The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-07-25

TIE ESCAPED COMMUNISTS OPINION CT MACAAHoN-
now He EFFEcTED HIS EscAPED FROM NEW
CALEDONIA.
Henri Rochefort, the escaped communist pris-
oner and editor, who arrived n few days since at
San Francisco from Australia, has written the
following article-the first since his three years
impris0nment-giying his opinion Of the present
situation Of affairs in France
l have been asked if that power which Presi-
dent Macmahon seemed desirOus of arrogating to
himself for seven years appears to me dangerous
to the republic. As for myself, L cannot see the
projects Of the president who FOR the time being
has one foot in the OIleanist camp, the other IN
that of the Bonapartists, and who doubtless
regrets that he has not a third TO risk in the
camp Of the Legitimists. But that which reas-
sures US who are republicans, Is the possibility
that there may arise any day q new man to dis
poll US Of the republic which they have created.
In my opinion there will never have been enough
pretenders. In France despots formerly ~practieed
willingly the maxim, - Divide in order to rule"
lie has, to-day, returned to plague them, and it is
now the republicans who reign through the mu-
tual divisions and dlsagreements Of the despots.
MacMahon, appointed TO the right, is now at
tackled by the right. In this parliamentary battle
he has shown himself as skilful as in others.
He has already lost his right arm his left arm,
too, | ought to say, in the person of the duke de
Broglie. The rest of his body is caught in the
driving wheel, and l do not think it needs a very
inSi2ulCl BCIcOu " lfGIiSt lildG III lUIet IlgltIs
MacMahon will be able to say of himself in the
words of Nero at Waterloo "Come on and l will
show you how a marshal of France can fall
But 1t is among those who have lost political
power that men DESTROYS OF regaining it are
found. After the legitimists and the Orleanists
and the Bonapartists we shall have the septennists,
until a fifth aspirant comes to join the dance.
Our part will then be limited for the present to
watching these marvellous simpletons who honestly
believe the French nation has been created for
their personal use. Let us leave them to unmask
one another, to ~reproach one another with simple
ity or with crimes the people who assist at this
scene of dissection will perhaps profit by it, and
the result will inevitably be the moral and mate
rial ruin of these imperial and royal princes, of
whom it can be truly said, that they never knew
anything. Ifthere is anything in the world more
ridiculous than a republic without republicans it
is a monarchy without a monarch.
In an interview at San Francisco he described
the method Of escape of himself and comrades
from the penal colony of New Caledonia. He
says they swan under water to a small boat of
the vessel which carried them away. The cap
tain did not know the rank OF the f~ugitiyes at
first, but afterward discovered that one of them
Rochefort by means of a picture in an illus
trated paper, when he threatened to take him
back, but ROchefort induced him to accept the
promise of 10000 francs besides the 1900 already
given. sa