Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-09-16
REPORT 10 TIE KING.

PARIS July Doth, 1890.
Sire Your minister, would be unworthy
the confidence VITA which sonr Maj esy has
honorrd them, il theg longer delayed placing
before you u cuncise statement of our internal
situation, ani 10 indicate 10 ynur Highnnss
the dnugrrs Arising from The periodical
press.
Atno period dnring the last fifteen years, has
! this SITUATION presented Itself under n more ST.
! rious and aillcdng aspect. Notwithstanding "a
prosperity nnexamped in the annals OF our his
tory, sigus Of dsorg and symptoms of
auarchy are manifested upon almost every
! poni OF the kingdom.
! The successive Causes which have conduced
| 10 weaken The springs oil the monaIchlcal GO
| yerumeut opern'e to-day TO alter aud change
IT'S nature. Deprived of It's moral force, the
! c,vil authority Within the capital and IN The pro,
vinees MANI aimed nut an unequal contest II.
cams factions. PeTnlcious aud subversiYe doc
Crn.vs openly professed are spread aud propa-
gated among all classes OF our population DIS.
quielnGes too generally accredited aquatic the
public mind and torment society. From all
quarters guarantee Is demanded for future
security.
A righteousness, active, ardent, indefaliga-
bic, is at work 10 overturn the lOunoau0h Oi
order, and 10 deprive France OF the happiness
kings Active IN working disconlent aud stir
ring up halred-it fomeuts among the people n
spirit OF ucIiance and hostility against govern
,rent, aud seeks every where TO SOW the seeds
OF discord and Of civil war.
Aud, Sire, recent events have already prov
ed that pullncal feelings, confined heretofore II
the higher ranks of society, are beginning to br
u,ore generally tell, and TO excite the popular
mass. They hnvc proved, also, that this mass
is not always agitated without danger 10 those
even who strive to secure its repose.
A multitude Of facts, collected during the
course OF the late electoral operations, conf m
these statements. ami afford too certain
presags OF new commotiOns, did nof your
Majesty possess d power OF remedyIng the
evil.
10 an attentive observer, there every where
exists necessity for order, force an permh
nency, aud the disturbances which appear tue
most opposed la such necessity, are Ia reality
but thu expression and testimony Of II.
These agitstions, winch cannot he increased
without great peru. are almost exclusively pro-
taced aud excited by the libeli, allowed 10 the
urpss 4 law Of elections. MOI less prolific IN
disorders, hts without DOUBT CONQUERED and as
sisted 10 maintain mem, but We must deny
the evidences of our senses nnt 10 see IN the
periodicals the prlnclp focus u a corruption,
The progress ct Hnich brLOnies daily more sen
sbe as the origin OF the cdamI Is which threa>
ten the Kingdom.
Experience, SIRE, Speaks louder than theory
Enlightened men. without dpnbl, whose pa.
triDii,m cannot br suspeCIed carried away bg
the example of neighboring people, have
believed that the advantages Of the periodical
press would balance the Disadvantages, ahd
that its ekcesscs would be neurahSed hy
contrary excesses. II Il not so--the proof
IS decisive, aud the question is now deiermn-
! ed.
At tall epocbs the periodical press has only
| been, and IRON its nature must ever br, an III
| strument OF disorder and sedtlon.
How numerous aud irrefitable are the proofs
that may be brought TO support this truth. II
Is BY the violent and uninterrupted ach0n OF the
press that we are to atu ibute those too sudden
aud too frequent changes ia oar internal poll.
cg Il has not permitted n regular aud stu
bic system OF government TO be established IN
France, nor that continued aud strenuous Ell.
forts should he made 10 introduce into the
various bran hes of public administration those
| authorizations of wblch they are susceptible,
! Every ministry since 1914, though formed hn-
! der dlfferent circumstances, and actnated ny
| different impulses, have been exposed 10