The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-30

eoMd '4pt. x,it'Ag in sH9fs uneest1tn
posItiom tfSn She il sEsAsss* Fof &c
|mohens, ELL factions fsltsst sa snsHSAad
aufprisipg sifdltion confrop3 II a5Sits,
Cling espirant% for poW9ES Msrshal
MaoMahon, representing mo phisef fof
the national thought, committed neither
by his pms. career nor by direct pledges
to any particular line OF, policy, .is sud-
denly made the custodian Of the Ma
tional Executive. The Right, unable TO
install King, have resolvedto place tle
Presidency in the hands Of 9 military
man possessing the confidence Of the
people nd the affection OF the army.
For the Ioment, the situation seems be-
wilderir :; but it is certain that the Lett
in the assembly will become unit
under M. Theirs aud M. Gambetta, and
will form the most powerful opposition
yet organized at Versailles. It is plain
that the election OF Marshal bfacMa ahon
!, but temporary expedient-indesd,
the only one thnt would not have pfeoi-
pitated s-civil war and delivered the
country over to the rage Of internal
strife. Preaidenti Mac Mahon finds him.
self the head Of q governments which
does nos repreeent the national will, and
which hes weakened at every election for
deputies. Those who sustain him are
divided AMONG fhemselses. while. those
whe oppose. bin unite i3 m ba.! one efy:
p1sbasis shat tSe repSlio Vii. n esis s,s1,y Sy
the new Presidency. M.iThiers will go
splendid oFatorT T. viii siG aaaia svH Sa ths nls
Assembly. Ali ycem promises between
him and the Republicans are at an end.
Marshal MacMahon will discover that
he has undertaken a task which bus no
prospect of an Immediate settlement,
and in which he can only be ruler by
becoming dictator. Thus nothing de-
finite has transpired, and We shall haye
to await the arrival Of fresh intelligence
before we can pronounce accurately on
the peculiar phases of the situation. It
may be assumed, however, that there
will be general outcry in Paris against
military President. Even when the
exigencies of war required TINT General
Trochu should assume the Presidency of
the Provisional Government, lie was as-
sailed in every Republican gathering in
the capital, and his usefulness greatly
impaired by the bitter opposition of the
Jacobin chiefs. He e'did not WELD his
power longer than FIVE months, and
passed from feir reputation into an
unmerited obloquy. Marshal MacMa-
hon never placed his popularity in
greater peril than when he accepted the
position rendered too difficult for such
an astute but trimming statesman as NJ i.
Theirs. We repeat, therefore, that the
republic has become stronger in the fact
that the only possible solution is the
dissolution OF the Assembly as q whole
or IN its gradual renewal by thirds. An
appeal to the people would give an
overwhelming majority for the republic
Hence, if the popular will is to be con.
suited, the Right have committed a
suicidal act; but if the fortunes OF France
are to be DECIDED by a coup d'elat, the
ultimate result will be prolonged civil
war. It is singular fact that France
and Spain should both be confronted by
powerful monarchioal opposition-one
in the form Of q turbulent Assembly and
the other Of a Csrlist insurrection. Spain
purged her Cortes and the people elected
a body almost entirely Republican.
France has not puTged her Assembly,
but when she does, will the monarchists
there, as in Spain, infest the mountain
Businesses and themselves begin mill
tary struggle for domination? The era
OF peace and good will among men 30
ardently promised by the Vienna exhibi-
ton, seems to be makipg progress in q
negative direotion.-NeUY Fork Herald.
HE LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGATING Con-.
MIrTEE. .-Pursuant to adjournment. the