The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-27

OF France the president 70 only the elected Of your
ment. This executive power will be no longer the
beacon OF the natiOn-he will be than the
needle to mark the hour Of your wills and OF your
capricss. cloud sppsuse) Since these motives do
not find amongst Us any instructive opposition there
ia then another reason. (Ssnsation) Why, that in
opinion, but on yourselves, whose mission It is to
direct 1t. This reason may be thus set forth :
" You are g'ing to review the parties which de-
to recruit from all the repubcsn parties you are
going to unite Legi.mists the Orlesnists, etc you
are going to make this census, and yet ysu do not
nemble " will reply to that obectien that France
and have more i'm passbility, ii not more courage,
than they who bring them forward reply, that it is
ridiculous 10 feel any concern about few votes
which are thrown away on nsmes of men who h ave
lost their quality as citizens say, declare that
these men will not pres MT themselves What, gentle
men, do you not believe that those who reside n
foreign iand would consider It as an abdication of
their divine right II they were to come aud pat for
ward pdidaeshjp Of fsw yearea precarious can
didatetbp? (iear, hear aud loud interruption J
What! that government. which had all the means of
power, and which rather fell of itself than was
thrown would endeavor to return at the end of ST
months, concealed in baoting urn No the thi nv
is impossible (Applause)
A VOICE FROM LEFr-And Bonapartel
M. DE Mountaineering If that is impossible with
regard to the two dynasties which have just alluded
TO- Is 1t not equally so for another (Hear For since
you declare that supposition ridiculous and mpossbs
Tor Ihote two dynasties, you must therefore imagine
that there is some other left. will rase the secret
veil which falls over the minds of the Assembly an
OF the country will do it with all the reserve due to
honorable gentlemen who sit in this Assembly and
with the fra which to the greate,t OF pub
lie interests At another period, when we onsidered
there was something incom patibe bel the fo
ton Of the Repubnc and it's possible establish me t.
and certain names whose only crime, be it
is our glory (PrOloDged agitation, and cries of Hear
hear.'D beg tho Assembly to abstain fro IN thoss in.
discourfe of speaker but derange his ideas and ex
pose him to things less worthy the of the
Assembly he is addressing repeat, when thought
That certain persons, whose only peril whose ONLY
crime is reflection of glory, danger for the re-
public. proposed myself from this trbune not a n ct
OF severity for could never be guilty of such thing
put post ponement OF some months before restoring
To those individuals the complete enjoy of their
rights You decided other wsse, aud bowed before
your viii But what occupies all minds is the fe,r that
the 1anatieism OF certain men may mistake duty,
and attaching themselves to the heirs- do not saw Of
otbsr persona glory for glory is matter to which
lationshp gives no right but to that fame which car
RES away 50 easily nation like ourG-may create what
you and What myself look on as a danger Is such
danger real! cannot say. is give to me more
than to you to lit up the veil of the future but per-
NIT me TO say that convinced that the heirs of
whom speak do not think Of any attempt at usurpa-
ton; they have declared it themselves this tribu
and believe their word, as honest men No they
have no thought of that kind but them there
are groups OF men, such al ways ready to utter
atoat supposed ambitions, and who would be- dispoced
to turn 10 the profit of bad passions the greatest of our
glories. But say that these men would Aud them.
selves mistaken. To effect 18th Brumaire two
things are necessary-long years of terror behind
and in prospect tho victories of Marengo and of the
Pyramids. Loud applause But at present there Ia
neither one nor the other Hear hear1 1,he real
danger Of the republic Of February is its passars
through the perilous reaux which follows all revolu
lions will not affirm tha' France is not republican;
am perfectly convinced and will analyse the mat
ter before you one day. If you permit that France
Is mot yet blican by her habits if she is still
narchca by Ter vices che is republican by her ideas
lMovemtnt) Think of the monarchy falling to places
before tribune not lar distant from that in which
now speak, think of the enthusiasm of the people sa
luopg the ma2pidcence of the inaugur alton of the
republic, which cost neither n regret nor a dron of
blood. and which brought with il 80 MANY bones 70
Wit tha clio
maturity which elect great things in life That nau.
