New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-15


Charies- IDuis- Napoleon Bonspsrte, President Of
the Republic, proceeded TO the tribune.
:" Tie P,es,dent Of the Assem5iy-1 an about to
read the prescribed oath In the presence Of God
National Assembly, swear fidelity to the Democrat
"ic Repubhc one and indivsble and 10 fulfill AZ the
EQUITIES imposed on me by the Constitution.
" The P1e',dent Of the Repable-l Raising biz hand
Il swear
The Pre.i5ent Of the AisemJly-'We take God
ard these men 10 witness this Os;h; the National As
seuby stiests H. orders il inscribed on the minutes,
and published in The Monitear.'
The Pre'ident Of the RePHtI'e-' ask permission
70 speak
"'Tke Pre,tdent Of the A.senlJly-' You have it.
9TH PrestdenG II The ReDabhc-'The sufrsges Of
the nation and the oath have Just taken prescribe
fulfil il ike man Of honor. / will hold az enemies oi
The country all who attempt by Illegal means to change
what all France las established.
Thus exalted by the folly of generous people
the fruit Of blind alteration Of the name he bOre-to
q post to which neither talents nor virtues gave
him any claim, placed for four years only in the
Presidential chair Of Republican France, Louis
Bonspsrte saw in 1851 his term Of Office about TO
expire; be felt his days of legal authority num-
bered. Haddened with lust Of power, pretend
ing 10 believe himself ordained by destiny to be-
come the absolute ruler Of France he had been Oc
cupied during the whole period Of his Presidency,
with the aid Of men more able than himself and
equally inscriptions and infamous, in preparing to
accomplish bis criminal ntents. He had used the
appointing power 10 remove honest men whom he
feared, and bestow their Offices upon has guilty
cODfederates. He had promised TO steal millions
of the nations gold to pay for their traitOrOus aid
and they gave it, He had pledged himself 10 make
colonies, generals; and generals, marshals; and
besides, to pay them all; and he readily found
among an army Of half million, plenty of cut
throats ready-not to follow his lead, for he never
led or faced the danger himself but-to obey his
orders and massacre their fellOw-men who opposed
his criminal designs by deed or word.
In their secret councils they had resolved upon
u day when the National Assembly should be seized
and imprisoned, as well as every prominent Re
publican in Frances Louis BOnaparte TO be first
declared President for ten years and afterward
Emperor; and all who opposed their unlawful acts
to be put to the sword. For this Of perjures,
robberes and murders-this concrete OF all VII
lanies-the French language has a name: it is
called a coup dttat.
The first open effort at a coup dttat was made on
the plains of SatOry, Versailles, at grand re-
view before Louis BOnaparte. 1t was frustrated
by the courage Of q commanding officer, who
gave orders to the troops under him not to make
any cry of Hurrah for the EmperOr-Louis Bona
parte then being President The want of unanm-
ity among the troops alone prevented the consum-
nation of this first effort, which took place year
before the successful attempt. The intention OF
Louis Bonaparte and the BOnapartdes to initiate
his "uncle" and sieze violently on the centralized
Partisan handle of the Government, was evident to
every 0bservant mind from the moment he was In
augurated. During three years, in his public adj
dresses made at Paris or in the Provinces he never
mentioned the word "Republic;" and on opening
the sessions of agricultural, scientific or juridlca
bodies he invariably appeared in military costume,
symbolizng bis idea, that France must be ruled
Caesar fashion, and the barbarOus worship of her
"god," glory, perennially sustained. When this
attempt at SatOry demonstrated that the time for
the Imperial France had not arrived, the troops
not being sufficiently demoralized, a new pro-
gIsmme Of action was adopted. Col. Fleury was
dispatched TO Agiers TO ascertain the compatibility
of the generals, colonies and captains there COM
mandng, and their ability to bring their troops to
sustain u coup d'tat. The regiments OF the officers
purchased thereupon We're brought from Algiers to
Paris, and the regiments already in Paris on whom
Louis Bonaparte could not depend were trans
ferred to Agers and elsewhere. 1t may be well
to add that the regiments sent away from Paris
had been readers of the Republican penny press
which institution was then put under a censorship
additionally harassing, and was forbidden out
right to the troOpsno tyranny being able to stand
against free press. The influence of one of the
penny presses destroyed by Louis Napoleon may
be Judged from the fact that its daily circulation
at one time reached eighty thousand. 1t was sold
literally for sou-a fraction less than the Ameri-
can cent.
As the day, for the successful coup d ttat ap-
preached, hundred and twenty thousand chosen
troops were concentrated on Paris under orders of
officers who had sold themselves, each for his slip
ulated sum of bloOd-mOney. The chief command
was bestowed upon Gen. ST. Arnaud. Louis Ma
poleon-whose licentiOus life had made his de-
bauched person fit casket for his deprayed soul
found in ST. Arnsud kindred spirit and willing
ally. Leroy was the real name of the instrument
St Arnaud an alias, which in early life he had
conferred upon himself for causes unknown. After
the manner of criminals, single aha, did not
suffice Like the names Of his colleagues, that of
ST. Arnaud, at the period of the coup dttat, bore
the selfconerred noble prefix de. St. Arnaud alas
Leroy, as his antecedents show fit instrument
to aid in the work of robbery and murder. In his
youthful days, he at one time subsisted by pawnlng
the clothes of his prostitute mistress-even TO her
ro-, r,nAt;nnat.-as Tia racorls of the Mnnf-df-