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I say again that personal liberty is more trampled
on than ever it was in the time of the empire. A decree of the new power
gives the _prefets_ the right to arrest, in their respective
departments, whomsoever they please; and the _prefets_, in their turn,
send blank warrants of arrest, which are literally _lettres de cachet_,
to the _sobs-prefets_ under their orders. The Provisional Government of
the Republic never went so far. Human life is as little respected as
human liberty. I know that war has its dreadful necessities, but the
disturbances which have recently occurred in Paris have been put down
with a barbarity unprecedented in our civil contests; and when we
remember that this torrent of blood has been shed to consummate the
violation of all law, we cannot but think that sooner or later it will
fall back upon the heads of those who shed it. As for the appeal of the
people, to whom Louis Napoleon affects to submit his claims, never was a
more odious mockery offered to a nation.


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