The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-21
THE PARTSTA REVOLT

II is lumored that Bonspartist agents have
been active in fomenting the late revolt in
Paris, and the arrival of Napoleon in Eng
land at the moment when this outbreak was
at its height gives an air of plausibility to
this story The ex-Emperor assumes that
France will summon him back to her throne
to protect her from those who are generating
anarchy: and he is so excessively selfish, un-
scrupulous, and cunning that he would not
hesitate a moment to aid in plunging the
whole nation in civil war for the express
purpose of creating a demand for his
own services as peacemaker and
deliverer One of the strongest supports of
the Empire for long period previous to its
fall was the fear of the middle classes that
its overthrow would be succeeded by Red
Republican anarchy and it would be natural
and consistent for Napoleon and his satellites
to seek restoration to power through the force
of a similar feeling, A satirical enemy of
the ex-Emperor once compared him to a
stable-boy, and France to noble and beauti-
full lady who had linked her destinies to this
vulgar and cruel stable-boy; but if this
parallel was carried little further, it might
become evident that the beautiful
lady had very capricious tastes;
that her temper was violent and even dam
gerous; and that it was extremely doubtful
whether, under the dominion of steady
going, good husband, she would not disgust
all sober-minded people by scandalous, infa-
nous. and ruinous behavior. The great
danger of france is that this damaging esti-
mate of her character is bat too we'll founded,
and that her weIl-disposed citizens will once
more be compelled to shield themselves from
her cruel eccentricities behind the bulwarks
of despotism.
The hopeful view of the situation is that
the Partisan revolt of this era may be crushed
as the Dead Rabbit Democratic anti-draft re-
volt in New York city was crushed in 1868.
New York to-day is nearly as wicked, un-
principled, desperate, and dangerous city as
Paris, and if the destinies of the United States
hinged on the caprices of her Dead Rabbit
mobs or the edicts of her Tammany Hall
despots, this country would soon be reduced
to condition as deplorable as that of France.
Fortunately, the better judgment of the Ams-
rican people has enabled them to despise and
defy, in national affairs, the pronunciamentos
of New York mobs and if France can mani
fest equal disregard for the edicts of the Pa
risian mobs, she may yet restore order and
maintain constitutional liberty.
Unfortunately, however, Paris has gene
rally exercised commanding influence over
France, and the seeds of discord and distrac-
tion have been widely sown in all the French
provinces. The popular writers of the country
have reiterated in thousand forms the
hideous doctrine that all property is robbery;
and as we have in our midst repudiationists,
Kuklux Klans, and Dead Rabbits, so France
teens with men who have adopted doctrines
akin to those which sometimes threaten to
convulse society in the United States
Napoleon assumes that there are only two
strong parties in France-the Imperialists
and Republicans, and that the Orleanists
possess only imaginary strength. This theory