Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1848-10-02
IN. Y. Express
THE PRESENT. STATE OF FRANCE.

"PaRIs AGAIN 4 cAMp-Rumors Of impending
insurrecton have again been current in Pars and The
danger 10 be appIehended from the LegltlmSis, VINO
re asserted TO have formed alliance with the red
Republicans and the Socialists. The debate the re-
port If the Committee of Inquiry excited much alarm
The srctest military precautions were adopted by the
Government.
"On the Quai dc rsay extending from the Espanades
des Invades toward the Champ de Mars, far beyond
the snuff mandatory the 7th light infantry encamp
ed ard the 18th giment of the line occupied the
camp Of the Espianades DIES lnvaldss. In the court
yard Of the hotel Of the President of the National Assem-
bly, were to be crowds Of national guards lancers
and artillery so that 20 900 could have been coec
ted round the Assembly in twenty minutes The whole
garrison Of Paris and all the troops within many leagues
were under arms Friday night.
"a large encampment was formed as if by magic, on
Sunday afternoon, in the grand square of the Champs
Elysees. On Sunday at noon that vast Wesente
its wonied appearance of level and vacant square, Al
o'clock it literally covered with tents and swarm
lug with soldiers Another camp, of equal extent. Is
fixed the Opposite side of the river, the Espande
Of the Invalides and third that portion of ,ne Quai
d'Ossy, which extends from the invaides to he Point
lie grenee. The gardens courts, and every agailabe
space within the Chamber and its dependencies and
tie Presidents hotel also quite filled with troops
Guiding great quantity of artillery. Cannon plan
ted behind the entrenchnent and others concealed
by the columns of the vestibule.',
''Ihe Press mu-sled.-We mentioned in our last pa
per the suppression of tour journals by General
Cavagnac Since then the Government has given notice
to the editors of the Reforme, the Contutonnel, and
the Democratic Pacque that if they not more
sured in heir langusre they will be suppressed. NJ
Theirs to Al. oenard, the Minister of the Inter
lr, to demonstrate with him the danger to which he
exposed the country by his violence against the
papers, and declared that the Republican Government.
was much more and arbitrary than even that of
the Bourbons Louis Philippe had been. NJ Senard
replied that the dynasty of Louis Philippe had fallen
aowlths andlng its gors against the press; and TIE
Republic not sufficiently strong resist such al en-
gine it is necessary for 1t to energetic meas
ures"
"Protest of Tie Editors The following is the protest
of certain journalists of Paris, prepared by committee
of five members, MN. Capo de Feviliade De Iavaetie
Albert Maurin, Paul Feva and Eugene Veuillo appoint
ed a. injecting Of journalists held in Paris the 24h
fly:
The underngnod in the name and for the honor of
the Liberty of the Press, which they represent here
"Rec0,iectlng that the Executive Government by
of the 25 ofJune. S4S, suppressed eleven jour
mails, and caused the principal editor of Of them
to be incaIceraed without seizure, or trial, convlc
tcn:
"Recolecng that, although this violation Of person.
al liberty, Of the liberty of the press and Of property
not at that period the object of collective protest
the part of the writers in the Partisan press the
is be found in the imposed them by the eX
ced.
''Recollecng that the Executive Government has
addressed itself the National Assembly obtain from
it preventive ard repressve laws, which might thence
forth become the rule of It's conduct and the of
its action
Recoecting that these laws voted in the form
in which they had been demanded by the Government
"Recoectpg that there is not to be found among the
the penalties enacted by those laws either the preventive
suspension of journals the preventive Of wri
ters:
"Recolecting that Notwithstanding the law SO deman.
ded and voted the Executive Government has, by
decree of the 2st of August, ordered the preventive
suspension of four journals and that several editors have
been arrested before trial:
"Recollecting in conclusion, that the liberty Of the
press is imprescrpble, nalenanbe, and inviolabe
right:
.They declare that those DEGREES are an attack by the
Executive Government the rights Of the Legislative
powers on The rights of the National Assembly, (for
decree published even with this ormality preXed the
Council of Ministers having examined annu the
effects and the guarantees ola law.
They declare that those DEGREES equivalent the
suppression of the liberty of the press nasmuch the
effect Of them is not only TO suspend certain number of
journals but to deprive those which suspended OF
that of security without which there is longer Ell
Their independence liberty in the most moderate
else of The least suspected right.
They declare, in conclusion that those DEGREES create
regime inconpaahy than that of censorshipuf,
according TO definition borrowed from The National
Of the 9Th Of August, 1885, The censorship mutates,
but i. does not imprson, nor does it ruin.'
"They protest, with all the energy of their convc
tions and with all the power Of their right, against the
DEGREES of the Executive Government in virtue Of which
several journals have been suppressed and several VIII
tiers have be arrested without trial"
"Caraignac's opinion on the su5ject.-The cause Of
the press in Paris, present, is without previous
ample the history of all the political ulsons through
which, Er has nacSed for the last ytv For
the first time within that eventfu period the liberty Of
the press has become extinct in the most literal and prac
teal sense of the term. is merely the abuses of
journalism which excite the head of the Government
to the exercise of the despoc power with which he is
invested for the arbitrary suspension OF the press but
openy avowed that any journal which will exercise
the right of discussion in manner which the head Of
the Government shall consider to be advels the
publican form ofgovernnent will be Immediately suppress
sed. This doctrine was frankly and expl city avowed,
the great establishment of the journalists, by Gen.
Cavagnac in his interview with them on the occasion Of
the presentation Of the above protest.
''On that occasion tie General is reported to have said
your application does yun HONOR it is your duty to pro-
test as is mine to suspend. | will not do less with
the Constiticnnel If it continues its attacks upon the
republic in favor Of monarchy. have in friendly way
cansed its editors be informed that If they continue
their poencs in favor of dynasty which feel hon
or in having served. but which will have nothing
Of as France will not have it, will suspend the Con-
stt,to,nei without more hesitation than l suspend the
Lam poa.- resist the journalists of the Opposition;
when shall have grown You shall have carte blanche
TO attack it,
'.The same doctrine is accordingly promulgated by
the journals of The Government There is, therefore,
be no Opposition press. The Government is to have
its official and semi official organs, but they are have
no adversarles."
1t will thus be seen that Cavaignac's Government,