The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-02-13
News from France.

HE News FROM FRANCE by every ship, is
looked for eagerly by all, not only as indica-
ting the present and probable future condition
Of the French people themselves, but as bear
ing upon the anticipated continental revolu-
tion. France, it is thought, is the key to un-
lock the heart of men, now full Of the bitter
ness Of wrath, the energy Of patriotism, and the
determination Of martyrs. This key, Louis
Napoleon seems desirous of holding himself
He turns and Overturns, and builds up as seems
to him best. He DEGREES disgrace and honors,
all around, so far as the word Of a usurper and
despot can do SO. The "reign Of terror" still
goes on. Eighty representatives Of the people
have been banished without any trial whatever,
under heavy penalty for returning. Five re-
presentatives Of the Mountain have received the
condemnation Of felons, and are ordered to be
transported to the penal and unwholesome col
ony of Cayenne. Hundreds OF citizens are
seized and taken to Havre, to be sent off on va.
rous pretexts, without any trial, except by
military commission. Iu regard to the whole.
sale operations going on in the transportation
and commission business as it has been face
tiously called, the London Times remarks:
There have been those even among our own
countrymen and contemporaries who .Ilattered
themselves with the deusion that the seventies
of Louis Napoleon's dictatorship were tempora.
ry evils, and that his policy would change when
it had received the popular sanction. We have
not been deceived for an instant by so gross
fallaCy. From the first hour Of his illegal do
minion we have never doubted that he must go
on from bad to worse, until he had either tram
pied out every spark Of liberty and independ-
ence from the French nation, or had paid the
penalty of his attack upon the fundamental
laws Of a civilized people. He has obtained,
or boasts he has Obtained the suffrages Of nearly
eight millions of FrenChmen, though it is
mere than doubtful whether eight millions Of
adult males could by possibility have recorded
their votes. But despotism has no true princi-
pie Of government bat fear. The popular sup
port Of universal suffrage was not enough as
long as it was backed by terror; aud, accord
ingly, these seizures and depOrtations have been
made, not only to remove from France persons
obnoxious to the government but to strike ter
ror into the whole community No class Of
society has been spared. The banished or de-
ported representatives include not only the
| leaders OF secret societies but men like AgricOl
| Peregnier, Justly endeared to the working
classes TO which they belong; the army is ont
ragged by the expulsion Of Generals Changar-
nier and LamOriciere the bar by that of M.
Baze; the press by that Of NJ. GirardIn; litera-
ture and society by that of M. de Remusat, Vic
tor Hugo, M. Quinet, and NJ Theirs. Co.
vernment which proseribes its opponents while
it represents them as pOwerless minority, can
have little confidence in the justice or security
Of its cause.
To most Of these thus abruptly torn from
their homes, their professions, and their country,
exile is total ruin. 1t has even been limited
that sequestrations of property, and upon the
largest scale, are held ia tsTrOrem over the heads
Of those who may be supposed to be more hos
tile TO the present state OF things, though they
no longer inhabit the territory Of France. The
unfortunate wretches now on the point Of sail
ing for Cayenne will be landed on a swampy
island in South America, cut Oft by q river a
league wide from the main land Of French
Guiana. situated only four degrees north of the
Equator, and utterly devoid even of the 70.
sources OF manual industry. The population
Cayenne does not exceed 1000 whites and
5000 negroes, aud the country is wholly un-
prepared for the reception Of a large emigration
Of men who have figured in the political aud
social life Of France. To call ita penal SETTLE
ment would be an outrage on the former Gov.
ernments of France, for none Of them would
have dared 10 found penal settlement iu a eli
mate so destructive to European life. II is a
6agRs for liberal opinions transported within
the tropics, and filled with journalists and poll.
ticians, not by the Courts Of Justice, but by
the authority Of the police. All that we have
heard before with dread and disgust Of the mil.
itary colonies Of Russia, Of Siberian exile, Of the
prisons Of Naples or the csrcera dEya Of the
Spielberg, sinks into nothing compared with
the wholesale confinement Of such a class Of
men in such part Of the globe as SmamAri OIL
Cayenne.
Blindness and infatuatiOn mark the cOurs'
Of the tyrant, but the work is SO completely