The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-03-30

could, without much conjunction, see her dc
picted a. ambitious, unjust, ferocious, aggrsn-
dizing. conquering. pitile@; but France
patient, long suffering, enduring sights at the
hands of her neighbors and not seeking to
avenge them-that is picture which no ave.
rage Fren hman can contemplate without his
blood boiling over. Especially will the Hot
spurs of the srmy-th Colonies who wanted to
hunt down the exiles in Englaud-the COM
rades of the Generals who offered to take the
Tower of London with $4,000 men-be furious
and frantic at this official confession that, for
the past three or four years, France has played
second fiddle to England, and that the govern
ment has patiently submitted to indignities
which ought at any cost to have been resented
The extent of the injury which this i'll advised
pamphlet may do to the Emperor can best be
measured by retrospective glance at history.
Louis the Eighteenth was restored by England.
That single flaw in his title would have ruined
him and his successor even if they had been
ten times as able monarchs as they were. They
are known to this day among the people as "the
English Kings" Louis Philippe had no faint
of Apglicism about him when he became king.
But when he and Guizot came to the conclusion
that the only sound policy for France was to
maintain the English alliance at all costs, aud
to submit to anything rather than fall out with
England, the people soon discovered the policy,
and both king and minister were irretrievably
ruined In all probability France never had a
better minister than Guizot; man of larger
views, more thoroughly patriotic feelings, great
er mind or purer purpose. Yet there never
was French minister so unpopular as be when
he fell: even now the odor of his former career
clings to his name All this arose solely and
altogether from the popular belief of France
that Guizot had truckled to the English that
he had improperly paid an indemnity to Pritch-
ard, and lacked spirit in the Spanish marriage
negotiation.
The Emperor Napoleon is travelling the same
road. He too, like Guizot, is trying the impos-
sible task of pleasing two irreconcilable enc
mies-the English and French masses. He is
bent on preserving alike the entente cordiale with
his neighbor and the esteem and affection of a
French populace and French army who
abhor that neighbor. He will very quickly
learn the result
The London Times shufles and bubbles in its
comment on the manifesto; evidently fearing
alike to say too much or to say too little-in
the same embarrassment as the Emperor him
self between offending the English people and
aggravating the French government. But the
Emperor will learn the truth from other
sources. He will learn that every blow which
he says he has endured from the English with
out resenting it will be equivalent to two real
blows which the French will deal him. And he
may learn, if be be wise, the great truth-a
truth too little remembered in France in this
day, and ostentatiously ignored BY the Empe-
ror-that coming revolution will drive him
and bis dynasty from the throne with the same
certainty and precision as the revolution of the
quadrepnial period vacates the Presidential
chair in this country