New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-08
THE IEW FRENCH MINISTRY.

dispatches, the PruSSlanS were witnin
| sixty miles of Paris, at scissors, a forti-
| fed and ancient town on the river Alsne.
| This was the chief town of the Suessiones
in the time of Cesar, the capital of Clovis
in the sixth century. Truly, has armed
Prussia penetrated into the heart OF
France, as armed Europe did in the
Campaign of Paris" in 1914. VIII the
! result be the same? The situation is in
many particulars different.
France has not now Napoleon i, with
his immense genius to display as he did
in the heroic struggle Of 1914. But pos,
sibly she has something better in the pro-
v~isional government which has just been
formed at Paris. OF course, anti-Repub-
licans here, as elsewhere. can see no good
in this government. Let not all be SO
blind. Only a month ago, lie Pays, the
journal of the imperial and imperious
deputy, Paul de Cassagnac, denounced
the Republicans as the allies Of Prussia.
But things have changed greatly in a
month. The empire failed, the Re
publicans are III power, and their head,
General Trochu, says Paris is safe
against the Prussians. Jules Favre, the
present Minister of Foreign Affairs,
the great leader Of the Republican
party, the greatest orator and advo-
cate in France, said of his party, when in
ais seat as Deputy: owe are unanimous
for defense until death" And now that
he is premier, he is making herculean ex-
ertions for the salvation Of his country
from the depths of disgrace and defeat to
which his anti-republican enemies have
brought it. He ana his Republican COM
panions, Gambetta, Magne. Simon, Gre
mieux, Trochu, Grevy and Lavertujon, Of
the Provisional Government, have a very
hard task before them; but they are all
true and tried men. and will do all that
scholars, statesmen, patriots and brave
men can do. 1t is not the first time that
some of them have had to bring order out
of the confusion of q revolution which
weak rulers had caused. History often
repeats itself, and in the Ministry which
had to be formed twenty-five years ago,
when the monarchy was declared at an
end, the same Cremieux is found Minister
of Justice, es now. Etienne Arago was
then named Director of Postal Arrange
ments, as he is now Mayor Of Paris. This
learned man and able Republican was
banished, like Ledru Rollin, but returned
in 1860, as has Rollin, according to
yesterdays dispatches, now. Jules
Simon, who is Minister Of Public
instruction, and who was born
during the campaign of Paris in 1914,
is one of the abiest of French philoso-
pliers, authors and Republicans, who
will not neglect the education Of the
people, ever duIng revolution. The
Secretary General, Andre Lavertujon, is
young, compared with his colleagues,
but is one of the best scholars in France;
has long been editor of one of the most
liberal and Republican papers in that
country-La Gironde-and, fairly elected
as he was, would have been in the Cham
Der of Deputies years since, but for the
Vaccinations of Napoleon and his supple
tools. Like most of the others, he has
long been q hunted victim of a dynasty
that feared him, unless chained; and he
has suffered Imprisonment, and every sort
of persecution from Napoleon and Ma
p~oleonists.
The name Of GARNER Pages is also seen
among the Republican defenders of the
nation. The people know his history, as
they do that Of Lafayette, of Lamartine,
of Arago, of Berger. He was a Republi-
can deputy forty years ago, and has been
an accomplished Republican statesman
ever since-an elegant and graceful gen.
tleman-a champion representative of
his party. He is a deputy elect from
Paris, whom the new government has
ratified. The new ministers in their ad-
dress truly say, "The name Republic sig
mites an intimate union Of the army and
people for the defense of the country"
This does not look like being Prussian
allies. But worse things are and will be
said of them by anti-R Republicans in
America, for all these French Republicans
spoke, wrote and worked for our Republi-
can government throughout our wal of
rebellion.
Nearly a month ago, after Napoleon's
bad generalship was shown, Theirs said:
''The Empire is ended-a Republic is in
evitable." And yet the Herald's yester-
days special dispatches say Theirs re-
fuses to join the new government. This
surprises no one who knows his character.
During the revolution of 183O-forty years
ago, when he might have helped the true
of France t o form a Republic, he
was dancing around trying to get the Due
d'Orleans to accept the crown and de-
lighted at being presented with a glass Of
from hands almost royal. No, poor
little old specialized THEIRS, nor the cold,
phlegmatic, sedate, aristocratic, proud
Guizot, can be counted ON. But that
other little man with southern olive
tinted skin, high and broad forehead
and dark blue eye, who was the soul Of
the revolutions OF 1880 and 1S48-the
republican historian-Louis Blanc, will
be with them, as he has returned
from exile with Glorious old Victor