New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-13

carried them too far and that the people suffered
themselves 10 be in,mic sfed. Even were that so,
there was 9Th the menace and the vote was there
fore not free.
Saw. LIE National de POs<sf, Of the 10th December
.Thi, morning NJ Ciaverie. Police CommissAry
of the 5,h auondissemert accompanied by Two
SCENTS, presented himself AZ cur printing es'aoisn-
n<nt He was CHARGED by the Central Commissioner
To tsze certain bulletins, printed No and surrounded
by f,urs de rs which were supposed 70 nave oeen
printed at our establishment he was promptly con-
yuctd teat the au;hotitits had been leo 1910 error
and that no such bulletins bad been issued from our
press We learn that Two other establishments
were for the same reason. inspected oy the Polce'
The Minor aifAmiers SAYS
"The Gems d'armss have Just arrested and con-
veyed to the house OF detention, IN saieneienhes,
M Parent, Jr, substitute of the Jsgses-Pair oil
Bouch actually upoD duty suspected OF having ex"
cited the inhabitants OF Aresnss e. Sec TO vote against
the President OF the Republic
The Union de Ia Hanfe- Name says:
"We Learn tina. NJ Sanpicue. Advocate at 81.
Dzer and editor OF the commercial journal,
L'Aner., as just been arrested at Fassy Hess, ac-
cusec o. distributing negative bulletins curing the
vote he 20ih and 2lst December, and OF seeking
TO iIfueI &c the election"
Who will dare to say, after reading these extracts,
that the citizens at liberty to vote against the
President or distribute negative bulletins
Such frauds and excuses explain very easily the
show why il was greater in the sections considered
especially Socialist than elsewhere, as is evident
from the following facts: LIST. La Nievre, which
elected the most devoted Socialists by vote OF two
to one gives Louis Napoleon 7ic0O Ayes to 400
Noes. 3D. LAllier, whose Socialism is not less pro-
nouncec gives f9,OO0 Ayes TO 1900 Noes. ID. La
Creuse, where Nadsud was all powerful, gives
$4,000 Ayes to 3,4O0 Noes. 4ih sa6ne and Loire,
whose deputation belonged entirely to the Noun
tam, gives lCs,O00 Ayes to 5000 Noes. And 5th
LAIN gives s., 500 Ayes to 3,400 Noes.
We might cite others. But we hasten to ask what
is the reason of this Are those Departments sud.
denly converted to the Napoleon ausocracyl Surely
not The explanation of the vote is found in the
system OF terror to which those Departments were
subjected. Let it not be forgotten. When the vote
of the 2O,h December was taken, thirtytwo Depart
men,s had been placed in state OF siege, and SUI
eied all the horrors Of a military regime. Beside
this, decree of the sth December ordained that
any person proved to belong to secret society,
might be exported with cenvicts to Cayenne and
the dscrees of the Project had put all unauthorized
assemblies upon the footing as sc cret societies.
This was really terrorism over every suspected
citizen. There were also In every Department GER
tain prominent individuals OF great infuence-moss
OF whom were arrested and imprisoned during the
week preceding the election.
Certainly great moral energy and intelligence
amorg the masses would have inspired them with
vigorous resistance to such acts. But political hero
ism Is rare. The Government was shIewd in sup
posing that fear would be more powerful than rage,
and hence we'll kno wn socialists openly voted "Aye"
to gave Themselves from prison.
The unanimous vote was thus the result OF two
contradictory fearsone party voted aye for fear OF
the Socialists the other voted aye for fear OF the
Police. In brief, question falsely presented in
such wise tina. negative vote was almost impossible
the journals silent, or forced to publish whss
pleased the suthorities-no possible means oil dis.
proving the falsehoOds and caumnies OF the Govern
ment-the necessity Of writing the negative bulletin
in advance, while the ayes were everywhere dis
tributed and finally systematic Terrorlzation-that
is the triumph Of the goth December.
We do not assert that all the Ayes sprans from
hese causes We know that the specteT Of 1852
haunted many minds. We know that they thought
in that way to save society and rescue France from
blood. But We assert that in free Election. the
Noes would have balanced the Ayes and that 1t Is
great IL Justice France to suppose that the 600
votes txtoited III the manner We have shown,
express the national will. The actual Government
OF France has the power Of position Let 1t content
itself with that, knowing that between 1t and the
Right is the gulf that separates Crime from Justice