Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-12-07

10 the hepuDlic from an adjournment OF
this question. Loud cries from all
parts of the house greeted the speaker
Of, "there is not-there' is not") All,
you do not believe it. 1t is my opinion
allow me, at least, to express it. Am
here clothed with the simple authority
Of representative Do you believe
that appear before you as one indiffer-
ent to power? No, do not affect for
the high Office you have been pleased to
call me TO, an indifference which you
would not believe, but it is because |
estimate tit is because estimate that
position as The greatest honor you could
bestow upon man, that | should not
continue in it one moment, il | believed
that my acts while there, wero injurious
10 the interests of my country, or injur-
ed the future fortunes Of the Republic.
again declare, IL the rucsaguments
are brought forward, | shall answer them.
This is nota personal question-it will
not make the government feel more or
less strong, or more or less week--it is
not at all personal question-it is a
question inlrinsically important. My
own secret, my most deep-rooted con.
viction is, tina, if you delay beyond the
earliest practicable moment the day for
the solemn decision we ask you now TO
appoint, you will seriously compromit
the future aye the existence of the re-
public.
This earnest appeal of General Cav
agnac, supported by his official position,
decided the house, as have said. The
result of the ballot after this debate may
be adduced as one of the few instances
Of the mind of an Assembly being chang
ed by speech, and this result wrought,
too, by one who is no protessed orator.
Although Count Mole, M. Dupin, and
Odllon Barrot, spoke in this debate, and
they are all of them distinguished as or
ators, none of them produced the pow
erful effect Of General Cavaignac, whose
life has been spent on the plains Of AT
RIGA, while his colleagues just mentioned
have made persuasion, have made elo-
quence, the study of their lives. The
other articles of the decree, all of which
have been adopted, order that every cit
izen who had the right of voting for
the representatives of the National As
sembly shall have the right of voting for
the President of the Republic that they
shall vote at the chief place of the can
Ton, or at such other place as the local
authorities shall designate the vote
shall be by ballot, and no ballot shall be
received unless it is of white paper
All soldiers shall vote the same day with
other citizens, at the chief place Of the
canton where they shall be stationed, and
the Mayor of the canton shall divide
them into electoral sections. The quail
fications requisite in the candidate for
President are, French birth, he must be
over 80 years old, and must never have
lost his quality of French citizenship
The scrutiny of the polls will be made
in the chief place of every canton, and
in each section without the chief place
The result of the first scrutiny shall be
sent with the proces-uerbaur TO the chie
place of the department, where the re-
. turns will he made known. The results
of these 46 returns will, with a copy o.
; the different proces-uerbaur, be sent to g
commission Of thirty members of the
) National Assembly to be appointed by
tina, body, who will proceed to fina
| and definite scrutiny. The successful
candidate must receive majority of the
votes cast, and must have received al
lenst two millions of votes. If none oil
the candidates receive majority of the
, votes nor two millions of the votes, the
election shall be made by the National
: Assembly from among those five candi.
ddates who shall have obtained the
: greatest number of votes. The polls
J will remain open the 10Th and lIth Of
December. We doubt if the result OF
, the elc ction of President can be known
in Paris before the goth of December, il
the various acquisitions of the law are
, complied with, us they must be.
, The day of the vote on the first arti
| Gle of the decree providing for the elcc
lion of President, Prince Louis Napole'
: on Bonaparte read speech from the tri'
, bune, defending himself from the charg
9 es made against him of being too ambl'
tious, and of desiring the Presidency as
l the first step towards an imperial throne
r Prince Louis Napoleon's speech was
awkwardly delivered, and he labored un'
der great embarrassment it was fail
: ure. The laugh is against the Prince
t from all sides of the House. The rep
resentalives boot at the idea OF that en-
: barrassed man in the tribune having any
talent but they forget that one OF their
best debaters-he who is listened to with
more attention than any other speaker
y in their chamber, was ridiculed and sat
: irized but yesterday-that when Thiers
took the tribune, the Chamber of Dep
, uties was vacated by the members. No
one knows but those who have tried, the
: great difference between addressing
, "men and cabbages" Gas French ora
, tor observed) the difficulty OF speaking