The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-16

| AMERICAN OPINIONS ON THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.
The intelligence which we published, on the ar
rival of the steamship Cambria, disclosing the
peaceable termination of the popular elections in
Paris and throughout France, has given great sa:
tisfaction to the community, and has created ge-
neral belief that the French of the present day
! have more practical good sense in the matter OF
public affairs than we have heretofore given them
credit for. Delight and pleasure are expressed on
all hands, and principally at the defeat of the So
cialist party in Paris, by such large majority as ap-
pears to have voted against them.
The Misrepresentation cast on the French peo-
pie, with the view of shaking public confidence in
their capacity to conduct republic, have been
| magnifed by the efforts of the English newspaper
press, and partly by the silly views and opinions
promulgated in certain journals in this country,
which have run crazy on socialism, Fourierism, and
all other sorts of isms. The English press is guided
entirely by the ideas which spring from monarchy
! or aristocracy. Their instincts are towards such
| form of government, and against any kind of 60
vernment which proceeds from the good sense of
the masses of the people of any country. In such
quarters, the violent demonstrations and ultra SEN
tlments of the socialists Of Paris are taken as part
and parcel of the public mind othe people and of the
| French nation. In the same manner, we have seen
the English journals assume that the ultra opinions
pf some of the ridiculous cliques which spring up
in New York and other large cities, express the OPT
Mons of our masses, on matters of government
| How often have we observed that the abolition ia
natics or the Fourerite philosophers in parts of the
United States, or some other section of ultras who
have succeededn creating riot and arrow, quoted
| by the English journals and made the foundation
of long philosophical, homily on the impossiblty
ofhe United States continuing in their present state
of organization for any length of time They treated
the new French republic in the same way as they
have treated the American republic for the last thirty
or forty years. But the issue of the first election in
France has dispelled those misrepresentation OF
the English press on the one hand, and the ridicu.
lous projects attributed to the French republic. in
certain portions of the American press on the Other
| side.
The Founerite journal in this city, which is the
organ OF all sorts of ridiculous whims in politics
religion philosophy, viz the Tribune, aments the
defeat of Ledru Rollin and Louis Blanc, and in the
name of its Paris correspondent who must be a
wise man indeed, predicts that Fourerism, or so.
cialism, has no chance now, but by general war
on the continent. This idea seems possible enough
| Such ultra and ridiculous notions, certainly have
little chance in Europe in this country bu,
through civil war; or intestine war, on the one
| hand, or general war between nations on the
other. The anti-rent agtators in New York, never
committed murder, or showed symptoms Of
instruction, until they were taken up by the so
cast organ of the city of New York. The truth
is that all those ultra philosophers, of every kind
how great soever their professions of peace and
| philanthropy may be, are pressed along by the
movement which they originated, TO commit the
greatest excuses, and most violent outbreaks or
sound sense and sound democracy, in every coun
try. We are happy, however, to find that France
is beginning to understand her position, and tina
the sound intelligence and instinct of the people
of that republic have rebuked and demolished the
socialists at the past election, and probably will be
able to keep them in their isolated position until Q
republic is finally established by the new consttu
| ton which they expect from the National Assem-