New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-10
MACMAHON'S MANIFESTO.
THE FRENCH PEOPLE INDIGNANT

lFRoM rng REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or rffr TrfbgNfi
PARIS, Sept. 2s.-No people are more pcrpoxod By
the Marshaps manifesto than the Conservative.
happen, for instance, TO be intimate with a family
/ of Orlcanists from the South. whom the present
| Duke Decazes owes much in tho way n social sup
port. The grandfather was a leading Liberal under
| the reign Of Louis Xviii and showed himself firm
friend OF the then Duke Dccazes father # the pres
ent Foreign Minister No sooner was the manifesto,
/ published than the person speak Of Jew % ~ NJ
Dccazes, and with vehement Indignation asked him
how he could have taken part in such an act "It
is without an example in modern times II is a dis
grace, and you should have retired rather than
countenance it, These were the expressions which
the unhappy minister tried 10 parry by saying that
he really had little or nothing 10 DO with -that no
had only just returned TO Psris-and other SINH
| lar excuses. The reioinder was: Ii -
fatal mistake, and viii ALLEVIATE from tho
Government large number of. their hitherto
staunchcst adherents'-but TO this the reply was:
Well what would you hayei We are showed into
a conceive must manage a. we can; the inst ne
cessity was TO keep up the courage Of our own func-
tlonaries; if they take fright everything breaks
down, and as It ls eyen IL is small task 10 uphold
their energy.7
Now chs conversation, for which can answer
shows you the situation 1t really IT, and Che argu.
ment touching the agents of the Government i. alb
soutrly true. There is scarcely one among tncm
who Is not living in dread of what is to become
of him after the 9Th of November next. Not very
long since before the journey to BorleauxD
| the Duo Decazes himself took occasion Ia
speak TO the Marshal touching the unc,rtaintie,
of his own future. and the Marshal replied: Come
what will, aud let who may be- Presiding Minister.
you viii always be my Foreign Minister Aud
there was a time when the Marshal could sav
/ this, aud when these words had a chance If
| proving truei but Chat time Is past now. and
one may venture t0 declare that mo- member II
| the Lett Centre will ever consent % act
with any minister who has consented 10 the pub
LEGATION OF manifesto that insults the nation.
General ierthaud alone viii retain ms pcs. under any
new combination; his is position quite anar. from
the rest, AMI tle country owes him too many serious
obligations during this crisis for his continuance ia
Office NOT % be- universally desired.
VI might, perhaps. interest your readers 10 SEQ
what is the expression OF feeling rraiding IN,
manifesto IN various portions Of provincial ,oc.-
| ETY. "a France. | wI therefore. tran.ciibs few
ssoees from letter. received since the 20lh stating
! briefly what rs The situation Of each writer:
Nhatc.n tie mental condition bo 81 r. mln NJ uear
seventy, Who' after h1yiar brcn tyt tines tO ts
deeds oi uls nation, m $780, 1913 a,d l-1O sh lsui
gee able go ulruc tDai France NAV Dee in~u,d ln sucl
s"ase %. me pa -hl, has no" be piorer Co. u.r -
attempt.
! Thi- is written by treat and rich manufacture
IN the Department of che Nord who BIAS changed hiI
! OPINIONS since Che FrIuc0-German War.
| Bordeaux wine-.1ower says:
Good Heavens! was ever ANYTHING seen 90 cqual tif
WY wial does this most uuluct General. ti. heiicl
sud - ths utterly Incfp Die pUci Do. Nlai docs hs
ih d" oi bis country ani D. couuuJmrhi can hr or
/ can ary one ,upu0s. tHat DO tlo times are uying l
ins cam lie t,e,atedi lcfn tcl youu is vastly nhy-.
uck'r Tor us 40 than you can ituci -i.t un L'nt of
such -.he proceeding had owed out iu DoideauN
/ while te OH -o'sc was hrrc.
country gentleman living a. his own estates ia
the central Provinces and who has an bis hlc been
a Royalist. aud "a staunch Cons rvatIye. observes:
' ara n.Xnr silly gucycd q, what b. pls.inc; knew
MarMahon m Africa and could udse n carly iis hs ir-
"icctual lurapIcty, ard also what tlougHt bis god
quahtic., buf should have expected better thgsot
him than th.s. think wat you VIII ~ us rcuo-
grade ko,diistf IIcre IS bot In a our pI-t, such
document TO rcoroacn with chat ablnlnlbi. mau-
lcato Nei.ar poor Charles X nor loignlc over dared
Royaiist aud l wish an men To respect the church
Oi God; hut ] am Iruchmln, ami slap to
cheek Oh France makes mY cheek lcohen.
This is from a lady, of the cleycrcst women in
France aud whose social position Is high ono. She
writes from the Department Of tn. Ply dc Dome
confess that an every one around me absorbed
by tue idea OF the elections cannot quiet. but a1
ont olu morning on night taxing with poo Pie II ey,ry
elias, and cauns-t can no longer sly 0t every
opinion an seem to me- % have blt one am con-
yncgd tAe or the nation tO thit old dot VIII 10
something formidable; You know our peasant. aud
their ways WELL mud tnrn silent as stones 1ft himy
Resolved to resist, and sharper cutter ih.u ever D.
pend upon ~ thc dyl VIII lose uotHine, a- s'ys orr
p.Oyerb; % al tHis stiffness w come crushing
dcfett Tor tIr GoNcruncu.
A young Proyencal doctor writes:
TheI,s address las just reached us.What n CONTRAST
! ald effect 90 VIII maArl tomt what WIli, We
people ~ Provence have right "a be- proud Mirbrul
aud Ihersl that constitute famous contribution Il
force the freedom an over the world-.et
alone what We shall achieve ia tine next elections.
Now, in the face Of al this. the Government -
doing its utmost to deceive itself and It's own agents.
All the private confidential communications from
the Home Once to the Projects repeat increasingly.
that seventy eighty seats at least, viii bee gained
which. even supDosing IL were true, would merely
alter the enormous majority Of the Republic by
about seventy vOtes-leaying over 800 INSTEAD IL
303l side and about go OH the other lnsead
Of 1901. THIS would utterly defeat any attempt at
"revsion,p which Is the present aim, and tho
Marshal would DO a. much kept in check
as ne is now. But even this practically
less relatively large minority IS regarded as 50
tremendous a gain that it trumpeted forth on all
sides as fact that is to the monarchical parties
throughout France, and maintain their official sala-
res to the hungry incapables who have deserved 20
III Of their country. The real hope, whatever they
pretend to believe goes no further with the present
ministers than the possible gain of thirty or
forty votes. l have repeated this on oa.-
cal data, since June last. and the Wild
est antIclpations of tins Government go, in
truth, no further. TO escape shameful defeat
that Is all they aspire TO- and to this remain con-
WINGED the Left Genre will not help them. There,
and there only, les the insmDOuntaDlo obstacle.
If the men Of the Centre gauche could be persuaded
To eoalesco with the Duo de BrOgiie all would DO
settled before the eth Of October, and tie Due 10
Broglie would probably turn at once into a Liberal
Republican, But the Due Dccazcs is persuaded
that with him compromise can be ehectcd-and