Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-28

liners was necessary to the national pros
perity, and in August, 1871, the provisiona
republic was established, with Theirs at itl
head as president. Under his wise admins
!tration the immense war debt to Germany
has been almost wholly paid, and the 5th Of
next September will see this completely
done and the last German in the army of oc.
cupation will leave.
In general, order and prosperity have reign
ed throughout the country and people began
to reason that, if the republican form, ham,
pered with debt and by its provisional char
acter, gave such good results, that form was
the one to be made permanent. The late
elections in Paris and in various parts of the
country where vacancies occurred in the
Assembly, told plainly the growing nature
OF this sentiment and that it is already the
will OF Francs. Theirs, seeing this, on the
resignation of part of his ministry, ten days
ago, appointed pronounced Republicans to
The vacancies. The monarchists of all shades,
Bourbons, Orleanists and Imperialists. de-
termined to beat buck the tide by united eff
iort. They therefore moved in the Assembly
an Interpolation of the, government, which
IN substance demanded its reformation by the
reinstatement of monarchists in its counsels
In the angry debate which followed. Theirs
said plainly that the time had come when
the republic should be declared as the per-
man ent future government of France. On
the vote which censured the government he
was in a minority of 348 to 1868. This, it
must be remembered, was in body which
has no business to be; which does not repre-
sent The present views of the French people
and which knows it is acting in opposition
to the wishes of the people. 1t is hopeful
sign of the times when the monarchists pre-
serve IA bare majority of fifteen IN body
where their majority two years ago was three
hundred.
Theirs resigned on Saturday after the vote
in which he was defeated, and. Marshal Mac
MahOn was elected as his successor Mlc-
Mah0n is a brave soldier whose ancestors left
Ireland in the seventeenth century and made
France their home. He was born in 1907.
won great or edit as an officer in Algiers, and
was the real victor at the battle of Magenta.
His bravery was conspicuous in the late war,
and at the disaster of Sedan he was severely
wounded and taken prisoner. His life has
been that of a soldier, aud he has taken so
little part in politics that it is hardly known
what his views are. From his position dur
ins the Empire, however, it is likely that
his bias is in favor of personal government
l5 remains to be seen whether his known con.
and his military dread Of disorder
will lead him to use the power in his hands
to repress the. advance of the people toward
pend the peace and well being of the country
for years.
Theirs has resumed his scat in the Assem-
bly, and the monarchists will now be thrown
from the opposition into the more difficult
of government. 1t will be
strange if they succeed in keeping the As
sembly with them, and, even in that case,
the people will be on the other side. If they
attempt by arms TO set up the old humbug
Of hereditary monarchy, France viii again
have fallen upon evil days, for there will be
no enduring peace within her borders until
her government is one of common sense and
her law the law OF liberty.