The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-05
'GUIzOT ON 7HE STATE OF FRANCE
Advice to the National Assembly to
Stand by M. Theirs.
FRANCE SAVED FROM An ABYSS.
A EulOgy on the Government of
National Defence.
GUIzoT I'M FAVOR OF MONARCHY.
N. Gulzot has addressed the following letter to M.
Grevy, President Of the National Assembly

nave ever, even
you preside the deliberations OF the representa-
uyes OF France. You have an arduous task and
you are acquitting yourself non0rably and with
dignity. You maintaining In the National
Assembly. TO the advantage OF all members, what
ever may be their opinions, that freedom OF speech
and obedience TO law winch France hopes 70 see
prevail throughout the land. l have great conf
citizen Of free FRANCE Of nation called upon to
direct and control lts own destiny In accordance
with Its own rights and legitimate interess-to you,
therefore, venture TO express my an xtetIes as wei
as my hopes for NV country.
We are just struggling out or an abyss. At one
an army. Now, BY the help OF q freely elected
national Assembly aud an army as national as the
1t had been iorcIbiy separated for two mouths.
Thanks be 10 Cod and To France God las not
&c e TO Wae a 0yes nor %
Paris were closing the churches In which for so
many centuries millions Of human beings beings
ossed up TO '5%f ior the Safety q
is only partial and superficial essentially and on
the whole, the human race remains unchanged; and
belief in the presence Of God and HIS influence over
our nature and destiny Is never lost The people OF
Paris will again Ill their churches. and once again
W. s ee OF o say ann Inc @ Of Ss nsU
who the first TO try and rescue France from so
deplorable postions Who began the work Of de-
In the first place, the Government OF National De-
fence and PARIS; in the next the National Assembly
M
France by their prolonged resistance; the latter
had the courage TO make peace when 1t had become
ana 20 as
Is bitter ana has been bought at cruel pricef But
after all It is peace0shai is return
Paris submitted 70 the receptions and op:
presslons OF a frenzIed faction she IS still
months endured siege without parallel IN the
annals OF history. We often make the mistake OF
only at the evil side THIS is both t.sghted and
unjust. We ought to be able to take the good INTO
account rs well the evil, and To bear the weight
vice. critical spirit Is fatal TO sound policy. It is
the errors and misconduct OF rulers, but the mama
OF mere opposition has destroyed more governments
We are only taking our frst steps along the road
which leads TO national security and well being. In
order that we may reacn the goal we must support
those who were our first leaders, we shall insure
own progress BY urging them on, and not Dy driving
them back. What have been the respective parts
taken by the Government OF NauoAai Defence and
Paris, and the National Assembly and NJ Theirs IN
rescuing us from the abyss and beginning the work
The Government OF National Defence called itself
by that patriotic name and no other. lt DID not
attempt to grapp;e win the political dlilcuty ana
the fallen empire Ii took uDOn Itself the defence or
the country against foreign enemy, and nothing
did precisely the same thing 1t is true that the
impatient ire Ids OF the republic proclaimed 1t from
able help in The defence OF Paris but most assuredy
the republic was not the spontaneous desire OF
11f was Inc me- 70 Of n
ganuine sentiment, but 1t Is also duty TO look for
the true meaning of facts and TO call them by their
right name. The proclamation OF the republic In
Parts on the attn OF September, 1910, was repub
can coup detd, an act which anticipated the rights
OF the national sovereignty.
Even the most ardent republicans felt that this was
the case, and fastened to assert that republic is
government by rightly right absolute, the only
legitimate government-and that 1t is superior alike
TO universal suffrage and the national Will; but IL
and wished to uphold the republican coup defdt,
tnat the whole population Of Parls-Legitimlsts'
Orleanists Bonapartlsts ana men OF no party
They united against a common enemy 10 preserve
their national honor and national rights and the
National Assembly was convOked In the name OF
the sovereign people and to make known their WILL
Wnen the Assembly met 1t proclaimed itself on the
ereign authority and stated that as pending the
deliberations with regard TO the future constitution
ont aelay Tor the necessities Of the covepnmen and
the means OF conducting negotiations NJ. Theirs
was named "Cnief Of the executive Power OF the
and undOubted but provisional. M. Timers
stood, FOR on entering ONCE and choosing his Min
listers he said-'I have taken them. not from one
OF the parties into when we are dideS. put rom
its votes. ana often placing on the same list men OF
the most opposite and sometimes, as II would
intelligence anu the common bond OF good inten.
lions. The only possible. the only conceivable,
lie, to restore credit and to encourage labor.
Every sensible, honest, enlightened man, what
se as sey as %
mote these ends: and even If he only labOrs year
Six mOnths-he may return to his country with head
erect and conscience at ease. No doubt when we
have rendered our country the pressing services
which have just enumerated when we have raised
from the ground that noble and wounded form
which We call France, 1t Will, when health and
energy are restored tell us how 1t wishes to live; the
decision VIII be pronounced not by minority but
PRECISION Of the will Of the whole nation.
The nation which elected the Assembly, the As
sembly chosen by the nation, and the Head Of the
Executive Power nominated by the Assembly,
spoke thus when France was IN danger and had TO
the republicans attached great importance to
the insertion OF the name of the French republic in
this programme. am not surprised at this nor do
reauire opinion to be sienced and party to be dts
av0wed. The republicans have right to SPEAK
and accordance with their views, and IL Is to
the interest OF the country That they shall DO 30
openly. when they were fighting against a foreign
enemy for the honor OF France IL was quite lcgit-
mate for them TO hope that they were also fghtIDg
for the fortune Of the republic and to try and dis
cover beforehand IN their own patrouc ardor some
such circumstances that which Is most important
that winch counrys right as well as Its interest
A. that there shall be lies and no trckery the
mart OF the various political parties concerned, and
neither dcusion nor weakness on the part OF the
nation. =,
In sending representatives of all parties to the
Naronal Assembly without taking their political
differences into account France showed that she
reckoned upon the concurrence OF all IN raising her
from her laen state and healing the most grievous
OF her wounds. The National Assembly and NJ
Thers did their duty. aud showed that they under
stood the real state OF the and the interests
OF their country when they reminded the members
OF tncir true issue ana that France In conHdIng it
10 them had intended 10 remain free TO regulate her
own institutions and her future destiny.
The question IL therefore ln'act; II was expressly
Erap and hprv ptot tyaah oyo NH,
right TO different forms Of government and
TO select from them. But has the time yet come
when this question can he definitely brought for
ward. when II can be discussed and decided with
perfect freedom, iair chance and some knowledge
or the subjects
understa nd the impotence OF those who want
the matter 10 be settled II Is natural and legi-
mate. IL is very necessary that France should ar
rive At some definite conclusion, and see clearly
what - before her. Tor ~ Is matter which concerns