New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-15
In the village of Beaumont, Department Of Pay
de- Dome. the eY. Mayor, NJ. MaradeiI, set the eI-

annie on the 10Th Of December OF 'oIAns w. III
.on.aouence nj, house was surrounded BY Louis
Ronapartes soldiers, and the order gwen 70 snoos
sny one who attempted to run from IT, 70 arrest
him. and make search for Republican documents
He could not be found so bis house was pInased,
lis walls and floors destroyed. lie was searcned
for in many otter houses which were treated III
like manner. Men and women suspected OF mar
boring him were arrested and their houses plaged.
Finally. the streets Of the village being filled with
troop. for general search be was at last discov-
cred At night hidden on the roof of house. From
roof to roof be was hoty pursued BY the soldiers
and continually fred upon, but aided by the dark
ness. be escaped, and descending to the street
made good bis flight.
We might adduce scores of individual instances
proving how those who voted against Louis bona-
part's ten wears Presidency were treated but the
above and the following will suffice.
In Paris and the departments, persons attempt
ing to distribute at the polls ballots with the word
No were arrested; those who distributed ballots
with the word Yes were unmolested. None ou'
les tickets were printed The Project of Bas-Rhln
published this edict: 1.-The distribution OF ballots
ION the election days, Goth and 2lst of December,
lis formally interdicted. Gen. AphOnse' COM
handing the troops at Cher, published this ORDER:
:" Auy individual scrutinizng the vote or critics.
ling the result will be bro&ht before the Council
"of War" The Project OF Haute- Garonne, ~
Chapuis -Montayille, published this proc'amatln;
ANY one distributing ballots, printed or written,
Twill be arrested unless he can produce speclai
authority from the Mayor or the Justice OF the
peace" These authorized agents distributed
only Yes ballots, OF course. AT D0ual, Well
known lawyer and landed proprietor, n. Gulllau-
main. was thrown into Jail along with common
thieves on no other charge than that OF distributing
ballots with the word No. From the I'd OF De-
cember, the date of the coup d'6tat to the 2Vth'
the election day, the preparations for bringing out
the voters, made respectively by the usurper and
the Republicans, were wholly unequal. On the side
of the usurper, avalanche Of journals, proclama-
tons. circulars addresses, was poured gratsltousy
into every town, village, homestead, and pastered
upon every wall; on the side of the people, not
journal, not placard, was permitted TO appear
On the side of the usurper an army of ofiice-hol-
harang,ling the people upon the virtues OF LOUIS
Bonaparte. declaring that his coup ttdt had, for
the moment. saved France, and that the vote con-
frmng his continuance as President would alone
prevent anarchy, civil war and the reign OF terror
and that all who voted No would be severely pun
ished; on the side of the people, not man was
permitted TO raise his voice and expose the fraud
On the side of the usurper positive orders to pre-
fects, mayors, judges policemen, official scoundrels
of every grade procure yes ballots and distribute
them with open hands; on the side OF the people,
the prospect OF jail and exile for any one who
dared TO offer a voter ballot printed no. In many
villages the villagers were marshaed by the priest;
in the hand of each he placed a yes ballot; then,
with drummer he marched at their head to the
polls, and recorded their sufrages for the saviour
Of religion, family, property" That was the
cry. In some departments only half the registered
voters came 10 the polls. Those who stayed away
were the noes, who feared 10 come. The right o.
suffrage is very dear; but most men will hesitate
TO encounter the risk of dungeon for simply using
it, Notwithstanding this peril, one third of all
the voters at some OF the polls voted no. The noes
were marked for destruction. The reign OF terror
began. Every leading man among them was ar
rested and his house plaged in pretended search
for Republican documents.
Neither age Ior sex, virtues, talents, genius,
services, spared in the ndiscriminate seizure
of all suspected of Repubcanism-of devotion to
their country and liberty and not TO reckless ad
venturer, On impudent usurper, midnight assassin
and thief. David the sculptor Buchez the ex-
Mayor of Paris, DR.. Deville the celebrated
anatomist, Victor Hugo tie poet orator, states
man, Colonel Charras, the Bsyard of his order,
Generals Bedeaa, Lefo, Cavagnac and Lamori-
ciere, Madame Roland, Madame Huet, Madame
Jarreau, and host Of other ladies, and hundreds
such as these, and Of others tens of thousands,
worthy Of honor, whose names, though published,
are not known TO fame, were exiled or consigned
by this wholesale perurer and murderer to dun
geons. The word Of any spy or denOuncer, and
the will of any sergeant Of soldiers or police, was
the law Of arrest, and resistance was vain. Either
the victim was killed on the spot or violently
dragged TO prison.
The objects Of the monsters vengeance were
chosen alike from all social ranks. Throughout
France men were seized in the field, the cottage,
the workshop, tie Office, the drawing. room; hur-
ried before brutal parasites, who at once were ac-
cUsers, witnesses, judges, executioners; or even
without this farce of pretended accusation and trial,
were slowed literally Like hogs in pen or sheep in
butchers cart, in filthy dungeons; absolutely
janmed into dungeons, and not supplied with food
for &c hours at a time; left to rot and die of cold
and hunger, filth and vermin; or sent by shploads,
In felons rarn and felnn's 70 nerish