The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-16
From the Liverpool Journal, March 95 ]


whit the Times hesitated to impehch, the Chro-
ncie, In leaders attributed to the Hon. Mr.
Smythe, M + openly condemns. The provin
cal papers, which have no ideas of their own,
cho the metropolitan press. and the general dis
like loses none of its force by the conduct OF the
French wcrkmen In reference to our countrymen
various!y employed In Paris and the provinces
Again, the financial state OF France bodss no
good Difficulties of a physical nature could be
surmounted by energy-resou'ion would enforce
justice; but debts cannot be paid without money
The evils resulting fro this state OF things are
all attributed to the PROVISIONAL government; and,
guided by many precedents, the opinion gains
ground that anarchy is inevitable, aad that
France will have again TO seek repose In dc
tator or a citizen king.
The provisional government have not in all
things acted with immaculate wisdom; but they
have, nevertheless, not deserved al the censure
cast upon them by those who survey their con-
duct from false point of view. We should re-
collect the circumstances which called them to
office, and which continued to surround them;
and, estimated In reference to their difficulties,
it is surprising how much they have accomplish
Their frst duty was to restore order and
preserve it-their next, to give strength to
their temporary administration. They achieved
the fret by concessions to the work people, and
for their mode of doing it they are much blamed.
The principles OF M. Louis Blanc are sufficient
iy faulty but the provisional government did
wisely In providing the hungry with food or
work. 1t was what our own government did
last year in Ireland, SO essential to order; what
is done every day in England, and what is due
everywhere to policy aud humanity. The diff
cultIes are great already In Paris they would
be greatly increased if thousands of starving
laborers crowded the streets OF the metropolis.
There is no charge OF Partially made against
the provisional government; but, at the same
tine, they have done wrong In using the lnfiu-
ence of their office for electioneering purposes.
and the SIN is not diminished by the suspicion
that the same thing has often been done nearer
home, and very openly too. The financial crisis
al yAplr- nNyIr tra hInpa tho
rty, Rothschid, it is not even the to0rk of the
vointion, for the commercial en,bGrrassmsnts be-
tonged to period antecsdent to FEB. the 24th
The mode OF meeting the monetary difficulty
may not have been the best, but their efforts have
been great; and what other mode would have
been better? Would M Guizot have done any
thing more judicious? The mercantile instinct
is beyond the control Of government; tor al
Astounding In rich, wise and patriotic men-yet
we, too, have had panic, AID tolerably smart
one.
Considering the emergency, the provisional
government nave been, on the whole, discreet
and moderate. They have committed faults, for
they are human but SO lar they have gained the
respect of other States, and seem to enjoy the
confidence of France. To Ignorance and preju-
dice they have been obliged to make cOnces-
sions,-it is often the duty OF government to do
SO /; but they have done all they could well do TO
ed. The people themselves now see the folly OF
ejectlng foreign workmen-particularly English
artisans; for the injustice and inhospitaity
alarmed the wealthy strangers, who also left
them, and in losing them the sradesmen and
mechanics lost their best customers,
1t Ia not only possible, but very probable, that
the present men will be speedily elected from
Office there may even be another Smuete,-one
or moro cOnvusions-which heaven avert-but
the republic is eternal. The time tor dictatorship
Is past, aud a monarchy 10 impossible, Tor France
cannot furnish the elements of a court The or
naments of royalty are wanted; there are ne
| aria hereditary titles RnnaDarta S.
serted "that the destruction OF the aristOcracy
had proved fatal to all subsequent efforts for es
tabllshing a constitutional monarchy In France.
The revolution had attempted the solution OF .
problem, az impossible as the direction OF bal.
looms. An aristocracy is the true support OF
the throne its moderator, its lever, its fulcrum.
The State without 1t Is vessel without rudder;
a balloon In the air."
From the Liverpool Mail, March 25.I
The revolution IN Paris Is advancing towards
con6scation, ruin, misery, and bloodshed, with
more rapid strides than we anticipated The
fruit and the result of this lawless triumph, OF
brute force, and blackgaardism, over property
and social order-over justice, law, investments,
the rights OF foreigners, and the saving OF the
foreigners, and the savings OF the aboring classes
entered, at the earliest moment, into our caicu.
lations, and with positive certainty. But we ad.
init that we have been deceived by the velocity
of the movement. So much sooner, therefore,
will the bloodshed begin and the tragedy end.
The National Guards of Paris, composed of the
shopkeepers and petty tradesmen OF Paris, whose
wives do the work OF buying and selling, while
their military snobs of husbands smoke, gamble,
and stroll In the sunshine, were the instruments
by which the monarchy was cyerthrown, and
republic proclaimed This scme municipal guard
these valiant shOpkecpers-are themselves the
first victims OF their own aggressive and revolu-
tiOnary acts. Place them collectively In review,
and they do not, upon strict Investigation, appear
10 possess more brains IN IN nature mas conferred
upon rabbits. They first expelled from Paris
their best customers-the English. Their ma
- IN led credit q nd
estates. This was another blind aud insane blow
at their wn interests as dealers, retailers, and
tradesmen. Having inundated national credit
al the shrine of patriotism or prohgacy, ideal
liberty or robbery, (the terms are syhonymous,)
they found themselves In the position Ut sense
less and unpitied beggars. Ia this their hour OF
imaginary sple ndor, glorying in the calamity
they had caused, rejoicing In the gsudy at,rac.
tons of the republican institutions they had
founded, they were suddenly assalled by u new
class OF competitors for rcnown.
These were the subordinate journeymen-the
artlficers, and aborers, and porters, and cabmen,
beggars, plckpockets, and thieves, of the most
debauched city In all Europe. These black.
guards, In the superlative degree, rose en- masse
against the hrst revolutionary body, the national,
or rather, to make their position more IntellIgi-
BILE to an EngIshman, the municipal soldiery.
The rabble have consequently overpowered, de-
clmated, and virtually annihilated the National
Guards!
This Is just punishment. There is in this sud-
den transition an interposltIon OF that divine
power which makes man mad for reasons far be-
yond our comprehension. The snopk-eplng and
trading classes of Paris now in the hands OF
the mob-of the lawless--the desperot.-the
guilty-the spawn of the prisoas--ihe mad, the
vile, the Infamous, the lowest, the drtisst, aud
morally the most repulsive, execrabe, and most
abhorrent Of the conaiHe OF Paris.
In this, and we may say it, we hope. with due
reverence, that we see finger pointing 10 the
everlasting letters of the law-he who does in
Justice shall perish, and all the people shall say
Amenv'
We shall not trouble our readers by calling
their attention to facts, with which they must all
be familiar. What has happened in France Will
be fully recorded in our pages. But there is this
70 be considered, VIZ the dssenslons in the pro-
visional cabinet itself, which is composed OF