New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-14

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| the fcundAtious 81 the present Roman
| Kingdom. His nane hes figured largely
| in the late disturbances in Paris, and
| probably his reputation has suffered by
being misunderstood in that connection.
Menctti Garibaldi is a republican like his
father. and when Napoleon was over
thrown, he joined the armies that were
then upholding liberty in France. At the
conclusion of the war he entered Paris
and joined the iberalists in their efforts
to establish republic. When the AS
sembly of which Theirs was president
refused to order an election for the Con-
stituent Assembly, and manifested its de-
sign to exercise all authority in France.
Garibaldi allied himself with the Paris
ians. who demanded that new election
should be held, and that the people
should be consulted as to the form and CON-
position of the government that was to rule
the country. The present Assembly, it is
we'll to remember, was not invested with
permanent attributes when it was re-
turned, but the members were merely
elected to declare as to the will and desire
of France, whether the peace that Ger
many proposed should be accepted. The
iberalists contend that when this work
was done the authority and delegated
attributes Of the Assembly ended. The
right to erect and establish permanent
government was reserved to the people.
The National Assembly contends for q
different conclusion, and insists that its
tenure of Office is only limited by its own
voluntary convocation ola new authority.
It assumes that it was elected to govern
until it had framed a government more
acceptable to the people. It further
assumed that it was vested with faculties
that allowed it to determine whether
France should be republic, kingdom
or an empire. It refused and neglected
to order any election for its successors,
and thus usurped the power which be-
longed' to the people.
The republican party in Paris pro-
tested against this act of self-appoint-
ment, and insisted that a new constitu-
ent assembly should be elected fresh
from the people, and instructed by the
country as to what form the government
should assume. This was the revolution
that Garibaldi. allied himself with, and
we do not see that he ought to be blamed
SO severely for his course, since it &C.
cords SO precisely with republican prin-
ciples as understood in the United States.
The name communist, which the re-
publicans of Paris are designated BY, has
tended to heap odium upon Garibaldi
It is construed to be synonymous with
agrarianism, and to imply that the revo-
lutionists are in favor of community of
property. No such thing. 1t simply i'm
plies that the communists assert the right
of the people to be heard-that is, the
municipalities or neighborhoods. They
maintain what is known in America as
the right of the State, or the county, or
the city to speak, politically, for itself
The Assembly having usurped all power,
the revolutionists are in arms to recover
their rights of self government from Theirs
as they once before took them from Bona
parte. The commune represents the
community. It is political idea discon-
nected altogether from the status of
property.
This is a point that ought to be well
understood with us, since the telegraph
is at all times terrifying us with abuse of
the communists. They are warning
against the church, against property,
against religion, against freedom. If we
understand them better, we may be able
to appreciate the kilograms better. The
has only decreed freedom of
religious worship, and it has abolished
the national property. We find free re-
ligion very acceptable, and palaces and
are not the best things for a re-.
public to own. And on these two points
the telegraph sets adoat its thousand false
hoods that religion had been dethroned
and property had been declared All ofense.
This mistake found its way even into our
owing to the mendacity of the
telegraph; and we take this occasion to
apologize to the instruction, as it is
called, for our SANDER of its action.
Perhaps, as we intimated yesterday,
when the correct details reach us we
may see different face upon the revolu-
ton in Paris to that which now ofends
us. And perhaps, too, the very movement
which we have deprecated may find favor
in our sight. At all events we shall not
trust the telegraphic reporters, and shall
still hold to our faith in human nature.
Both of these resolutions are favorable to
the Paris insurgents from present ap-
pearances.
THE PANAMA-DARIEN SHIP CANAL.
The practicability of ship canal across
the Isthmus of Darien, connecting the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans, has been the
subject of discussion and agitation for
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