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

like fate. The victim was TO be dead to the world.
So the usurper willed. 1t was part of the plan he
bad proclaimed " to strike terror Those sent to
Algiers were as absolutely dead to their friends
and relatives as though they had been laid in the
tomb.
The rumbling of the prison-yan, the clank OF fet-
tiers, the tramp Of soldiers, the clang of arms ever
and anon broke the solemn Stiffness OF the strong
armed and generous men Of France, thousands lay
dead-slaughtered BY debauched, drunken, igno-
rant, and brutal sOldery; other thousands lay in
mortal agony, writing from their wounds; a hum
bred thousand were in dungeons or on their way to
the gaeys or exile Haf-a-milliOn Of women and
children thus deprived Of their protectors, and
menaced and gagged if they dared to complain, in
quiet starved and mOurned. Through the COL
umns of the few journals allowed to exist, brbed
wretches now sang the praises of the red-handed
murderer-of Louis Bonaparte the savior OF
France the protector of religion, family, prop
erty praises that were echoed through the press
OF other lands along with indgnities heaped upon
the French people, people pronounced incapable
of selfgoyernment and fit slaves for any master.
to wipe their CORY blades and clutch their blood
money; automaton senators to pass laws at the
murderers bidding, robbiDg the people Of millions
ard placing them within his grasp; thousands of
armed and trained cut-thrOats ready for any reign
that proffered plumber and promotion were eager
to continue the work of destruction; the Republic
was annihilated, its brave defenders sllenced and
IT. oariaa
blessed. red ribbons distributed, foreign embassa-
doris offered their fluctuations, and " order regDed
in Frsncer'
Tie usurpaton being complete, the cut-throatS
triumphant, the Republicans crushed, and the
prisons gOrged, the next move of the perjurer was
the performance of comedy of Executive Glenn
ency to such of the conference.-the rather Of the
accused for numbers lay in prison who had had
no form of trial-as by Commissioners appointed
for the purpose should be found least guilty Gen.
CanrObert, who in December had commanded on
the Boulevard POissoniere, and murdered Repub-
lcans there, and battered down houses with can
non; Col. Espinasse, Who for 100, 900 francs, had,
on the morning of the I'd Dec, surrounded the
Hall Of the Assembly, and, in defiance of the Con-
stituton filled it with his mercenaries and seized
the legal representatives of the people-the same
Colonel, now Gen. Espinasse, who on the 23d
ult, rs we learn by the Persia, was raised by
the Queen of England to the dignity OF 'Com
"panion of the Order of the Bath :" and N.
Quentin Bsuchart, were the three Commissioners
appointed to make this examination. OF the 50
Departments, they visited %; but why % were
selected rather than eight or go, and the condition
Of the prisoners OF those % only inquired into, no
one could form a conjecture, except that the pur-
pose of the comedy was served. To these Com
mssioners was delegated the power to commute
punishments or grant pardons. Those pardOned
were required "to take an oath Of fidelity to the
"persOn of the Prince" or, if that was refused, to
quit France and remain in exile. NJ Jacques
earle, aged fity-twO, an exile at London, thus de-
scribes the mode of his liberation by one of these
Commissioners He was cast into prison on the
18th Of December, 1851. From that time till the
10th May, 1852, he had not had any examination,
nor had any one even demanded his name. Then
he was brought before Mr. Commissioner Bau-
chart, who with others, attired in embroidered
coats and like trumpery, formed a court. Dir.
Bauchart, with very soft voice and winning man.
ner, thus addressed him: my friend, you are
"condemned to pass the remainder of your days
ain England; but if you will take the oath to our
prince you may rest o, home in pesce.' Take
"an oath to BOnaparte" replied N. Carrie; II
"despse him too much for that !"
The embroidered coats heard this reply very
TRANQUILITY, as something to which they were used,
and Mr.. Bauchart again attempted in the same
soft voice, to exhOrt Carrie to take the OATH
"Your words are useless" said Care 81 will
"never swear" So passport for England was
handed to him. 1t had been printed in the time OF
the Republic, but the device at the top" Liber-
"ty Equality, Fraternity''-was partly obliterated
by stroke of the pen, and over it was written
Political Exile"
The number of political prisoners who received
communication OF sentence or pardon from these
commissioners, and the total number of cases they
professed to have had under examination summed
up as follows:
BY Gen. Canrobert. .......-."..779 out OF 4,ooo.
By Col. Espinasse. 300 out of 1000.
BY NJ. Bauchsrt. ,377 out of 5000.
Total. ,456 out OF l,675
Thus, according to official reports OF the usurp-
er's own Commissioners, they examined several
months after the corp dt0t into the cases of 1865
political prisoners then in custody in only tcenty
agh Of the eighty-sir Departments. With such
data as these and mass of the same kind which
can be adduced, there is full confederation for the
accuracy of the calculation that, at and after the
coup daat, 100000 Republicans were arrested and
imprisoned for some period, whether longer or