The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-10-13
FRANCE.
Fears of a New Coup d'Etat.

Correspondence New York Tribune.
What has interested SOME suspicious
French folks are the frequent visits o
the Project of Police to ST Cloud
throughout His Majesty's Illness, and
since his partial recovery. This fact.
taken in connection with the reported
and probable transfer of Marshal Can
robert to the Cilanccliec;c of the Log
ion OF Honor and the substitution il
command of the garrison of Parijo
General Cousin N~0ntaubar, Count o
hlikao, and inccndiaryoi III Chimes,
Emperor's palace, agrimmeran1m1Tc
trust worthy man; taken in connection
with trifing and graver signstoo num-
erous to mention of an apparent reacr
ton in the Imperial mind from his
July attack of apparent liberalism
among which signs is the substantive
token that it seems n fixed determine
ton in the councils of Government,
so far as any thing is fixed in those
councils, not to call the Legislature
together again, till at some indefinite
date after the 18th OF October, the
! gal date of its convocation-taken in
connection with the seeming so!idlity
of tenure by which the actual vi is ry.
composed tor the most part of no'ori
Gus holdbackS, hold heir Offices con
templating all these taking in ga con
catcnation accordingly; !" furtherm7r
linked 10 new-furnisled war rumoro OF
fresh compilations respecting the
welding of the Baden ducal corona
to the Prussian crowa, ingenicu
| Frenchmen have OWNED the prcpara
tons of q new coap d etat. 70 any
cool man of common sense, the sns-l
! picion seems absurd, because he sees
the absurdity in itself of the thing
suspected-m4n seqpitar dtstinJaamNs.
l Misunderstanding my quality Of man
| Of common sensc-that the coup fetat
would be absurd, and that it will moi
be made-probably is meditated ; nay
If sufficiently mcditated, would sure
ly not be made. There is the. knot
During this strange inter g snum we
are existing under, between what was
and what is to be, we are, almost o
than at any time since 1852, exposed
to the accidents of q purely persona,
government The Constitution o:
| 1852 was a constitution after a fash
ion. 1t no longer exists, even on pa
per The new Constitution, of which
the rather e~nigmatic, last Senatus'
Consultum is the chief chapter, only
exists on paper 1t does not begin to-
|tfinctionner," as the French say, till
| the nesting of the Legislature; which
one of the unraeealed articles of the
old Constitution positively provides
shall not be later than the 25Ih of
October, which the Power that is has.
for the moment, resolved shall not be
till some later date. Meantime that
Po,oer reigns and rules soYereigns is
liable, like any other one poor human
bundle of Inconsistency and weakness
70 rheumatic attacks of body and
mind, and, more than, to be devisine
| devices quite to himself, that the most
cool or ingenious Of French. Or other
men-evcn journalists-can no more
than suspect. 1t is a telling proof OF
the defect OF such q Government that
fhey ca,s. not do less, let stocks, fall Or
grayer harm come from their guess
ing. - @ .s.,a. l--
Meantime. some are impatient, and
wonder that tEeF hear no official
word on the situation from st. Cloud,
They are needless of the past. They
should know that speech from the
master of that house is Us enignlatic
as silence CT oracular prophecy.
whether they do hear or forbear"
comes much tie the same thing, so
SO fsr as words of his reveal his future
acts. Listen, rather, to these words
of his, uttered in a proclamation of his,
posted on the dead walls Of Boulogne
in 1S48. 1t is too long to be transerib-
ed here in all its fair proportions; but
not these leading traits; brothers
and citizens, it is not a pretender to
the throne that ONE among you.
1t is not in yam that I have learned,
from meditation in exile, that a pre-
tender is a scourge: I will never be
yours I will never be ~ungrateful nor
infamous. It is as a republican, as a
sincere and ardent democrat, that Il
present myself to you. l take the
sPur0tru ufrxI IOru-1,rr.