Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-06-08


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Pants, May 10, ls49.
Messrs. Greely e. MeEirdth:
II will be perfect miracle if we reach the
day of the election without passing through
a new phase of the revolution which leads
us toward complete renovation of the old
social order Of Europe. Hardly had wees
capped from the imminent peris growing but
of the hindrances put in the way of electoral
meetings and the prosecutions inflicted on
those soldiers who had accepted nomina-
tions to the Assembly, when the deplorable
events of Italy, and the still more deplorable
conduct of the President and his ministers,
came to plunge us into a crisis whose issue
no man can foretell. You know what cha
racter my last letter gave to our expedition
in Italy. The Question is now more com
plicated than eVef; for il is indisputable that
our Government has sent the bahRer of the
French Republic against the Roman Repub-
lie. France and England wish, it is said,
to re~establish the Pope on the condition
that he shall grant liberal Constitution to
his peopIe. But the Pope, with Austria and
with the Bourbons of Spain. and Naples to
back him, means to remain al absolute
sovereign, holding his Monarchy by the
grace Of God alone. He does not wish for
a French Intervention, even though TO be
without il should cost him his royal crown.
At tie same time Tho Roman Republic RI
SEES in indignation and rePels Tie French
flag appearing at Rome to overthrow the
very institution Of which France herself has
LII al IL
TO all this add the first check of our arms,
French blood flowing on barbados raised
by the aid of our relugeesj the conduct of
our Ministers, who presented for three days
to conceal news of so grave import, and who
resista reprimand of their policy proclaimed
by 32S votes in the National Assembly; the
conduct of the President, who braves the
Assembly by letter Of the true imperial
flavor TO Gen. Oudinot; the agitation and
anger Of the people the open struggle be-
tween men and officers in the army, which
daily takes stronger ground in fav0r of So
cialism, and you have faint idea of The
threatening situation Of France at this mo.
msnt.
One thing and one only might now save
the President for few weeks, perhaps for
few months, and this does not depend on
him. Should the revolution, alarmed at the
immense distance al which il is in advance
of the tone Of feeling in the departments and
among the rural population, voluntarily adj
journ itself, and instead of acting wait and
watch the dread day of the collision might
be postponed to perhaps better season.
The Impeachment Of the Preside lit has
hann dor, h1y III.
ton was supported by the signatures of a
great number Of Representatives. The
National and the Friends of the Const-
tuition" have decided to support it; great
reaction in favor Of the Republic has also
taken place in tho ranks of the National
Guard. The Ministry, which is evidently
Withdrawing from the policy it pursued a
few days ago, asked yesterday that the dis
Cussion then TO come up should be post
poned "a hours. 1t is~repored that the
Ministers already have in their possession
a telegraph dispatch announcing the entry
of the French at Rome. Such fact would
oDly aggravate its position. 1t is not likely
that it can outlive the check it has already
received. TIE course Of Cavanac and Isa-
moriciere in voting on the order OF the day,
which condemned the Ministry, is fact of
no Sigh! importance.
The Republic is prepared for new rev.
olution, Louis Napoleon, abandohed by all,
is prepared to strike blow for the imperial
throne. Ii is no longer doubtful that this is
his intention and his obstinacy and the au-
dacity of his spirit impeI him to a speedy
essay toward its lufllment. Lethm do so,
and at that moment the struggle will become
decisive, and decisive against him. All the
causes which have destroyed his personal
reputation are now combined together. The
suspicious relative to his birth, which the
other day | scare dared hint TO you, have
become the theme Of public controversy.
Yesterday they served as the text of an ar
iicls in tho People, of which $4,000 were
sold. Pierre Bonaparte and Napoleon b.
naparte, (sons of Jerome both voted in fa>
vor of the order of the day on the 7th
The hostility Of Napoleon Bonaparle ass
sumes more and more the aspect of rival
ry. In this contest the Sbclalst democracy
will come in TO gain great advantages.