The invisible hand is mingled in all this.

Louis Bonaparte committed the crime; Providence brought about the result.
In truth, it was essential that _order_ should come to the end of its logic.

It was essential that people should learn, and should learn for all time, that, in the mouths of the men of the past, that word _order_ signifies false oaths, perjury, pillage of the public cash-box, civil war, courts-martial, confiscation, sequestration, deportation, transportation, proscription, fusillades, police, censorship, degradation of the army, disregard of the people, debasement of France, a dumb Senate, the tribune overthrown, the press suppressed, a political guillotine, murder of liberty, garroting of the right, violation of laws, sovereignty of the sword, massacre, treason, ambuscades.

The spectacle that we have before our eyes is a profitable spectacle.

What we see in France since the 2nd of December is the debauch of order.
Yes, the hand of Providence is in it.