New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-03

a., and trans por,.non' TO what conception Of
,isht or morality could 80 appeal against assis'
sinauon
We are also now 10 see the revolutionary con.
sriracy set on foot upon the largest scale The
democracy had reckoned on free expression o.
the populaY Will in 1882. and no" suddenly hnd
themselves mechanically conquered b5 reckless
,onsniyacv whose chance OF success VAS as one
% a hundred. Nothing, :her, remains but to
oppose conspiracy to conspiracy. when we re-
member the mortal injury done to all parHes,
the daily increasing burden OF oppression ana
sbame. and the great number OF men oil dIstin-
ousbed capacity, civil and military, suddenly
driven from their former spheres, 1t must be a2-
parent that the conSpiracies now al haha "it
he Altogether more extensive than those to Whlci
Louis Philippe was exposed in the earlier years
Of his Government.
But whatever be the phenomena now lmnedi-
atelv a, hand. and whatever accidental changes
affairs NAV assume, it should not be forgotten
that there is an understandable impulse which
carries on the movement of France under all the
temporary forms of the national Developments.
This is found in the economical situation oil the
country. The expenditures OF the year 1871
amount to about filten hundred millions oil francs
the deficit was estimated, by the Finance Com
mittee of the late Assembly, al 80 millions the
consolidated debt is six thousand millions; the
floating debt is stated IN the report OF the same
Committee IN. Passy, reporter) at $50 millions,
with the prospect that during the next year y
would attain hight never before known IN the
history of France. This state OF the finances
must be deterorated by the expenses OF the usur'
patton, the civil list Of the imperial pretendan,
and the endless greed OF that troop Of bankrupt
adventurers and venal creatures who Will demand
a competent reward tor the services now rem
dered. These additional outlays cannot be COW
cred by the 25,OOooOO OF francs which the high
arstocracy of money-lending put at the DISPOSE
ton of the Government Just before the usurpi'
ton. And who is finally to meet them IN the
future Is it the peasanty, who are alres ny cry
ing out and longing for a reduction OF the eXor-
bi;ant land tax for the abolition OF the wine tax
(about lOOOOe,000 OF francs yearly for lower
Tates of interest and rent, indeed for equal dis
,ribution Of the soil by lot, after the Spartan
fashion of Lycurgus, as the hart longs Tor the
water brooks Is it the peasanty whose aztec
tons all parties have courted Tor years, TO which,
at the beginning of 1851, the Government OF
Louis Napoleon (Foull being Finance MNister,)
with the assent Of the Legislative Assembly re-
mitted $1,000, GOO Of the land.tax, and to whom
Berger proposed to pay back the liGOOO,ooo
of the supplementary tax of IS centimes, which
they paid in 1913! Is such new burden 10 be
laid on the peasantry, the nursery Of pauperism
and the great support OF this usurpatlon Or IS
il to be laid on the workmen of the towns and
the great mass of consumers VIII the indirect
taxes be enhanced, which already weigh, with
the sum of 500 100000 yearly upon the yerlest
necessares OF life, and whose diminution is de-
manded far and wide, loudly and louder, and
was promised scarce day since by the journals
n the service of the usurper But did not the
gentlemen of the Bank receive in exchange for
their $4,000, 900 pledge that the octrois should
not be removed, nor any essential alteration
take place in the present system OF taxation :
This piece of information we have from the best
authority.
Patience, then, the revolution will soon be at
work The former difficulties are not removed,
but increased. Louis Bonaparte stands at the
parting of the ways VIII he go with the peas
antry, the workmen, and the great mass Of con-
sumers Or will he go with the Bourgeolsle !
In either case he is lost If he goes with the
Bourgeoisie, the disappointment and undecep.
ton of the peasants, workmen, AID the great
mass OF consumers, will destroy him. If he goes
with the latter the Bourgeoisie will destroy him.
for they will perceive their own security to be
greater under the peaceful and economical system
of Democratic Republic than under an expen.
sye system Of arbitrary force with its heavy drafts
on their pockets. In France the present expenses
OF the Government are s. 90 per head OF the
population; m the United States they are only
s. 60, including the cost of both Federal and
State establishments and III Switzerland they
are only - &C. And now, as have said, the
difference is to be still further increased
The arbitrary rule of the Uncle was toerablc
to the French as long as he bore their banner
VIGOROUSLY through the world. If the Nephew
is unable to open such safety valve Tor internal
agitation and discomfort the cannon will explode
not through the mouth but through the touch.
hole, blowing the reckless usurper to pieces
LOUIS SIMON, of Treves.