Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-02

| ner adopuve mother, pardons her for
having produced the Napoleons."
| The editors of the Marseilldise, accor.
ding to the Gdulois, agreed on the follow
ing three plans of meeting the Prince:
! First, NJ. Rochefort, personally called on,
chose as his friends NJ NJ Arnould aud
Millere; second, M. Ernest Livigue,
with NJ. M. Flourens and Bszere as his
seconds; aud third, NJ. Paschsl Grousset,
/ the founder and co-editor of the Re.
I rdnche de Corse, specially charged with
representing this journal in Paris. NJ.
M. Victor Noir and Uric de Fonviele
were to act as his friends
We have previously published, as re.
ceived by Atlantic cable, accounts of the
meeting of Noir and Fonviele with
Prince Pierre; the story of the murder,
the great excitement produced by the
event among the populace of Paris, an d
| the immense concourse ESTIMATED at
from $50 900 to 200, 900 people) who a T.
tended the funeral, and would have mac lie
their way to the Chamber of Deputie q.
had they not been dispersed by the a
pearance of several of the EmpercI g
cavalry regiments.
Something Of the epirit of the princip al
actors in this tragedy may be gslhers I'd
from the following:
SPEECH OF NJ. RoCHEF0RT AT THE FUNERA L
OF VICTOR EOIR.
The following is NJ. R)chefort's spe ech
delivered in front of the house in nich
Victor Noir lay cesd, to dissuade the cit
lzens from carrying the corpse thr )ugh
Paris to Pere la Chaise:
CITlzEss-In presence of such Q rave
event, such difficult situation, / feel
how impossible it is to maintain in all
that moderation which ia necessary to
the success of our magnificent eau se
But unsurmountsbe obstacles await Us
in Paris. The Government-snd this |
know from a certain source-hss take n
up most formidable straiegetcsl pos l.
tions. 1t would be next to impossible to
carry the body of Victor Noir throug b
Paris. The enemy, ever ready to ia II
upon us, is in waiting, and prephretl.
We are numerous enough, am happy o
say, but we are unarmed. Ah, ou do
not know shat you would rush upo cec-
tain death, for the government desire
nothing so much as to finish once for ali
with the Republic. / know 1t but too
we'll; and since the assassination of our
dear brother by Pierre Bonsparte | |
never 60 out of doors without arms We |
shall have our vengeance at another time. |
Some of you perhaps say that the Flres- |
ent is an unparalleled opportunity hich |
will not recur. That is mistake. We |
shall fnd every day more favorable op-
portunities than that which you NAV
81 q.
ernment, we expect no satisfaction from
it. We ask nothing of it. We wish only
to be rid of it. Its fall is certain and
proximste, and therefore we ask you to
be patient. Let us now inter our brother
in the Neuilly Cemetery and go quietly
back TO Paris.
NJ FoNvIELLEs SPEECH.
Over the grave NJ. Fonvelle SPOKE as
follows:
ClIIzESs-In presence of this tomb,
ana before you all, / swear that Victor
Noir was murdered in the mo st cowardly
way by Bonaparte. Without any rea-
SOD, without any proycss.ioI, hs was
butchered in cold blood before my eyes.
But let US wait for the expiatiou. If we
obtain nothing from the Imperial justice
we will appeal to the justice of the peo-
pie. Victor Noir, my friend, my brother,
thou whose blood has been shed in the
house of Prince for the holy cause Of
liberty and the Republic, l will avease
thee. will avenge thee, 1 will avsnge
thee"
The excitement Of the populace arose
from the fact: First. That the Prince
was not at once arrested, as any other /.
murderer would have been, his station I
giving him certain privileges in this re-
gard; aud second, because NJ. Rochefort,
shielded from criminal prosecution by ,
virtue of his character as Deputy, was
srrsigued, and deprived of this immunity.
de has since been tried for utterances in
he Marseilldise, aud convicted to siy.
months imprisonment. I.
Ali this, it must be recollected, oc-
,urred almost Immediately after the abb {
iication (so-called) of personal govern
nent in France, aud the inauguration of !
! responsible Cabinet, with numerous
promises of enlarged liberties and in {
creased privileges. Q
The affair was unfortunate in every
possible aspect; and nothing it seems to G
IS, but the stsunch loyalty of the army, 4
Iaved the Imperial dynasty, if not from '
immediate overthrow, certainly from q
.rsve and bloody complications. b