The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-06-27
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fancy.
gave you an account, in a recent letter, Of the
splendor Of the establishment of the ape monarch
Of the Elysee Of his household of one hundred
and eighty-three persons, of his three sumptuous
tables for the different grades of his dependents,
Of his balls, &c A compliment was hazarded to
the financial ability Of the Emperor's nephew.
All IL you only knew what pleasure il gave me
TO find something to compliment In that quondam
London constable But 1t appears he did not de-
serve It, This week, he has asked the Assembly
to grant him salary of-how much, do you
think2 You cannot guess IL in ten. He asks six
hundred francs an hour, OF two hundred and fifty
thousand a month, OF three million six hundred
thousand a year There is modesty for you
An adventurer, who should have been but too
happy to get back to France on any terms who
should have devoted all his life to merit the conf
dence risked in him by the people, insists upon
putting on the airs OF monarch. He forgets
what France does with her monarchs when she
gets tired Of them She shortens them when
they are too treacherous, and shows them to the
frontier when she despises them. This last move
will achieve the ruin Of the popularity of the heir
of the Emperor. He is obstinately bent on ruin
ing himself, though Fortune has seemed SO obsti-
nately bent on saving him He might have been
the founder Of great Republic, but he prefers
trying TO be the least of all monsrcbs. Too weak
to be dangerous, and too corrupt to be hardy,
Providence seems to have nailed him to the pill
lory Of History, IL ctr y eoS,,1cc S5ooce Of
the utter worthlessness of the last of her dynas-
ties, and fix her firmly on democratic basis
IL is reported that the President has given up
all hope of reelection and is determined to
sport it during the rest of his term. The rumor
of the intended presentation of his demand for an
increase of salary was circulated about two hours
before the Minister mounted the tribune. In this
interval, two messengers were despatched to the
Elysee by the chiefs Of the majority, to demand q
delay of the measure They returned with fat
refusal on the part Of the President A worse
moment could not have been selected. His sane
| tion Of the electoral law, and hsdemsnd for mo-
ney, were made almost at the same moment. The
one seems to be the condition of the other. The
demand was referred TO a committee to be chosen
for the purpose in the bureaux. Ii will probably
be accorded The Assembly has already gone too
far in the work of reaction to stop itself on the
inclined plane which slopes towards a monarchy.
Perhaps, last return Of shame will cause re-
sistance 10 this measure. But not among the
seventeen urgYdUes or Leaders, These are doubtless
already pledged to sustain the demand But
Odillon Barrot how can he advocate it2 You
may remember the position of the Prussian Cham
bers, which, after exhausting fattery and COM
yaisance to the King found itself unable to resist
his exactions, which destroyed the Constitution
they nod ysates i. SSiss, :. rs Preach AS
sembly and the President have been sccomplices
in the conspiracy against the People, and are now
powerless to refuse each other anything. -
As there is no stopping in the work of counter
revolution, we may expect the presentation of new
measures of severity. The law against reunions
the law giving to the President tho appointment
of all the mayors of communes the one against the
liberty of the press and others of similar tendency
will no doubt follow hard on the one against suf-
frage. Cup with the steam" is the cry of little
Theirs and his accomplices, as he jumps on the
safety valve to keep it down
There is little local news-none of interest
enough to merit place by the side of the two
great historical events Of the disfranchsement Of
four millions of voters, and the transformation of
the President into an anxious beggar for more
money. These two events | present alone as the
two most striking symptoms of the commencing
moral death Of the reaction party in France, the
most stupendous organization of sel6shness in the
world, with the single exception of your Slave
holding Power. Yours, w.