New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-02-09
nal organs we're tor once 10 accord. The iodgna-
,icn which 10 ~ generally and THINK, honestly ey

pressed by Journals and public bodies OF AL sorts
and felt by the great msjorty of the people, against
his mItderous attempt, by handful OF nen 10
plunge be country rIiO revolution, Is considerably
heightened by national pride or ganlty which seem.
al once eratIfed aDd offended by the fact that all
the assasslns are foreigner
Tie worst sufferers, IN proportion to their num-
Der. among the perlons in the Rue Lcpelletler on
Thursgay night were the soldiers and policemen,
uost of whom have been soldiers. The Emperor
wss out 10 visit them, going in an open carriage
with the Empress, next day. Tie has distnoNtod
money TO al of them, and crosses and medals 70
several of them. This does not diminish his popu-
larify with the army But something IKE one nun
dred of the wounded are of the people, Of the bour
ceois and lumber Glasses. Imperial sohcitude
reaches them in the shape of kindly inquiry, and
peeunlary sid ii needed. Although there was moth
ing supernatural begging Cardinal Wlsemans
pardop who says there was-ln the courage eN-
kibted by the Emperor-the risk he ran aud es-
cared being no greater and no more cOolly borne
than that which Was incurred by the soldiers on du-
". many oil whom did not escape-yet II was coo
courage and eNctes admiration. HIS escape from
even the slightest wound, which Is somewhat re-
msrkatle. seems almost miraculous To the MUM
tude who are as poor calculstors of probabilities
as the assassns Themselves and has greatly strength
eued his prestige One may readily infer IRON these
hcts.Low much hs political position Is confirmed
Nv the affair of Thursday night. II LOUIS Nap0-
Icon could in any way have put hnsct 10 r0te on
Saturday BE- would have carried more surfaces
than ever before. Had the elections OF Deputies
for the vacancies in Paris been appointed Tor mat
day. cannot doubt that the Government candidates
would have been returned by large voluntary MAJOR
tiles.
surely am in 10 haste to help swell the universal
sc,eech and cackIe now raised in full chorus all over
Europe, By not purely "dsinterested parties, OF
"miscreants" "terOciOus beasts, ETC., 10 INC
address. first, OF Orsni and his accomphces, ahd
tLeD BY ordinary logical implication and inference
10 the address of all liberal men and governments
bu, for this absurd yet dangerous howl We nave 70
thank this foolish brutal attack upon Napoleon ana
his wife. and FIVE hundred other men, women and
children. Foolish and brutal it must be called even
though we were 10 admit, ~ general prOposluon'
the righteousness of assassination, and recognize as
model of political virtue that stupid aud nypocrt'
cal old Roman. CT mean the Brutus thst muir,
"dered his friend, not the one VINO murdered
"his SOM Insanity is the only tenaoe theory OF
defense for Orsin and his fellows Justice a. well
~ charity bids us Judge eniently OF the eXtraVa,
CANT acts of men whose brains and hearts are heated
tofeyerish insanity by long broodug over bitter burn
ing wrengs done to their country and TO themselves
Still II is insanity 10 suppose these wrongs can DC
righted by assassnating Napoleon whether he DC OF
not the responsible cause of them. he execution
of the plot does not appear 10 have been dcrahged
By the police, except by the arrest OF flerrli ana
a lamentably poor plot it was resulting rs, on any
rational estn ate of probabilities il might have been
expected To result hat some one would De Killed
was nearly certain that many innocent would be
injured was quite certain; that any one person
should BE- killed was not at all certain. Ana had
Napoleon been billed, was the next step, the over
throw of the Government, certain 1t truly seems
10 me that such an overthrow would not De certain
but can find No one in all France except the En-
peror who agrees with me. In the general alarm
excited BY the three detOnaions in the economical
enthusiasm on the Boueyards Thursday night, III
all the private talk have heard, in all the congrat
uatory addresses | have read, in the enormous p0-
cal importance given 10 the plot, in the excessive
eNultatiOn the escape, in the very swa2ger oil
confidence in the perpetuity of the Imperial d!nasty
so palpakly overdone BY certain speakers aud W.T.
tiers, there is cumulated and sweeping proof OF the
utter and general absence i'll community OF any con-
fdence Ia the continuance OF Napoleon's Govern
ment day after his death. 1t is the most lament
able confession of no faith made by any people.
Morals, religion, material prosperity, the cOhe-
sion Of the very framework of society, are repre-
sented directly or indirectly to phrase, but clearly
enough TO sentiment to depend on the hfe OF one
man. Not only the welfare of France, but OF all
Europe, as We are assured by the more ambitious
writer's and orators on this OCCASION hangs by that
sngle liie-thread
You observe here again how for the moment the
EmperOrs position is peculiarly strengthened. Ii
might haye~been expected that he would take the
opportunity of this adventurous strength TO grant
something of that liberty which he promised as the
GROWING purpose and result of the work begun III
1e5l-52. You will zee by his inaugural discourse,
delivered last MONDAY at the ceremonial opening OF
the Sessions of the Senate and Legislative Body
that he makes the present an occasion for announc
ing his determination to pursue more expressive
policy than ever Such faint murmnring Of OppO-
sitOn as has hitherto been suffered Ii to be choked
out. The discourse, or message--fOr 1t partakes as
much of the nature Of an American Presidents
Message as of European mOnarch's speech from
the throne-is a remarkable document in many
other respects than the one in which alone my linn
tied space permits me now 10 speak Of il. Ii is un
usually web composed, even for NapOlcOnic
speech, excepting one little slip OF the pen where
the author implies that he il one Of the just. IL
does not lack, then, cearness of expression but
that no shadow of doubt may exist as to the new
course of repression announced III il, read in the
Moniteur Yesterday an explanatory commentary in
the form Of report from the Minister of the IN
terror. This report recommends decree finally sup
pressing the R.rue dc Paris "a semi-mOnthly maya
zine Of the class OF the Rsrue DIES DenL Mondes and
the Specateav formerly assemble Rationale "a fl.
sion-OreGnst newspaper that has had the credit Of
being the organ of NJ. GuzOt) The Rsrse is rep
resented as violently demagoguc in sentiment; the
Spectator as stupidity maintaining an idle whim of
future restoration Of the Orleans dynasty; both are
represented as factiOusly opposing the Government
and encouraging plots and conspiracy, murder and
internal machines. The TRADE Of NJ. Hllaut closes
with the following significant hint, which will be
taken doubtless, BY surviving journals: THE de.
cree which propose to you will be simple justice
" TO those whom il is directed against; IL ,o,H,
" moreOrer be EARNING for others" The decree
in question follows the report in the columns Of the
N0nifsHr.
SPAIN.