The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-02-21


The London Times OF January 81, speaking OF Louis
Napoeons decree confscatng the Orleans estates says
II is striking instance OF the oreduly of the stock
exchange and The public IN Paris that for several hours
Il seriously believed there that Louis Napoleon had
abandoned his scheme for the eonhscaion OF the Or
leans propeTy-and this on no better authority Than the
word OF ofcious and now discarded sycophan OF the
Eysce We certainly never imagined that Louis Napo-
leon would sacrifice 10 The stuffed Indignation OF the pub
lie (Which he must have fofeseen) measures prepared
with so much and secrecy, that he would sulfy
himself by Withdrawing DEGREES after promul CATION,
which all the influence OF bis connexions and his
best advisers was yanly exered TO prevent Bearer 10
him than such influence and such counsels is the
of his power and his revenge. Protesting still chva-
respect for the elder branch of the House OF Bourbon
he perseeutes the House OF Orleans with implacable ha
tired On their partisans all the rigors Of Imprisonment
and exile have fallen. Their names have filled his lists
of prescription On Their property he has laid unre.
entng hand
We were perfectly correct in ascribng that base and
destructive not much TO the arrogance OF
horty as to the ncarnate spirit OF the revolution.
But the measure does not end here. The abrogaton
extinction OF rights Of property extending large
possessions, and including all the liabilities and transac.
lions OF three generations OF princes, not simple as
appears to be- la some form or other the courts OF JUS
tce must determine the validity OF edct which sets al
naught act OF the legislature and formal instrument
OF donation quashes the wills OF Louis Philippe and
Madame Adelaide and of the Kings children already
deceased defeats the provisions OF eight marriage con
tracts four OF which are public treaties negotiated with
the Crowns Of Spain, Naples. Brazil and Belgium, not
TO mention NeCklenDulk, Wurefnbefg, and Sdxe-L
burg violates the principles OF the Code and Of French
Jurisprudence and Indirectly shakes nvaidates iDnH
merable transactions arising out OF the possession and
management OF this property for nearly twenty two years
The mere conscatlon OF this propertythat u.s. It's seizure
and distribution by act OF arbitrary power--is abb
surdily unless be extended 10 all the relations which
may be affected by It. But If il be extended, the con
sequences are infinitely complicated since this property,
in the hands of its ghtiu owners forms part OF chain
of liabilities and contracts in which private and public
interests alike involved.
Ihat as Siam apfk 1nn lima
including M Dupln and M. Monlaliyel, have lost no
time in preparing to defend the rights solemnly inrust-
ed to their charge and we End with great pleasure that
the whole bar OF France, headed, without distinction OF
party, by M Berger and M Barrot, and including al
most every name great in jurisprudence and in public
life, eagerly joins in the defence, not much Of the Or
leans property oil the law itself On that ground the
contest by no means hopeless The dictator has not yet
dared to attack by force the administration OF justice
he has not yet venured TO make the procedure secret
TO degrade the judges of France into mercenares
movable at his pleasure. Even if he did, we hope, for
the honor Of the French magistrary, that be would
find man IN It base enough to give legal effect to such
decree. Desposm itself respects the authority OF the
civil laws OF the realm, and dares not nmdate, though
it may corrupt the majesty of justice The OF that
power which oveuns all law is not despotIsm, but
olution.
We publish in another column the forcibe and unan-
swerable remonslrance OF the Kings executors to the
French governments document which is made known
to Europe through the columns OF Belgian newspaper.
1t is a paper OF consummate ability and power; for,
though the representative assemblies of France dis
persed, the press gagged and censured and every
cal liberty menaced by the police until the courts OF JUS
ce closed and the bar slenced, freedom aud right
have still an asylum. As long as any fragment of The
institutions OF free people has survived the wreck of the
constitution il preserves the remembrance of all the rest
aud the judicial power Of France is still the ark in which
the last rights OF the nation secured The agstTacy
OF France is not the secret serve instrument of des-
potc power 1t was free before the revolution of 1889,
and It's Liberties have not even entirely persisted. 1t
has, indeed, been threatened and brutality attacked In
one department that OF the Aveyron, judge has actually
been dragged from his seat and cast into prison by order
OF the Project for having expressed his appreciation OF
December, The jury lists have been ampered with and
for example. the name of the Duke de Broge has
been removed from them, lest should fall TO his lot