The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-05-31


This great event. which took place the fourth day Of
the present month"; is destined, trust, to form an
epoch in history second only importance and in hope
funess to the 4th of July, l776 1t is the assembling Of
between eight and nine hundred-eight hundred and
thirty is we believe, the exact numberof the represent
aves of the French nation deriving their power in the
most direct form from popular election the basis Of
universal suffrage, and welding the whole undivided
public authority of thtywo millions OF people, placed
in the centre of Europe and exercising for centuries
even under their monachical organization, controlling
influence on European affairs. The vast augmentation
of that influence in their present republican organza-
tion-n which, as Lamartine truly observed in his re-
port to the Assembly they behold population of at least
sixty millions in the different States of Europe,
aroused to an active and cordial sympathy with their
democratic views and eengsis at once too obvious to
escape observation and potent to be regarded any
thing less than the most commanding political element at
present existing in the world
The noble resolutions of sympathy and congratua-
ton upon this movement of the French people which
were adopted with unanimous reclamation by our Ma
tional Convention at Baltimore, in order that they might
be transmitted once, through the American minister to
the French Assembly, have brought the democracy of
this country into full and formal relations with the as
sembled repubcanism of France. This cordially OF
mutual interest and response between the two great
publcs of the world the in the strength of its gio
rious manhood and the other radiant with the promise,
though encompassed with the peril of its recent births
spectacle at most cheering and sublime. In the
contest upon which we are entering at home tor the
supremacy of our democratic principles, this consdera
ton will do all that be done by the most suspicious
influences from abroad, to kindle the enthusiasm and
rouse the power of the American democracy.
The leading Eng ish journals received by the last
arrival bring ample reports of the proceedings of the
first days of the session of the French National
Assembly and it is impossible not to admire the wisdom,
the energy and the elevated patriotism which that great
body has thus far displayed The first act OF the AS
sembly the opening of its session, was to receive
from the Provisional Government the resignation OF
their before unlimited authority. We copy from the
London Times of May 9th the following interesting de-
scripton of that scene.
The deputies began to the hall about noon. Very
few the official the white waistcoat Ia
Robespierre, and not appeared with the rcoored
scarf The aspect of the assembly differed little from
of the former Chamber The curriers' had for the mos
part adopted the bourgeois, with the exception OF
member from the department of the Landes who pre-
ented himself in the Bearnsse costume Three clergy
men, amongst whom Able Fourier, the Cure Of
Nantes whose sacked by the mob after his cleo
on dressed in their sontdnes The presence OF only
brated Father Lacodae, whose shaved head and white
robe formed striking with the costume OF the
rest Of the assembly Among the deputies OF the iorme
Chamber present Messrs Odllon Barrot, BIN dc
Bourbon Isambert, Larabit, Suberve, Dupin, st Abin
Luneau Berryer Bouay de la Meurthe, Havm' Uranium