The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-11


eesns " RI Fasxea AssshsLv-- esliG~sai's
.xssseMgw Of February 18th. contains The discus
sion in The assembly on the proposition TO give
The President, Louis Napoleon, u large sum out
Of the public treasury. to enable him to pay his
debts incurred in giving gttss and treats at the rs-
views Of the army, and dinner balls and parties
The proposition was defeated by l20 majority out
bert, who was in favor OF the proposition, made a
stirring speech; but having exhausted his physi-
cal strength, was allowed to rest few minutes.
w hen he resumed he said
He had, he observed, spoken Of authority and
Of the respect which was due to il; he had not had
as Robespierre or Nero-Gnterruption)
On the extreme left.---4lions done!
M. NADAuD.--I demand. permission to reply.
(Laughter)
The PRxsIoENr.--ls it in favor Of Nero' Gre
newed aughter.)
patchwork governments which rose and fell IN
the midst ofrevolutionary storms.
On the leh.--Such as the raft /! (Movement.)
M. DE MoNrALEMBERT.--He spoke only of reg
ular governments and legally constituted authori-
ty. 1t must be admitted that in public opinion
authority was more especially connected with the
executive power; it was It which was the most
ecrable Robespierre-Qloud interruption from the
extreme lefty
A VoIcE-You like Borga better! Laughter. J
M. DE MoSrALEMBERr begged to quote con-
temporary example. Had not General Cayaig-
mac concentrated in his own person all the attri-
butte of the executive power, although the as
semby had been always able to revoke them.
Had not public opinion considered him as the
personi6caton of authority, even in face Of an as
sembly pre-eminenty sovereign, since 1t was
constituent one? (Cres Of" Eyes, yes, /" and inter
ruption.) Yet even with all that authority, Gen.
sral Cavagnac bad been repeatedly attacked from
many quarters 1t had been said Of late that
president was not king.
On the left Question question! Laughter
M. DE MoNrALEMBERr considered that in his
present remarks he was not deviating from the
question. II had been said that president was
not king. But what, he would ask, were kings
constitutional kings? They were presidents for
life, hereditary or otherwise daughter What
was the president Of the republic A king for
four years. loud denial on the Lefty What
were the attributes of royalty wanting! Was it
the right Of making peace or war! Constitutional
kings had really never exercised it. Was it the
vetol That had never been made use of in France,
In England, in 1853 years Of constitutional royal
! ty, how many times had it been used Not once
daughter and agitation.) Was it hereditary
rights There was not one sceptre in France,
which, during the last sixty years, had descended
from grandfather to grandson. Was it inviola-
bilityi Could any one talk Of that without mel
uuCuOly az TIC TeIHcfnDIdDCe OF CQdrie6 N,
and Louis Philippe, who had died in exile. 1t
was wished, it had been said, to defend paramen-
tary power, which had been threatened; he was
| as great partizan Of parliamentary government
as any one could be, and it WINS for that reason
that ne would not have it COMPOUNDED with a
mean, fractions, and takative opposition, which
usurped its name. (Murmurs on the extreme
| lefty
| On the right-Silence, there Allow the speaker
| to be heard.
| The PnEsDENr.--Yo annoy your neighbors,
who complain Of your interruption.
M. BAuDrH addressed few words to the presi-
dent, which were not generally heard
| The PREnDENr.-M. Baudin, you are inces-
sanity talking, and yet never demantsperniission
to address the assembly call you to order.
| M. DE MoNrALEMBERT repeated that he would
not have parliamentary government COMPOUNDED
with the opposition he had just alluded to. IRE
peated murmurs on the lefty
M. Mior.-Such language is too insolent
| (Cries Of " order, order!'D
voice on the rigbt.-Such are the men who
speak Of parliamentary government.
/ M. De MoNrALEMBERr.-ifa an honest burgher
has been elected President of the republic, then a
refusal to give him funds to keep up his dignity
could be understood. But when the nephew Of an
emperor, of that emperor whose memory was so
beloved by the French nation, was elected, it was
matter of necessity to give him the means of
supporting his rank. (Denial.) Here were two
| powers elected by the people, one by separate
portions of it, and the other by the great mass of
the electors, by not less than FIVE and half mil
| lions, thus giving him sanction almost without
measure, and far beyond what any legitimate
king could boast Of, and yet the one, and. in his
opinion, that Of the weaker origin, pretended to
have a right to restrain the other elected by the
greater number, by thousand paltry and vexa-
tious acts. (Movement.) Here were two powers
| shut up for four years, in a cage, together, and
yet one was constantly trying to annoy the other.
He would ask was that worthy Of the Assembly
| of great country like France; Let the Assembly
refec, well before it voted He implored grace
for the people, grace for the country, grace for
those who only desired tranquility and liberty to
labor. II the present dissensions continued, when
the great moment Of 1852 arrived, the peasants
would be Disguised with the men whom they had
eected they would say, ''look at those whites;
they have done nothing but quarrel; let us change
our hands and elect the reds" loud laughter
on the lef) 1t was in order not to have so terri
BILE result that he implored the assembly to
pause, and not allow the country to suppose that
II was determined to oppose the executive power
in the very matter which, of all others, was
most strongly required to keep up its dignity.
The assembly could prevent that opinion from
being formed by adopting the bill (Great agita-
tion.)
IMPORTANT RAILROAD INVENTION Should the
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