The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-02
The United States Senate and the French
RevO utir n.

During the last two or three days, debate
has been going On in this venerable and excel
lent body, on the propriety of passing resolu-
ton, which was brought forward by Mr. Sena-
tor Allen, expressing the prompt sympathy en-
tertained by the senatorial representatives of the
American people for he recent ehty, magnl-
hcent, and glorious revolution which was begun
in Paris on the birthday of Washington, and
ended, on the third day thereafter, in expelling
from the throne tyrant and corruptor OF the
morals of the French people-a despot of the
meanest kinda prosecutor and contemner of the
freedom of the press and Of speech, in all their
stages.
This resolution, so justly expressive of the
sympathy of the American people, has been de-
bated for three days, and is on the verge of be-
ing laid on the table of the venerable and re-
spected United States Senate, because it yet
uncertain what the issue of the great event
In Paris may be, or whether they will
be able to establish permanent republican 60
vernment in France, surrounded as they are by
the monarchs and despots opposed to them. We
say this has been debated three days. An event
which makes the mind ,ingle, through all classes
of society, wherever the news has reached, is
paused on by the United States Senate, debsted
mittee What spectacle among free peo
pie! What conduct in the highest representa-
tive body of the American republic!
We do not hesitate to pronounce such conduct,
in the midst of the feelings which the great
event in Paris has evolved in this and every
community around us-we do not hesitate to
pronounce the conduct of the American Senate
disgrace, shame, dishonor, an atroci,y, in
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of that body-be they high or low, eloquent or
turgd, Old or ynung-who protract or delay
the expression of profound sympathy for the glo-
nous revolution of France, ere recreant TO their
position, to the honor, TO the institutions, and TO
the feelings OF their ancestors This conduct is
indeed atrocious; but when we fad it side by
side, on the same day, with an equally atrocious
but less marked attempt, on the part of this body,
to interfere with the independence of a press, by
imprlsonDg It's correspondent tor refusing to tell
what they had no right TO ask, it is but natural
TO expect such conduct from such body. The
corrupt Influences on which Louis Philippe found
ed his government and dynasty, are already be-
ginning 10 fad their way into the Senate OF the
United States and into the White House itself
Are the doctrines, the eulogics, and the puffs,
which we fad in volume entitled " Frapee--its
Court, King, and Government, by an American"
and pubhshedby Wiley s. Putnam of New York.
IN 1910, now operating upon ard Influencing
the conduct Of the United States Senate
The indignation of the whole country will!
soon be felt, even in Washington, aud within
the walls of thas chamber. Wait and see its
beginnings, next Monday, when the whole peo-
pie of New York, without distraction Of party,
meet In the Park, TO express their opinions on
the glorious expulsion Of Louis Philippe, and the
erection Of republic in France