Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230058450
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...for all prrgrcss conducts to unity, and all that conducts to unity averts war and establishes peace. I insist then, on the necessity, the urgency, the utility of the adoption of all measures final or transitional, which have international disarmament for their object; and when I express myself thus, my voice ought not to be suspected, for the language which I hold here in Frankfort, in August 1850, is the same which I was not afraid to use in Paris, in March 1848, immediately after the revolution of February, when I was answered with the cry " Treason, treason!" These cries succeeded in stifling my voice, but they could not stifle the truth. At that epoch the army was dissolved, it was disbanded in fact; we hastened to reconstruct it, at all price. And what took place? The coffers of the state were emptied; the deficit was increased, and in increasing the deficit, capital was alarmed, and distrust spread abroad; it was found impossible to repay to the savings'-banks the amount of their deposits; it was found necessary to have recourse to an extraordinary tax, which remains celebrated under the name of the forty--/i.ve centimes; all means of coming pecuniarily to the aid of our tottering credit were taken away; the manufactories that were closed could not be re-opened, those that were open were closed, and that so suddenly and so completely, that on the 24th of June, 1848, a terrible war burst forth, not on the frontiers of France, but in the streets of Paris. Thus we have always the same story; the story of the phantom and the gulf. Of the danger that was really imminent no mortal seriously dreamt; men were pre-occupied with only the peril that was distant and imaginary! That which appeared the most important and the...