New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-14


De Flotte spoke the next day, briefly bu
with the same calmness and moderation o
tone which marked his debut in the Assem-
bly,. Even his enemies have been unable
TO refuse their admiration to the perfec
propriety Of his manner. lie denied tina
lis election was due to any real or supposed
/ connection between himself and the barri
cades Of June. !. was due to the fact tba
the rights Of citizens and the guarantees o.
the Constitution had been long kept sug
/ pended, and the people had sent him there a:
aprotection against that wrong. The ruler.
had put Paris under state Of siege contrary
to the Constitution; they had shut up the
Clubs contrary to the Constitution; they
had suppressed newspapers contrary to the
Constitution, and hence his election. And
now they were proposing to 60 further in
the same path. They were thus only fore
ing the country into the arms Of the Social
ists. Public opinion was already opposed to
the Government, and they were driving that
opposition to extremity. The more they
struggled in this direction the more power
full would become the party they were seek
ing to destroy. Thus they would perpetu-
ally agitate the unhappy country by forcing
it from one extreme to the other and rend-
ering every medium course impossible.
NJ. Lamartine's was an eloquent and ele-
waited defense Of the principle of universal
suffrage. In concluding it he spoke Of
Monk, the restorer of Charles H., who just
now is held up as a sort of ideal by the VIC
lent French royalists, as the most infamous
Of traitors. Then he told the majority that
they were seeking at great distance the
remedy which was near them. That rene.
dy was where no Government and no MAORI
ty had yet thought of looking for it. Were
he the majority he would try it as a new in
vention. lie would have the Government
and the ruling party cease to direct their eyes
toward the Tuileries and turn them toward
the modest abode of Washington, toward
Mount Vernon, where the first President of
the American Republic steadily refused the
offer Of prolonged power, and preferred
to a precarious authority the liberty Of
o whole nation and immortality for his
own name. He concluded with an ardent
appeal to the people not to protest against
the act Of the Assembly by using the fatal
right Of instruction. Let them attempt no
new revolutions let them employ other
rights which alone were enough for their
purpose, namely, the justice Of their cause
and patience, for thus they would gain
public opinion and time, the ever tri-
umphant elements Of the cause of ma
tons And thus at last they could say
to those detestable friends Of evil who seemed
necessarily bent by new Entertainments and
new tyranny on tempting the wisdom of
the people and taking liberty in open Of
Tense; You have invoked the tempest, but,
wiser than you, the tempest has refused to
come
This speech, and especially its conclusion,
was received with loud applause from the
Democratic side Of the Chamber. The So
calist Democrats of France are evidently
resolved to submit to this new law with
out appealing to any force beside the
justice Of their cause and the sure rejection
Of public opinion. They do not despair yet
Of an ultimate legal triumph. We rejoice
that this is their conviction for, not only
do they exhibit anew the moderation which
distinguished them in the great days Of
February, but they enlist on their side all
that there is in the nation Of sincerity, at
taehment to the republic, and faith in the fu-
ture. We do not feel sure that their expert
ment will be successful, and that they will
not yet be absolutely compelled to resort to
revolutionary measures. Still we trust that
they may not be brought to that, for if the
storm is once Embossed, who can measure
the ferceness Of its ravages or the depth of
that just vengeance it will be called to exc
cute
1t is not necessary to say that the
speeches above referred to have not been the
only noteworthy ones made in the Assembly
during the week. Messrs. Jules Favre,
Grevy, Berger, Lamoriciere and Leon Eau
cher, have also given proofs of talent in sup
port of their opinions. Indeed few parlia-
mentary discussions have been more remark
able for ability than that upon this law. In
one respect our Congress might learn a val
liable lesson from the French Legislature;
in the latter speech for Buncombe is a
thing unknown.
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