The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-02


real strength of the victory recently gained
by the republicans in France, than the decla-
ration of legitimist leader, that his party
would increasingly war" upon the new
institutions. This follower of the Count de
Chambord gives the Republic text. He
shows the nature of those who support the
monarchists and the crown. SO long as
country will consent to be governed by q
prince, On aristocracy and a standing army
so long as it will surrender it's resources to
the control of one man, whose only claim to
power is hereditary, there will be peace.
The moment people attempt to express their
own will, to select their rulers and frame
their institutions, there will be war; Looked
at in the light of civilization and justice there
can really be no sentiment more atrocious.
Speaking for Henry v. and for his ancient
and illustrious house, he declares to France
that without Bourbon there will be agita-
ton, strife, outbreaks, ''unceasing war; In
other words, France is nothing, her people
are nothing, the public prosperity is of no
value, the wishes of thirty.eight million
Frenchmen are disregarded. They must
accept either Henry V. or war.
If we look at the movements of politics in
Europe for the last hundred years there is
nothing surprising in this declaration. Take
the French Revolution, about which so much
is written, and which appeals so wildly TO
the imagination of mankind The French
Revolution would have been peaceful and
legitimate and fruitful in benefcent results
but for the determination of the royalists that
France should either accept the monarchy or
''unceasing war;" No one who reads his
tory carefully denies that the Revolution
in France began upon just cause and was
animated by high patriotism. Every one
feels that it would have been true wisdom on
the part of the King and his followers to have
accepted it. But, on the contrary, the mon
archists felt then as they feel now, that there
should be no peace that did not recognize
their "divine right" to govern France. Con-
sequently there were intrigues, armies invaded
French territories, the allied Powers of Europe,
in the interest of "divine right" made ''un-
ceasing war; to strike down the Republic.
The answer was the guillotine and all the mad
frenzy that came after The Terror" of
1893 was the direct result of the policy of the
royalists of that day, who endeavored to stay
the just expression of the popular will by
"unceasing war;
The republicans Of this generation have
learned wisdom and meekness. They are too
strong to descend to the guillotine and terror.
Experience has convinced even monarchists
like NJ Theirs that in country where there
is only one throne and three preterders for
the crown there cannot be q peace except
upon the basis of conservative republic.
France feels that she should have the right to
name her own rulers without resorting to q
barricade or revolution. She believes that
when she is badly served by ministers or
princes it should be in her power to dismiss
them without battle of the boulevards or
massacre at Lyons or Marseilles. She sees
that with the Republic there would be no more
Commune, and that with the control of the
foreign relations and the military system in
the hands of patriotic Legislature it would
be impossible for any prince, anxious only for
his own aggrandizement, to throw the coun-
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Wise men, even those who believe in
princes, see that the disasters of France for
the last hundred years have been solely the
work of her kings. In an impassioned lyric,
written by Auguste Barber on the occasion of
the erection of the statue of the Emperor Ma
Philippe, he gave expression to this feeling in
words of fervid rhetoric. He pictured France
as a wild young colt, beautiful and free, upon
whose flank the harness of the stranger had
never rested, eager for battle and for freedom
driven again and again into combat and
strife, until, with bleeding loins, she sunk ex-
hausted to the earth, to be outraged by Cos
sack and Prussian. For this the poet heaped
curses upon the memory of Napoleon, and
saw only in the image of his greatness mon
ument to the tears of mothers and the humili-
alton of his native land. Unlike this,
the Republic means peace. There will be
agitation, of course, and, SO far as it is pos
sible, an effort on the part of other nations to
smother wound and destroy the young Re-
public They stifed Spain and would stihe
France. The legitimists have publicly an
nounced ''unceasing war;" The Bonapartists,
under the command of daring politicians, are
already using every effort to overturn the
present government. In the republican party
itself there is large element, headed by such
men as the eloquent Jules Favre and the
austere and illustrious Louis Blanc, who will
be reconcled to nothing that does not give
them at once the extreme ideas of republican
ism.
But the lesson of true republics may be
learned from nature. Strength comes with
growth. We cannot in q day undo the in
stitutions of q thousand years. When
we founded our own Republic the
influence of England was SO strong that
between the conservatism of Washington and
Hamilton and the constitutional monarchy of