The New York herald., 1868-08-18
FRANCE.
Election PreparatiOns-OppOsit Electoral
Meetings Dispersed by Government Force
Public INDIGNATION and Agitation.

Meetings Dispersed by Government Force
Public Indignation and Agitation.
Advices from Paris OF the Sd Of August state:-
As the election in the Third circumscripion of that
opposition candidates at the two places-M Cazot at
the former and NJ de Larcy at the latter-ssued
notice OF electoral meetings, and number OF per-
sons assembled but were dispersed by the police and
armed force on the ground that the prescriptions OF
S late a% mad h1 6c ~ h A
nails, will be found In subsequent column, but the
democratic Journals OF Paris speak of the whole mat
ter in terms OF great Indignation and insist that the
egality Is the side OF the authorities and not Of
the citizens assembled.
[From the Paris Presse August 81
The Independent press will be unanimous in de.
manding the most complete explanations as to these
facts; for the question Is one OF extreme gravity.
the point al issue In iac. Is not 70 Know whether
right conferred on them by the law lately voted,
but whether u backward step has not been taken
since the passing OF that measure. What guarantees
have the people that tney Will he able to hold public
meetings ana call electoral ones, II they cannot even
have those private assemblies, on personal invita-
tion, which were the common right before the new
act, as NJ. Rouher has recognized and the Supreme
Court has affirmed by its decreesP The privilege
which possessed but trining; but II force and
violence can deprive us OF 1t, what use can possibly
be made Of the new ones with which the law invests
usY IT. I'm the midst OF an election, private meetings
dissolved by the bayonet, what Project will re-
fuse himself the satisact OF interdcting public
Oney
From the Opinione Nationaie OF Paris August 81
Let us establish the point OF law. Article eight,
which declares that electoral meetings cannot take
place during the nve days preceding the ballot, ap-
plies only To public assemblies. As In the present
case persons were only admitted on presenting
card or letter OF invitation, the meeting was pri-
vate one and the Conmlssary Of Police had no right
to be present. and the armed force committed vio-
ence has only TO be made to a decree OF the Court
OF Cessation, Criminal Chamber, OF the 4th OF Feb
ruary 1855. That body declared that what charac.
terZcs essentially public meeting was the liberty OF
admission permitted to all comers. Such was not
the in the present insa ance rs the invitations
only penetrate into NJ. Breton's house by surprise
by force with the aid OF his agents. The totaty OF
those 1acts therefore, constitutes aouole VIOLATION
Of individual liberty and privacy OF domice, rs wei
as an electoral man9uvrc
From the Paris Temps August 81
The entire liberty OF private assemblies has always
been recognized by every one and by the Ministers
OF the Second Empire themselves In the tribune.
Consequently, II the recital OF the CouTae. du card
is exact, the dispersion Of the persons collected by
NJ. Cazot Is illegal and would constitute n iagrant
breach OF electoral liberty. We trembc az thinking
the future results OF the election, should thus sulce
to bring face 10 face the armed force and citizens
strong In their right, and consequently Inclined to
resist.
From the Paris Pays government organ) August 81
NJ. Cazot. the democratic candidate at Mines, aud
his friends endeayored 1t appears to evade the law,
aud the 10th OF Julythat L. TO say, four days be-
fore the vote, Xe for the I'd insthey desired TO
sembe IN contrayentiOn OF the formal xtwhich pro-
hinits all meetings uursng the ive days Immediately
preceding the election. The government, Of course.
whose duty Is TO execute the law neither could nor
would elude The tmpcrious duty or causing Its pro-
visions TO be respected, and the more so that THIS
was the frat time OF bringing II into operation. The
ordinary legal summonses 20 disperse were made,
and tue meeting dissolved.
from La France Of Paris govern ment organ,
August g.
Resistance outside the law Is always TO be regret
ted. and we may usclully recall to the mind OF our
readers the principle which mas entered 30 deeply
into English habits and which lays down the rule That
no resistance must be given In an Illegal manner TO
steps The legality Of whcn even a contested. Has
the Pleiec OF the Gardc In derectng the dispersion of
the electors assembled at Mines In the house Of NJ
Breton. cOntormed TO the prescr pions OF the law
That Is point which VIII he decided by the conpe-
tcucu In presence OF an election, Tor the point 10 bc
determined ~ the precise Hue OF dcmai cation be-
tween private and pupllc meeting.