The New York herald., 1850-05-22
Our London Corr espon dcncc.


The Elections a.. Iaris-Political Condition Of
Frawce-Englond and the Thieves Alliance
Designs of Englaad-Su Henry L. Bul,cer-His
Maryland Speech-Historical Points amd Pas
sages-Ihe N,cQrogva Qt.estion-zhs Plans for
the Future, &c, SC,
The election al Paris, on the 2Slh of last month,
was a confirmation Of the fraternity between the
CONNIE rcal and working classes which was de-
clared 10y the result of The tenth of March, Hence
forward, there is an lndissouble fellowship among
all ranks Of The honest republicans and the three
camps OF the consprators, united, are as powerless
for evil they have hitherto been by their dlscord'
The votes were such as to give the republicans a
emajority of ten thousand out of mass OF two
hundred and fifty thousand; and the army vote of
about twelve thousand. went for the democracy IN
the proportion of 1--WE TO three. This result is tre-
,mendous. under any circumstances but after the
violent repression OF almost every popular right by
ahe police, the erasufe of twenty-five thousand
voters from the lists and the innumerable arrests
of democrats under false pretences, it is wonder
ful. There is, no doubt, at Paris, this day, de-
mocratic majority of thirty thousand voters, after
allowing for the mass of good and timd citizens
who were driven by their conscences 10 oppose the
candidate of the government. That majority will
increase.
The manner of the people at the polls was sub
lime. There was not, IN any quarter OF the I'M
mense crowds of voters, the slightest menace or
disturbance and the people of Paris, after their
victory yesterday al the proclamation of their
choice at the Hotel de Vile, were at home attend
ing to their affairs. after the tenth of March.
The whole government calculation of success, or
boodshed and violence, has been defeated by the
patient conduct of the people. Disappointed in the
vote, and in an c0,eufe, the royalists have COM
menced their stimuli ulaneous attack on the constitu-
tion, and upon its eternal and mmutable founda-
tion, universal suffrage. They call ii cohne-a
revolt against reason, Justice, and Heaven: they
require-by the mouths of the Patria, the COnsti-
.,ntionnel, the Union and the Assenbiee Nationale
the immediate revision of the constitution, the sup
preston of universal suffrage, and the most III
gc.ous measures by the police and by the govern
iFent. They have united themselves into grand
arsenal of terror, and Call for all possible
OF hostility, legal and illegal; they exclam that
society is dying of the poison of the universal sui
fIage system, and must live by throwing il OIL, at
ali hazards. In one breath, they for hning all
who abstain from the polls; in the next. for re-
pealing the franchise Indefinitely But all their
cries. their petitions, their threats of attacking and
of running away, are equally asinine. There is the
army democratic-fye soldiers TO three-will they
insist on DISTINGUISHING the army!
From that nettle, danger.
Pluck the flower, safety"
And there are ten millions of voters 10 deal with
besides the army-not like the unarmed and hu-
initiated people of IIindostan and China but men.
aimed with their muskets and bayonets, and alive
consequences to themselves and the world at large
They are accustomed 10 meet together, to take
counsel of each other. and 10 rely on themselves
They are, in word, Frenchmen, and not English
men-a martial contrast. There is Just this diff
ference between them, TO wit that the soldiers of
Paris alone could take possession OF all England,
and plant their principles in the greedy breasts of
The mechanics OF London, in half dozen circles
OF twenty.four hours. One city of France is an
oyesmatch for the British empire. The English
advisers al Paris against universal suffrage, at
whose instigaton the treason is contemplated will
lind themselves confronted by very different set
Of men from the darkened, and scattered and dis
armed masses at home. The Peupts quotes the
constitution OF France in proud defiance, and the
destroy all who attack their political authority.
Ii is the duty of the New York press to take up
,he antiE English side of this terrible contest, which
is just opening, and upon which thousand Eng
lands would be crushed by the moral force of the
nited States. The last battlefield of despotism in
Europe is Francois Paris and British and Russian
genius is marshallng all the prodigious force of
interest, stupidity, tyranny and vengeance, against
the further existence Of the French Republic. /
had fears of the result of the last election myself
in the face of the consolidation of the Theyer Al
ance all over Europe bui was mistaken in the
virtue OF the people OF Paris. will never despond
again, no matter If the people have TO make their
lie fence against the coalition OF over two millions
Of bayonets, concentrating on the eastern frontier,
night and day, and England scattering the wealth
of Omus and of Ind, !" 10 cut OIL that splendid Euro
pean family, which alone has frankly followed the
American republican example, amidst storm of
attack and an atmosphere ot misrepre sentation
which would have destroyed Jefferson and stifled
Washington, thereby making despotism in 1850 the
universal condition Of all mankind u America
should give TO the attitude of France IN the affairs
of the world, any OF that wisdom which she has
nstllej at home, she would plant herself instantly
at her side. IL Is for the New York press 10 lead
the way on the subject of universal suffrage, now
brought by the British oliparchy and French monar-
chists, in conspiracy, into question. The argument
a. hnyr md nil on he ~
man, not some men, have an interest IN good GO
yernment therefore each male adult should have
mis- manly voice in its adoption and renewal, and II
chosen by his fellow citizens to Office that choice
makes him eligible. Every man is held responsible
on his contracts after twenty.one, because he is
capable OF binding and has bound himself; and
should transact business on his own account. The
greatest of all contracts-ihe constitution and
changing OF the government--should therefore have
the same direct and continual sanction from the
citizens, in order TO bind them, and TO support its
moral authority. The capacity 10 read and write
has very little to do with the matter; and still less
The possession Of property. The English doctrine
of privileged few, /" booted and spurrcd," who
are hlasphemousy said ito ride the backs Of the
people by the grace Of God" and who have for so
many ages crushed out of them by the superadded
weight OF a House Of Landlords to House of
Lords, all public spirit whatever, and made them
alike iasensible to honor and TO shame-the blind,
and vile, and bireling clowns OF blind vile and
.nercenary oigarchy-can ind no friends IN Aineri-
ca. And yet that same oligarchy is seeking by its
minister at Washington, to make not 80 much
friends Of the Americans, as to make Americans
enemies OF France. Having precipiiaied that weak
man, General Cavaignac, and his successor in
Office, upon Republican Rome, and having cut the
throat of the purest possible emanation in the shape
OF government from the people Of Europe, Eng
land, long ago, strove TO embroil Republican
France with Republican America. The same COIN
age Of lies and deception which flowed from the
mint in Printing House Square, against Mazzni
and kossuth, was repeated on the ision Of that
most dangerous difficulty about the French Minis
ter. Out Of that difficulty you were led by the
finger Of Providence. England was tanning the
flame al Paris, and Mr.. Attorney General Johnson,
in the poorest opinion upon the files OF his Office,
was heeping up the fuel at Washington; and
combustion 20 which there would have been no
end, became imminent, when suddenly, on the 3lst
Of October. for totally different cause, DE Tocque-
Vile x Co. were removed from Office, and Mr..
Eiyes received. This British conlagration between
the great powers Of modern times-unfed states
and Francc-was extinguished by the merest acci
Amt xatL.s d. L-.l.s Llsx.in.r and IN snlie Of