The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-08-06
European Correspondence-No. 6.

PARIS, May, 1870.
In the multitude of official and semi-oficial
addresses, Nj. Olivier has unfortunately, in a
letter to his constituents, touched a sore point,
when he hopes that the result of the vote will be
q tranquil future, '' in order that on the throne
"a in the most humble dwelling, the son may
succeed the father in peace" This paragraph
has naturally excited the wrath of those who
pudiate - the enormous faith of many made for
one" The throne of France is not an afair of
evil right or the private property of any dynasty.
The plebiscite, this civil war without arms is
but renewal of the bail of the TuiIeries to the
AaPoleOns, OF the promissOry note. The Tuileries
has been more tomb than a dwelling place for
dynasties people have occupied it nearly as
often as their kings:
Where the poor palace changes masters
Ami Louis 5 QUITO On castOrs
While BOney's borne shoulders in"
BOssuet made Of the Grand Dauphin an i'm
heciIe, and Fenelon of the Duke of Burgundy a
bIock-head, but nature it must be added, con-
tributed much towards this character of the
pupils. The Prince Imperial lives in other times,
and his Governor, General Frossard, is a man of
the world. Besides, his father, like the popular
henry the Fourth, has learned the sweet uses of
"
sOn that men are not counters to be played with,
that they have eyes, hands, organs, dimensions,
senses passions, affections, like kings, with in
diligence at least equal and in cases superior.
Not reprOach can be made against the Govern
hent as TO the perfect freedom under which the
vote of the Sth of May has been taken. The
journals displayed the liberty of the press to the
full; and to think that it is hardly year since
Nj. NJ. Pinard and FORBADE, the Home Ministers,
each exclaimed
God knows, love- to ev'n excess,
The sacred freedom Of the press,
My only aims 'crush the wrters.'"
In May last u caucus meeting could not be at
ended unless you exhibited your voting card,
And ran the gauntlet through Gordon of police.
Did one stop q moment before the building to
catch up few words of the oratory, three police
men politely begged of you TO move on. Now,
every one is free to enter the reunions, voter or
nOn-voter, to unload his heart. That dreaded
fnnctiOuary, the Commissary of Police, instead
Of taking notes, goes to sleep. Tie audience
nay sing the MarseiIlaise as their doxology, and
cry HiUe Ia repu6Hque till they are hoarse; no
one minds them. a lady occupied the tribune at
one of these meetings few evenings ago, and
bad her say. 1t is customary to elect as honorary
presidents Of these assemblies deceased cele-
brity. Baudin, IN his tomb since 1851, seems to
be a fayorite Victor Noir is too recently dead
T 30 be the recipient of Jacobn canonization. But
/ then ON the foremost head-roll of fame there is
7 lIarat, Robespierre, Danton and st. Just.
Z have dwelt long on the political situation of
This counsry--for France is now acting history.
nation of forty millions, whose conduct affects
Europe, the world cannot be summarily over
looked in its throes at the re-birth Of liberty; q
nation that has made so many sacrifices for
e1act and equal Justice, religious and political,
but failed to preserve the benefits of them, is
profound problem to ponder over. In the 1889
reyolution, liberty was strangled by its excesses
The First Napoleon gave but the glories Of
despotism. Charles the Tenth and Louis Philippe,
BY their feebleness, allowed liberty to escape
their grasp Personal vanities and visionary
Bchemes prevented the republics from bringing it
back 10 give France every lawful freedom, to
Firmly check Its eccentrieites or abuse, to accus'
tom the people to make their own weIl-being,
each for all, and God for each, is considered to
form the true solution Of the Government of the
Empire.
The eold-bIOoded murders in Greece have evoked
very indignant protests against King Georges
ministers, and much sympathy for the slain.
Were the massacred French citizens, the Zouaves
would by this time have secured the country,
lnd cleared it of brigands, no matter if few
innoeents were included. If not bandits to-day,
Ihey might be tomorrow. Besides, in case of