The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-06-19
The MaeMahOn Government.
New York Tribune.

1t IS far too soon for the partisans of |
reaction to begin to congratulate them
selves upon their apparent victory in
France. If the republic is to be killed !
it must be by the errors and the follies
of it's adherents and not by the ururpa-
lions Of its enemies. There is q great
vitality in political Institutions which
are rooted in popular sympathy. The
republic has come to be so generally
accepted In France that it VIII require
a holder and more cunning hand than
that of Marshal MacMahon to destroy
1t. Heinrich Heine once said that the
fact offered by Boccacio in support of
religion applied equally well to the
republic, that both succeeded in spite
of their ministers. It viii be hard to
prevent the republican sentiment from
growing and consolidating in France.
even though the republicans have left
the official bench and given up their
places to men who detest democracy
and all its works. Indeed, It is posi-
BILE taat the late disaster may turn out
to be the most efficient means for break
ing the paralyzing deadlock which was
always impending over the assembly
through the mutual defiance and mis-
trust of the government and the right.
The most effective work of establish
ing the republic has thus far been done
by its bitter enemies. NJ. Gambetta
has rendered no such precious service
to the popular cause as the Comte de
Chambord. The reserve and discretion
of the great radical have been most ad-
mirable, but they have brought about
no such evident results as have followed
the frank and voluble absurdity of the
head of the bourbons. 1t was Henry
Y. who stood always IN the way to blow
over with some mad utterance of abso-
lutism or bigotry the ingenious card
castles which his prudent cousins of
Orleans and their supporters were con-
tinually building with such labor and
pains. 1t was the Marquis de Gramont
who, by an inpertinence of which only
man of his class could have been
guilty, drove M. Grevy from the chair
which had neutralized him during the
session and placed his valuable talents
| at the disposition of the republic on
the floor. 1t will probably be seen that
when this insolent majority dismissed
Theirs, Jules Simon, Casimir- Periel
and their colleagues from Office, they
gave France in its need more efficient
champions than any mere ofice-hoIders
can be at this moment. Compare fol
an instant these veteran debaters and
politicians with their weak successors
upon the government bench. The LEFT
has received a reinforcement of incalcu
liable value. The right has lost more
strength than it could afford. It il
scarcely possible that the slender ma
iority by which the Theirs government
was overthrow can long survive the
vigilant observation and incessant at
tack of the hopeful and perfectly dis
ciplined opposition, which numbers
now in its ranks the two foremost me1
of France.
The MacMahon government viii no
fail to give occasions for criticism IL
plenty. The marshal's first words, OF
receiving the notification of his cleo
ton, were significant of the spirit il
which he intended to govern. He spoke
of his trust in Divine Providence anC
the army to enable him to fulfill the
duties now devolviDg upon him. 1t il
not by any appeal to Rome and to bay
onets that modern France is to be man
aged. The pope, it is true, has re
sponded promptly to the president
and has expressed his qualification a
his election in terms which Will gain thu
new cabinet as much suspicion as sup
port. The mysticism of NJ de Cham
bord will not be equally graceful in tn,
mouth of a soldier of the empire. It i
already doubtful whether the full ma
jority which voted against Theirs i
resolved that the republic never shall
be definitely established. 1t is certain
that they can never agree upon wha
shouldscome after the death of the re
public if they should accomplish it
murder. Neither the Comte de Cham
bord, nor his cousin of Paris, nor tn
young Bonaparte who is initiating hi
fathers early exile in England, a pare
dy of a parody, could secure the unite
suffrages of a party which is more il
fuenced by its preiudices than by ii
interests, or by common sense. It
= unlikely, in fact, that Marshal MacAI,
hon nourishes any illegal plots of rt
storation. He probably tells the trut
when he says his desire is to keep peac
and regain for France her place In th
world in some underlined, respectabl
conservative way. His cabinet is forme
of men like him, thoroughly hones
narrow, well-bred men, who are so COZ
stituted that they think the breechin
, the nOblest portion of the harness {
state. They are not men who woul
2 naturally be chosen for any work
daring rascality. The air of the Far
2 bourg st. German is not favorable I
so stubbornly aloof from the the Grim
nal of December during his who
reign will not be likely to attempt I
initiate his crimes. As the cabin,
stands at present, it contains no imel
ace for France. It would be safe I
predict that every hour it stays in offic
will strengthen the minority until
ceases to be one, and then the Assembl
can attend to its own pressing dut,
: which is suicide.
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preventing sea sickness by buildir
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