grrstion captivated all hearts md ii brought to this
tribune the confidential decar atoms of the heads of
The great monarchical parties you would be
a. am that at that great period at which elevate
vas In all minds but single sentiment-a 81 ncere
10y al and complete acceptance of the republic Pro
lotged movement) But for some months back all
mat feeling has ehangedthe universal conide n.
iISt felt has been changed into distrust-into kind
If djsafectop. Whence arose tat change, The
days Of May and Of June, the embarrassment of our
financial crisis. the general distress the dcnties of
the situation all served to bring Il about Every
contributed to itsome wished to exa9gera.e their
publican zsato carry II too far others said to tho
people 50 Behold, the republic ia the subversoo of
family lies and property-it is calumny and yiosn
pursuing the best citizens by their denuncations -
From department. to department from country
district to another these declarations were made and
thus 1t was by ca'umnous assertions that all thu
SLASH was cooled all affection for the republic essened
And IL in such state Of things that are recon.
Int nded to declare to this country in SO great pro
portion set against the republic that we deprive il of
thesxercse Of its sovereignty that we It from
its own republic, for thirty four years the nine
tenths of the electors We're banished under the
monarchy! II wanted to discredit the republic.
could not invent anything that could prove more fatal
to it but If wanted to draw back to it the heart of
choose, yourself, amongst your fellow citizens him
who inspires you with most con adence he will not
be your master, but he will be your highest personi
fcstionyour head, your moderator, the regulator of
your republican institutions, the guardian of your
honor, and your fortunes 1t has been said that we
want to place the functions of Preside mt too high
hat NJ he Aosa,
bly,. for my part maintain that the President nomi.
mated by the Assembly would not be anything else than
part OF the Assembly and not dstin and
that the existence Of such power would still more tend
TO weaken the respect people for the
-universai suffrage alone can give it strength. When
universal suffrage nominatts q president what else ia
IT than that each citizen strips himself individually of
his sovereignty to invest with not man. but strong
government Now look at the other system that of NJ
tlocon Were that adopted the president place of
ssuipg into the open day from the urn of the people
would come forth in the midst of the Assembly by a
majority OF 20 or 30, or even votes (Seusatiop)
say that probably he would be elected BY some petty
majority his name would be inserted the next day in
what would hsppen' Envy would come forward, and
seek out the reason Of each of your votes You II
would say to one you voted for the President because
you are his relative and because you want to
d2e yourself by his means" "You," It would sa to
another gave him yeur vote because you are his par.
t'cular friend and you imsgne that his high positiou
will cast dclaf on yourself "You il would ssv to
third "voted for him because you wanted embassy
loud murmurs, Interruption
ne CentleuHn mere suspen deu his remarks
for two or three minutes whilst iusres were being
let down from the ceiling.
NJ III IAMAh1.NE went on. was remarking that
the vote OF the Assembly would excite suspicion !
believe firmly In the ptbiity of the mass of the
citizens and on the ether and, have doubs that
unworthy mot would be attributed the me beers
OF the Assembly Would not that consideration, were
it the only one be powerful extenuaop of the arzu
ioeuts Of the parsans in favor OF the nomination BY
tie Assembly? Ii has been objected that President
,manatng fiom the popular suffrage might become the
fouI der OF tyranny What you speak Of the excess
oftitensth in an executive power which succeeds to
an overturned throne! Who would even dare to con
not SIC that in giving to each citizen the right t.
cboo his head you give him AZ the time the risb
to Judge and to punish (Hear, hear.) nov stop,
gentlemen, net because have exhausted the rirs OF
cone dsrution' which had 10 bring forward In support
81 the opinion defend, bu, because the clock warns
me 10 ctme 10 - close stop therefore declaring 20
you tbrt ZOE my pnt. have connGe ia our replb.
nc n tie rights which II has given TO all citizens and
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