The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-13
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pre But here stands the Comtc de Cham
bord he still holds fast to his pretensions
and looks to Marshal MacMahon to bring
France to him. To clear away the debris
of fancy and surmise it will be seen that
nothing now remains but the Monarchy Of
Divine Right to which the path is to be
smoothcd by an untimely Dictatorship.
This soldier President this warrior, in
vinciblc in battle and resolute in mar
tial council, has accepted this ignomin.
ious position of cats-paw to the cxiled
Count
"Tis true, It's pityE and pity It's It's true
A similar downfall from all that was grand
in the military world to an unfortunate at
tempt in the political, is that of the Duke
of Wellington who, while he wore the
laurels of Waterloo, might have walked
upon the heads of the loyal English yet
no sooner did he become a statesman and
essay to dabble in the mysteries of his
office, than he had all his windows broken
by an Infatuated mob.
No one in France has yet suspected Mar
shall MacMahons personal honesty and
honor, and lac has openly declared that he
would meyer part company with the Conscr-
vative majority in the present Assembly or
| hold power in the hands of Republican
majority. His recent message is com
pound of contradictions which almost in
| suit the public conscience. The country,
it says, is perfectly tranquil still, half the
departments under martial law and all the
! legislation of the Empire against the Press
are barely sufficient to maintain order from
/ day to day.
The country is suffering from the I'M
certainty and instability of its institutions
! and, therefore, requires that no definite and
constitutional government shall be cstab-
! lished for ten years to come. No wonder
then, that VI. Grevy is found once more re-
iterating his prophetic warnings and de-
nouncng this inOrlinatc act of an artful
majority as revolutionary usurpation
vii ch can only lead to the worst of all
anarchics- military despOtism without
even great captain or an administrator of
genius for its chief.
Here then is the political situation ut
France in nutshell; the country Is
throughout in an imminent state of crup-
ton the leading ministers and statesmen
arc at Versailles Quareling, deridne each
other; altering their views with every
breath of Party sentiment and attempting
to bring to an untimcly birth lot of poll
tical absurditics while military Dictator
stands ready to place the nation at the feet
of narrow minded fanatic.
However the undertaking may he cloak
ed under the appcla,ion of a prolongation
of the Republic all nations are gradually
becoming aware that the project now on
foot in the National Assembly at Yer
sailcs is briefly this-to make the
Dictatorship of Marshal MacMahon an in
strument for the Restoration of the Mon
archy.
All the conflicts that have yeXed France
for the last eighty years seem. at present.
to be renewed and all the old enemies of
order and freedom re-appcarcd on the pub
I;c cto,rn To look colIl, nm while surh a
warfare is proceeding is not in the nature
of any one; and, in fact there never has
been time since the great Revolution
when the domestic politics of France have
not been watched in America with a soil
. citudc second only to that which we feel
for our own.
| And now comes the qucstion-what ap-
5 pears to he the probable end of all this tur-
MOL:
As nearly as can be Judged from this
ola podrdd of sittings, speeches, messages
pos ffnay t t2 Fr 81 Marshal 81: MacMahon
the next meeting of the Assembly. 1t il
, ''urgeHt- such is the singular theory-to
vote the term of power at once and yet its
, efficacy is to be entirely subordinate to the
result of subsequent legislation on constitu-
tonal measures, likely to be much dis
. n Tho MOST inIistinct wav fore. Swallowed
The friends Of ,hn Marshal treating him
II ne n child admit Ihc ohsurIitv of the plau.
i mon Which neyer-the.less they woulJ
q Iavn !, hnlieyoI tho fate Of France hingcs
I, r,rst bo dam ,hev say tn nleasc linn.
Pat the Marshal nrohahlv nnIcrstonds the
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