The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-27
I H E r E 2 u B Ii C.
WASHIN GTON:
TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 81. ls4s

1t is little singular that the high
handed courserecently adoptedb President
BoNApARTE in the abrupt dismissal of his
ministry course which has excited the
alarm and reused the opposition of all the
sincere republicans Of Francois one in
volving precisely those principles and pre-
negatives Of the one-man power, for omit
ting to usurp which, the Union has poured
forth the washy flood of its rancor and OBJ
loquy upon the reputation of President
TAYLOR.
According to M. GAILLARDET, Presi-
dent BoNAPARTE wanted clerks, not min
isters-tools, not Independent, capable
men, in the members Of his cabinet. He
had "borrowed some of his notions of re-
publicanism in this country" probably
from those little episodes in the history of
General JAcKsoN's administration, which
partook more of the arbitrary spirit of the
camp than Of the Difference due from an
Executive officer to men who were his
equals in integrity and ability to consult
the best interests of the country.
Day after day has the Union been
emptying its vials of wrath upon General
TAYLOR, because he has not anticipated
M. BoNAPARTE in selecting a cabinet
who would be the creatures of his indi-
vidual will, instead of calling to his coun-
sci and aid independent gentlemen, with
the intelligence and the spirit to advise
him candidly and wisely. The National,
one Of the ablest and most democratic of
the newspapers of Paris, refers to the re-
cent 6etise of M. BoNApARTE in the fol-
lowing terms: "To carry out his designs,
he must have struments-clerks, not
ministers! Truly he has chosen a set,
on whose docilty he may count. His
{ end and aim betray themselves in every
line of his message. Never-we say it
from the very depths of our conscience
never since the famous proclamations of
Strasbourg and Boulogne-has the i'm
perlal animus been more haughtily, more
decisively foreshadowed in language by
pretender. All is menace to the re-
public in this superb manifesto, in which
{ the personality of M. BoNApARTE, dis
engaging itself from all clouds of consti-
{ tutional scruple, shines forth in all its
eclat. If we might measure energy of
{ action by hardihood of word, tomorrow,
from this manifesto, would issue forth
despotp'
Such is the impression produced upon
the genuine democracy of France by an
act, the omission to carry the spirit of
which into his daily dealings with his
cabinet by President TAYLOR furnishes
topics of endless yituperation and mex
haustible Billingsgate to the foreign organ.
Any man who is not either fool or a
despot, must admit that there are many
questions in which an executive officer is
called upon to take a part, where, in the
nature of things, he cannot have had the
same opportunities Of forming reliable
judgment as some member or members of
his council. Shall he play the impostor or
the braggadocio on such occasions, and
throw the sword of power into the scale
that waited the word of judgment and wis
dom-the result, perhaps, of long and as
siduous investigation directed to the par
ticular end, and which Investigation, no
President, consistently with his other du-
ties, might have the leisure to maker