The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-08-05

man unaccuslomed To w or whether they
are Idle, it is a deception Of tie Govern
ment topay for works which ans not done
and moreover, dangerous encouragement
70 idlerless. Some other means must BE-
found, and have endeavored 10 find it.
think even il may produce soma useful re
suits. AS. however, we cannot make any
certain promises. think We miy express
the eannest desire Of the Stale, and guard
ourselves against any positive engagement.
10 make any positive engagement as 10 the
right OF employment is an imprudence, a
false principle; in brief, to speak plainly, a
lac thrown in the face Of the people.
Thiers Asvecase- q senate. a'ii p
The Journal Of Commerce publishes q tele-
graphic despatch from Paris, inwhIch we find
the following: s4s /
NJ. Theirs has made anotller speech in
the discussion on tue CsB5;aaicn. fIe is
an advodate for Senate aswell as House
Iof Representatives. lie aigaed that a Re.
publican Government with emily one Cham
Der would have all the harshness and rude
ness OF despotic government. Under a
feeble President there would be that worst
of desPolism, the despotism Of single As
sembly. Under an energetic President,
supported by popular favor. there would be
the despotism of favorite Of the multitude;
and if neither was disposed to yield, there
would BE- death duel between the Presi.
dent and the Assembly, without an inter
mediate body to soften and conciliate the
contest.
A second Assembly discussing. and ever
the decision of the first, would be
liberty itself, it would be examination, re-
Election and discussion He knew, he said,
that every new power fell an instructive
aversion for whatever opposed its will. Ma
poleon could not endure am hereditary Sen
ate; and "Louis Philippe, when in 1880"
said al. Theirs, '1ce proposed 10 him an he
reditaJy peerage, icas as much opposed 10
IL as N. Carol himself" Ii was because
Louis Philippe and the Emperor Napoleon
knew well that a second Assembly, il en-
dowed with hereditaryship, would become
the most resisting of all bodits. Its, how
ever, to be understood thai if hereditaryship
be the principle Of peerage, election must
be the principle Of a Senate in a Repub-
Iic."
After this singular revelation, Tor il was
that the peerage Cor life was forced
upon Louis Philippe, NJ. Theirs proceeded
10 argue that resistance saved Governments
instead OF causing their fall. Neither
Charles " nor Louis Philippe had fallen
because Of their having been prevented to !
10 what they willed--they had fallen be.
cause they had not been sufficiently power
Iully c0nuadicted.
Ii The exorbitant temerity OF Napoleon,
he retrograde spirit Of Charles Y, or the
excessive prudence Of Louis Philippe, who
would compress the spirit OF liberalism IN |
IL a. hslrsi in he hand--if sl,ese dispositions |
rad been properly checked, neither the one
nor the other would have met with catas- |
rophes. He would therefore propose that |
he new sovereign power--that Of the peo-
be obliged to reflect, and not
allowed to execute its wishes or follow its |
FANTASIES at the moment Of their concep.
ion. Nj. Theirs dwelt much upon the ex-
nipple Of the United States, where the Sen.
lite had done so much good. and he declar.
d that he had been urged by several emf
lent Americans, his personal friends, to
'ome forward and urge the absolute necessi.
y Of two Chambers. if they would really
orm an enduring Republic.