The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-13
REPUBLICAN PROSPECTS IN FRANCE.

From the NJ Y. Times,
Paris is possessed with its old frenzy again.
The overshadowing danger, in presence of
which party clamor was stilled, has passed,
and vague unrest, born of despairing con-
sciousness how impotent has been their re-
sistance to relentless enemy, seems to have
taken hold of the populace. In default of the
Prussans, the 'Reds" want somebody to
wreak their vengeance on. France, and,
above all, Paris, has suffered great defeat
and great humiliation, and yet nobody can
be found on whom to lay the blame. At Bor-
deaux the people have been calmly
voting away, provinces and huge
indemnities that will absorb the
spare earnings of generation, but there is
no talk of impeaching anybody, unless, per-
haps, the Emperor, who is already as good as
dead; there is no new oath of the tennis-court
by which the popular deputies should, this
time, bind themselves to remain in session
till means were devised for taking revenge
upon the foe-who seems to the minds eye
much less formidable now that his field artil-
lery and his intrenchments are no longer
contracting the circle of fate round the city.
The suppressed fury of the proletd7iat of the
capital has, therefore, begun the familiar
series of fitful outbursts which, unrestrained
by strong hand and vigorous will, may
lead to revolution and chaos again.
Fortunately for France, the patriots of
Montmartre and Belleville cannot Just yet
work any serious mischief. The Government
is strong in resting upon the deliberate
choice of the people, and in being backed by
large majority of the representatives of the
provinces, who are tired of the dictation of
Paris, and many of whom are prepared to
support the proposal of removing the politi
cal capital somewhere else. They are also
strong from the fact that sincere desire to
maintain republican institutions is visible in
all their measures. Could M. Theirs and his
colleagues be convicted of plotting for
monarchy, revolutionary protest would be
Ineligible, and might be exceedingly diff
cult to deal with. But all their acts, of
which we have any record, Sshow q punctili-
GUS desire to maintain republican FORMS and
an honest determination to give popular
government fair trial. Nj. Theirs insisted
upon the insertion of the word republic" in
the resolution of the deputies which forms
the warrant of his Office He retains three
republicans in his ministry, who would not
hold office for single day were they to be
required to assist in an Orleans restoration.
BY some such reasons as these, emphasized
no doubt by reference to the readiness of
his cannon, General de Palladines managed
on Thursday to bring the mutinous officers of
the National Guards of Belleyille to reason
France has shown her willingness to be ruled
by moderate counsels, and the sooner Paris
reaches similar resolution, the more rapidly
viii proceed the peaceful reconstruction
which the country SO urgently needs. 1t is
time that Frenchmen recognized the fact
that, grievously betrayed as they have been,
they have suffered chiefly because they were
untrue to themselves. For two generations
. neither Conservatives nor Radicals have been
capable OF compromise or of gradual reform.
The political life of the nation has thus alter
mated between repression and license, and
has been devoted to the worship of every pos
Eble idea--Legitimist Orleanist, Republican,
and Imperialist-to the exclusion of the idea
of true liberty. Evidences are not wanting
that France has .profted by sad experience,
and that the Theirs Ministry embodies her
attachment to practical results in preference
to vague aspirations, to republicanism that
respects the rights of all in preference to a
regime that gives either man or a mob an
irresponsible and absolute power.
Michigan is to have a new State Capitol
which is expected to cost a million dollars.
A gigantic steam scoop, called HReelzebub's