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A private letter from M. Ledru Rollin to a friend

in Paris has been published, which shows how the public exaggerates the ideas even of the extreme Reds. He says that after "young Roche- fort's" visit his hesitation entirely ceased. "I wish for liberty, but not at any price ; I wish for her clothed in white, not in purple. I leave purple to Emperors, and I foresee that, with men like Rochefort, we should inevitably come to a civil war. Admit- ting that blood was necessary in '93, to shed it now would be- odious and useless." In other words, "though I talk like a Frenchman, I am very like an earnest English Radical."

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