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aptly drawn, and the arguments most convineing.
But I proceed to quote, for the personal judgment
of the reader, a few of the most striking passages.
The opposition at the election of President in
1848 amounted to 1,918,841 votes ; on the 20th of
December, 1851, it numbered only 641,351; at the
creation of the Empire it was reduced to 253,145.
But the most important fact resulting from these
statistics is, that in course of half a century the Na-
poleonic dynasty has on six occasions received the
consecration of the national suffrage. Both uncle
and nephew have filled up the same historic cycle.
Each has, rescued France from an abyss. Thrice
received with acclamations, each has arrived at
power, the period of which has been speedily
lengthened ; and each has seated himself upon 3
throne which he found vae.ant. The Consulate and
the Presidency equally terminated. in the Empire.
Spectacle unique in history—at fifty years' distance,
across the force of so many repressing events, the
will of Vie people, like a river which had fOr
long time disappeared in the sand, springs up again
from the profound depths of society, and resumes,
its level of independence and national grandeur.
The Plebiscite of 1852 responds as an echo to that
of 1804. The four millions of votes which caused the
astonishment of historians rise to eight, and he whl
was summoned to the Throne in virtue of the Con-
stitution of the first Empire becomes the Chief of
the second, uniting in his person both hereditary
and electoral rights. Between 1799 and 1804 Na-
poleon the First received ten millions of votes.
From 1848 to 1852 Napoleon the Third has re-
ceived twenty millions. -Thirty millions of bulle-
tins signed by the people of France form the titles
of the Napoleonic dynasty. These documents, as
we have said above, seem to us worthy of being se-
lected and compared. We believe them a consequence
of the text of the Constitution 'of 1852. At the
moment when that constitution, which has been
the fundamental compact between the people
and the Emperor, becomes the object of at-
tack, more or less open, and, as it were,
the rallying point of all the coalitions among
the Opposition, it has seemed to us useful to replace it
before the eyes of the public, and to recall the cir-
cumstances under which it was produced. In the
measures which followed the 2d of December, 18521
can be seen that the Prince President, in demand-
ing from the nation extraordinary powers, did not
confine himself to their exercise simply in the vie°
of remedying a transitory situation, but that he at
the time proposed to it a system of Government per-
fectly adapted to the permanent wants of the coin'
try. He did not consent to undertake the charge
of conducting the destinies of France, unless on the
condition that that system re-entering into the
Consular tradition of the year eight were favourably
received by the nation. Never, let us say, Nv3e
condition more clearly defined, never more unani-
mously accepted. The principles from which the
Constitution was derived were then the result of 3
freely accorded grant. But if the bases be filed'
if they cannot be modified without a plebiscite,
the work itself can harmonize with progressive°
ameliorations ;it is susceptible of perfection. the
Emperor loudly proclaimed this on the 31st of De-
cember, 1851, in saying that his intention Wns
to conduct the country to a wise exercise
of liberty. Let us add that the decree of the
24th of November, 1860, and the letter of the
19th January, 1867, have accomplished that promise'
5
The Constitution of the 14th of January, 1852,1
become, as every one knows, the Constitution °f
the Empire. The change operated in the form 1?'
government has had the effect of abridging or amend;
ing many articles no longer in harmony with
existing state of affairs. It has appeared to 14.'
useful to signalize these differences, the jute
gence of the reader being capable of supplement-
ing these indications. As regards modiflea:
tions of another order, they result from differen
decrees of the Senate. As they mark, so to
u
speak, the steps of the Emperor's Government
in the liberal path it has entered, we confine our'
t
selves to the particularizing those of the great
importance, and to the enumeration of the gran
measures which have been the almost immediate
consequence. We shall speak of that incase'
which has given to journals the right of publishing
the debates of the Senate, and allowed the repr°:
duction by means of stenography of the discussi°i4
of the two Chambers; of the sending Ministers to the
Chambers by special delegation; of the right of inter',
pellation ; of the extensien of the right of amendment
in the Corps Legislatif ; of the honour invested 13._0
the Senate of sending back for fresh examination
to the Lsgislatif Body those laws which may 3,11;
pear to it defective ; of the voting the budget '-'"f
grand sections ; of the ceding by the Einner°r 0
v
his right to open supplementary or extraordinl7o
credits iu the absence of the Chambers ; °f
powers invested in general and municipal coined'
of the law on the liberty of the press; .
the law on coalitions ; and, lastly, of that Nvllle,
is now pending at this moment before the Ler
lature, and which regards the right of assemble
The ensemble' of these dispositions issues (s°
~h
speak) from the sides of that Constitution,
lends itself to every liberal movement, and eve
in that regard has proved a novelty as daring 0.. f
successful. In order to appreciate its liberal ti,
racter we have only to compare it with the C°3'ert
tutions of preceding monarchies. The Etnftipe
himself has done this in a passage of his disc
at the opening of the Session of 1861. At this 13,,00g
I take leave with reluctance of this most interes.".o
work. I hope next week to be able to reviell •
a style more worthy its importance.

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