolution can happen quickly. This will be the task of the people and the government both to discover and show the excesses and injustice of these claims isolated, it will be the people's common sense to understand that he who speaks a truth, not blinding not in the pride of its systems, recognize that it is not the equal of the oldest, smartest, most virtuous, to be by the wisdom of the government to apply to people with an austere franchise, to lay the principles of his duties alongside their rights to proclaim that the revolution was not made for one party for the workers only, but for the citizens and nobles, the rich and the priests, who are also the people, and that if we won freedom, it must belong to all .
Here begins the obligation of the government, and already, by the will of God may be, there is little he has done yet and it has been applied to details, had no great things, he understood that everything in nature, in man, in institutions, there are three stages of action: the beginning who prepares the medium matures, and the end that completes ; That strong men are the only patients, and should not change too fast if we want the term: Tempora tempore tempera.
It is not laws that we need that exposure of duties and these duties he must submit, not a man who poses in front of him as barriers but because it is the truth, and must tell the truth. We need the government to tell the people: here is your homework, fill them! I have mine too, if I am unfaithful, blame me and try me! They do not seek the applause of the crowd, she despised; they remain impassive in the midst of praise and blame, only proving they are worthy of our heads walk by their spirit of justice and probity. The eternal laws of right was not destroyed by the revolution, however, single men are changed. Revolutions are made because the people rebel against the unjust and wants to restore law and the law is not without duty. In talking to her duties can not tell him nothing new, he recalled what he knows, and what men are quick to forget. The people is a child full of the most magnanimous instincts, generous, confident, passionate, sensitive, but ignorant, unaware in that it does not know the cause, he does not know the men, he is struck as names, and so he believed at once. That is why the tyrants held in ignorance. We, for freedom, educate it, and illuminate it: men are more enlightened, the more they are free!
The people have a sense of duty he has in his bowels, and when he will speak it will vibrate. This word, says the last century by d'Alembert, will be eternally true: "The reason Unit always be right."
soon as he said I owe! man feel hovering above his head, not the destiny ancient, implacable deity who submitted the gods, but a power that has devoted itself: the soul is in peace that comes from the powerful balance of all the faculties and the face is the same nobility and dignity given by the Greek sculptor with perfect types of human nature. It is no longer an unruly child in her sorrows and joys, we are human, and it feels alive in the fullness of his will and his freedom.
But if the duty is freedom, there is also solidarity, and solidarity that unites us was just so to say that if the lower gate to channel his foot, the upper door in his hand. In tyranny, that solidarity is a chain in freedom, the chain is formed by the hands, and we all want, we all walk in tight band against the tide of events is the duty of all to maintain it for that it does not break and the waves, rushing through the breach, not overthrow the weak and strong, small and great, and not take us all in a common disaster. That governments take this noble language to the people waiting to speak their rights, duties, solidarity, and then of course the state will be policy that is the union of all strengths. Workers will be assured the work of poets, glory, glowing in the action; industrialists, commerce, all their rights! The government alleges, he recalls the old currency of France, forgotten by a government that gave all the money: HONOR! And the world will then see if France has not grown up yet!
You French, "said an Englishman, Lord Chesterfield, you do know that raising the barricades, but you never raises barriers! This word is wrong. If we erect barricades, is that we both have the keenest sense of right and most energetic passion to overthrow injustice. But it is wrong yet what he wants to establish this, the reputation of levity that was made in France. The French people light! It is not serious and stuffy, in fact, because it is action and life. What people in Europe in the world, at no time did things stronger, more sensible, more practical and more durable than the French people, he created the most logical language of the universe, which Administration established the tightest, which made the nation more united, who founded the company the more general ! Long ago that the highest intelligence had proclaimed, already three centuries ago that Charles said the Portuguese seem crazy, and are the Spaniards seem wise, and are crazy, the French seem crazy, and are wise . And it is a cry of genius, because it is a cry of truth, that the word Shakespeare France is the oldest soldier of God!
We want to march at the head of nations and our priority we do not prove a single violent movement, magnificent, sublime, but a continuity of great actions and great deeds are the greatest virtues! No ! no people, right now, do we owe, no one has the jet suddenly this heroic devotion, this neglect of the material part of man. When France looks, when she speaks, she acts as the world cries: It's great people! In all things, the battle in science, in literature, in revolution, it gives a blow that brings out the light. But it will not be a flash passes and this will be like the sun that burns at the bottom of both, which juts into his glory through his ethereal way that enlightens all, which warms everything, and that raises the earth sap, trees, fruit and life!
But we will not be strong and free only for ourselves. It has been said, the revolution we've just done is the triumph of civilization. Humanity is constantly running. The Republic is that we base the government of the fraternity without the princes and kings would be realized, all mankind's efforts have been made to bring the triumph of the principle of love. Still, over the centuries, men have tended toward each other, in turn slaves, serfs, subjects, they were gradually stripped their prejudices and hatreds, and thus they broke their chains. We overthrew the last government because he had intended to establish new boundaries between people. The history of our twenty years is more fulfilled in three words: in 1788, we were subjects, and we had over in Europe in 1793, we were called citizens, and we spread around the world the principle of Freedom, in 1808, we were French, and we do more servings nations that our glory, our great name and irons! Today, only one name remains, the name of men, and when we say men, they say brothers. This is the benefit of Europe, the world, we have to overcome, we are free, and we say to the people, and all the people repeating: Be one people, one family rivalries over trade, more enmity of nations, no more hatred, hatred have only one, that of injustice have one goal, the full implementation of the law of Christianity, the brotherhood. "
Eugene Loudun (pseudonym of Eugene Balleyguier, 1818-1898),
" From the present and the future of the revolution. " Correspondent , t. XXI, March 10, 1848.
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