The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-02-11 00:00:00

THE ELECTIONS IN FRANCE.

The French provincial papers are full of election
addressee. In the Department of La Manche, the
" Mends of order and liberty" have nominated the
Prince de Joinville, Count Dann and nine other
in derates. The 1-6.itt of St. Lo explains that the
Prince de Joinvile's nomination is not based on
dynastic grounds, hut is a homage to twenty years'
exile, nobly support: d, and a proitat against the law
which exiles the (Means family. Votes in his favour
will be "a testimony of gratitude to the courageous
soldier who could not reKist the impatient Moire of
sharing the dangers of his old comrades, and who
recently Fought in General Chaney's army a post
worthy of his title as admiral, but inferior to his
courage and patriotism." The I'M W, in considera.
tion of the early date of the elections and the diffi-
culty of distributing votirg tickets, in devoting daily the
third page of its issue to the publication of voting
Pal era, which can be detached and filled up. In
the Department of the L 'aver Seine, which includes
Rouen and Havre, and is entitled to 16 members, 16
candidates described as "tried democrats, have issued
a joint address, in which they insist that the Repute
beans alone have never shrunk from duty, but during
the inane} icious period which ended at Sedan kept
steadily aloft the flag of the national honour. It is
for them, therefore, to t-II the invader, "We are
ready to pay for the fault which we committed in
tolerating Napoleon 111., but we will not allow din.
honour to aggravate our disaster. We do not refuse
peace, but we wish it to be worthy of France and of
the Republio."

THB DUC D'AUMALE'S einnurss.

The Due d'Aumale, Imo has been nominate.' in
mere than one Department, has issued from 'England
the following letter, which w not addressed to any par-
ticular constituency :

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"Electore,—honr months ago revertsi of your members
offered me their votes. I know not whether It will be your
pleasure to give them to me at the present moment. I can-
not, besides, speak to you as fully, as fr,ely as I could wish,
and I must sink In my heart all the feelings vith which it
OVetilowl. Ido not know if even those few lines will lie
seen by yen I shall strive, however, to mod., them reach
your for to those who would still wish to chose me to re-
present them In the National Aesembly I bell.ve I might to
give tome explanations on two capitol questions which will
be piscal before this Assembly—the question of Peace or
War, and the Constitutional questi in. On the erst point. as
had no share of responsibility, direct or Indirect, in the
ay. Ms or the acts which have produced the war and the
aotual eituation, I have a right to stipulate my entire liberty
of appreciation or reserve. I am further authorized in doing
no by the inaction which has been imposed upon me when I
urgently claimed the right of fighting for my country. flo
the second point I will explain myself with complete sincerity.
When I consider the situation of France, her history, her
traditions, the events of the last years, I am struck with
the a vantage which a Constitutional Monarchy presents.
I believe It can respond to the legittmate aspirations
of a democratic society, and guarantee, with order and
security, every kind of yr.gress and of liberty. It
Is with a mixture of filial pride and of patriotic sorrow
that I compare France in her actual state with what
she was under the reign of my father. As to this opinion, I
have a right to hold it us man, and se a citiz-n I believe
it my duty to expriss It ; hut I do not mingle with it any
spirit of party, any exclusive tendency In my sentiments,
It, my past, In the traditions of my family, I find nothing
which separates me from the Republic If it be under this
form that France wishes freely and definitely to constitute
her Government, I an, ready to bow before her mvereignity
ant I will remain her faitt.fol servant. Whether it be a Con.
etPational Monarchy or a Liberal Republic, it Is by political
pronity, patience, a spirit of concord, and abnegation, that
wee .n save, reconstitute, regenerate France. These are the
Sentiments winch animate me.
" February 1."

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