The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-03-06
The Freneh Keolatacal siauntIon.

+ The French Polatacai Situation.
According, to the detailed narratives of
the ememein Pari6 Febrtary 9Th, b they
are giveniby the Paris coz fIespold dents ef
the Lond6n joursinls ldtslk receSGed, it
was m86h more mise liable Aabch thsh
appeared from tbs accbunt by Telegraph.
The barricades were no longer the serious
obstruction they were in former times.
Baron Hausemann's remodelipg Of the
streets of Paris has rendered the old:
fashioned barricade an impossibility.
Nor were the men who defended them of
the same class known to former genera
lions. In fact, the barricades are de-
soribsd las, Of the most childish descrip-
ton, and the defenders of them ran
away whenever thS police and civic.
guards came MP. Itappaars. indeed, that
those who oncs threw up barricades, the
mechanics and workingmen, are now
having plenty Of employment on the side
Of law and order. There are no more
intelligent and gallant people in the
world than the Ffench OF these classes.
and, barricades or no barricades, it seems
to be admitted that when they choose to
go down into the streets again it will be
no child's play. But all the correspond
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fort and Flourens in Paris is a mere rab-
BILE, and that while the latter is a man of
courage, he is evidently monomaniac.
There is another suggestive fact The
Bourse was wonderfully firm under all
the perturbations, The late events, how
ever, in tile French Chambers would
seem to be more deserving OF attention.
Hitherto the Olivier ministry has been
sustained by the majority of the Clam
bers. That ministry is liberal, consery-
ative. and tbs engaged in an experiment
for free government in France, and the
co.existence of the imperial dynasty.
But when Olivier announced, on the
Gath ult., that the Government proposed
to abandon the system Of placing in the
field and supporting official Candidates
for the Chamber, lie was met by q storm
of disapproval from his own party
friends, and the only approval he received
was from his political antagonists. The
fright" on which he leaned for support,
was composed mainly of men who owed
their positions to the fact that they were
| official candidates, and refused to sustain
the minister, whilst the deputies of the
cleft" declared they must support the
minister, because they were pledged to
electoral freedom, and forRo other reason.
The journals OF the fright" have also
assailed the position of M. Olivier, but,
according to the lafest telegraphic de-
spatches, the Emperor declares that har-
mony exists between himself and his
ministry, and, as. he believes, they have
man. This, it would seem, if we are
correct in our reading of the not very
lucid statement,of7th the dispatches, that
the Emperor is ahead of the age in his
own country, as he certainly is of the
practice in this, if he opposes the giving
of the influence of the central Govern,
ment to candidates for legislative posi-
tions. If the Emperor is really deter
mined no longer to stand solitary and
apart from tho great nation Of which he
is the chief, or to treat it as thing ex-
ternal to himself, the fact is deeply sig
nifcant of the growing progress and
power of liberal ideas and sentiments in
France. No one has studied the French
people longer and more thoroughly than
the astute and wary old gentleman who
has hitherto kept his scat so successfully
in the imperial saddle. One of his bit
terest enemies has said ''that during the
periods of his Imprisonment and his exile,
the relations between him and the France
OF his studies were very like the relations
between an nnatomist and corpse. He
lectured upon IT; he dissected its iibres
he explained its functions; he showed
how beautifully nature in infinite wis
dom had adapted it to the service of the
Bonapartcs, and how, without the foster
ing care of these same Bonapartcs, the
creature was doomed to degenerate, and
to perish out of the world" The "crea-
ture" seems to be giving such evidences
Of vitality at present that it appears
to require the utmost vigilance of the
skillful operator, who has so successfully
galvanized it into the semblance of life,
to keep from being run over by it's first
awkward essays at lccomotion.
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