The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-30

though Paris lives upon foreign gold, these are not
the sort of persons TO bring il TO the till They
for the most part, individuals of very small cali
bre who have been expelled or forced 10 fly from
their own country for political offences. They coll
lect in cellars and garrets, and plot the civil liberty
and the social redemption of Germany, Austria,
and Italy. think il natural enough that the Pre-
feet of Police should be unwilling TO harbor such
set of refugees and it is to get rid Of them that he
has invented the permits de sejoir. Many OF them,
knowing themselves compromised and unable-to
give satisfactory account of their occupation here,
will abstain from visiting the Prefecture, and them
being discovered without the authorization to re-
main in the city will be transported across the
frontier; and SO, good bye. This, ! am satis-
fed, will prove to be the and substance of this
much-talked OF bulletin. II certainly did create
indescribable sensation it's first appearance
Il fell like sparrow -hawk among chickens, or
bomb shell in Sunday school. II smelled Of
gunpowdcr, looked something like the Inquisition,
savored strongly of the middle ages, and suggested
a state of siege, coup d'etat, a system OF nun-
cipal government imported from Vienna, or bor-
rowcd from the King Of Naples.
The two first volumes of Lamartine's History OF
the Restoration, recently published, and which
believe were issued simultaneously in Paris, Lon
don, and New York, have been very severely criu-
the author without mercy. M. dc Lamartinc, in
passing SO harsh Judgment upon the emperor,
had desired TO diminish rs much as possible the
popularity of the name of Napoleon, and thus re-
duce the chances Of unconstitutional re- election
of tho present bearer of that name. Tbs C0nstitI-
tiornsI, the Ajax of the Bonapartist press, Of
course bound to reply to M Lamartines attack,
in the interest of the President and his party M.
Villeman, too, in scorching article, asserts:
90 The author has not what may be called histori-
cal method He is insusceptble OF analysis and
classification. He improvises history he has
improvised the greater part OF his poetry, as he
writes his memoirs, his romances, his travels Ho
creates history he creates revolutions, singing
He is the most skilful, and at the same time the
most careless, singer that touched the chords
of Tyre. But what must be thought of this sing
ing the empire; singing the restoration The
Tyre is very well at its proper hours, and mprov-
sation is a wonderful gift. II is of the happiest
faculties of the human mind but 1t has its own
peculiar domain Ii 1t undertakes to substitute, in
serious writing, Imagination for logic, speed Tor
study enthusiasm for science, wit for good sense,
it makes as great ravage in its subject as did the
foxes of the Jews, with hrebrands fastened to
their tails among the harvests of the Philistines.'
M Cuvler Fleury is even more unscrupulous.
He writes:
"Whatever may be my respect for M. de La
MARITIME q writer, and if / cannot decently
say that he does not know word of the subjects
that he undertakes to narrae may at least believe
that he has not had the time to study them. He
does not see, he only catches glimpses. M do
Lamartine is certainly man OF genius, and 1t ls
not far from genius to divination But it Is easier
to divine the future than to divine the past. The
future lends itself to prophecy with courtesy, but
the past resists with obstinacy. There are thou
sand ways of being politician men become so by
ambition, lust OF place, resentment, and even from
temperament, or sangune habit. But there ID
only one way of being historian, or rather there
ia one without which it is impossible to be histo-
rian-that ia to knotD. Now, how can you know II
you have never learned!
''You may make up for want of knowledge,
am aware, by dint of wit and genius. IL you are
writing contemporancous history, you read, or
reads to you, rapidly, and piece by piece,
book or two upon the matter in hand; you gather
from your memory certain number OF facts more
less unpublished, more or less dubious, hattery
detraction, panegyriC satire, invented or en-
larged upon by party spirit, telling jokes, ancc-
dotcs sallies-scandal, even, and old women's sto-
ries; in Short instead of submitting to severe re-
examination your instincts and tastes OF former
days, your antipahies when young man, your
adolescent, uniformed opinions, your family or
party Impressions instead of this, you give your
self up to those instincts and anupathies, you in
spire yourself from them, and make OF them, In
your maturity, a second edition You put into
prose your political poetry OF thirty years ago.
Such is your method Mix this well together with
the art that will deny you take long strides,
dictate fast, and serve up hot! Your history Is
written. 1t is thus, am afraid, that M. de La
MARITIME in his first volume of the Restoration, has
written the history of the defeat OF the emperor and
the fall of the empire.
sWhat need was there to. day of pamphlet
against the Emperor Napoleon! Is not the simple
truth enough? M. Theirs writes serious and
well-studed history of the empire. He passes half
his nights in unravelling documents and decipher-
ing dispatches; he suffers neither passion nor ia
tcsm to mislead him; he lets facts speak as acts
only can speak. Are not even his conclusions
sufficiently rigorous against that great man, who,
after unexampled favors from destiny, abused
every thing in France France herself first.
theph ia pZyr ia NUN now nd
To make wrong use of ones genius, is, as M. de
Lamartine must know, the most unpardonabie fault
that man can commit against God for it is turn
ing to evil the very gifts of Providence. This ID
what the emperor did, however. He found.the con-
flagration of Moscow and the SHOWS of Russia at
the conclusion of that violent effort and monstrous
excess of his genius. M. de Lamartine has found,
at the conclusion of his exaggerations Of popular
rhetoric the revolution of February"
NJ Feury concludes with the following simili-
tude:
some would think that M. de Lamartine is al
ways in want of ballast to sustain him at reason
able height, and that he abhors middle or mode
rate position. So he sails away before the wind
that whistles in his canvas having other thought
than the inspiration OF the moment His subject
seduces him astray by opening perspcctives and
broad horizons TO his imagination or his memory.
He seems like ship that has left the harbor with
its masts hung with flags, it's quarter deck covered
with flowers, all its sails spread, but that has left
its ruddcr behind"
Two volumes of this work have appeared thus
far; two more of the series announced for pub
LEGATION on the 25th of September.
The D6bats Of yesterday had brief but singing
reply to the barbarous article that appeared in the
London Times few days ago, upon the visits of
the exiled royal family to the Crystal Palace
That article declared that the queen, her sons and
daughters had only selfish motive in examining
and appearing to take interest in examining the
products of French industry at the Exposition
they were soliciting votes for the Prince de Join
vile, and that large portion of the French exhi-
bitors in the secret, and when they DOTTED
their beavers the exiles passed, it meant, "You
may count me;' orr al GO in for Joinvlle." The
Debats says: eve expose these infamies in all
their brutality, which is the severest chastisemcnt
we can inflict. Among all people, and in every
age, there has been and there always will be one
thing sacred for every one-death. When hearse
passes in the street, the man who believes in no.
thing, the man without God in the world, without