, 1873-06-01
PARIS.
The Governmental Crisis---M
>'"Thiers and the Po1it.
:. ica1 Parties.
Due1ing IN France--A French Ac-
count Of a Duel at Chicago,
Death Of Noted Gunsmith..The
Vendome Column.


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From Our O1on Correspondent
PARIS, May IL, 1879.
The intonsest anxiety reigns here. We liter
oily do not know what day may bring forth
Tho. recent elections, and especially the Pari
election, have ,.- go.
49,. STARTLED FRANCE.
/ Is this country wildly revolutionary Are vi
again to have La Commune, with closed cham
ber, and assassinated priests. gendarnes, an6
Conservatives Arc Mons. Gambetta and tht
men he collected around him in Tours, On tht
eve Of being once more masters Of France Il
the army, shattered into atoms by mutinous
spirit, untrustworthy against insurrection 7 Il
society, 30 ferce1y nssailed in June, '49,-stil
more impari1ed In March, April, May, '7l,-on
the eve Of perishing7 Are the streets OF Paris
to be de1uged with blood, and it's horizon once
more to be~made Inrid with incend1ary conda.
| grations, consuming the treasures Of the world,
! the heirlooms Of civilization 7
These are the questions painfully asked. /
| cannot anBwer them. It is tims's task. ALI I
can do is to let you see the present state OF at-
fairs, the currents Of public opinion, the infu-
| ences st work to change, Or to impol them head
long down their present course.
ONE THING is 70 BE AEMExBERED
! in considering tho state OF aGairu in France.
| namely: that the rural population Ia always for
the Government, unloss the Government prove
burdensome. The urban population, on the
contrary, is always and Internationally against
the Government; against Louis Philippe !;
against the Provisional Government; against
Cavaignac (voting for Louis Napo1eonD; against
Louis Napoleon; against the Prince-President;
against the Emperor; against tho Government
OF the National Defense; against II. Theirs.
The rural population supports the Government
because the rural population Is averse to change.
Now 1t. Theirs has, from the moment he saw
himself safely ensconced IN power, done every
thing to breed contempt for the Conservative
side Of the National Assembly: He declared
it alone caused all the disquiet which rei4ns; it
attacked him because he wished to found tho
Republic, while 1t wished to establish mon
archy. AL the officers OF the Government fol-
lowed this cue, so that all the elections which
take place send Radicals to the National As
semb1y, because II. Theirs continually declares
that the Radicals alone enable him to carry on
the Government:
Vain IS peacock, he has all along persusd-
cd himself that he could make
THE RADICALS
do as he pleased. He had but to will and
the Radicals would execute his wishes. The
Radicals took good care not to undeceive him
until they thought themselves masters Of the
future. They voted against free trade, against
decentralization, against short military service,
against ministerial responsibility y,-against every
principle they had declared sacred. THIS was all
the easier for the Radicals, because they do not
admire froe government. Their beau-idea1 Of
government is an intelligent tyrant Of their own
party, who will make their ideas triumphant by
fro and sword, no other means prove effect
uaL They think themselves now able to do with
out n: Theirs and while they will not break
with him, while they will support him against
the Right, they consider him (they have openly
used this e1pression) mere extra horso,-un
cheral de re1oi,--necessary to enable them
to draw the numbering diligence OF French
politics up the steep hill on whose SUM
NIT the Republic stands: They will not keep
him one minute longer than they can uBe him,
and will discard him the instant they discover
themselves able to do without him.
II. Theirs little hold on the Radicals WAS
clearly shown BY the result OF the Paris elections:
He exerted all his Influence: he brought the in
1uence OF such moderate Republicans as MessrH.
Grevy, Emmanuel, Arago, carnot, Cernuschi,
Henri Martin, to support Mons. de Remusat |
and yet the latter failod to be elected; an over
whelming vote was cast against him..
THE RIGHT
are confounded. The disunion among them, |
from the incredible stupidity Of the Legitimists,
and from the timidity Of some OF the Orlean-
lists, makes the Right weak, despite their large
majority in the National Assembly. The meas
ures they will have adopted will have been COM
to you by telegraph; therefore need
not speculate upon the shape they arc
a Es Tbe 59 gs'ess fre a'y pesynes 5y as4ss 6ns
hero their power ends. They cannot make
coup d'etat. Nobody can. The officers :of the
army would not take part ID coup d'etat against
The Assembly. Tho priyates would not obey
their officers, we're they to attempt to lead the
privates Of the army are for the most part Radi-
calls. Had tho Right able leaders, and vera
these leaders supported; they would at once DIS
solTe the Assembly and order new, elections.
to exist, the moro unpopular the Right will be-
come: They ought to precipitate the crisis, that
reaction may set in. Tho instant the Radicals
Eet possession OF power, the whole Left will bo
shattered, and .-..-'
will become as hated throughout France as they
'ere in February, II. They are men who have
no po1icy,-at Ill events, no practical policy.
Their followers arc people who expect from
hem means OF living lu1u1iously in idleness;
Hhile the rich pay for everything. Radical rule
aating from the cradle to the grave. IN Which
poverty will saunter in fine clothes, and
sat tho cream, the fat, and the fine
vines i Of : the land. As these Visions
,an never become realities, :. the Radica!
party viii split to pieces, and the great body Of
people in France, vearied by the incessant,
'teEle agitation, will yearn for = Bonaparte OF
Ii Orleans-maybe even for q Chambo7d-to
md the anarchy. Would you understand con.