Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-12-04

to the attempts of perturbators On the one hand it is
the only which gorfy itself in the right recog
ton that 1t belongs choose its King n the other ii is
the only which has not had quarre TO settle with the
people. When it disappeared in 1914, IT was not by
struggle Of the naon against its Government The chan
of unequal foreign brought about that violent
divorce But the people have ceased to in the
Empire its emanaton and its work; and they placed it in
their affections far above the Republican anonymous
and umutuous Government, which they remember much
more by the violence Of its proconsus than by the
tories which were the price of French yalor. M
That is why the Napoleonan monarchy absorbed the
Republic first time, and must absorb it second time
The Republic is virtually in the Empire, account of
the like character of the institution and Of the
communication and express delegation Of power by the
people But the Empire superior to the Republic be
cause is also the monarchy that say the Govern
of all confded to the moderang action Of one with
hereditary succession condition. and stability its
consequence Monarchy has the excellent quality of
yielding admirably to all the progress Of civilization by
turns feudal, absouist, and mixed; always old and al
ways modern it only remains to it to reopen the of
its democratic transformation which inaugurated by
the Emperor. That is what France now wishes; it is
what is asked Of you by country fagued with ntopan
IDEAS incredulous with respect political distractions
and whose genius, union of sound and poesy
is SO constituted that it only believes in power under
the figure Of hero prince.
Even if the love Of Frenchmen for monarchy be only
prejudice 1t must be respected people only be
governed in accordance with its IDEAS But it must in
particular be respected because it is inspired by the
Of the country
France is great State which wishes to preserve at
home and abroad the force which vast territory and
thirty 1--WE millions of inhabitants give. She is both ag
ricultnral and commercial Notwithstanding the fertility
of her SOIL she would be poor If manufactures not
to add immense personal to real capital and il the taste
for polite eAoymens and moderate luxury did not give
to labor an aiment always new But labor in order to
arrive at the result of its enterprises should be seconded
by SO many advances of funds and such perseverng
continuance Of efforts that all success would escape it if
were interrupted troubled by the storms of dsquie
ing and subyersive policy 1t demands, therefore, sta
biy of institutions the Of confidence and the
mother of credit .gss . a4,s.4
All these conditions of regular and prosperous life
the monarchy procures to France any other form
only compromise them.
Monarchy is the government Of great States to which
institutions made for duration maryeousy suitable
the most solid foundations required ed
hce The Republic on the contrary only the govern
men OF small States except the United States of
America which, by their geographical position form an
exception to all rules, and which, BESIDES only fe
Iteration republic has never been able to establish it.
self except in small nations in which the embarrassments
of that difficult and complicated form of government
corrected by the small extent of territory and population
Ancient Rome, SO far from contradicng this rule fully
confirms It, The republic only in the city, and for
the city Beyond it there only avaricous masters
and oppressed subjects If France can be said to
have had sort Of neighborhood with the republic
in the middle ages, when the republican spirit extin
guished from the time of the Caesars had awaken
ed in part OF Europe; when France only chess
board of almost independent proynces and when the
feuda principalites were in all parts menaced by the
communal movement But since that moment all the in
terror action of France has removed her the repub
ican form She in particular separated from it, when
she gave herself united territory and thirty five millions
of inhabitants living under the same laws in the same
country, and united by infinite chain of dependant in
teress which the same movement of circulation
terminate in sole centre. Such people is to be
shaken as were the citizens of single city, called
Athens Rome country which lives by its labor and
not by the labor of slaves and presents from the State
be occupied with speeches of the FORUM with
permanent agitation Of coma with the anxetes of poll
tics always in ebuton This fever, to which democra
tic republics give the of political life cannot with
mpunity be communicated to nation whose splendor
particularly consists in the pacific development of its
wealth. and in the regular and intelligent activity of its
private interests.
Our fathers learned these truths in the rude school of
public and private misfortunes. They compose all the
interior policy Of the of this century
Why should incorgble innovators have In these latter
times inflicted the too papable demonstration of them
upon us We have affairs raised to instability and
to periodical convulsionshe two plaques Of the social
body have laws made to reduce to solemn pre-
cepts the ebre and terrible crisis which may ruin
pe have the vessel of the State launched
unknown sea, without fixed point to guide itself by,
without anchor TO cast OUT and say what
would have become Of the future of France If Providence
watching her. had not raised up the Of intrepid
heart who extended his hand to her.
France with full knowledge of what she is DOING in
tends to return to her natural state she longs to again
find her real position and her equilibrium
The French people, in its admirable sense is
infatuated with its superior qualities that ii is not
aware Of its weak points, 1t feels itself variable in its
impressions prompt to be worked on and easy be led
away And because it distrusts the rapidly Of first
movement, il seeks fixed point in its institutions and
desires to be retained on stable and solid basis The
democracy has sometimes been compared to that
of Athens We have objection to the comparison MS
far as poeness and elegance Of mind concerned but
we in all other respects utterly dscam the smiltude
The Greek democraces nothing bat perpetual 1ux
and reux, accepting the corrective Of their levty
They besides, idle and graspng living the civic
obol and distributions Of food On the other hand the
French democracy of masculine and naughty
character does not look to the State for the care Of its
well-being IL depends its own efforts for support
and most joyfuy submits to che eternal law Of God
daily labor Its speculations comprise the whole world
il cutyates the earth with its free hands it burrows the
mighty deep with its vessels; it mutples its industrial
creations engenders capital and renders the future tr
butary to its able and immense combinations When
nation thus Pounds its enterprises on credit and dura
bility when sometimes not less than half century is
necessary to to reap the benefit Of its operations il is
not the institutions Of day that give any hope of
their success II would be senseess If it did desire
to make the moving sphere Of Its interests round the
motioness axis Of q monarchy.
II is true that in France equality is object of abso
lutte worship, and monarchy has, its very first condi-
on the privileged existence Of these grand and in
dviduales which God raises above their fellows to form
dynaste and which less human beings than the per-
sonhcaon Of people and the radiation of
civilization. But equality, such we conceive it in
France admits without jealousy those provdental gran
deurs rendered legitimate by State reasons below which
finds Its level At Rome and Athens equality consisted
in rendering each citizen admissible to the supreme au
thory and it is therefore that considered all equal
y Mt an end when Augustus had converted the republic