New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-12

With respect to the press, tie present u'urPef "
pl.ced IN most embarrassing position. ffeedo a
Of the pres. u totally inconsistent with tblt system
oreOyfumeLt hch he ia seekitG to eetso! ~ suu
vLich is based on tue simple idea mat TIE LuPe!OF
il to do all the thinking, at least 81 the fes'uius'
and that his grateful people saved ifom ta's
trouble sud em5srra,smen', are bound IN Their W
egia ce 70 re echo IS dtas, aui to OBJ his orieis'
As neIferi!g aith the preros atiSe oi TIT luPenai
Government. TO settle exclusively all questions
whether of coue.tic or foreign policy tie PERIOD
cal press is = great Inconvenience. bot 'hrre are
other pitts OF view. in which i. Is lot merely an
n.cIgeueuce but a source Of perPetua. Danger ana
alarm Il is meals b. which, indePfndent OF
sny associations or public meetIfg>, sort oil PolI'
zeal organization can be kept up. al Who read
tie same newspaper all who ssseut to tie force oil
he sane arguments, all who ericy the same ironl'
cal 1pgs at abuses which / is lot permitted ID at
tack openly, are i were, kept IN sort oil spun
tnM commuri. 4,oa with each other, state OF
semi cOmbnatioD which may b. brought INTO
full opeIttion q, a.y monert which affords the op-
poI.uLity to set. As combination aggregation Is
a great source Of political power; everything
il tie nature Of voluntary association has ofen
most sedultus'y discouraged in al desPohc
governments. Another great source CT po-
tieal power is the sway which elcquence Is
able 70 obt,n over the feelings aud actions of
masses e men. Hence the hostility Of all dcspotc
Governments to public assemblies, aud the liberty
of addressing them. But what avail all the laws
against socie..es, associations aud public assem-
bies, Of which tie Code Of france IS so full, so
lorg az periodical journals afford medium where
by those having common interests aLd symPSthles
may, however scattered AID separated though de-
barred BY law from meeting each other ia,e 10
face, keep up a constant COMMUNICATION ara syn
patty! OF what avail are all the laws against
popular assemblies 20 long rs political leaders aud
impassioned orators can, through the speaking
trumpet Of the press, address, instead oil collec
tion e thousand or tao pie at the m0s', the
tbtle body of their paItsans scattered over al
France. AID even those of them who may be ex-
les. on account IF their political opinions, IN for
e,n lands
The shortest and simplest mt thod would be that
adopted by the first Napoleon-the suppression oil
all newspapeis except the eli cia Monitor, olwh Oh
tie Emperor himse + acted as grand supervisor and
EDITOR II cllel, and few legal aud MISCELLANEOUS
Journals in which discussion Ct public affairs vas
allowed, nor even the publication of news except
BIZ way Of extracts or summaries from the Official
Moniteur But nov that the journals have beco ne
rece ssary Of life to all reading Frenchmer, this
short ard simple method is hardly available la at
tempting to reduce the Frenchmon OF the present
day TO the short allowance of the first Umpire, Ma
poeun Ill is reduced to initiate the example OF the
countryman Who undertook to teach his horse TO
live upon shayiDgs. 1t is impossible to stop the
entire allowance tf provender at once. The nay
aid the oats have q b. withdrawn by degrees
and the beast 10 bs taught gtadu4ly to put up
with shay.ngs instead.
But ia this operation Of gradually deprTirg the
Trench pe ro5ical press of all its nurment and its
nres, its puneercy snd it, flavor the j)urn.ls
seem TO move nrre than match for all the force
Of civil suppre scion hitherto broagat to bear upon
them. Whe her in the shape Of deposit of money
r.qured of Tie publishers, the sign,tdro ci tbs
writer affixed to each article, warnings, suppress
,iors, prosecutions, fines and imprisonment, su
these haIrassmt MIS- under the !0rm oflsw ha7e no;
yet succeeded IN reducing the French press to thss
condition Of sspess ilspidity snd puif-bal erlptl-
ress which wOuld render Il at once satisfactory to
the l'Ierch Emperor and an Office. of Indifference.
if ro. Of disgust, to the French people The Law
failing the Amy. as 10 Customary with our Napo-
eon-indecd, with bath the Napoeons-hss been
brought iuto the GN. Tue Clicfrs If tle acny,
left in ttese piping TINES Of pesce with no regular
professional business on their hsnds, have in
stituted campaign against The press. Every
writer fer Il newspaper who presun,s to
say witty or a pcated thing capable of being
oIstIued as squirting at the army or the Emperor
AID il is the army and tho Emperor that now
COT sl:tute the French GogeInment-ls, It would
seem, TO BIZ ut;bwh challenged, not by a single
officer but hy a succession Of officers, I'll some
Ole Of the number succeeds in killing him. Nay,
mere; not only ale editors to be challenged for
what they write, they are to be required, al Inc
peirt Of tie small sword or the muzze OF the Pls-
toI. or rather at the point Of fifty or huedfed
SINAI! swords or pstoi-, directed at them IN sue
cts,;op 10 insert any piece OF stupidity or ialse-
hood On which these ntw military censors oil the
press may choose to insist.
An instance has btea given Of the hest
e tneac new methods Of procedure in the case
Of 81. De Perr, A contributor TO Figaro, journal
which st pars fills il come respects the position OF
The Lop4oa Pusch. 4 joke in that paper was
made the basis Of challeI sc By sub-lieutenar OF
the Ninth Chasseufs in garIison at Amiene, By
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