New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-02-27
NETWORK TRIBUNE.


The news from Europe shows that the French
Republic is still at an indie finite remove from
,,sie Of quietnen No specific cools of the fever
and produces that repose which all comfortable
ela.ses Of people 30 much desire. One remedy
siter another 10 tried with high expectations on
the par; oil the consulting doctors, but the patent
gets no better. The prescription now to be APP
ulied is the dissolution OF the Assembly and new
election. This will be no more successful than
the others.
In another place we publish graphic review
NJ the recent exciting occurrences at Paris by one
Of our correspondents there. His sympathes are
evidently on the Government side Of the question
and in Judging of men and events he fails, as We
think, 10 do Justice to the Opposition. His pre-
.entsiion of the matter is, however, as honest as
it's VIVID and interesting: we commend it TO the
consideration Of our readers.
With regard TO the affair Of the Goth Jan. there
is Of course a deal Of exaggeratiOn on both sides
There was, we venture TO say, no conspiracy Of
Red Republicans, and no original intention Of a
corp d'eat on the part Of the Government. Still
there is no doubt that the latter would have been
willing to turn any demonstration Of the people
or any portion Of them 10 the benefit OF these re-
dictionary tendencies Of which, consciously or I'M
consciously, it is the special organ. But the i'm
mediate result of the whole transaction is plain,
namely the definite separation of the strictly Re
publican party from that which really prefers a
mOnarchica and repressive form of government. A
Fictitious union. which for a time was necessity,
is thus destroyed, and the amount Of both ground
Ill -
The year and half just completed may be de
fined as the great period Of Lost Opportunities.
From Louis Philippe to Louis Napoleon the depo-
STORIES OF public power in France have either let
slip many memorable chances Of doing great and
good things or have suffered them TO be perverted
to mischief. The first has had his reward the
last-a man of some phlegmatic benevolence, some
ambition and much mental inehciency, who has
fallen into the hands Of the reacton--will reap
what he sows.
The election of the new Assembly will indicate
the real state Of feeling in the country that Of
the President did not After it is over the reaction
will either give up its hand or play its cards more
boldly according to the result But, as we said,
these who hope for peace and prosperity from 1t
will be disappointed The unrest and uncertainty
will be 40 great as ever. Perhaps this Is partly
owing 10 the French character perhaps partly
to the defects of the Constitution of the Republic
But the great cause is deeper than these. The
uniformed wonder why France cannot be Re.
public after our fashion. The reason is briefly that
France is an old country and the United States
new one What sort of tranquility should W.
have here in New York If one-fifth of our people
lived on two cents day. from public charity, be
heved their condition to be the consequence OF a
monstrous social injustice, which they had right to
reverse by violence, If necessary, and were more
familiar with barricades and musket shots than
with breakfast in the morning In London there
is more and worse poverty than in Paris, but the
sufferers think it is all right and are not fighters
Put the intelligence and courage of the Partisan
people into those ignorant masses on the shores OF
the Thames and you would have an explosion
And at this day, far as the reaction has gone IN
France, and changed are the apparent issues.
the essential question is where it was The Rev
oluton of a. isl revolt OF Labor against what
1t regards the expressions OF Capital, and TIL
that revolt is peacefully settled there is no perma-
nent peace anywhere in the country.