The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-28
FRANCE.
A Great Demonstration OF the OppOst-
ti0m-The French ErOsecMLioms.

The N. Y. Tribune of this morning has the
following correspondence from Paris, dated
Among the attempts made on the Sd of
December, 1851, to sustain the Constitution of
the Republic to which Louis Napoleon had
sworn fidelity, was an effort at resistance to his
soldeIy III the taubourg st. Antoine. A feeble
barricade was built across one OF the streets.
o. the persons-rot moe than Que hundred aud
nifty in all-who took part in its construction,
fifteen were members OF the Legislative
Assembly. One of the fifteen was named
Baudin. When the troops came up he stood
upon carriage that formed n part OF the
barrlcade, and while eXhOring them to respect
the constitution an1 laws, was shot dead. This
was the fret barrlcade and the first bloodshed
of the coup detdL
On the I'd of November, this year, as 10 other
years on AL Souls Day. there was an immense
throDg in the cemetery OF Montmratre. A group
eathtIed round the modest tomb Of Baudin.
Some laid on wreaths OF immorteles. student
asked Emile GiTardin to speak 10 the public.
He decnued. Ayoung man did say lew words
in rather passionate style. There vas CRY or
two of "VIve la RepublIque !" Thore was no
distuI bance. The great mass of the people Who
visited the cemetery that DAY ouly learned of
the manifestation" "las did the general public,
at the Gales that evening, or from brief para
graph in some of the newspapers next day.
Sensible men congratulated each other on the
good sense shown by the administration In not
creating disturbance out of the affair as they
Gid last year, by interference of the police and
numerous arrests.
On l0e 81 Oh NOVemOCI tDe AOe1lT NTt2O1Q G
proposed public subscription Tor monumeut t
to Baudin, aud announced that contributions
woud be received at its publi,h hing office: the
ReUetde, amore radical democratic paper, did the
same aud few days later was Joined by the
Tribune, of which Eugene Pelican, member OF
the Co!ns Leglsla,it, Is controlling editor.
On Friday last the tumor got about that the
manage rs OF the newspapers above menu )ned
were 10 be prosecuted. Hardly credited at first,
it was soon confirmed by the seizure of the
Arentr Ndtond!e, of the ReueWe, and of the
Tribune.
Their trial and that of one or two OF the
persons who demonstrated" at BaudIn's tomb
is going OIL before the tribunal at this hour Of
my writing, and will not be Professionally ended
in lime for me 10 give its immediate issue in
this letter. They are prosecuted for violation of
the Law of Psel'c Saiety--especially OF article
second, which runs thus ose-geared Amy
person who, with the intention OF troubling
public tranquility, or of provoking hatred and
contempt towards the Government of the Enpe
ror, has prdc'tSed nldnouurts, or entertained
relations whether with parties abroad or within
the country, is subject to penalty of not less
than month nor more than two years Of i'm
prisonment, and OF fine Of from 100 to 1000
francs.n
The law of general safety was rushed through
the Legislature in February, 1858, under pres
sure OF the terrible scare caused by the Ocsini
attempt of the preceding month. 1t was pre-
sented as temporary measure, was never $50
far as kuowp) applied but twice. was mo lifted a
few years ago as to its iercer features (the pro.
vision just quoted being one of its unrepeaed
measuies), and had got to be generally regarded,
until this week, as dead letter, rather than u
living red-letter law. 1t Is attempted TO be
enforced now against three newspaper editors,
whose ofense is the proposing q subscription
and the publishing of the list OF subscribers for
q monument in honor of NJ. Baudin, who was @
legally.cho:en representative of the people.
While moderate aud most moderate Liberals
are now taking part in the movement, not az all
for Baudln's SAKE, but very much for the sake
OF right, moderate Napoleonsts are legrettug
and so far as they consistently dare and car,
dcprecating the course the Government hts
taken IN what has rapidly grown 10 be the
serious political Afuire Bdud,n. The snorough-
going Radicals and Reds are dehgh ed.
The moderate, sens ,ble, calmly observing
folks are mistaken: Unquestlonably this little
Bdudn business left diligently alone would only
have cone to collecting OF a few thousand
francs for the monument, that could not pc
mace for some months aud not set up for some
Other months. 1t would not, right away, have
interested ostenslbly more than a small faction
OF Reds, and long before the monument was
finished the public would have forgotten all
about it..
You think so? The inauguration of the
monument would be arranged Tor the All-Souls
Day of 1869. The getting up, and propa CATION,
and successful issue of that little business not
being interrupted, soue b)lder, more pregnant
'demonS ration" would be straIghtway insti-
tuted.
Louis Napoleon is not an ass. Perhaps he
would get on better it he were.
IAe DduUlu mONGHeul, leu dlOue.fWOulu un'
questionably to day have been a dying incident,
instead of being political development. But
let alone, it would have died in child bed,
delivered of child of promise luster than It's
parent, that would have quick grown to
majority and begotten yet bolder offspring.
Louis Napoleon has enough intelligence to
know that the world does and fatally must go
On. He has always been trying experiments TO
Keep company with it. Every start he makes
The l9th of January start was the last aud
most of one-being necessarily only partial
one. 1t is experimental, tentatory, timid;
scares the hold packs, does not catch up with
the leaders, satisfies no one. 1t will prove, Is
pre- wing itself failure. He himself seems 10
haxe lost confidence in it, and is play ing his ol
sad game of eXpedents.
For him 20 give full freedom would be ab1ica
ton. To grant little parcels OF liberty hoping
they won't be misused, is, has for years been,
his little, unsuccessful experiment.
The Baudln accident belongs TO the same
polluco-hjstorcal category as the RochelOrt
prosecutions. He could not help prosecuting
he was sure OF his coDdemua'ions; and the
prosecutions and COMBINATIONS don't help.
He wants the hen 10 set AS the Dutchmun did.
| And his compatrCtic Dutchmau put busheI
basket over the hen to make her set; when he
raised the basket to see how she was getting on,
he found thas the obstinate hen set standing
would not set, in fine.
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