New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-21
EUROPE REVISITED. .....No. Iff.
FRANCE UNDER THE EMPIRE.
Eli,ori.l StsFs-, ondsnce q The n. Y. Trl9ans'
Pans Tuesiav M,- 4. :

thechsrges wrought By 'Gee years and over OF Imp,
ial sway. shall endeavor not to forget the modest
waerewith stranger net seq tainted evea with II
language should speak of the feel 90 and aspiration
Of great People. and, collstng all 30 testimony
have been able to collect u set forth the good a. vel
the evil effects Of the Nspoleonic Auoc~pey viii
frunknoss and candor.
The Government Of Russia has been defined I" A
" despotism tempered BY assassination" That VI
| France | would rather characterize ~ despotisns
tempered by salutary consciousness Of the ms ability
power in this country aoi osne,l desire to pro-
mote the material welfare Of its subjects. Louis VA
poleon, whatever his dement's, Is 40 bockhead. He
knows that the mode in which he acquired power was
most exeeptionabie, and impose hia double ne
esssity for oircumspection in its ana beuehcsnce
in it. Influences. lie knows that be rules BY the m :ht
Of bsyCnet and hat these are fol ale moment all
powerful in France but lie knows aso thGt This Is az
age in which bayoucts think. The Amy Is his scep-
ter be feeds il, faers it, defeIs TO it; bat he = aware
that its ranks are constantly recruited som t8e cot
tages and fesidss OF France and that, wrr he 70 be-
conc decidedly eiSss in these, his bayenets would
10 longer be reliable and mi ht prove dangerous.
And besides since Tranee has become his Possession,
hi. property biz or hi- as- be must be a fool or
dsi OIL if he did not aspire and labor to render her
proryerous ard happy as may be without subSeTtiuy
or endangoring his throne. cannot doubt therefore,
that b, anyioury endeaSers 20, only 10 reconcile his
subjects to the Imperial regime. bat to improve lher
uaefia end social condition. could net name ano-
tier living monarch who would be Likely to WELD such
absolute power o.cr Thfty-fve Millions of People
more benshcently than he dees.
But Slavery, Disguise it a thou v', thou art =
bitter drsueht." il fearful thing TO be AutOcra'
of Nation like this; to be a subject Of such unlimited
power is not les fearful. When we consider that in
al this mighty Nation there is but puissant voice,
of which all other voices are echoes dumb-hat
one man virtually makes the laws. expoynds and exc
cu:es thou-thnt this substantially edits all the
newspapers exercises censorship over she issues of
books, tells the People what they N think and how
they are TO regard transpfing eyen's-nsy, permits
them TO know only 60 much Of those events suits ms
purposo-we may well sigh for that Nation, and trem-
BE for him who has wadod through perjury and blood
to so tremendous a responsibility Il the Allied Armies
were 10 be defeated and driven out OF the Cnmea to-
morrow the facts would be suppressed, cooked up or
published exactly should be deemed mos! condu-
Give to the ntercst Of the Emperor. leading Paris
ion journalist recently remarked in confidential eouVer'
sa;ion that censorship which eNPunged and sup
pressed such portion of each newspaper issue as was
deemed Objectionable would be mercy compared with
tie prev ailing system, which says nothing I'LL the
ofiCnse i perhaps without meaning what - nserred)
irrovocably committed, and then gives its terrible
warning the second repetition of which senees the
offending journal and ruins all connected Herewith.
There il 10 adjudi, alton, no impartial tfbuna-eVery
editor writes with rope around his neck which lie
knows NAV be drawn 10 suffocaon whenever me tone
ofbis ortic not agreeable to the lucky though for
f....t I, 'Tssfa- fe4 lie nffnu -
mey he Of the most impelpabe, intangible sossamer
character It uffcos that Is an oiese III INC e!'" VI
Lou. NAPOLEON or some one Of his satellites .
- ~, ,os, tain. r. ,rf-unecton Ana 'hus
-. a., H. "a really no such thing ~ pnDhc
,..nIs;cn in Erance. The Legislative Chambers
-. ,.hon thew arc called and adjourn when their
,,,.s,or hes no further use for them they have no
ob, IN orqi,nic or materially change any measure;
.tey can simply cay Yes or No TO what the EMPEROR
cv or ,hrou n one of his Ministers shall see nj to
proposo: and they never fail TO say Ies-in eiect'
Fan saw nothing clsc. For this end were they eI
nrsy created and should they fail TO subscrye
II eoupiotoly their creator will unmakc them byG
,trokeo his pen or . flourish OF his sabre Oh THIS,
bogeyer. there l. no shadow Of danger The knowl-
,dg that thew are pun pets to dance with obsoquious
sserty at the pull Of the string obyates all necessity
for destroying or reconstructng them.
This AFFECT dependence and powcressness OF the
legislative Bodies il VIGOROUSLY at with the
sIdees Napoloonicnncs" by which the Nephew oil his
Uncle prole-s.- 10 be governed. NAPOLEON at St
Helena admitted that ms Legislature was mi''"Ao
that in divcstng il Of all real power, lie had unwit-
tingy deprived himself Of all protection from the most
unlimited responsibility. Nobody blamed his "oofPs
"Leeislatif for the forsy Spain, the invasion oil
Russia or any other Of the mad acts by which Tue
first Emperor undermined and ultimately ruined
Nobody even spoke of what the Senate had deceod or
advised. since every body knew that the senate was
rs impotent ard parasitic the trumpet on which the
imperial blasts of war were blown. And thus IL
u,ovod in the hour of trial that power without limit il
/ power without support.
How then is the present Empire regarded by those
on whose shoulders ii is upborne
/ should say, By the Army with approval by the
Roman Priesthood with conplacencyi b. the No
blesse with disdain; BY the Bourgeoisie that ', the
mass OF the Merchants Bankers, extensive hanuiac-
turers and other Employers with hesating and quail
fled support; by the intellectual class Professors,
Authors, Editors, &e with intense though smotheTed
aver.ion and hostility. Of The sentiments OF the great
mas Of the Peasentry can hardly speak even a,
secord-hsrd; but the more general testimony implies
that with many Of them the word OF the Priests Is
Potent, and Napoleon thus IN favor while ".'h
another large class the name of Napoleon has the
.,roo uoyer which that OF Jefferson that Of jack
ON IN il dsy had with the least enlightened portion
Of our own people. "To speak says Heinei Of wha'
The proyinces OF Franco believe desire with re-
gard TO any public question is Ike talking Of what
"a msns leg- think" | spprehend this is TO day the
es,e with r,.ard TO majority Of the unsklled labor
ers OF France. Earning from l. to some s. een.s
| -, -, 4 -. ls,.,rl ti. co-t If the roof that barely