New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-20
ern sphyn1 to be found 10 absolute liberty Of dis


The absolute liberty Of human personality unde
!sese three iorms ,-universsi suffrage, free trade
liberty OF thought, Of speech. and of writing,-suc
are the negative ideas which the human mind mus
exhaust before coming to clear day lighs toward IN
future do not know that the illusion OF the it
erty OF speech and Of thought will soon have il
tarn m France. At present. the realization Of thi
third idea IL pushed TO a greater extent Ia Enc
land than in sDy other country and We can alread
perceive that the effect will be to introduce IL
composite anty, Of which the simple unity Of To
sfst power has been the starting point. Ia rel
glon, "a wei as IN politics, and 10 IndGstry, Eng
land is advancing toward the new unity. As Z
France, before attaining absolute Liberty, she Il
SIMPLY delivered over ~ brutal force. The inner
tier OF Nspoleon's name has as yet shown 90 re-
sembance 70 bis ancestor bat IL as pfedlec.ioaio
brutal force. Read The journals Of the processes
moderate party, read the correspondence OIL the
English joumas,-the shame OF this great country
you vii perceive that all their calculations rep
resent reliance on force.
Gen. Changarnier, soldier. the vanqaisher oil
the Bedosins,--here is the only hope, tne nero oi
the European conservatives Some genahrmes IN
addition with sabres OF the best temper, and mus
kets that carry to the creates. distance; here are
ali the resources Of the hero Of the European Con-
seryatves
What Surprises me the most IS that these Euro
pean Cons eryatives believe themselves 20 be
Christians while they have no idea in tneir head
bat that OF brutal force. Force has been i0ehec
teal ever in the hands Of the power which has en-
eloyed il with the most discretion and the most
moderation, the Catholic Papacy. The Catholic
Pspacy has employed force tempered by the Con
fessional and the Catechism, before the human
mind was in possession Of steam and tbs periodical
press. The Catholic Papacy has fallen and rell-
snce is now placed on General OF gendarmes 10
arrest an idea which is the legitimate fruit OF the
human mind after being fructIhed with the Chris
tian spirit for eighteen centuries-an influence
which in itsefis endowed with the most prodigiOus
vitality ever possessed by an idea, and which now
has universal suiirage as a vehicle ia the most ar
dent and exctable nation in the world.
ask II all this is not worthy of pity The cor
respondents OF the English journals, after having
Tor many weeks deceived their readers with the
singular illusion that the election Of NJ Leclerc was
about 10 save Europe, are now trying TO get over
their blpnder as well as they can. They now
demonstrate that If the votes Of the army have
been SOCIALIST it is because certain companies, GER
tain battaiops have been punished. They repre-
sent universal suffrage in the hands OF the soldiers
a. only the means Of reyenging themselves on the
officers for the severity OF discipline. TIE infer.
ence from all this is, tbat it is necessary to modify
the law Of universal suffrage, and above all TO de-
prive the army Of the right 70 use it.
Propositions Of this kind are under discussion in
the bosom Of the Government. II is proposed, as
i hear 10 limit the right of voting to persons %
years old and upwards Three years residence in
the commune 10 be required. The principal advan-
tsge contemplated from restriction of age, is tahyg
the rIgtt 10 vote from a great number OF young
pc<diefs who enter the army at tile age Oh twenty.
In the FIRST place. the age cannot be Emitted TO 25
wears without violating the Constitution which ex
pressly provides that any citizen whohas completed
his one and twentieth year il voter This matter
is not looked at closely enough. 1t would be seen
that all these remedies are worse than the evil
Their sole result will be to render an insurection
possible, and what's still worse, to make it success
fal, while al the present day instruction is impos
aibe, and IL a coup de main, or the commencement
Of an insurecti0n should take place, the attempt
would prove abortive.
citizen who has never enjoyed political rights
10 able to wait, and at all events he has not the
same reason for irritation as he who is deprived Of
them amer having often exercised them, which is
the case at present with all French citizens of the
age Of 81 yeats. Take from them universal suf-
rage they win rise at the first signal and in the
country, where there is no ,bourgeoise, rising Of
the peasants will do the business for the civil
Authorities with blows Of the club As to the sol.
aer if they are deprived Of the right OF suffrage,
they will do what they did in 1880 aud in s4s they
will abstain.
Thus, what said yesterday to some judicious
and earnest men OF this country, whose only fault
Is to allow their eyes TO De bandaged by the strange
personsges who correspond with the English jour
mails in France, the policy OF allthe French and Eng
ksh- French Cons eryatives, from Gen. Changarnier
70 N. Guizot, is reduced to that folly Of the Duke
dAngOueme when in a crisis of the old II evolution
an aid decamp informed him that the troops Of the
GDe refused 10 lire on the people Nv ell, then, let
them fire ON the troops" replied the Dauphin Of
France who thus did credit TO his reputation OF be-
ing stupid as a Goldfish.
IL /. =.
Of all the great measures Of the European reaction
Ii is with this miserable sophism that Guizo. has
maintained his reputation as statesman, aud sue
ceeded in throwing on Louis Philippe al. the respon
nbIhty Of the Revolution OF February. Ii Guizot
and Gen. Bugeaud bad been allowed 10 DO as they
chose, they would shoot down the soldiers who re-
fused to strike on the Esd of Feb. and the 10000
men Of the National Guard who were in the street,
until order was completely restored. 1t was, in.
decd, worth the trouble 10 give the poor Dake
d ABgouleme the reputation of an idiot, and then
rob him Of his grand political expedient, Fire
apon the troops"
Meantime, while Napoleon, Changarnier, Theirs.
AbG, Guizot, and Leon Tandon, are making ready
70 fire on the troops, the way is prepared by two
writers who have made the end Of every cause
which they have meddled with.
You sometimes hear the Assemblee NatRrsel |
Ipoken oE-the organ Of the advanced guard of |
the reaction in France. The editor Of this Journal
and also the Paris Correspondent of the Times is
our Capehque, a great manufacturer OF memories
and histories and oae Of the pensioners of Guizots
secret fund to the AMOUNT of 5000 francs year.
All the noise made IN the world by this paper,
which Ia only bad bookseHlng operation repre-
sents nothing but The useless regrets OF certain
poor writers who ere distressed because they can
no longer draw, upon the scant funds. Capefque
. declaimer whom nobody ever takes seriously |
,ut whom the prpiigates Of diplomacy, of this pro
ound diplomacy which has placed Europe in the
'eautiful condition where you now see her, have |
Ilways used for theirs hominable projects / can |
ssure you that many foreign courts found all their
opes against the 4evoutonists or their ideas IA
orable to new Arrangement of Europe on a new |
evolution in France. Men like Capefque have |
o scruple in becoming the instruments Of such |
rejects. Capefque alone would not be sufficient.
he reaction has Just summoned its great cham
ion 1t is announced that NJ. Grapier de Cas-