The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-09-03
The Uprising of the French People.

Certainly that is an instructive spectacle which
is now presented in France to the Republican
mind, and all those who believe in the POioer
souereiQntv, and supremacy Of the masses. Her
we have a people long deceived by mere appear.
ances and dexterous management, by one rude
shock of battle awakened to the fact that theil
leader is no leader at all, but a mere bungler
not an Emperor, in any sense of the word, but
the phantasm of an Emperor who, instead oil
/ leading their armies to the promised victory
applied himself to his old theatrieality, disordered
and confused everything, and then, in the supreme
moment, fell disastrously Ill of a chronic disease.
But as a result we do not find despair. useless
wailing and resignation on the contrary the
nation, as soon as convinced that it had q Sham
at the head of it's affairs, jumped to its feet as
one man.
The Corps Legislatif, authorized mouth-piece
of the masses, at once gets itself convened-a
Corps Legislatif so suddenly metamOrphosed that
we have difficulty in recognizing it at all. In the
first hour of its session it assalled the ministry
with bitterness. The body heretofore so sub
missive to the Emperor, in a moment furnishes
evidence that it is possessed of the idea that it is
the master. Nor is the excited deputy wanting.
He springs to his feet and insults one Of the
Ministers with a clenched fist shaken in his face.
Olivier and his associates had to succumb to the
storm, happy, probably, that they had gotten off
without a personal collision IN the chamber. 10
this body, beginning to assume the airs OF
supreme power, Palikao is sent to form a new
Ministry but he is, to all appearances, not at all
acceptable, for it is narrated that after the sub
mission of his name the Left and Right Centres
agreed upon another man named Irochu.
And while this is going on, outside the
Chambers all is delirium and excitement. The
order forbidding assemblages in groups is openly
disregarded and Intellectual, crowds menace the
Bourse-" We will have no gold gambling upon
the trials and fluctuations which have fallen ON
the Fatherland, because it has suddenly been
proved that it has no head - crowds gather
around the halls of LegislatIon-will have no
soldiers about-think they had better be sent to
the front instead of being kept here in Paris to
interfere with patriotic citizens bent on saving
their country newspapers which had heretofore
been Imperial in their tendencies, come around
and adopt the popular side; all our woes are,
beyond question, traceable to the incompetency
of the Emperor; thirty thousand French soldiers
sorrowlully slain, and shouting with their last
breath that they had been sacrifced-in all
infinite b~abblement, confusion of
tongues, rage, revolutionary tendencies, but
through all the various phases of popular excite
ment, one fact sticking out prominently and
Enthusiastically, that no effort shall be spared to
save the Fatherland in this It's hour of peril and
misfortune.
We have, in fact, an uprising of the people on
almost as comprehensive a scale as when Europe
united in 1871 to crush a people who had the
to set up a Republican Government in
uerOSdtIOH Vi lHe riSutS OI tHe nedVel-DOrn due
Bloods. If the French, from their tendency to
and the enjoyment of life, tolerate
and phantasms in times of peace longer
than any other race, there is no other people
can discover them quicker when the shock
Of battle comes, or which can more readily repair
the damages which they may have caused. The
great want now is for the real leader and impe-
rator who is to conduct a martial people to war.
Is it to be Bazaine, or Canrobert, or Mcmahon,
Or some man who has as yet cut no very promi-
nent figure in war? The chances are that the
Dumouriez of this new epoch of a fatherland
from without, has not yet been named
N bulletin or despatch. He is probably at this
lime discharging some inferior functions, utterly
unconscious of the fame that awaits him. Every
,risis evolves its guiding spirit, leader and man.
fictitious heroes. Shams in time Of neace g re-
up as generals and rulers of men, but
universally disappear, shrieking, with the first
discharge of artillery.-Aha, August 1lth.