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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt:... tion, to reduce the army, to organize a tax on property, to mitigate the code of bankruptcy, to attempt a poor-law--to imitate, in fact, that legislation which almost all parties sanction here--and the hue and cry of "Socialism" was instantly got up against the unfortunate Republicans. Had Sir Robert Peel been in the French Legislature, he would have been hunted down as a malignant Socialist. Socialism has been, and at this moment is, " the raw head and bloody bones " of power, hoisted to terrify the timid and the ignorant into voting away their liberties. The majority of the Legislative Assembly destroyed themselves and the Assembly too. Their blindness and fatuity have struck a deadly blow at parliamentary government in France. Their sympathies were always opposed to the Republic--their policy to undermine and overthrow it. Louis Napoleon and they were in league; and from the very day of his election, they combined to crush Republican feeling, to harass and oppress the Republicans themselves, and by every artifice, calumny, and violence, to render them contemptible and odious. Together, they planned and carried out the expedition to Rome; together, they consigned the primary teachers to absolute beggary and ruin; together, they committed education to the Jesuits; together, they degraded the University, and laid it at the feet of those same Jesuits; together, they burked universal suffrage, of which they both were born, because, disgusted with their reactionary measures, the electors of Paris had given a vote against them; together, they postponed the most urgent laws on the communal organization, the municipal bodies, and the National Guard, and falsified in them the elective principle; together, they perpetrated every kind of illegality, sanctioning the...