New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-08
EITSIQN IN ER1NCE

Among the many discOuraglng circumstances
that cloud the prospects of the Republic In
France there is always one thing upon which
the mind can rest with something like pleas
ure. This is the fact that the monarchical
coalition which dismissed NJ. Theirs from the
Government and installed the Duke of Ma
genta in his place is formed of three elements
so utterly discordant that it seems morally
impossible for them to combine for any
definite purpose hostile to the liberties
of France. They saw that the per-
manent establishment of the Republican
form of government was so imminent
under the judicious and orderly rule of NJ.
Theirs, that in the impulse of that common
fear they found sufficient motive for a tempo
rary alliance which, by dismissing that veteran
statesman, should avert the danger for the
time being, and give space to each of the
three parties for deliberate intrigues in favor
of their respective pretenders. If they could
once get Theirs out of the way, and place i'll
the Presidency mere soldier with indefinite
reactionary tendencies, the field was then left
clear for every sort of future combination.
Everything was to be feared from the former
Anything might be expected from the latter.
MacMahon had been a General of the Empire,
petted and promoted by Napoleon III. He
had associated his name with that of the
dynasty with great eclat at Magenta and Sol
ferinO, and had been united to the Emperor
in the closer community of defeat at Sedan.
The Imperialists, therefore, considered his
choice victory for themselves. But the Or
leans party was equally confident that the
soldier Presidents sympathies were with them |;
and the Legitimist-clercal faction was
surest of all of his adhesion and
support. He was profoundly devout himself,
and very much under the influence of a wife
distinguished for her fanaticism. There was
therefore the greatest rejoicing at Frohsdorff
and in the Faubourg st. German, and even
the rebelious Infalliblists of Germany took
fresh courage from his accession. The libe-
rails were correspondingly depressed. A sat
rical paper of Vienna represented France as
under the rule of the slipper-the German ex-
preston for feminine government-drawing
the Marshal as crouching submissively under
the boot of his wife, who devOutly kisses in
turn the ross-embroidered slipper of the
Pope.
But though each party rejoced in the CON-
mon victory over the Republicans neither has
appeared to feel any confidence of its own
ultimate triumph, or any trust in the good
faith of its allies. There has been certain
decency and reserve in the intercourse be-
tween the two branches of the Bourbons, be-
cause after all theirs is family quarrel, to be
discussed with closed doors. But the fury
of the Bonapartist press against the Orleans
Princes, and its passionate adulation of the
Legtimists, have formed the most amusing
feature of campaign which has too little of
eayety in it. The henchmen of the Tuileries,
the men who got their living about the
back door- ways of the Bonaparte Governme mt,
have been attitudinizing as aristocrats, as
suming the speech and manner of the men
who stood about the thrones of the House of
Valois, and affecting an intimate sympathy
with the sincere and ignorant bigotry and
chivalry of the COmte de Chambord. The
men who fawned before such mushroom
growths as Persigny, such doubtful blazons as
that of Morny, and who did footman's work
for that type of parvenu vulgarity, Louis Ma
poleon Bonaparte, pretended TO breathe
anew when the Duke of Magenta threw
open the salons and people of quail
ity came to pay their respects. The
Theirs Government was too common, they