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Show COMMUNIST PROCLAMATION. According to the Petit Monitcur, another appeal from the lute ma Lion ale was posted up yesterday on the Boulevard Boul-evard llocheeliouart, and immediately torn down; it is worth quoting; "Brethren, la the name of our brethren murdered hy the despots oi' Versailles, in the name of humanity aud prepress, let us not givo up the struggle! 'The reactionist papers are exulting over their victory. The perjurers ol Versailles fancy that they have crushed us; whether they are buried to-morrow buried in their triumph rests with you. wTo achieve that, energy alone is requisite. Our losses are great, it is true; but bear in mind that our inaction inac-tion imperils the lie-public ikr more than our check. "Will you wait to rise, until the plot which all tho despots oi the world are engaged in weaving shall have enfolded en-folded you in its inextricable meshes? "Do you wish that night after night satellites drunk with wine and de bauchery, stupefied by priests, should hunt you out of your houses, and send jjx lo ijupic: kvCij- jajouue ami ijt- any Bay in the known world? "Do you wish to leave your wives and children exposed and unprotected to the lust of the priests, the rich, and the soldiery ? " Do you wish to find the iron circle, which we broke through in an effort of despair, closing in upon you? " If you wish all this, remain inactive. inac-tive. "Do you wish, on the contrary, to become free and powerful, us you ought to be I " Do you wish to have the right to live by your labor? "To arms and forward ! "Swear with us not to return to the , workshop, not to handle a tool, not to Lay down your arms until you have avenged your slaughtered brethren and laid the foundations of the Social lie-public. lie-public. "To arms I To arms ! Lyons, Marseilles, Milan, Berlin, Moscow, London, Liverpool, Manchester! "'To arms, our brethren of every country I " Up against tho tyrants and oppressors op-pressors ! "lely upon us, whom they suppose they have disarmed because they have taken our muskets and our guns. " They do not know then, the wretches, that on the day of vengeance , we will tear up the gates of their palaces pal-aces to make pikes, and that this time we will bury ourselves under the ruins of Paris rathor than surrender. "Forward! the musket in ono hand, the torch in the other. Old civilization must perish 1 Perish it shall ! "And then the peoples, united in ono family, free from all yokes, will peacefully enjoy the fruits of their labor. "The Central Com. ofPaius." London Standard. |