The New York herald., 1874-06-02
THE RoCHEFORT MANIFESTO.
Opinions OF the Press.
RoCHEFoRT AND WENDELL PHILLIPS.

[From the Brooklyn Eagle.l
Rochelort is a man with q clear, distinct, defined
purpose 1ath in that purpose, and capable OF stat
ing and urging 1t in just the way his fiery country
men can best comprehend 1t.
Suppose that alter the election OF Lincoln and
before his Inauguration the democratic admins
tration had taken It into their heads that his radi-
Cal views were firing the South into rebellion and
nursing the North into corresponding hate OF the
South. Suppose that, without warrant Of law,
they had 'lor State reasonsn sent him and all the
Suppose, iurther, that the war, nevertheless did
break out, and that as 1t broke out Phillips
erected ms escape to Paris 2 and there published
and in French. Suppose this manifesto 10 contain
IN part . series OF revelations OF conspiracy be-
tween the administration at Washington and the
Southern leaders to crush free speech and lree
press In the North and that that manifesto ap-
peared just after the second defeat at Bull Run.
The eject such q manifesto would have created III
New England IS, In KIND, precisely the same as the
eject this letter OF Rocheiort's Will create among
the millions OF republicans in France. 1t differs in
degree just so much IS, to use ROchelOrps own
words, the French people are more sensitive,
nervous and impassiOnable, and just so much that
their senstlveness is the more quickly wounded
by present sense OF utter defeat from q foreign
Toe the tai ana almost the RUIN Of their capital
The truth OF this Is SO clear that in France 1t
can no more be met by calling Rochefort fanatic
than the same name bestowed upon Philips and
blot on the scutcheon OF q free republic The right
of local selfgovernment would be the death blow
at once TO imperialism ana TO mODarCny ana.
rather than that the Prussian was helped by the
army to the avoidance of needing to face that
leUee en- nldSse, which, under Robespierre and the
rest hurled back Germany from the soil OF France
during the fanaticsms OF the nrst French revolu.
tion Call 1t order, call 1t peace call 1t cons0dar
tiOn-what you like, Capitalization Ii what Roche
cOunrrymen are Determined to fight, and it Is what
centralized Germany viii not allow France to put
AS usual with Rocheiort in defending, urging his
pet principle, ne adopts the method OF attack and
sents for the nonce the power that retards It's
adoption. His letter OF yesterday Is as bitter
against MacMahon as were his articles against the
late Emperor. They are as unjust In many re-
spects and reckless in all but 1t Is vain to deny
tnat at this moment they are in every way calcu-
lated to fire French pride.
This man Rooneiort, politically, breathes but the
atmosphere ~ OF sS ana the spirit OF 1913 never
tuned, as 1t were, to the humanity Of ia.
IRREPREssIBLE FERoCrTY.
From the Brooklyn Union.J
Having so recently escaped from his hfdeous
thradom, which he expected to be perpetual, a
little extravaganza, and an exhibition OF antics to
which we are unused on this side OF the Atlantic,
might be expected from him. But his unre
strained wndness and irrepressibe ferocity OF
epithets, as exhibited in the letter published by
him In yesterdays HERALD, are something Tor
which the public could not have been prepared
He IS an excellent specimen OF q Frenchman.
go to Paris when they die, may learn from read
ing Mr.. Rochefort's letter. II they had failed
to learn from other sources precisely what kind
OF company they would be compelled to keep II
their aspirations were gratifed. "Tigers or mon
keys" was votaire's description OF his country
men; but that was mild compliment to them
compared with M. Rocheiorts descriptions OF the
leading men and the majority OF the people Of
France.
REMARKABLE LETTER.
From the Evening Mal.l
Rochef0rt's remarkable letter to the HERALD OF
yesterday affords an unattended Illustration OF
the endless difficulties and embarrassments that
beset repubcanism In France. His FIVE or six
columns OF uncOnnected talk abound in sharp
ties and fnhumanities OF the various warning fac
tions In Paris, whose only connection consists In
common hatred OF monarchy or Imperialism, which
We must admire.
THE EMPER0R's MISTAKE.
From the Brooklyn Argus.l
Henri Rochefort says that Louis Napoleon caused
the slaughter OF 300 900 In order to exile 500.
1t was, perhaps, well enough to arrange before.
hand programme OF those who were to De killed
and those who were to be exiled; but what the
friends OF order chiefly blame the Emperor for is,
that he put Rochefort In the wrong classification.
DEADLY FOE TO IMPERIALISM
From the Commercial Advertiser1
AS to his own intentions for the future-whethcr
he proposes TO allv himself with Bonapartst lie.
gitimist or republican-he tells us not one whit.
We confess to some apprehension OF NJ Roche
forts position. The deadly foe OF Napoleon mimic
by the republic. his luture attitude must OF neces-
q n m q what "A To M