The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-11-08

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VOL. l3:
THE FRENCH EMPIRE.
From the Davenport Daily Gasette.1
| Was the re-establishment Of the EN-
pire In France an act of. the French
peoptes There Is difference of opin
Ion upon this point. The facts are these
After the overthrow Of the Orleans row
eminent in ls4s, in the May election.
Louis Napoleon was elected Deputy to
the National Assembly by the four de.
partments Of Paris, Yonne, Cayenne and
Corsica, by immense msjorities.
On the 10th of December he was elec-
ted President Of the Republic by nearly
5000, 600 of votes. The rival candidates
were Lamartine, Cavagniac and MANY
Others who represented the various psr-
ties into which France was divided. The
NaTIoisSS 0RlI aisS w. that he was the ao.., ,..,.
Of his uncle, 5" and that he had inherited
his uncle's political principles.
On the I'd Of December, 1881, Louis
Napoleon assuming that there was plot
formed by the Orleanists, Bourbonists
and Socialists to overthrow the Repub-
lie, each Of the parties hoping to emerge
victorious from the anarchy which
would ensue, formed a counter conspir-
acy, struck down his opponents, dissolv-
ed the Assembly and grasped in his
hands all the reins Of power. The slight
resistance which could be made was
bloodily repulsed in the streets Of Paris.
The Jsu.per, for unquestionably he
then was such, restored Universal Suf-
frage and called upon the French people
to assemble in their electoral capacity,
and to announce, by their votes, wheth-
er they approved and endorsed his deed.
The approval of the people was express
ed by re-electing him President for ten
years, by about seven million Of votes.
The next summer, 1852, he made the
tour of the Provinces. He was received
apparently with great enthusiasm, the
people frequently calling him Emperor,
and crying out for the re-establishment
of the Empire. This was sincere, say
some. 1t was the effect of bribery and
force say others. Upon his return to
Paris his adherents declared that the
people everywhere desired the restora-
ton of the Empire.
A little more than a year after this,
on the 4th of November, 1852, the Senate
issued the following decree, to be adopt
ed or rejected by the people Of all France
in the exercise of Universal Suffrage:
"The nation wishes the re-establish-
ment Of the Imperial Dignity IN the
person Of Louis Napoleon, with heredi-
tary succession in his direct, legitimate
or adopted line, and gives him the right
to regulate the order of succession to the
throne to the Bonaparte family"
This decree, having first passed the
Senate, was submitted to all the Depart
ments and was carried by eight millions
of votes. The vote was farce asserts
one party, the result Of force and fraud.
1t was the honest conviction of the ma
ton asserts the other party.
On the 1st of December, 1852, Napo-
leon formally accepted the Imperial
dignity, thus conferred upon him, as his
adherents say, by the unanimour suf-
frages of the nation.
A few months after his election, the
Emperor appealed to the French people
for q loan of $50 millions of dollars.
They came forward with the offer of Ave
times that amount. The sum of 73O
millions of dollars was urged upon him.
He did not want it all, and in order not
to disappoint the people he took q por-
ton only of each mans offer. This, his
friends say, is conclusive proof that the
re-establishment of the Empire is the
choice Of the people.
The Empire has now been established
fourteen years. France has never before
enjoyed fourteen years of such internal
peace and prosperity. There have been
no instructions, no barricades. All the
arts of industry have flourished. By
universal admission there is not city
in Christendom, whose police regula-
tions will rival those of Paris. And
France, under the reinaugurated En-
pire, has steadily advanced in wealth
and power until now it stands, without
dispute, the leading nation in Continent
al Europe.
America loves her Republic, England
loves her Monarchy. 1t is certainly
possible that France loves her Empire.
Probably all intelligent men will admit
the above facts. Still, in view Of them,
men Of equal intelligence differ in the
inferences they draw. Some think that
the re-establishment Of the Empire is
the act of the French people. Others
regard it as the crime Of an usurper.
JOHN 8. c. ABBOTT.
A GEORGIA JOKE.-A Southern paper
relates the following:
A certain Georgia countryman, not
having been splendidly educated, and
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