Litchfield enquirer., 1877-10-18

" 4AAC90ASs Derr, Bland, ,Deltra and Ermentrout open- ed for the defense, when the Court adg 'iourned. Next week the trial of some forty more of the rioters will begin, when there will be some startling develop THfEas AND 3.sg FRENCH RE- 1a On the adsas6of MFE.0 1ThiaeFfss fer pa party p6ii- ties enter upon a new phase. ME Thiers was the last tsstatesman who had suryaYed the reign of Louis Philippe, under which the bourgeoisie had taken the upper hand m society, had constituted itself theOruls ing class and had formulated its political and social program, Mir. Thiers himself ], was pre- eminently the representative of
 French botwgeojsie, which for thirty years the spaceiof whole generafionsT accepted him for it's guide and it's adviser
 for its leader and it's attorney. Mir. Thiers identified himself with the B0ssTg60isie,
 and the b0sfg0eOiaie was incarnated lnMr.
 Thiers; it was bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. So true IS this thai thea pofs trait of lMr. Joseph Prudhommesthes per- aonifieation of the bossaqeois, was no oth- CT than that of MT. Thiers, It was slow ly and imperceptibly that the type of Robert Macaire, created by Frederic Le-
 maitre, had assumed marked resem-
 blance to the King Louis Philippe; but
 it was mmediateiy and without noticing it that Henri Monnier, himself a bostrge- ois, when he create1 his Joseph Prud-
 homme, gave him Mr. Thiers's figure and
 face. Cham, another caricaturist, ,sn arch. p p6ourgeois and great partisan of MT.
 Thiers, also bestowed his features on the thousands of caricaturesll and ignoble grotesque figures brought to life by his evll-doing pencil. In fact Cham never drew any face than Mr. Thiers' "Je Tae sttSs qa'us petit 6osSyeois."' Mt. Thiers was fond of saying And that vulgar. title has given him thousand times moreinhuence and power than Victor Hugo has had
 from his glory as the greatest poet Of
 France. 2f3 diw a03aaidsaW 1o nWo3
 Adolphe Thiers was the real king of the country. Under the monarchy of July he was constantly encroaching upon the rights of the citizen monarch. 'A whose share of the power he daily IcuFtailed. Thiers wanted to govern above and below to govern in the least detail, leaving q 'Bilboquet" as he familiarly called him, only the sterile honor of reigning,v only 'thefnnction of reading the speeches com posed by .i MT. Thiers. and of Icountersign- ing the laws, the edicts and decrees man. ufactured by Thiers. But Louis Phil lippe, who also had the pretension of be- ing somebody who was a. "9entithOnana bourgeois. disliked being treated thus
 by a bourgeois gertiltomnse. !" He kicked at the tutelage imposed upon him. oa ga
 But his indocility cost him dear; he was overthrown by the opposition of MT. liners and his friends. Under the blessed repu blic of 1848 Mr. Thiers, delegated by the conspirators of the Rue de Poiters, was once more the real manager of France. If the republic was overthrown in 1851 it was because the republican party had repeatedly refused to take Thiers. F T1ass oa Lib Ea7a% -ynud 7r He who was Napoleon III began by cajollng Mr. Timers; he would have liked to make him his Prime Minister, but the pretensions of the national historian were such that they fell out. MT. aFhiers placed himself at the head of the oppo- sition of the Corps Legislatif;a the, ire P 7cOnciL1bkes made, the noise, and MT.
 Thiers did the work. Picard and Gam betta, Jules Favre and Jules Simon, whom the republicans thought to be their men, had silently bound themselves oyer to Mir. Thiers, and were snO longer any: thing but his Mamelukes. Napoleon fell in his turn; and if the Bonapartists are asked who have been most fatal to him, Won Moltke, Bismarck or Thiers, the Bonapartists will answer at once, Thiersl
 The fall of Napoleon III placed Thiers on the throne, excuse me-On the seat Of the presidency. Mir. Thiers was Dictator.
 The crushing of the commune was the crushing of the republicans. who did not want republic with monarchical institu. tions, Mr. Thiers' ideal. - However MT. Thiers was overthrown in his turn on the 54th of May, in the first place by hig
 blunders, and in the next place by the CO., ;alitiou of the royalists, who did not want even the name of republic. No sooner was Marshall I MscMahon installed than MT. Thiers set about to Oyer- throw him in his turn, "Ote-t0i de tG que .je ne'y meter" MT. Thiers was on the right path. He was master of the Left Centres and even of all the Lefts united. ,obeyed as an oracle by the great majori- ties of the Chamber of Deputies and by nearly the majority of the Senate. Mr..
 Thiers, the real author of the felicitOus Constitution which governs France; had had the notorious art of causing himself to be accepted as a leader, alike by the radicals, by the mere liberals, and by @ host of reactiOnn0ires. With his formula of Conservative Republic he satisfied both the conservatives, the enemies of the republicans, and the enemies of the conservatives. This was clever trick, one of those paradoxical combinations which are possible only in q country rent and troubled as France is. But the trick sue. ceeded, and the alliance held fast not withstaDding all the efforts of the coterie of Brogiie, Buffet and Fourto. No man aware of the state of affairs could doubt that the coming elections were to, give an overwhelming majority to the coalition of Thiers & Go. % a' i7as' ni EsfA@1H s0 4 : In the midst of the febrile preparations for the plebiscite which was to furnish him a brilliant triumph, MT. Thiers, over excited. no doubt, by work and preoccu- pations, died. struck down by apoplexy.
 'It is the hand of Godl" cried Vilien1es- saut and Louis Veuillot. de Broglies de, Cassagnac and Monseigneur, Dupanlonp. The fact is. the blow was sudden, the change unexpected; and had Mir. de Brog- lie been really skilful man insteas of q mere intriguing and allembroiling trick ster, he could, under rpretence of recon lciiiation, have di Or ganized Mir. Thiers's troops, instigated many assertions, and ledsa part of his army, against the other half At one time it, was thought that the, government would play this card; it was when it pretended to make national fu
 neral for MT. ThieFs, andiwhen the semi oficlal Figaro recalled what gratitude was due from the party of order to him who had massacred thousands of coans.t. saa,,ds. r But these sorry fellows can do only shabby things even in .rascalitys At the present hour the coalition of the op- posing parties still holds, and save some unforseen event, everyt thing foretsllss that it will hold until the voting, though ready to dissolve whensthe elections shall have taken place against the candidates of the government7a 7a The shade of Dn3 guesclin won battles: snb doubt that Mir
 Thiers, dead. will gain. the victory over Marshall de MacMahon. living.
 But who shall succeed Mn. Thiefsso To whom shall the spoEiG QpisnG be adjudg
 ed :? Many are, the competitors ambitious
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