The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-12

by the very fact of Its revolution. France has
made an immense gain-has assured itself that II
really Is alive, and not dead-that 1t has force
enough to make away with and abolish the pal
pably false, whether IT may be able or not to
evolve and reconstruct the true. King Louis
Philippe and company safe there, in high places,
these eighteen years-doing what l-.owing the
wind, and they have reaped the whirlwind -
an effrontery that grew every day prouder of
Itself. Other countries have suffered the like,
and borne It, 1t not quietly, yet INTERESTINGLY.
ana now the mop OF Parls rises, musket In hand.
and sweeps away all that. great gain, surely;
the necessary antecedent of all other national
gains.
And so France is once more republic. The
peaceful burgher will no longer see the iniquity
which his sire and his grandsire fought to
abolish, rampant In cOurt-on throne. The man
Of talent, he too, is enfranchised (; behold, at
last, the republic invites, nay, beseeches him
into his fitting arena la carriere est ourerte
talents -" The tools are to him who can han
die themr The peasant, the operative, what
has he q! Hope, at least this new government
was his making-it can hold together only IT he
support it whoever may go uncared tor now,
surely i will not be he
On Monday, came out the decree for nation
al assembly, to be chosen by universal suffrage
and vote by ballot, of the whole thirty millions
mot by some ITO thousand placement, actual or
expectant thereof 1t is to be chosen in the early
weeks of the forthcoming April, and to meet at
Paris with the opening OF May. The last ma
tlOudi dSScuioiy. vi uuiNcisdi suHiaSo dhu "otO
by ballot, that France remembers, was in the
Autumn of l792-ffty-six years ago. Like this
new one, that old one met after France had
hurled down its king and proclaimed itself a
republic so far and no farther the resemblance
reaches. In all other respects, what contrast!
In 1892, France was divided against itself-roy-
aists and clergy against republicans, department
against Departmental Vendee flaming up in
insurrection,-the Paris prison chokeful, soon
to be emptied by massacre-Pr1ssia and Austria
rushing over the frontier to extingulsh the revo-
lutlon-the Duke of Brunswick and 30, 900 bayou
cts acting as extinguisher. And now From
furthest north to furthest south, not muir
muir OF discord, church and mamnon, peerage
Paris, Marshal Soult and Marshal Bugeaud, all
with real Joy (or Louis Philippe mad no friend)
acknowledge the republic. Prussia, Austria,
Russia, look on in dismay. and far from attack
ing France, think only of what minimum OF
" constitution " their subjects are like to force
from them.
Not the least significant, not the least pro-
missing token Of the future of France is the tenn
per OF mind, which, according to all observers,
the French display under these new, unexpected
circumstances. Nothing OF the old tarJd'onade,
extreme OF enthusiasm alternating with extreme
of desperation silent satisfaction, rather, and,
may we not say, tremulous hope In Heaven. 81
saw" says an observer, &C the Paris population
escorting its slain ones, in solemn procession,
on Saturday last, to lay them beside their slain
fathers, beneath the July column-mute patriot
ism of new generation joining the last one,
also mute There was something very striking
in the silence with which, on the whole, the
| ceremony was transacted" 1t is a new quality
| in such French soemnities, this of silence and
| full of good augury