New-York tribune., 1871-03-27
4 PEACEFUL RESULT At PAGIS.

| TO plague the Republic, but only lor
brief time. For more than week the
| insurgents have been in possession oi inc
! principal places and streets OF fariS "h''n
! HausSmann videned and straightened ,haV
the artillery of Napoleon's Prctorians might
dispcrse every uprising impclled by love
of liberty and the Republic. No sooner were
his mercenaries driven from tho strong piaceS
! of tho city than the fanatics of the Commune
seized them, and 10y the aid OF traitorouS SOL
d;ars left by the Germans with arms to NAM
toin order. have since defed the whole power
of France. The strong positions they occuWed
command the heart of the capital anu
| strengthened by the defenscs, erected Dy the
Empire, there is not "a question that the rebel
| lion might have sustained itself against any
attack which loyal Paris and the Provinces
were prepared for the present to hull against 1t.
Cancellation had been wasted upon the bloody
minded fomentcrs of this disgracGul riot.
| From the first they decreed the suhject!on
to themselves of the government which all
France elected, and set the Communists OF
Montmartrc and Beleville above the Rcpub-
leans of the whole nation. Appeals TO
their sense of justice were in vain. They
might have been suppressed, OF their demon
stlations at least confined to their suburban
origin, had the National Guards remained
! !oyaI, and to this detection they owe it
| that they have existed week longer
| than they should have done. Efforts to
| inAame their loyalty by patriotic demonstra-
! lions served but to draw their deadly fire,
and blood has been shed only of patriots
none of rebels. Cancellation again resortcd to
after this ill-advised affair resulted i'll con-
ccding to tho insurgents reelection in Paris
of municipal and National Guard officers. This
/ election was held yesterday, under singular
/ circumstances, and with strange and surprising
results. The barricaGes OF the insurgents were
maintained and guarded during the day, but
! their guns were reversed. The loyal Nationals
| to the number of ten thousand, under Admiral
| SoiSset, occupied other parts OF the city within
short distance of the strongholds Of the insur-
! gents. yet no fighting took place. IL was be-
| leved that the election was permitted IN peace
| by the insurgents because they had nothing
| TO lose and much TO gain by it, III its result did
not suit them, the "Reds' were expected to
continue their rebellion. If they were success
| full at the polls it was not to be presumed
| that they would be less arrogant III their
demands upon the Government, OF waive
| their assumed right to control its adminStra-
| ton. In any event, therefore, the election
was not trusted to be the end of the insurrec-
ton, and the original problem, only more
complicated than ever, WAS expected to
present itself to the Versailles authorities
for. solution. Yet no sooner was the re-
suit of the elections annOunced-and they
seemed to have gone strongly against
the insurgents-than their Central Committee,
which has been at once domineenng and
bloody minded, resigned the power it had
usurped and gave in its adherence to the new
municipal government of loyal Paris. The in
surgents disbanded and went peacefully to
their homes; and so complete does the triumph
of the Government appear to have BEEN that
| Admiral SOisset was warranted in dlsbanding
his loyal Nationals. In the Assembly, the Lett
which has represented and upheld the insur-
gents. gave in their support to the Govern
meDt In Lyons, too, the Communists have
succumbed, and only in Marseics is the
authority of the Government for the moment
disputed.
Thus is this GoIdian knot united without
the sword, as it was feared at one time must
be the final resort of NJ. Thiers The ilsurrecion
could not SPREAD it has reached its full strength,
and las already shown indication of demorali-
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vitality and vigor remaining. 1t could
have maintained itself in the heart
of Paris for many weeks to come.
| And, though Paris is no longer France, it is
| imperative that the Government which con-
! trolls France shall command Paris. Though
the Assembly may establish the capital out OF
Paris, it cannot permit Paris to stand opposed
TO the Government. This consideration, q
vital one in every political as well as military
sense, impelled the Versailles Government to
early action. The German authorities, too,
anxious to secure their indemnity, halted in the
evacuation of the country, and threatened tho
reOccupation Of Paris if evidence of the
ability of the Thiers Government to maintain
its authority and carry out its stipulatiOns were
not Immediately forthcoming. Thus forced to
make an issue, the Government seemed to
have none other left than that last
one, which is always terrible, and most
terrible when tho arms which are
appealed to are directed against brothers.
All this is happily avoided by this unexpected
and satisfactory result of the Paris election.
II secures NJ. Thiers and the Republic in a
long lease of power, which we trust will be
one of Peace, unmarked by riots such as this
now concluded, and which, had it ended in
blood, would have been forever blot on
bOasted French civilization.
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