New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-24
FRANCE.
state and Prospect. Of the Republic.

France at this moment either by the tone OF he.
national press or the proceedings Of her Donation
allied Assembly. You will as soon determine
the height or depth of the sea by the msneuver'
OF its sharks or the noise Of its guls for although
the newspapers shrek with excitement, and 'ne
Assembly turns a somerset every day TUG 80
try is a. calm and tranquil as this peasAn'0'" "
al possible Winters We see Iory "i'"i'"J
one day. and transitory ministry 'ne neA'
plot in this town. and eompot III ahO'"e'' 'uo
streets of Paris palpitating meath the tramp Oh
.old;a,v and the wires of the telegraph-"long
dawn out,,-burning with hostile messages. Yet
.hs aspect of the people is everywhere calm the
,whsaIs of industry revolve with increased &C
tivity; birds now sing which never sang before
snd smile Of hope If not Of happiness nantes the
whole land Still there is cause enough tor agita
tion(were agitation safe or sure remedy Tor any
thing and cause enough, even, for other revoiO'
lions than those Of wheels and planets but SINCE
the sad DAYS of June, the people have been hourly
confirmed in the policy of wise passiveness'
Their hopes have been blasted; their Republic
has been triAed with their Constitution has been
violated; their principles have been malignedi
their sufferings have been Knocked at their
President has betrayed them their deputies
have ceased to represent them; and they have
borne il all with patience and dignity which
could not be surpassed. Now and then, indeed,
they have ventured on great festive occasions,
10 CRY Vire la Republiquel bat finding that even
this il considered as disorderly, if not rebeliOus,
they have stiHed their emotions and consented,
even in the hearing of monarchica outcries, to be
silent.
They have seen hundreds of their most devoted
friends mmured in distant and dismal prisons
they have been driven pele.mele by the mslItOn
from the rolls; they have been denied the right
of relniOn and of speech they have seen legiti-
mist illegtinst, imperial, and all other kinds OF
nonarchical conspiracies organized in every part
Of the country they have seen expeditions to
Rome, expeditions to Claremont, and expeditions
10 Wiesbaden; they have seen their journals sup.
pressed, and their journalists prosecuted; all this
and thousand fold more, they have seen and suf.
fered and yet retaliated no outrage, and resented
no insult. They have learned "to labor and to
wait" Meanwhile the deyotees Of " order" the
men who prate most of the rights of property the
obligations Of religion the ties of family, the ter.
rors of revolution have been acting the base part
of tyrants oppressors, and even Of revolutionists
The cry of Pive Ia Moaarchie has been heard
not only from the Re-actionist Press, but even
from the benches Of the National Assembly, and
from its very Tribune. And the men who utter
these sedtious cries, who shout them from one
end OF the country to the other, and who hire
drunken dependents to shout them, look upon
man who even under the flag of the republic,
dares to cry long life to it, as an anarchist,
brawler, Socialist, and al Ilfdeli
And where is the President all this time; the
man who, with sword in his hand, and an oath
on his lip, pledges his adherence to the C0nStHu-
ton and the LalcS7 Why, be is living in imperial
pomp at the ElySte, expending FIVE times his OIL
cia salary in virtually brbng Tor trying to bribe)
the people never taking the name of the Repuo
lie on his lips and Furnishing loyalty to 1t as
misdemeanor If not crime
With constitutional salary five fold greater
than amply suiices for our American Presidents,
he protests that so peltry sum is not worth &C
eeptance; that, however it may do for w ashlng
ton or Jefferson, il will never do for Napoleon;
that however adequate it may be for small
country like the United States, 1t is sadly made
Quate in large country, like France And so
he asks an addition to his regular pay OF no less
than Including extras already granted S5OO,OOO!
He pleads for it like pauper; prince pauPer
30 much so that when the petition (I'ny tie s0r-
Toscs Of a poor young prince = was presented to
the Assembly, one Of the members exclaimed
'Send II TO The COMMITTEE on Public AsS'stance!"
Charivari reports the petition thus:
HsEIGSEURs REPREsENTANTs Ayez piue, de grace,
dun pauvre msheureux pouvor execuhf qui ma plus de
auo payer SEES sandwiches bsbas veres deau
dams CO chapeau vous en- serez accompanies par Deu
dane rsutre monde, par Docteur Veron en- ceuic
You should see the hut Of this poor young
Prince, and learn something Of his mtnage. You
should the princey mendicant as ne suns
himself every bright day in the Champs hlysee'
You should assist at his Champagne Reviews on
the plains Of Statutory at his ruder hard cider ana
sausage experiences in the country at his week
ly Eoirees and dinners, aud at his Summer sports
at st. Cloud.
Lackaday. how little all this will suggest to
YOU the idea of adependantl His palanal resi-
dence environed with soldiers his servants IN
livery; his magnificent steeds his military pomP;
his lavish distribution Of ribbons for the coat aud
viands for the stomach his imperial speeches
how unlike what we expect from servant OF the
people
Imagine. il you can, a more ridiculous spects-
Gle than the President Of Republic, with the
liberal salary Of $4,000 year, exceeding 1t by
hve-fold for purposes of self ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and
then coming, nat in hand, to an impoverished peo-
pie, and begging them, in the name OF God ana
FOR the love OF Napoleon, tomake up the deficiency
What an example of domestic virtue
Thank Heaven there is some chance that this
year the dotGttoR will be refused The committee
60 consider and report upon il was appointed yes
terday and consists Of thirteen members against
the grant and but t'cO in its favor
The Legitmists and Orleanists have got alarm
cd, ut last, and seeing that the people are occs'
pied minding their daily business If not earning
their daily bread, and fearing, that after all this
calm, may come q storm which will throw up an
Empire, have now, according to Il well.known
policy raised the cry Of Stop IAiefl and are daily
giving in their adherence even little Tiers comes
tripping along with his to the Constitution and
the Republic So, the Dotation will fail and the
President will be reduced to the dilemma Of either
living within his income, or appealing to his gen.
efous, but not very numerous public. He would
rather lose his eye teeth than do either
IL 10 good thing for the Republic that the mon
archicsl parties are constantly falling out by the
way; for thus the Republicans stand a chance Of
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