New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-27

receives no real equivalent for what it parts with
Nor Is 1t well for ever so civilized people to be
/ selling its Specie and mOrtgaging Its Lands and
Houses for Silks, Liquors. Laces, Wines, Spices,
| &c.-trading of the essential and inperishable
/ for the Fictitious and transltory-ani so eating
itself out of house and home The farmer who
drinks up his farm at the cross roads tavern may
( have obtained more for his exports (of produce
/ from his FARM than they were worth IN the
( market-at least, it would seem 50 from the fact
/ that he he's run over head and ears IN debt-but
he has certainly done perniclouS, losing busl-
ness. So does any Nation which buys more
wares and fabrics than Its exports Will pay for,
and finds itself in DEBT at the years end for i'm
/ ports that 1t has eaten, drank or worn out. The
thrifty household IS the true model Of the Nation
! And, thus tested France, in spite of her enor-
/ nous, lOcust-like Army and other relics of past
iollies which the National mind Is outgrowmg
though the Nations rulers still cling to them, Is
this day one OF the most prosperous Nations OF
/ the earth.
/ But when hear the Aristocratic plotters of
this country talk of the necessity of Revision of
the Constitution in order to restore to France
tranquility and prosperity | am moved not to
mirth but to indignation. For these plotteTs and
! their schemes are themselves the causes of the
mischiefs they affect to deplore and the dangers
they pretend to be bent on avertIng. Whatever
/ Is now everish and omInous IN French Politics
! grows directly out OF two great wrongs-the first
/ positive and accompliShed-the law OF 3lSt May,
whereby Three Millions Of Electors Were dlstran-
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overthrow Of the Republic All the agitation, the
/ apprehension. the uncertainty. and the conse-
! quent arrangement Of Industry, through the last
! year, have grown out of these mlsdeedS done and
pumoSed, of the Aristocratic party In the sacred
/ name of Order, they have tomented discord and
/ anarchy; invoking Peace, they have stirred up
/ hatred and bitterness Whatever the Social De
/ mocracy might have done, had they been III the
ascendant or under other supposabe circum-
stances the fact Is that theirs has been actually
( the couse of Order. of Conservatism, OF Tran
/ ariht, and the Constitution. Had they proved
/ can't to their faith and trust, France would
ere this have been plunged into commissions
, through the mutual leaousies and hostilltes OF
I the factions who vaunt themselves collectively
/ the party OF Order; they have been withheld
/ from cutting each others throats by the calm,
determined, watchful, intrepid attitude of The
| illuminated Democracy
The law of the 3lst May still stands on the
I statute-book, and apprehend Is destined to re-
main, Though many who are better informed are
sangulne that it will be repealed before the next
! Presidential Election } but the Republic will
endure and It's Constitution cannot be over
| thrown All the BourbOnlsts, Orleanlsts and
! Bonapartists in the Assembly combined are IN
| sufficient to change the Constitution legally
and if bare majority sufliced for that purpose
(instead OF tnree.fourhS,) they could not to-day
conn and a working majority for any practical
measure of Revision. 1t Is easy to club their
votes and vaguely declare some change necessary
but ubaf change A Bourbon Restoration
An Orleans Mlddle-C Class Royalty A Napoleon
ic Empire For no one of these can a majority
OF this Reactionst Assembly be obtained
/ What. then IS their chance with the People
As to the signing Of Petitions for Revision,
that Is easily understood The Project, the
Mayor, etc. of locality readily procure the sig
natures of all the Government employees and
hangers-on. who constitute an immense army IN
/ France the great manufacturers circulate the
petitions among their workmen, and most Of
| them sign, not choosing to risk their masters
/ displeasure for a mere name more or less to an
unmeanmg paper But the ploters know per-
I iectly well that the People are not for Revision
/ in thar sense of the word if they did not fear
( this, they would restore Universal Suffrage. BY
clmging with desperate enacity 70 the Restrict
i've law of May 3lst they virtually confess that
! their hopes of success involve the continued ex-
clusion of Three Millions Of adult Frenchmen
/ from the Registry of Voters When they pirate,
therefore, Of The People's desire for Revision, the
Republican re,ort is ready and conclusive" Re
/ peal the law Of May 3lst, and we can then tel
what the People really desire But 50 long AZ
you maintain that law, you confess that you
dare not abide the verdict OF the whole People.
/ You appeal TO a Jury which you have packed
one whose right to try this question we utterly
DENY. Restore Universal Suffrage and we can
! then tell what the People really do wish and
I demand but until you do this, we shall resist
every attempt to change the Constitution even
| by 50 much as a hair" Who can doubt that
/ this Is right
Therefore Representatives OF the People, de
hberate IN peace plthlly says Changamler, al
ter proving TO his own satisfaction, thatthe Army
will not Level their arms against the Assembly IL
support Of Napoleonic usurpatlon. So the
| friends of Republican France throughout the
world may give thanks and take courage. Tae
/ darkness Is dispensing. the skies OF the future
are red wiki the coming day. Time Is on the
/ popular side. and every hours endurance adds
strength 10 the Republic. 1t cannot be legally
subverted and should Force and Usurpation be
attempted It's champions will not shrink from
/ the encounter nor dread the issue For We'll