Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1851-12-27

VI &f8 - - ~ MEl
The listlo man who once swcept through
the directs Of Strasbntg IT tho lsead Of .
few troops, bearing u liis hhf,d The sword
Of his uncle Napoleon. oil the poita d
witch was his AasterIitzIhat, 4 cfyingyivc
/ rEnlpereiir. lns become of rlofe %italfior-
lance within the few past years, than
when this display was only noticed BY
tie shonting 81 boys HI the stfeet--nniiI
now ne has the eyes Of the Whole world
fixed upon him, aud specalntiofls pre- rife
as III what the end Of his recent
proceeding win be. Silently he has work.
%, with uo confidant III his plots---scllrm-
ing alone to perpetuato the power which
chanas Of birth and the toiisrnan III d
tiamS placed IA his hands; quietly md
nnobseryetlly lie has made use Of all par
ties fFor the accomplishment Of His ends,
and 10 ingratinted himself with the sol.
dirry Of Fratice,--and VI managed with
lls opponents, that Ave hundred thou sand
men:ale now stationed through different
parts of the cxperinent-Reputlic, vii.
ling to devote themselves 10 bic interests
while those from whom le feated any
danger have been quietly removed from
tho scene Of action, or incarcerated Id a
State Prison. So noiselessly war tie
whole affair conducted that 10 one knew
of it until the deed was done.
Tic: most remarkable thing III the
whtle proceeding il tho fact that 10 deoid-
edtteps were taken to put ! stop to this
uscr'ation. The Assembly was declared
dissviycd.--and it was dissolved. The
Conatilution no longer d good Constitution
land no voice was raised In its support,
while the determination tina, the present
President shall BIZ continued Ia office ten
years, has been looked upon mora as a
thing which was cxpcctod--than 4 step
by which q revolution war accomplished,
aud the Republic overtlrown. 1t ID true
that ut the latest acco uits barricades had
been erected, but they wero only raised
to bo demolished, with The eacrifce oftwo
mepihere Of the Assembly-and Oh tho
Bonrsc, stocksso far from depreciating.
had actually risen. Will the French
people allow themselves TO be treated III
this way? Are they going 10 permit
thensclvosto De constantly called q people
Of Revolutions? Ono would think that,
their atntesmcn. III capacity at least--nnd
their people--so far % submission IL coti.
ccrned, are on a par with these 81 our
sister Republic Of Mexico, wherea pro
nafciamesso creates now hardly d news
pafftar paragraph. lie roi est mort, vie Ia
roi, they seem to have been 80 accustomed
to shout that the habit has become ine-
vetorate, and they must follow it out,
though ~despoiisrn and every privation
Of political liberty be the consequence.
We never had any nea that any people,
save the Trench would have permitted
themselves TO have been plastcred with the
.nege illusion (forin reality itwas nothing
bat.an illusioil) that they were enjoying the
benefits u are publican government. Tie
evidences TO the contrary were too glaring
before tlAeif eyes the mere fact oftlle ter
Itible restrictions, of the press, was stfici.
ert 70 have convinced them 81 this. No,
have we any idea that any people save The
French would eyer have allowed them.
selves to be taxed FOR the support Of m
itntsience army, under tho control OF a
President, ana allow those creatures Of
their will and reciepicnts OF their labor TO
shout in their very faces. when this presi.
dent appeared in their midst. "Viss Z EN-
~z'cycRy." But certainly wa never expected
that even they would allow q man upon
whom they had conferred the hrighiest
honors turn recret 10 every ~duty--reyoiu-
tionize the government II had cost them 40
mrchlto establish. without raising d voice
strong enough TO penetrate into tic apart
faesits Of their usurpator, warning him If
nothing more, that tho punishment Of
tsetson was death. and that sooner 81 later
i would oyertake him.
Il Is impossible for is o look into tile
futtie and see what Will be tie result of
that days work-wlioh has no parallel III
lhisfcry-bus il requires us fropllet's eye
@ discern that . terrible conflict will again
take place IL France. ! coaaict ii which,
the whole Of Europe win bcl dinwnr-and
we lock fer the commencement &C il At no
distant date. Thiers ana Changarneir
llass already been taken hold of and con.
finesl, because thought ~ ID iiniirnilcal % TIL
plaas Of the President-apd having already
copied file action ofhis uncls al the 18Th.
Brsinaife-lle win pefhArs tlilk ii neces-
safy 70 COON ii The road he llas opened-
and Nwe wopld not be snrprised to hear 81
another Enslien af1air-which for want
Of humanity was MOI surpassed ~ the
murder of sNey. Iset this happen. and jill
there remains ! spark III honesty aha us-
iirss i, fla boarte fshn 1xZu8&~3