The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-02-27

LIE tDD hEftbllCANS mAhlNG a
NIGHT OF IT IN BLESSED New YoRK.-Tne
amiable and highly intelligent patti Of the
French nation who do this city the favor
to make il the sewer into which their com.
munist notions are poured, held their usual
yearly meeting on Tuesday last, in fit comuemo-
ration of the monstrous blunder of February,
1s4s 1t has been usual with these eminent
statesmen and political economists to beguile
their exile and testify their gratitude to the coun-
try which grants them q home by giving utter
ance, on these festive occasions, to mild wishes
for the comprehensive determination Of the ruling
classes in Europe, or for the invention of some
such expeditions machine Of death as steam
guillotne;r these being the formulas by which, in
the opinion OF M. Baron, vogeli, Turfert and
Others the existing social system Of Europe Is to
be purified Of lie stains, aud be rendered worthy
of the age and the French nation. They we're
not fsifhless this February to their traditional
practice A speaker, who spoke as II he had the
globe under his feet, expressed his intention
not only of discriminating crowned heads through
out the world, but of blotting out of all Ian
guages the very names Of king and emperor; and
the speaker Of the evening devoted no small por-
ton Of bis time to what looked very like justi6-
cation of the mad monk yerger for the assassina-
ton of The Archbishop Of Paris. These sentiments
were received, we are told, with vocferous ap-
plause by the assembled guesss
1t is TO be hoped that these patriots are bet
ter acquainted with the Frenchmen Of whom
they discoursed than they seem to be with the
Americans whom they introduced 10 their al
dience. Otherwise, If hey know as little of the
Emperor as Mr.. Lapgen Swartz knows Of Mr..
Bennett, whom he describes as having been
guest Of the Emperor's and indebted 10 him for
his sons admission to the Poly technic school, we
fear their facts cannot be more trustworthy than
their theories
One thing is quite certain. Such men are bet
ter here than in their own country. We live
here in sort Of frc.proof, bomb-proof country,
where you may light bonfres, fee Off squibe, aad
play any incendiary prank, in the very midst of
society, without doing the least harm. All
that is needed to demolish the worst incendiaries
is q column of the HERALD In the hands of skill
full reporter. Give them air, and they expire d.
rectly. So whenever treason Is plotted, or non
rehrt nSWtu, VIC JuSb tct III picu'y VI I'll u'iu
daylight on the plotters, and they stra'gbtway
become harmlese as sucking doves II these
amiable children of the Gaelic cock were still ia
their native France, they would forever be
contrivfng conspiracies to overthrow the gov
eminent and get up street fights; the govera-
ment, instead Of exposing their absurdity,
would be employing legion Of policemen TO
watch and guard them; and some day an out
break would take place, and heads would be
broken, and perhaps revolution would take
place. As TO object or aim, bless you. they
have none in the world; If they carried their
point, they could no more than repeat the mise.
rable fasco they made in 1913; If they were
beaten, they would have much TO suirer, and
would involve many innocent persons in their
troubles; whether beaten or victorious, they could
not do any good TO their country and could no,
help doing IL some harm.
II IL these men who have 20 far dscredied The
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