Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-05-11
REpUBLICANIsM BURLEsQUED.
FROM THE NEW YoaK EXPRESS.

their extrayagances as deriving their ideas and i'm
pressions OF France, and the French Republcansm
OF the day, from the poisoned channels of the
English press; just if we had no intelligent
eountrymen OF our own capable of viewing matters
and things abroad with an impartial Judgment, and
disposition to discriminate honestly between
counterfeit and genuine repubcanisml We are
called "foes of human liberty for example if we
unmask the atrocities and wrongs a wild expert
mental philosophy" or rather series or combi-
nation OF PHILOSOPHERS" is endeavoring to perpe
trate upon the people in the guise of a simulated
solictude for popular freedom. He who does not
throw up his cap and cry out with the ouvriers Of
Paris Uive la Repa5!ique Democratiqae ct So
ciae," il is the fashion to put down apologist
Tor Absolutism and an enemy to Liberty. We
undertake no defence here of our Consul at Paris,
though of all others, perhaps he has been the most
bitterly assailed for casual utterance Of opinions
and sentiments sometimes certainly at variance with
the impressions Of the great mass of his country
men at home, but always in opposition to those Of
the :" Socialist propaganda in this counry-for
that zoe hare noec among as some such organizes
'tion, or organization attempted, there is some
reason for s,sspecting. We had long nourished
the hope that France would retrieve some of the
fatal she made in constructing her temple of
liberty; but, with the significant events of the past
twelve months before US, hope has given way to
despair. Frenchmen in Paris are now burlesquing
republicanism caricaturing it, nothing else. They
are bringing scandal upon the very name Of a Re-
public, and it is this that we, as Americans, are as
indignant as sorry to see for, we the only
Republic in the world, the rest of Europe condemn
ing the excesses and extravagances OF France,
very likely to associate our institutions in some de-
gree with hers. And thus is republicanism made
detestabe the world over, because Of the excesses
of madmen in Paris, the very worst enemies OF
popular liberty though the loudest in its praise,
that can be found any where in the civilized or un-
civilized world. Hear what GEORGE w. KENDALL,
of the New Orleans Pcayune, says of the silly in
consistency of the Partisan people, as demonstrated
in the recent elections. Did ever people so stul-
tify themselves before!
Hundreds, probably thousands Of those who voted for
Carno fda and De Flotte would have turned round ten
minutes afterwards and thrown their ballots in the fer
the return Of kingcra of kind and further than this
they would have hrown their caps the air had the Prince
de Jonve the Count de Chambord, appeared at
The husirgs with the head and at the
TAIL Men who would year send De Foe to the
gaeys and the to send him to the National Assembly,
would DO almost any thing that first came in their heads
AS nobody, we presume, will denounce Mr.. KEN
DALI heartless aristocrat, nor one who derives
all his inspirations from the London journals, we
shall venture to quote another paragraph or two
from one of his late letters to New Orleans, which
give far more vivid and humiliatng picture Of
French politics than ever drawn by the most
prejudiced pen in England
Among those who voted for the ticket Of tie Democratic
Soc!alits weknown keeper Of restaurant, doing
tremendous business on the Bouevards This not only
cast his ballot for Carnot, Vidal, and De Fioe but
made all his cooks and wes do the Since the elec
ton ne is openly accused by many Of his former customers
they have left him nowof having been influenced entirely
by his fears They say that he argued himself in this
If the Reds get the upper hand, and the threats Of pill
lage made openly by some Of the rabd spirits
ried out they will respect my establishment ia general
On tho hand tho
ticket ds shall be where have ben and shall
my usual Of custom In this way, they contend,
ne reasoned with himself and his is that OF hundreds
10 such lengths do they carry party sp just now in France
If it is not species Of Reign Of Terror then do not
know what cali it. The doing little business nds
himself placed by election, bew hawk and buzzard
If he in favor of Socialism, bis law- order, friends
desert him. if he votes for the later he imaenes that the
first successful eeufe of the enemies of Government will
bring horde of malcontens about his house, and that under
the cries Of La propiett est rO and Mort aur richest
| he will 'ose ALL"
Beautiful system of selEgovernment this It's
a libel on the very name. Imagine such state of
things as above described existing to-day here, in
New ork, and reconcile ii with the existence Of
republican Government or republican People, if
you can. As the Express has been accused in a
certain quarter Of backening the character of the
Socialists elected to represent the Department Of the
Seine in the National Assembly il is but right now
to let Mr.. Kendall be their biographer:
Carnot he says) may De said TO represent political tram
scendentasm, Vidal theoretical communism, and De Flote
practical barricadsm, street murder instruction Car
not who received the highest number Of votes notwthstand
ing his infamous circular issued while member Of the Pro-
vsonal Govenm n probably the honest man on the
list You must recoect that in his circulars in which he
took upon himself to recommend the people Of the De-
partnens how and for whom they should voe he said that
in choosing representatives neither nor
CURED abilities necessary quail catoas fact, ino-
rance and popular passions By him deemed the only
guisites for member of the Constituent assembly repre-
senting the country DISTRICTS Of Ledru Ron and
himself anxious give Paris the ascendency forth their
bulletins and circulars to the Departments in order that
other than stupid ciphers should be returned Vidal the
second the list during the days Of the Provisional Govern
ment species of secretary actoum of Lons Banc
doing his dirty work. but the time living in the clover
found within the garden and palace Of the Luxembourg De
Flotte, the lowest the list, and who received but fw
votes than Fernand Foy, the highest the Union Eec-
ora ticket yet is rank insurreconst He fought the
bacades in June, s4S caught, tried and sentenced
10 be transported to Bell Isle and being among hose am
nestled recently by Louis Napoleon, returned Paris and
deemed strong bring in the of the harri-
cadss Such is the complexion of the ticket recently return
by the electors Of the Seine represent them in the Ma
tional Assembly"
And these are the characters sent to represent
the capital OF France by people who, but a short
while ago, were calling loudly upon the rest of
Europe to initiate the political system they were
founding the ruins of a corrupt monarchy
Going to the galleys for members of the Assem-
bly,! What would be thought here of nominat-
ing committee that would offer the people candi-
date for their suffrages whom they had brought out
OF feon's cell at Sing Sngl And yet the paral-