The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-06-20
STATE OF PARTIEs I'M FRANCE.


In letter from Paris, under date of
May oath, to the Courier des Flats Unas,
M. Gaillardet gives the following clear
statement of the condition Of parties, which
the recent election has developed:
Hardly month since the Moderate party be-
eved itself absolute master in France. II appealed
to the coming elections for the confirmation of Its
triumph and the exclusion of its enemies from
the parliamentary arena. The latter, sharing the
same conviction in regard to their approaching
doom, retarded much as possible the grand test
of the ballot-box. And 10 the hopes Of the one
and the appDehensons of the other have been alike
deceived by the mysterious decree that has gone
thrown one party in France into stupor Of amaze
ment, and another into excess of exuation that
is to say while the result leaves still considerable
majority to those who thought to have ALL it has
placed the minority, who did not hope for any
thing, in position more imposing, more formida.
BILE than ever. In a word, the Montagnard and So
cialist party will count from two hundred and fifty
to three hundred members among the seven hum
bred and fifty, who will compose the next Assem-
bly,. As mere political opposition, this will be Of
less account than that which existed in the last As
sembly, where the Assembly was evidently hostile
to the opinions represented by the ministry but as
a socialist symptom it is much more, because the
actual opposition simply democratic, while that
of the new Assembly will do battle openly under
the flag of Socialism, which now becomes regular
element constitutionally represented in that body,
and on which consequently it will be necessary to
reckon. The struggle must henceforth be between
resented by the National and the Steele has almost
entirely disappeared, crushed as it has been be-
tween two mill-stones-adven progress and
resistance to it the most deadly
PARTY lines must now be more distinctly drawn.
Yesterday and there were people in plenty who
dreamed of return to efee institutions, whether for
the profit of the empire, of the Orleans regency,
of legitimacy. All these dreams on the eve of
being d!ssipated, and they will leave but one secure
ground on which to find asylum and safety-the
ground of the Republic and the Constitution.
"It is there that all the men of order must meet to
abure their resentments and contract alliances to
counterac the fusion of strength which the ranks of
their adversaries have received For some time
Socialism has seen the Mountain coming to its en-
brace-the Mountain by which it was at first ana
thematized; to the Mountain has succeeded the
Rational, which has just shaken hands fraternally
with the Peuple of M. Proudhen. Every question
having but two extremes, France must soon see it.
self divided into two camps: the having property
inscribed on its banner, and the other Socialism;
which last is merely the antecedent of Communism.
The future lying thus before us, it would be as
great fault to let such men as Cavaignac, Lamori-
ciere, and Nj. Dufaure, seperate from the camp of
order, as it would be greatly criminal in them to
fuse to enter it, If this sacred alliance Of all the
men of sincerity and of progress can be accom-
pshed its mission may be briefly stated 1t must
resolutey take the initiative in all possible, all
cessary reforms. Ii is with their own weapons
that the Socialists must be resisted; and they must
be deprived of their assumptions the exclusive
defenders of the popular classes"