The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-13


10 what France nov wishes; it Is what Is asked Of
you by country fatgued with Utopian ideas, in
crecuious With respect to political abstra,ions and
whose genius q union of sound sense and poesy. is
SO constituted that il only believes in power under
the figure Of hero or prince
EVENT. the love of Frenchmen for monarchy be
only aprejudice, is must be respected; people can
Only be governed in accordance With les ideas But
IL must particular be respected, because II is To-
spired by the most essen ial wants, and the most
Legitimate interests of the country,
France is great State which wishes TO preserve
at home and abroad the force which vast territory
and thirty i've millions of inhabitants give Size 10
both agricultural and commercial Notwithstand-
ing the fertility Of her soil she would be poor II
manufactures we're not to add immense personal to
real capital, and If the taste for polite eujoy
ard moderate luxury did not give to labor sn ali
ment always new But labor, in order to arrive ut
The result of its enter prises should DO seconded by
so many advances Of funds, and such persevering
continuance Of efforts, that all success would
cape it if it were interrupted or troubled by the
storms OF oisquieting and suoversive policy. Ii
demands, therefore, stability of Institutions, as
the source of confidence and the mother of credit.
All these conditions OF regular and prosper Gus
life the monarchy procures to France; any other
form can only coDpr jmise them
Monarchy is the government Of great States to
which Institutions made for duration are marvel
lcusly suitsble the most solid fouuda lions are
required for q vast edifce The republic. on the
contrary, is only the government Of small States,
we except the United States of America, which, by
their geographical position, form exception to all
rules, and which, besides, are only federation; =
republic has been able to establish itself
cept in small nators in which the embarrassments
Of that difficult and complicated form Of govern
ment are corrected by the small extens of tertory
and population.
Aucient Rome SO far from centrsdctipg this rule,
fully confirms it. The republic was only in the city,
and for the city. Beyond it there was only avari-
cious masters and oppressed subjects. If ever France
be said to have had a sort of neghborhood with
the bic, it was in the middle ages, when tho
republican spirit singuished from the time of the
Caesars, had become awakened in part of Europe;
when France was only chessooard ct almost inde-
pendent provinces, and when the feudal prncipali-
ties were in all parts menaced By the communal
movement Bat since that moment al the interior
action of France has removed her from the repub
can form. She, in particular, separated from it
when she gave herself united territory and thirty
five millions OF inhabitants, living under the Same
In VS. in the country, and united by infinite
chain OF dependent interests which the same move
ment Of circulation causes to terminate in . sole
centre. Such people is not to be shaken, as were
the citizens of sngle city, even if called Athens or
Rome country which lives by its labor, and not
by the labor OF slaves aud presents from the State
cannot be occupied with speeches Of the forum, with
the permanent agitation of somitia, with the ankle
ties of politics, always in ebulition This fever, to
which democratic republics give the nan of politi-
cal life, cannot with immunity be communicated 70
nation whose splendor particularly consists in tho
pacific developemeDt of its wealth. and in che regular
and intelligent activity Of its private interests.
Our fathers learned these truths in the rude school
Of public and private missortunes They compose all
the interior policy Of the commencement OF this
century a. Why should incorrigible innova.ors
have in these latter times, inflicted the too pal.
pable denomination of them upon US! We have
seen affairs raised to instability and to periodical
commissions, the two plaques of the sosial body
we have seen laws made to reduce to solemn pre-
cepts the febre and terrible crises which may ruiz
q people-we have seen the vessel Of the State
launched on an unknown sea, without . fixed point
to guide itself by, without anchor to cast ont,
and no one can say what would have become of the
future OF France If Providence, watching her,
had not raised up the man Of intrepid heart who
extended bis hand to her.
France, with full knowledge of what she is doing,
intends to return to her natural state she longs to
again find her real position and TO her equi.
lbrium. The French people, in its admirable CON-
mon sense, is not 30 infatuated with its superior
qualities that it is not aware of its weak points 1t
feels itself variable in its Impressions prompt to be
worked on, and easy to be led away. And because
it distrusts the rapdity Of a frst movement, it
seeks fixed point in its institutions, aud desires to
be retained q stable and solid basis. The French
democracy has sometimes been compared to that of
Athens
We have no objection to the compari son as far as
polteness and elegance of mind are concerned, bat
We in all other respects utterly disclaim the null
tude The Greek democracies were nothing but
perpetual fux and renux, never accepting tae cor
receive Of their levity. They were, besides, idle
and grsspipg. living the civil oboli and distriou
UOIs OF 1000 On the Ot0er bond, the Frencn demo-
cracy, Of . mere masculine aud naughty character,
does not lock to the State for the Of its we'll
being; it depends on its own efforts for support and
most JOY fully submits to the eternal law Of Cod
daily labor. It's speculations comprise the whole
world it cultivates the earth with it's free hands, it
burrows the mighty deep with its vessels it multi
plies its industrial creations engenders capital, and
renders the future tributary to its able and immense
combinations When nation ti,IS POUNDS its enter
prises on credit and durability, when sometimes not
less than half century lie necessary to it to reap the
benefit Of its operations it is net the institutions of
day that can give it any hope Of their sue 'ess 1t
would be sen.eless il it did not desire to make the
moving sphere OF its interests turn round the mo-
tonless axis Of . monarchy.
1t is true that in France equality is an object Of
absolute worship, and monarchy has, as It's very
first condition, the privileged existence of these
grand and rare indiydualities which God raises
above their fellows to form dynastiss, and which
less human beings than the personihcation OF poo
pie and the concentrated radiation of civilization.
But equality, such We conceive it in France, nd
mits without Jealousy those provdential graodeurs,
rendered Legitimate by State reasons, below which
it finds its level. At Rome and Athens equality
consisted in render ng each citizen admissible the
supreme authority and it is therefore that men
considered all equality at su e1d when Augustus
bad converted the republic into . monarchy. q
In France we considered it as saved and confirmed
forever, under the reign of the Emperor The rea-
son is that in this country Of equality there is
thing that s hiss supported than the government Of
fed in holding every thing in its grasp, places,
credit, wealth, and renown, and in having = wide
and open read before it TO arrive a. everything
cept that extreme point of power, that inaccessible
summit which, the care Of the public tranquility has
placed high above all private competition. BY that
The democracy wonderfully agrees with the mon :
srchy snd that union is much the moro soil that
common sense unites wish the habits Of tae people in
cenertng it.
But should cavilling minds, believing themsclves
more vile than the whole country bring forvr I'd IS
objection to the desire expressed for the hersdi
fsIy empire. the inconveniences which mincrities
ana bad princes may, At certain intervals, produce
in monarchical States, we would reply thai all hu
mep Institutions contain within themselve. certain
defects and weaknesses. The monarchy has not the
privilege Of perfection; it has smply, fer Franss,
the merit of an iDcontestsbls superiority over the
systtn Of perpetual election, which only offers an
etrnal series Of struggles and hazards and which
solves one difficulty only for the purpose Of imme-
diately lesvipg another in suspense
Some ancient States, believing that they were
inv viyo u-nr iaals had ~. .oI