The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-31

most distrusts and fears the imperialists.
Doubtless his model of a government is that
of Louis Philippe-doubtless he would prefer
compromise upon this branch Of the family
between the elder and the younger Bourbons.
He detests the Commune, he abhors the radi-
calisms of Gambetta and his ''demagogues, he
doubts the conservative republicans, he despairs
Of doing anything for the Orleanists, but he
fears the ''reds" and the Bonapartists. Anything
for him but the ''reds" or the Bonapartists.
His policy appears to be reduced to the single
idea of keeping off the ''reds" and keeping
out the Bonapartes. But will he be equal to
this task? He fears that with the removal OF
the Germans the trouble will begin with the
''reds" and the Bonapartists, and he does not
know where it will end; but as France desires
to be relieved of the Germans, President
Thiers with a little time for consideration,
feels constrained to pay them up and send
them off.
We shall await the experiment with some
anxiety. We apprsbend that in the last ex-
tremity the Executive head of the State will
retire in disgust that his Assembly, thus
rendered useless and powerless, will give way
to the army, and that the army will silence
the ''reds" and recall the Bonapartes. The
great producing and trading classes of Paris
and France, from the revolutionary terrors
and warnings of the Commune, have learned
to look beyond Sedan to their prosperity and
security under the empire; and the great body
of the Catholic peasantry, mourning over the
misfortunes of the Pope resulting from his
loss of the protection of Napoleon the Third,
are ready for another plfbiscite. The bewil-
derments of the late disastrous war are pass
ing away, and the French peasant, dismissing
| the Communist, the halfway republican, the
| Orleanist and the old Bourbon, is thinking
over the souvenirs and the glories of the en-
pire. AS for the tradespeople of Paris, would
| they not prefer month of the brilliant reign
of Eugene, as empress of the fashions, to a
whole year of the proftless provisional
government at VersaillesP In short, these
''Bonapartists," so much dreaded by the VEN
cradle Theirs, are not by him properly under
stood or estimated. They comprehend, in
| addition to the army and the clergy, the great
| BODY OF the peaSauIry anu VI JIG inauuidC-
turing and mercantile masters. Upon these
men, whose memories and traditions do not
60 beyond the empire, this late edict of Count
| Chambord, of his ''divine rights" as a
king, will fall as dead as would pronuncia-
mento to the Mexicans from the King of
Spain.
The apprehensions Of President Theirs
in reference to the dangers of q bloody
conflict between the ''demagogues' or
the ''Bonapartists" may, however, be
we'll grounded, though we are more
inclined to the opinion that, with the col
lapse of the present temporary French govern
ment, an imperial coup Gftat, backed by the
army, will effect comparatively quiet and
bloodless restoration We think so, because
the empire has proved itself guarantee OF
internal order, security, stability and pros
| perity, and because of all needful things these
are now most needed by France and her suf-
fering people.