New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-11

ecutiOn Of which he caused innocent citizens 10
be shot down in the streets by hundreds, and
| caused eminent men, against whom there was
no charge of crime or conspiracy, TO be seized
in their beds by drunken soldiers, and trans
ported without q moments notice beyond the
frontiers.
None of these things does this writer deny, and
vet be arraiens THE TRIBUNE for presuming to
speak Of the facts as they are. Because we say
that this successful gambler ia, precisely what
his acts declare him to BE-, libertine, vagraut,
periu1er, IN assassin, sni traitor to liberty,
we are denounced cs inveterate and bitter radi-
Gals, animated by malignant purposes and wish
ing TO exasperate the anmosities of the French
people. But let US tell MrsNoodle that such
accusations will not turn Us from our course.
His Magnus Apollo may extinguish tho French
Press at the point of the bayonet; he may die
tate to the Press of Belgium; he may cause the
English Press, even including The London Times,
TO eat its words; but the American Press is still
free, and will persist in bringing his deeds to
the alignment Of public opinion.
Louis Napoleon, says Noodle, is the chosen
representative of the French nation, and as
such ought to be treated with courtesy and re-
spect. But this is Just what we do not believe.
He is the representative of French bayonets,
but not of the popular mind or heart. The votes
given for him at the pretended election got up
10 confirm his usurpation no more express the
real sentiments of the nation than the votes in
Kansas, at the late Missouri raid, express the
sentiments of the actual settlers. 1t was our
fortune to have been in Paris when the election
for Deputies was held, few months after the coup
deiat of December, and we saw how those things
were managed. We saw that the whole affair
was bare faced cObtriyance of the government
to give a kind of popular sanction to the men it
had selected as Deputies-or rather as clerks to
register its DEGREES.
The poll we attended was held on the inside
of the Hospital of the hralides. All the old SOL
diers of the establishment were marched in reg
ular files to the small room in which the box
was to deposit their votes. They were all fur
nished Immediately afterward with tickets
headed Candidature du Government to distri
butte to everybody who might choose to vote
them But not a ticket for the opposition was
to be had inside or outside of the building.
After we had left the place, and had proceeded
Up one of the streets about half mile, poor
fellow sneaked out from behind tree toward us,
and with much embarrassment and much fartige
looking about him to see if he was watched
handed US ballot for a republican candidate.
We have no doubt it was the same at all the
other pollng-paces in the city. We know at
any rate that considerable bodies of armed
troops were quartered near each of them under
a pIetense of being ready to quell any disturb
ance that might occur but in reality as politi-
cal agents either to Oyerawe the populace by
their presence, or to use their influence with
friends and acquaintances in behalf Of the reign
ing powers. Now such proceedings may, in the
estimation Of the Noodles, have the force of an
election but with others they will pass for what
| they were-a mere fraud of the Government in
order to induce an impression abroad of its over
whelming popularity.
The truth is that the party in power in France
can always get large seemingly popular vote in
its favor, as is proved by the fact that every
Government that has existed for the last fifty
years has been able to show triumphant ma
jority at the polls. The Administration is so
thoroughly centralized that with five hundred
thousand civil functionares scattered all over
the land, and nearly five hundred thousand paid
soldiers distributed in the same way-who al
ways 60 for those who are init is easy to Sc
cure any number of SURFACES. Yet on the very
heels of such elections we have seen the whole
Government routed, horse, foot and Dragons,
by an insurrection of the people.
That Louis Napoleon is liked by the shop
keepers-that he is even tolerated by others in
the fear of revolution we admit, but that he
would be the choice of the people of France if
they were allowed free expression of their
will, we do not admit. He is thoroughly des-
pissed and detested by every thinking and con-
scientious man in the Empire-he awakens no
enthusiasm among the lower orders, as we know
from having witnessed some of his public APP
peaTances; and he is sustained solely by the
corruption of the army, by the influence Of the
priests who accept him pis aIter, and by the
selfish timidity of the traders, whose convictions
follow the rise and fall of the markets. He
manages his affairs under these circumstances
with wonderful tact, but he has yet exhibited
none of those higher qualities which an honest
man ought to admire and respect. 1t is only
noodles who PROSTATE themselves to the uirtue
Of success.
NEGRO