The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-11-02
NBoKLLAMRoUs FOREIGN NEWS.
TO October IIth.I
LETTER OF M, THEIRS.

LETTER OF NJ. THEIRS.
The great event of the week has been
the manifesto of NJ. Theirs, who has come
! back from Switzerland to assume the com
mand OF the combined forces of the Oppo
sition. Writing to the Mayor of Nancy to
excuse himself from visiting that town at
present, he attacks the Majority for "ne-
gotiating" with the Comte de Cbambord
without a mandate from the Assembly, and
for wishing to settle the future of France
without fresh appeal to tho country. He
recommends at the same time careful alb
stentlon OF agitation in the interest of the
Republic, the only form of Government
capable of rallying the widely divided po-
litical parties, which can alone speak au-
thoritatively to the Democracy, which has
established everything in France, order
as well as the army, which has redeemed
the territory, and healed, with the excep
ton OF one, all the wounds caused by the
war;" Lastly, M. Theirs takes his stand
on the principles of the Revolution. eve
shall have" he says, to defend not
only the Republic, but all the rights of
France" the principles of 1899, the tri-
color, and not only that flag alone, but the
reality OF the things which it signifies, for
the flag, if remaining only to mask the
the counter-revolution, would be the most
odious and revolving of lies" The ex-
President is thus committed to policy of
active resistance - resistance "not by
means which it would be easy to distort,
but by cold and solid reason" He will no
doubt make first rate speech, but his
power over the Assembly departed, never
to return, when his resignation, so often
threatened, was at last given in and &C
copied.
FUSION OF THE LETS.
There can be no doubt that the active
part assumed by M. Theirs will render the
Restoration a more difficult enterprise than
If the Onnnaifinn laf t1 Ice ~ \
less experienced leadership; and the effect
of his manifesto is already visible in the
increased vigor and the improved spirits
of the Republican journals. ALI the Sec
tons of the Left have resolved to act in
complete unison, SO as to utilize their
organs go 80 far as to promise support at
the future election to all deputies, what
ever may be their antecedents, who vote
against the monarchy. Such promises are
seldom scrupulously kept or we should see
NJ. Theirs and the Conservative Republic
Naquet, who threatens to defend the Re-
public with the musket if he cannot save
it by his vote. But for the present it is
clear that the Left, most of the Left Cen
ire, and nearly all the Bonapartists mean
to vote together, and everything will de-
pend on the Right, the Right Centre, and
the Target party being strong enoug h to
THE DUO DE BRoGLIE ON THE RESTORATION.
But not the lest important of the weeks
utterances, has been a speech of the Due
de Broglie at the opening of a railway at
Neuville-le-Bon. 1t is important because
it proves, first, that the Government is
willing cheerfully to accept the decision of
the Assembly; secondly, that instead of
being opposed to any change, it wishes for
I" q bulwark to repress the revolt of anarchy
s,I
that 1t is, therefore, quite prepared for the
establishment of Constitutional Monar-
chy and fourthly, that it desires, with the
Comte de Chambord, to disabuse the peas
antry of the ridiculous fears which the Re-
publican propaganda has been laboring to
instill into their minds. "The supremacy
of the clergy" said the Duke, "as it ex-
listed in the middle ages and under the old
re9ime-a supremacy explained by history
and often justified by it's benefts-disap-
peared at the time fixed by Providence,
along with the exceptional circumstances
nothing like it, or even distantly resem-
bling it, could originate in our times. l
say this" he added, I" not to enlighten my
hearers, to whom such an as urance is need
less, but say it in order that my voice
may reach those whose uneasy suscepti-
blllties calumny attempts under our very
eyes to mislead. Whatever Government
the National Assembly, by rirtue of the
Constituent porer ,chick it holds from you,
may give to France, the social conditions
to which we are all equally attached, will
not be tempered with" Hero we have a
distinct affirmation of the power of the
present National Assembly to give n Con-
stitution, and in the following sentence an
assui ance that it will give one. eve de-
sire Government which comprehends the
legitimate requirements, as we'll as the per-
lis OF modern society. Such,
whatever the astuteness of powerless fac
tions may allege, will be the Government
which the National Assembly will give u.s."
And lastly, the Duo de Broglie clearly in
dicates that his Cabinet will offer no oppo-
sition to the act of the Assembly. Con-
fding in this assurance" he continues,
" we shall respectfully await the decision
which it alone has the right of pronoun-
cling" The speech. according to the cor
respondent of the Times, was received with
loud and prolonged applause; and in spite
of the reiterated assertions that the AS
sembly does not represent French opinion,
we shrewdly suspect that if the Restora-
ton does take place, there will be through
out the country an outbreak of approval,
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