New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-03

Council. General of Morbihan, which sol
emnly protested against the usurpation, and
was treated accordingly by the usurPer.-
The Government has held up every attempt
at armed resistance as the proof of general
desire to kill and rob. which it calls So
cialism.-among the working people of the
country This has no doubt been an eiHca-
oious buobear. and has secured the support
Of manv of the wealthy and trading classes.
And It is more than probable that, in some
nlsces. the turbulent and starving. feeling
themselves freed from all restraints of law,
made haste to spoliate their wealthy neigh
bors and certainly they were not without
an authoritative example In the act OF the
President himself. But it IS out Of the ques-
ton to suppose that the mass Of the PoPu-
Iation, who. without concert or preparation,
rose simultaneously in all parts of the coun'
try. TO save France from the threatened
outrage. was actuated by desire for pill
lace and bloodshed. So absurd a calumny
should be universally secuted, at least In
the United States.
An important fact is the adherence OF the
ultra party in the Catholic Church to the
cause Of this Infamous and Incompatible VII
lain. Montale mbert and the Bishop OF
Charities have both come out strongly IN
his favor. while the venerable and liberal
Archbishop of Paris opposes him. There
is reason to suppose that these allies will
carry with them r considerable body of
men who would otherwise have kept aloof.
But of the strict Legitimists they viii car
~ yery few. The honest adherents of
Henry V. will have nothing to do With this
blood-stained parody of the Empire. Still
we entertain no question as to NaDoleon's
election. 1t is said, indeed, that doubt is
felt at Paris as to this result, but we see
no chance whatever of his failing to receive
an immense majority. In the first place the
votes are all counted by his own creatures,
who will make up their returns without
any check upon their inclinatiOns; then,
there is no opportunity for discussion, not
press being suffered to state reason why
he should not be chosen; there is no pollti-
cal organization against him, nor is any cam
didate allowed to be voted for on the other
side. Under these circumstances, with all
the prestige Of the recent bloody triumph
and the influence of the existing regn of
terror, it seems certain that he must obtain
almost the entire vote. 1t is probable he
celebrated New Year in the Tuileriss, II
he had not been assassinated before then.
OF course as soon as he is President for
Ten Years, or Emperor, something will be
relaxed of the utter despotism now prevail
ing throughout France. The p:ess will
then be allowed to escape with ONLY the dis
grace of having its own words stricken out
by the censor, without being compelled, as
now, to insert instead such wons as the
Government dictates. But no such thing as
liberty of discussion, or genuine represen-
tative legislature, will be allowed to exist
The doctrine of the conqueror is, that it is
the predominance Of the Parliamentary
power and the neglect of the part which the
Executive authority has played, and must
ever play in France, whichhas destroyed so
many governments and constitutions. This
must be remedied by now giving the FREEDOM
inence to the Executive, and by subjechng
everything, The administration, the army,
the laws to its direction and its guidance.
This is the programme of Louis Napoleon.
1t is worthy the man, and in harmony with
his past life. We only hope he may con-
tinue to apply it with rigor. The more
closely he adheTes to the present system OF
tyranny, the more speedily he and it will be
got rid of.
Some short-sighted persons imagine that
this usurpation may last. They mag
inc that mock Empire may be kept up for
4 few years at least. They imagine that
history can be made to repeat itself, and
that a nation like France can be forced
back to absolutism worse than that Of Louis
XIV. Foolish illusion, Neverwas power
so precarious as that now welded by Louis
Napoleon and his band of corrupt and IN
principled assistants. Never was down.
fall so certain as theirs. We know not the
hour Of its coming, but We do know that it
viii be sudden and complete, and that 1t
will leave no trace of him save the record
of his crimes and the sentence of contempt
and execration which humanity prononnces
upon them.
Consul Owen
This gentleman has addressed long let
ter to The National IHisllgeneT, IN which be