The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-12-19

ie"su"e" ~ he Poiis LOUIS Napoleon has been crown.
ca Emperor Oh france Thus II would seem that III.
great nation which claims be pre- sminenly the se.
and centre OF political intelligence in Europe has decided
Alter due u'a' thai At cannot maintain and does moi d.,
sire. constitutional freedom. We regard ths event ..
the most memorable occurrence Of our time. W. can
find nothing like parallel il since 1865. vine, E.~
land called back Charles the Second 10 the ,bron.
apparently without regret reflection flung down h,
liberties all at the feet of the most hearta a.,
frivolous OF tyrants
And yet not even this is parallel 10 The nru.a
state Of things in France Besides the fact tha, IN.
event belongs the seventeenth century and tho oh
to the nineteenth. it is plain that all the habits. ns,;,o
tons, and traditions OF thousand years of MONARCHY
ia England pointed to the restoration Of Charles In
France the other hand Louis Napoleon has had IN
his favor only the "reminiscences of an empire consecra
ted neither by antiquity prescription nor legimaev
empire which in fact no more in the history os
France than vast and splendid episode in politics and
in the whole prestige Of which was in the sword
and which. alter brief and bloody heyday Of violence
and victory, finally resulted in the dsme and
the humiliation OF France with the foreign Invader
riong in her capital while her idolzed Emperor pned
and died in his island cage.
Does this adequate or an ineligible historical
foundation for the sequence Of which has made OF
Louis Napoleon Napoleon the Third Yet so far as We
peceve his selection Emperor and the establish
ment OF the empire have no other explanation. WHY
has France, rejecting the republic, rejected also the
uaditionary and perscrptiye royalty which the re-
public overlhrew' On what prncple-by what law
regulating the action of masses OF men-has France
turned TO Louis Napoleon for government and gai-
He ma he- ;nl ~.
he isa man OF ability perhaps in some sort Of &c.
MUS But is the less that all his no
the time when he chosen President and was planly
the high road to his present position gave no warrant
for such conclusion And yet in spite Of al this,
France. tired Of revolution and wanting ORDER has sough,
il in the restoration OF an empire which, in its best day
violence and despo,sm and has reached this refuge
such il is, under the presidency and upon the impulse
Of man whom no single deed word Of his own had
accredited TO the world the fit or natural leader Of
hirty-6ve millions OF Frenchmen
III quite clear that procedure like this is utterly op
posed all that know Unpopular either
in this country in Great Britain. But this is not ALL
The real difficulty OF the problem is to find anything in
the condition, even OF France Of the French people, 10
explain tha succession OF movements by which the en-
pre has thus been e-estabshed in the person Of Ioo
Napoleon Upon this point of contemporaries rea
sons as follows sn
Nor does the process w which his ius,rioas uncv
missed himself the imperial dignity furnish an example
Napoleon Bonspac the astonishing gen us OF his
by the force OF his military talents be
had the turbulent factions Of Paris carried
the giles OF his county triumph ohirds OF Eur
rope series Of battles brilliant than those OF Charles
Of So eden, OF Alexander had been the ACHE vemens
Of his youth he had been twice eonsntionay elected
interval Of TO be TIE consul Of his county and
when in power he had displayed such prodgons nusIe.
and general that all mankind were smittrn with
admiration. IL natural, them when he came to re-
establish the monarchy which he undertook with tho nj
caution, and only after consulting the leading row
of the continent that The peopl, should vote his az
tendency with enthusiasm s.5t.a 5.s s. Iss l8 iss
But nephew none OF these unusual and dsy.
ding advantages The reputation of a med ocre bro.
ear the iooihn rdy expeditions Smsburs Booen~
nomadc and rakish life in New York and London awsy
Gom the oil political intrigues, the name he bor
and his personal character whaiever was We bee bis
entire stock in trade, with which he achieved absou
and her cditary rule among the Intelligent and gallant
people OF The advanced division Of tho Robe
This itmust be confessed is political phenomenon qui
without precedent ..l 4t Ha
IL is not however phenomenon without GA use and
which can be easily made ineligible 10 the Amer
lean people. some writers that asosihe
the constitutional ckieness of the French people per-
init IL others say that there ia strong inesdcable AZ
tschment in the French mind the splendors royalty,
combined with grateful remembrance OF the FIRST Empt-
and Others again. that the large majority Of the
French 20 ignorsnt unprincipcd psssyidden,
90 avacious for trade that they do what govern
ment Is established. who controls IL, long they
eat, drink, and be merry. There Amsricsns even,
Who profess TO be siassmen. who ashamed
thu, they believe all the people Of Europe incapable
u, or unit for. self government
Nov, II il obvious that the great source III di-
guilty in France Is the peculiarly of its socia and pocx
rganizntion, The State is omniroen concentrates
ITSELF such ystious and hanscendant powers. such
nd IN
he influence or The prople. heir existence almost Is
ualy annihilasd There Is distribution Dispersion
Of the functions Of governne there organic lim
aons of the central authority there Is local ssfsos
eminent train the people the exercise and defence Of
aly all the usual work OF political bu,
becomes, therefore, great feversh congestion liable
any time 10 conyuIsion. syncoltc.
"When consider that the bursans Paris aaempto
manage nearly all the thirty million. peo-
piles that they charged with the
Of foreign intercourse, Of naval and military affairs. Of
neroe, of Highways and roads, of charitable establishments,
Of ind usrel enterprises, OF education and OF eligionn
all which they intervene direct their seton and to sp-
point the agents by which they executed we he
surprised the rapid sltenstons OF from
desposn anarchy and from snarohy to despo'ism
Every year. since before the rsvoinon France has
experienced change o rulers. becauss impossible
that any rulers cond long ins control of 50 Ts
mendous and cnmbrous machine. Louis XVI nied y
up TO lT92, and failed Napoleon tried II in 1894 and
a'ed Lopi. XVIII tried II in 1875 and failed Charles
tired II In 1921, and failed Lous Philippe tried Il in
1890, and failed Lamstne and Lonis Blanc tried IN