The southern press., 1851-06-27

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g-tg~ LOUIS NAPOLEON seems resolved TO make
a bold stroke for the retention of the Presi-
Dental power in spite of the law forbidding
reelection. II may be that, in the struggle
which his illegal pfetensions will excite, an op-
portunity will present itself for picking out OF
the rubbish of revolution the French crown'
and of investing himself with that sovereignty
which the republican writer's Of the day are yul-
garizing into an universally that shocks the
ears polite of the lovers of caste and privilege
That LOUIS NAPOLEON is the popular man he
professes--that the assurances OF small por-
ton of the French press are evidence OF it,
that the uicas with which the mere possessors
OF power are everywhere, and at all times, re-
ceiysd in the old world, are acknowledgements
of his personal merits by the French people, we
are not quite ready to believe.
The nephew of the great soldier has claims on
the sympathies Of Frenchmen; but, personally,
LOUIS NAPOLEON has little reputation. In spite
of his bunders--and his last speech at Dion
against the Chambers, is admitted by himself to
have been one of them--hc has had the good
fortune to be placed by political parties in
France in position to draw almost inevitably
towards him the attention and the votes Of the
nation
Mark the first OCCASION An instruction
breaks out few months after the establishment
Of the republic, got up, according to the "party
of ORDER" by the red republicans and, accord
ing to the red republicans, by the party of order
The majority of Frenchmen, like the ma
jority all the world over, caring more about
their private interests than the permanence Of
principles, turn their eyes to the right and to the
left, in search of a savior from civil brois. The
name of Bourbon is more than dispeasing to
them. They fly to the nephew of the Emperor,
whom, for years before, they had treated as a
hair Drained adventurer!
To terminate these struggles of parties, wax
ing more and more inveterate, they pour their
sbulletins de vote" into the urns in favor of
LOUIS NAPOLEON and he is elected President by
an overwhelming majority
Now mark the postionagan forming for him
by the imprudent schemes of the "party Of
order"
The mystery Of the insurrection of June has
been silently developed, and the odium lies on
that party, which refused all judicial enquiry.
Three millions of voters have arbitrarily been
erased from the rolls, and treated as /" vile
multitude" in word, and in fact; although vast
number are among the best educated men in
France, whose professions and occupations ne
cessitate constant change of domicile.
Measures of repression, prosecutions of the
press, arbitrary imprisonments, laws against
meetings. education, placed upon the direction
of priests, the political assassination Of the Ro-
man republic, &C., &c, are giving arms to
LOUIS NAPOLEON against the Assembly, and its
"party of order"
Should LOUIS NAPOLEON present himself as
the champion ofuniversal suffrage, and of liberty
trodden under foot, what will avail the declara-
tons of Cen CHANGARNIER, or the obedience of
the army to ITS chief! The will of the nation is
a higher law.
We have little faith in the French republic,
but would like to see the experiment fairly tried