New-York tribune., 1873-05-13

repuDhCau governments III LuRihhu' III" "
sustaining the monarchy as q matter OF course
without question and without argument. An
other numerous class will demonstrate the Inn
possibility and inexpediency of any change IN
the Constitution, and support their position ny
arguments based upon the structure and con-
ditons OF English life and society. Mr.. Brooke,
in "Middlemarch "-the most perfectly consistent
Englisblnan in modern ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
himself a Liberal cup to a certain point, you
know. You must not go too far; you must
"pull up in time" There are many English gen
temen who have no better reasons than squire
Brooke for setting certain fixed limits TO their
liberalism Mr.. Bright never lacks admirapie
reasons for everything he chooses to advance
and no could much better have opposed INC
Republic, if it is a matter worth opposing, py
arguments drawn from England than from any
beyond the Channel. But in this, as IN every
thing else, he is thoroughly English. Inc
French revolution of the last century has Deen
the stock argument of British Conservatives
for eighty years, although all the world now
sees how enormous were the benefits 1T con-
ferred upon the human race. The usurpation
of Louis Napoleon, conceived in perjury and
accomplished in murder, seemed to the average
English mind conclusive demonstration OF
the advantage of the monarchy over demo-
cratic government. Any conclusions unfavor-
able to Republicanism drawn from the recent
history of France aud Spain are equally iliogi-
cal.
1t seems almost superfluOus to refer to the
two years of Republican Government III
France 1t would have been impossible for
the ideal monarchy to have succeeded better
in carrying out all the great ends of govern
ment than has this constantly attacked and
hampered Provisional Government OF the Re-
public. 1t began by doing what no king or
emperor ever did-quelling and destroying an
insurrection which was triumphant in Paris,
and organized into regular revolutionary form.
1t has kept up the army. preserved pubic
order, and developed the resources OF the
country to an extent which has excited the
surprise of the world. 1t has finally concluded
arrangements for relieving the national ter
ritOry from foreign occupation, in less time
than yictors or vanqushed had thought pos
sibe; and while all this was going on, the
Republican idea has taken every day deeper
root among the people, until now every cleo
ton shows how pOwerless against it are all the
efforts of reaction. Every purpose hostile to
order. to peace. to national prosperity in
France to-day, is in the interest of monarchical
pretenders. and not in that of the Republic.
The same may be said of Spain. The ter
rible condition of affairs in that country is
not to be attributed to the Republic In Tho
first place, il was the Monarchy which precip-
itated the crisis The King destroyed the
dynasty, and tbe people took up the sover-
eighty which Amadeus had thrown upon tho
floor of tho Assembly. What prevented peace
under the Republic7 An absOlutist insurrcc-
ton in the north under the name Of Carlism,
and mOnarchical conspiracy In Madrid among
the old officers and cOurtiers of Isabel III. 1t
would seem, if we listened to the reactionists
who now point every moral by references to
the disturbed condition of the Peninsula, as
if there were no instructions and no con-
spracies there before Figucras. The frigbtful
debt is brought forward also as an argument
against the Republic, though it was piled up
under the Monarchy. Yet in spite of all the
acknowledged evils of tho situation, the
people of Spain, who are at least
as much interested in having good govern
ment as any others, have just declared for the
federal republic by an enormous majority In
the elections for the Constituent Cortes When
this body meets at Madrid normal Republi-
can government will then be set in operation,
and by its fruits it will be known. II any one
thinks that Spain Will become Massachusetts
as soon as the new Constitution is promul
gated, he is likely to be severely disappointed.
But we certainly expect that whatever tumult
or disorder comes to trouble the peace OF the
will be in Spain, as 1t is in France,
the direct work of the mOnarchcal minority,
or the consequence of the evils inherited from
former dynasties.
The most significant fact in regard to Mr..
Brights letter against the Republic is that the
Conference to Which it was addressed passed
a resolution declaring in favor Of the federal
republican form of government for England.
We do not attach any especial importance to
this manifestation. The Republic is not so
needed in Great Britain as it is
in Latin Europe. But these facts, that John
Bright thinks it requisite to argue against the
and meeting of his supporters at
treats his argument with con-
tempt, are not without a certain significance.
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THE PRESIDENT AND THE GOVERNOR.
The dispatches from Louisiana are still full
of discrepancies. One account says that the
" whole affair is virtually over" another pre-
diets that the trouble has hardly begun. 1t is
certain that tho people of the State are no
more reconcied to the Kellogg usurpation now
than they were two or three months ago; and
they have no disposition to fight
against the United States army, they will not
submit to Mr.. Kellogg until at least show
has been made of compulsion. Whether their
submission is to be enforced quietly and speed
lily depends upon the action Of the President
and the Governor. The policy Of the citizens