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Morning, December s, 1870
The Future Of Fra ace.

poleonism at the deposition of the, regen:
Empress, the future of France has been
question of doubt-and fear, aad the per-
manent success in ablishingsa Republic
can form OF government scarcely hoped.
NapoleQnism Was deeply devised peli!y to
foster the gerns, Of imperialism through /
out the ranYiti,ltion< Of .s,eiety, and to |
nurture insitatio,is and Interests. tha
were, per IS .:iuimical to Republican ideas !
Napoleenisln was not ocert despQtlsm, but /
that policy that SO strengthened. itself by
bartesing pgediudces for ideas with the
governed. anu lrose iaers we're cultivated
into splenJed abs"lntism (which was
never exercised .v7;th that unwarranted Sc
verify aad'arrogapce which must need ne
cessitste a revolution in the form of gov
eminent. - Is:
The Government of France ia an anon
lily to the rule laid down by Philosophy
of History: that each epoch, in history Is
composed of the various ideas which Eli
up the life Of every people, and Of every
indiy idual; that is, industry, the state. art
religion AID philosophy These ideas are
growing, and will contend. the one with
the other, uni their dis )fnp'rtioa will be-
ceme so great as to produce tyranny or ne
cess to revolution. It vas not an idle boast
of that French scholar and philosopher, II.
Cousin, when be declared tirat If he knew
the Religion of il country be wolld tel i's
form Of Government, and from its form OF
Government he would delu;e its form Of
Religion; for the history Of the world has
proven that TO power in the State terds So
rapidly towards d.spotisin as the Church
sharing temporal powe., or the State foster
ing the Church, and on the con trary, di-
vest she Church Of It's temporal relation
and it will tend to equalize every other
power in the State. In France, relig on
holds no part in the Government, but III.
Government holds itself sponsor to PAPA
CIV, not so much for the sake of Religion
as for the protection of the Governme; t.
Heuce the auomily tothe rales of his ORR
cal philosophy. ....,.
The Napoeonic principle sougt as one
of tie means of permanently establish
ing ITSELF. e. absolutisn to id nifty itself
with and to foster the idea Of Religion,
which is to day in France. the great en-
enly of Republicanism and the steadfast
bulwark of Napoleonism or Imperial des-
potsm 1t has been urged by some that
tine issue in the present conflict is only
that If Catholicism and Professionalism
But it is not true; for Romanism is no
more Napoleonism than Professionalism is
Republication for 10th perform the same
Office to she State, by giving strength in
either government to th ose ideas that fur
nish its own vitality,
Before the accomplish Of Napoleon
ism: France was ruled by her populous CT
ties--and Paris has often been used as
synonym of France. But now. siace
the Aapoleonie policy has become founded,
every gamin in Paris may shout Vive la
RepubIique, yet the rural districts which
now control the destiny of France may
not be affected by the logic of Jules Favre
or Victor Huge. The peasant has learned
by sad experience that the red flag means
pillage. and that Republic is the rulo of
shopkeepers 'ud gamin. he, is proprie
tor and laborr and not politician, and
will not for little cause be Induced to
change his professpd Besides he is
Roman in his instruction aud belief, and
he knows that Republs will he indiaer-
ent, if not hostile to Papaey, not because
It is the religion of Napoleonisn. but be-
cause it is thew us OF giving ngth
The system of instruction is Napoleeuic
for it employs as instructors the representa-
tives of the Churh, VIII ich is the FREEDOM
inant idea in tie state. Yhe ordinary
cure, or instructorhas but tw, interests,
Rome and his salar. and tho suggestion
of a Republic is a thleat to botn He may
regard the withdraw of troops from Rome
as an act of treachery bwards the Popebut
be knows that Republican government
will be alike indifferent bDtn 10 the Pope
and Papaey
Another strategic poisy If Napoleonism
was not 20 crush, by ostraci'm or othc,-
wise. the germs of Bourbon ism and o.
leanism. He trusted to his conscious
strength with the rural districts, aud suf-
fored the jealousy Of the one Waiting par
ty of malcontents to watch the movements
Of the other. La thi relation the one fam
lily of Legitimists paralised the efforts of
the other, aud thus neutralizeG the op-
position to the government The Empire
is all that excites the desire of either roy
al branch, and the bare suggestion of
Republic dampens all prospective hopes
His interest 10 maintaining the empire,
even if his hopes are to be deferred, are
greater than could be attaind in sanction
ing a. Republic; hence the reasonable sup
positiou Of his earnest opposition to Re-
pabllc4 The Empire was partly of his own
making, and wrested from him by force of