New-York tribune., 1869-06-05


like repertoire, were properly enough dispersed by
the police, reinforced at several points by large
bodies of infantry and cavalry. / say properly
enough, but there was gross improperly III both
parties In Paris, in any other great town, there
is one one-tenth per cent of pure mischiefmakers
in street thrOng that numbers thousands. Street
lamps and some windows were smashed on Thursday
and Friday night by individuals belonging to this
small percentage That they were disguised agents
of the authorities don't believe; that they were
melted by their agents is not SO incredible Many
sensible Frenchmen however, accept both these prop
ostions, basing their infeTential faith on the old
dctum IHe teeit cuiprOdeSt
1t is in the patent immediate interest of the pow
ers that be of darkness that these disturbances of
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday night in Paris
should take on the look of revolutionary menace to
the Provinces and to the timorous bourgeose of the
metropolis. Now note: 1t is lamentable fact that
apart from the unpleasant singings of the
insubordinates, some of them did break glasses
incumber the street here, or undertake to
tear down q railing there. 1t is fact that in no
instance did the masses assembled in the neighbOr-
hood Of electoral meetings offer any material resist
ance to the police and soldiery who forced their dis
peTson. 1t is q fact that one-pOssbly two or more,
can hear crediby as yet of but one-policeman got
a broken head on one of these nights 1t is fact
that very many citizens, and several women, were
brutally matreated by the police, to whom
they offered no resistance. 1t is a fact that the
ROppd newspaper, simply because it received the
statements and protests of these citizens and printed
selections from them under the display heading of
Enqu6e jurdic Inquiryl has been twice seized this
week, and has brought on its editors two prosecu-
tions But ii is far more notablefac that the dead
walls of Paris on Saturday were properly ornate
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signed by the prefect of police This poster warns
the Parsians not to assemble any more forever in
the neighborhood of places .of public meetings. If
they should still do in that regard, what they were
gaciously permitted to do without let hinderance
up to Wednesday night II o'clock last past, they are
menaced with treatment in style. the peculiar
significance of which requires a word OF explana-
tory comment. Don't forget the dates. That of the
police ordinance in question, is May TO- 1869
The third and specially noticeable of its four
articles is the third, which reads effectively
as follows; Persons assembled about the
approaches of public meetings and refu9-
ing to disperse alters hearing the orders to that
effect from the police officers, shall be proceeded
against according 10 the law of 9TH and 9th june
1S4S on lpopular gatherings" Up TO Wednesday
night and on Wednesday night up to about IL
o'clock. none of the many mutitudinous gatherings
held had been nterfered with 10y the police, tena
bic pretext for brutal hustlIng and dispersion had
presented itself. On Wednesday. yet more ostenta-
tiously on Thursday, andfmOre violently on Friday
nights, these assemblages were dispersed. But in
none of these three nights performances did the
police and soldery observe the slightest one of the
preliminary conditions of advice, warning &c, laid
down as imperative in that law of June, 1S4s, on
which, the day after the Prefect bases his warning of
future action. BY bis own volunteered testimony
the prefect and his agents proceeded illegally in their
manner of dispensing the unresisting mob last week
The publication of this ordinance, and the
reference in the body of it to law Of June 2, 1s4s,
was meant TO have its effect not on the Parisians,
who for the next two days might have fancy OF
crovdipg too near to a narrow hall where they could
not find room for entrance but on the excited fances
of timorous folks in the provinces. 1t meant in pa
tentest Interpretation, simply this: lou seel Rev
olution is rampant in Paris; we are the of a
recurrence Of the days Of June order and property
and per cent, religo and the virtue Of our wives
and daughters are all at stake again Vote then for
the Government candidates. Let me here
open parenthess and afix brackets, on
the which to hang an observation or two
the result of is years Of praycrful and
watchfu study on your correspondents part of the
comparative moral anatomy Of French folks and his
compatriots. II must say in sadness or joyOusness-
and the study gives room to either or both emotions
that my profound conviction is that there is not
fp to choose between the elementary merits of one
or the other nationality. The police ordinance just
referred to- and the purpose aimed at in its publca
ton by its authoritative editors illustrates if 1t do
not prove, my thesis. The little, natural, utterly
undangerous effcrvescence of small portion of the
street population Of Paris is held mp a
-. a. oil.
az motive to their voting in block for a Govern
ment and its candidates which the whole feeble
mack of them thought when they thought there was
no danger in thnkng) were bursting with papable
defects. This semi-intelligent timid, wellmeaning
helplessly abased selfdoubng, large and respected
most disreputable class correspond, exactly and by
a necesstating human nature law that overrides the
silly pretenses of national vanties to that large and
respectable class Of foTcible, feeble semi-we eduCa
ted persons with u.s. who have little faith in their
inherited manhood that they fear and grin down the
scientifically presented claims OF the possibly ances
traI monkey; 80 little faith in the unquestionablo
superiority of their quesonably pure Caucasian race,
that they doubt its ability to resist the oyerwhelm-
ing oppression Of something less than ten per cent
rate of inferior niggers; so little faith in the
natural good taste the high instinct or the educa
ton then have been able to give to their daughters,
TO fear that they Will All DC 5taBhIW"y eopeu py
niggers who. for the most part, will not so much as
give them an opportunity to reject the coored suit
30 little faith in their manhood that they are afraid
the feeble woman, if she only once gets chance,
will quite crowd them out from their place Of due
importance in political life-as though the second
best class Of average old women were not immeas-
urably their superiOrs.]
1t is O'clock imperative chronological reason for
prompt closing of this letter in the which else room
should have been made for an indicative word OF