New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-14
Suppression Of Universal Suffrage in
France.


France.
We say the suppression of Universal Suf-
fragc, for that is the end which the Majority
have in view in the law now under discus
sion in the Legislative Assembly at Paris.
That this measure will be carried through
we continue to believe, though the develop
ments of Ithe last few days proceedings
which have reached us by the Canada, show
that it is not supported with perfect unanim-
ity by the various lotteries which make up the
majority. The extreme Legitimists have pro-
nounced againstit through NJ. de Larocheja.
quelin, who in a speech on May 20, declared
that be should be false to his past life and
his most intimate convictions if he did not
vote against the law. twill be remembered
that he not long since proposed to submit to
the people the question Of what form of gov
ernment they preferred. How many votes
he will carry with him on the final question
is uncertain, probably not enough to affect
very much tho majority still he and his
friends have been calculated on to aid in the
passage Of the law.
On the same day NJ. Vesin, a representa-
tive from the Department of Aveyron, aston
ished his party by warning of danger from
the enactment of the law. lie is a Conserva-
tive or Royalist of such candor and consis-
tency that Immediately after the Revolution
of February he resigned the Office of AttOr-
ney-General, which he then held, and pub
iicly attacked certain measures of the agents
of the Provisional Government, at the time
when Baroche, Montalembert, and others of
that kidney were hypocritically giving in
their adherence to the new order. He
brought forward an amendment calculated
to obviate essentially the restrictive PROPOSE
lions Of the law, and supported it in short
but forcible speech. lie told the majority
that if they were seeking moral victory in
The passage Of this law, their system was,
so to say, to make war with the instruments
OF peace, and if itwere persisted in he fear
ed the representatives of order would find
themselves in great embarrassment. They
were entering upon course the end Of which
they knew not. If the result desired were
not obtained by the first step, they must
take a second, then a third, and so on. They
would be like the grand army invading Rus
STA, with the forces of the country retiring
before them and leaving fatal void. What
would happen if, beside their moral victory,
there should appear victory on the other
side gained by endurance, patience and calm
nessf But still if his amendment were re-
jected, like a good soldier, he should follow
his flag and vote for the law. NJ. Vesin also
declared that his views were by no means
peculiar to himself among the majority.
The most remarkable speeches of the
week have been made by Messrs. Theirs,
De Flotte and Lamartine. The speech of
NJ. Theirs was of his usual sort, long, sharp,
smart, clear, pointed, superficial and shall
low with all the shallowness of heartless
man of talent who, in great crisis, is guild
ed neither by faith in God, nor in the peo-
pie, nor in better destiny for man. The
journal des Debats, which, in former times
when Quiet was in the political field, was
wont to handle Theirs withou. gloves, calls
it an admirable discourse" and its author
one Of the "glories of the country" The
ultra tory papers of England are also de-
lighted with it as demolition of universal
suffrage. He admitted that the recent cleo
lions were the occasion of the bill, inasmuch
rs they had shown the danger to which So
,ioty was exposed by permitting the mass
If" vagabonds to vote. As usual, he went
yer the doctrines of Socialism and OK !