Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-01-03

France, which ought to elevate Louis Napoleon. -
a higa station among patriots and statesmen. lie
Other party regard this eotp Rctat as proceeding
of unmingled selishness by which the president u
the French has pcrjured himself as man, and ds
strcyed all confidence in him as politiL chief thai
the courage, the irmness, and the deision which5i
are so lauded in Louis Napoleon more Heemble th0K
desperation of aeonsprator at bay than be aeter-
snined purpose Of patriot. What else eoull es3
she friends Of tire President? Was he not infcrmea
inquire, on Monday night, that meeting had been8
at General CJlsGARsrsR's that evening, which was
ed by NJ Tlnnas, NJ BAzr and other chiefs of partieK
at which ii decided that the coup against him should
be struck the ayhat is, that he should bearres&
ed the Assembly porogued or dissolred andthe Repub
abolished II VS. therefore absolutely necessary, sa
they, that roantrryaing steps Should Nc tiateiy
taker t. fresg1ent did take them he struck the rss
blow and completely turned the tables upon his adver
saries. Was he to fold his and say, take me to
vncennes and DO what you please with the constitution
and the country" We do not think any would have
considered such conduct the part of the President
piece Of mastery inactivity" few days before this
revolutionary movement, remember that H. Granier
de Cassagnac wrote article in the Coasituonne in
which he charged the Assembly with being the centre of
plots against the constitution and the peace and repose
of the country. When the Ministers asked by
THopIGNY then Minister of the Interior, replied g If
they had believed in the existence OF any plot they should
have arrested the poters Why did they not do
week afterwards when the friends of the President
say they had proof such plot existed without carrying
out the plot themselves For all the difference between
the alleged plot of the Chamber and the acted plot of the
President is that the plotting Deputies in prison in
of their intended victim the constitution has been
completely set at naught blythe it could have
been by the other and for aught know, the republic
fully endangered But where is the proof that the OPP
ponents of Louis Napoleon plotting to arrest him
Nothing has been adduced beyond the mere assertion.
Again. where are the forces by which such proceeding
was to have been effected and maintained? The event
proves that the army, far the supporters of the
President we help thinking that this plot against
Louis Napoleon is nothing than preext by which
his friends hope justify his plot against others Perhaps
sincere France regrets the overthrow of
the Chamber its general conduct had aenated the feel
ngs of the people Perhaps very few persons regret the
fall and imprisonment Of such aman as NJ THEIRS. But
who gave this factous majority in the Legislature the
power which it has lately employed against the Executive
but Louis Napoleon himself? When he abandoned the
republican party when he sent French soldiers to Rome
to fight against the people and reestablsh Austrian in
fuence and ecclesiastical tyranny in Italy when he de-
MED Kosuth transit through France, he paved the way
his present Whatever be the immediate results
the past and the future win alike pass we think SEN
tence of condemnation his coup d'eta The time may
be far distant when NJ Kossuth said in his letter
to the Mayor of Southampton, " NJ Bonaparte may yet
become an exile once more"
| NJ GRAyIER DE CAssAGStc published long article in
the Constitutional Of the 4th, in which he says Did
not the accredited chief Of the Legtmists send
last Monday this verbal message the President of the
republic, execute coup detG, transport the Socialist
minority, and FIVE minutes after with you :? If
this message be denied, viii the Legitimist
chief who gave it. and the Representative who brought it,
We have thus endeavored to describe the state of
public opinion this moment, whilst the question of
Louis Napoeon's coup detdt is yet undecided. We
quite aware that the measure win receive its final charac
Monk treated hero because he succeeded in re-
storing Charles Ii My shot as traitor because
he failed to restore Napoleon.
If the opinion of so humble ndi7i3vGl ourselves
be worth recording, would say the French Assembly
has fallen by act Of violence for which plea
the always questionable Of State necessity be
up But it has fallen till it had forfeited national
confidence till it had invaded popular rights till it had
snatched at the Executive authority. 1t had lived to fill
up the measure Of its foes and its crimes it has died
unhonored and unwept carries with it to its sefdug
sigh OF regret no tribute OF esteem no memory
of honorable service If compelled to disapprove
of the blow which has been struck it is from pity for
the VICTIM but from respect for the violated majesty Of
law. The denouement of the political drama may be
satisfactory but little to approve of and much to
condemn, in the conduct of the principal actor
few paragraphs will to show the opinions of
the English press respecting French affairs. Probably
the appreciation Of Louis Napoleons conduct which is
very dmly shadowed forth in of the Conserva
tive and Tory papers, and the disapprobaon of his pro-
ceedings which some of the liberal ones decidedly
manifest may be accounted for arising from the
One approves and the other dsapproves because
both regard the Presidents proceedings tending
retrograde in the march of the independence
of nations and the progress of individual freedom and
happiness.
The Times states that on Monday the st instant The
Minister of Finance induced the Bank of France to lend
him million sterling, alleging that it affair of
temporary accommodation to be provided for by treasury
bills The use made of these funds is sufficiently
apparent the coup dt took place next morning. and
services required and performed for which the most
liberal donations to the army and the police would hardly
seem disproportioned We leave the MEANS says the
Times, by which this obtained from the bank
for such purpose 10 be appreciated by readers II
remarked by the journal that the decisive turn Of
viii be given by the conduct Of the army in the
provinces Ii is in the power Of OF the generals COM
manding in Lyons Sasbourg the other headquarters
Of the military districts toarrest at least TO suspend
the fate Of the nation
The Times goes on to say;
The first blow has far miscarred that II has not
been followed by any popular manifestation in favor Of
apola and sunni ~