Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-01-31
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT
PANS, JANUARY s. 1852.

FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.
PARIS, JANUARY s, 1852
The nation is awaiting says the Constellation
nel :" the new Constitution which it is to receive
from the hands of Louis NAPOLEON We my be
permitted to say it is awaiting without mpatisnce,
because, without knowing any more than ourselves
the express dispositions upon which the organization
of the public powers will be based, it foresee, it
knows in advance, do we, in what spirit the rast
whole will be conceived Louis Napoleon did in
fact make with noble and bold sincerity, the pre-
amble as it were Of his work the day when, in his
fine address to the Consultative Commission which
had borne to him the official result of the votes of
France, he uttered these words
To give satisfaction to the exgences of the moment
by the creation of system which shall reconstitute
thority without wounding equality closing any door
ameoraon is to lay the verable basis of the only ed-
nee capable OF supporting at later day wise and bene
fcent liberty"
Thus to speak was to proclaim that the principal
end of the institutions would be the re-estabsh-
ment of the tuteary rights and prerogatives of au-
thority. This thought was not expressed then for
the first time, and after the vote by Louis Napoleon
1t was contained clearly as possible to the sense of
every one in the ptebtscttum submitted to the suf
frage of the whole of France by the act of I'd De-
cember. A man who asks nation to concentrate
in himself the whole constituent power declares to
that nation, by the sole fact in the clearest manner
that if he shall be invested with the authority claim
ed, it is his firm purpose his deliberately formed
resolution, to introduce more of concentration and
more of unity into the constituted authority Ne
body In France deceived upon that point and
it is precisely because the question was universally
understood that there was such prodigious accord
an accord almost universal, in the answer, Yes !;
the want Of strong authority is the want of the
moment"
The Debats has a long article expressing the same
opinion, though in much less exultng and satisfied
tone than that assumed by the favorite semiofcial
organ. The DeJats is sad, and well it may be for
it in the actual political condition of France
rctrograde movement even beyond the form it affects
the most and served so parliamentary govern
ment under constitutional monarchy The Debats
establishes first the final disappearance of the Repub
lie in France
Now may judge the republic of 184s without
anger for it is dead In the street it nothing but
orgy in the Provisional Government il perhaps
luntary ncapacity" And thus continues
by the side Of social order and of administrative order
is political order that to say, the organization and
ation Of the public powers. Assuredy do not hold
these in light esteem. Our past journalists
connected it has been from affection with constitu
tona monarchy consrans concede great Importance
TO political order and to the organization of the various
pubic powers We cannot however, conceal from
selves the profound difference of the times We cannot
help from seeing that when there is President nom-
mated for ten years with the right Of making Con-
sttution the question of the organization Of the public
powers hns the same importance ms under the
constitutional monarchy He is mad indeed who should
not comprehend the fundamental change which has just
been operated in the political constitution Of the country
The error Of routine which at the time pre-
vented many persons from comprehendng the bearing
the changes made by the Constitution Of lS4s in the re-
preventative regime would be repeated to-day If the habit
which we s have Of the forms Of representative regime
should prevent our compromising the bearing of the
change which has just been made 1t is entirely
order polite which has been founded IT is very proba
bic that the Constitution viii institute divers political
sodies and confer upon them certain atributions But
the political power properly called has passed into the
President We may be implicitly believed upon this
point. Our affections and if you please our regrets
which we do not dsavow render us cair-voydns The
diversity Of political bodies is still possible: the division
OF powers no longer exists Universal suffrage has sub
stuted unity of representation in place Of variety the
auocratc republic place Of the parliamentary republic
As did not love much the republic even under the
parliamentary form, we take note Of its demise without
any emotion"
We have as yet no intimation as to the date Of
the proclamation of the new Constitution The do
cument is looked forward to with interest not as an
instrument determining for an indefinite time the
destiny of France, giving the fundamental rule for
regulating the march Of Government and rights and
duties Of citizens Nobody attributes to it SO high
mission. II is looked for as an interesting erpose
Of the present views and intentions Of NJ Bonaparo with
regard TO this country Of which the whole and sole gov
eminent is concentrated in his person Nobody supposes
at after its proclamation ii will afford the strong I'M
bending rule Of his conduct tomorrow IL tomorrow NJ
Bonapares views Of expedicncy shall be different from
what they are to-day Inthe mind Of in France will
be invested with that sacredness and authority that
would the individual or the nation collectively 10
respect it hour after its author shall be unable 10
command IN its support the standing army by whose aid
he ramped under foot the constitution Of 84S and inn
posed himself upon France As for myself look for the
new constitution Of France with Just about the same in
terest in kind and degree that looked for his last annual
message II seems to quite evident that he means to
crafty the people with very small portion Of liberty.
lie is acting upon the principle that the best way to pre-
pare TO support the full blare Of the meridian sun
is to shut him up in dark chamber As for egaliy he
has degned to utter distinct promises as to that
The French about to rejoice in the same sort Of equa
y that is possessed BY the slaves upon plantation Of the