New-York tribune., 1877-06-30
THE FRENCH CONFLICT.


| wIMPFFEN. ,
| IrRox rHH REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
PARIS. June 15.-n the adhesion OF the koyaiists
70 the Ministry endures, the dissolution seems GER
,oin. rpIess seeing how eager the Republicans are
| for II tbe Duc de Broglie should become more ana
mora alve to tho dangers with which general eiec-
| tions threaten the present Government. IL IL per
fectly true that in spite of all maneuvers ana cor
ruptions and coercye measures the state OF opinion
in the provinces is most hostile to the ministers ana
| 70 the Marshal and that the ministers know this'
| whatever the Marshal may do Their calculations
have all proved false; they set to Work persnaueu
that at the first aggression the popular feeling woud
rise ND into revolt, and they counted on having Oh
all sides violence to repress. But TINS tlhe INC NO
pnblicans have learned prudence, ana the uis-
ci,les of Loyola have met their master. When,
last week, NJ de Fourtou, the Home niillls
ter sent for NJ volsin, the Prefet de Po-
lice aud had with him that long interview
after which it was commonly thought that NJ.
Vo;sin vould retire from Office, what he had to
reouest of the latter was his active cooperation in
coma small "manifcstatio$ that should provoke
retaliation on the part of the troops. The Minister
asked M VosIn to get up eaeate" as soon as
possible! and NJ. Voisns answer was that he had
never practIced that kind Of thing, and that ne
should not know how to set about 1t! For TINS
can vouch, and so can many other persons mere VINO
were thoroughly informed of what took place at the
;nterview i'm ouestion To NJ. de FourtOu, brought
ND in the ways of Bonapartsm the request he made
was the most natural in the world but NJ.
Voisn is an exceedingly honest straightforward
man, who has in no sense the qualifications
necessary TO become the accomplice of Bonapartlst
Vaccinations and intrIgues.
On all sides 1t is being proved to the men who
have SO Imprudenty seized upon power, that it is
tb.v erhu ina ID IL
shod over a nation. If they constantly declare
that they will "remain within the limits OF legal
ityD il is very much because they have discovered
that they cannot overstep them with anything IKE
security.
II was an ordinary occurrence after the 10th OF
May to hear tall talk about the Army" and the
Marshals capacity of setting it In moyenent-Dnt
then again there has been a severe disappointment
IL has been clearly discovered that 1t would not be
safe to ncie the army TO disturbance, or to any mi
tation of the Spanish pronunciamentos." Ihls IL
perhaps one of the features OF the present iihe III
France most Interesting to the outer world and one
OH which u most decided opinion may now be gwen.
Since the Empire 1t has always been supposed that
the troops" as they are called, could be " had
OUT at any moment and ordered to keep the peo-
ne in ORDER" when implies shooting them down If
necessary This had come to be a received TRUTH
and "tne troopsv were the last resource of every
government IN turn But now this Is pretty well
exploded and il has been at last admitted that mill
tary Intervention y no longer available and might
even be very dangerous If it were so Eyer since
the Commune, it has been frequent thihg
TO hear young and intelligent officers say Inc
army has had enough of all this ii must not be sup
posed that we are simply to be turned into an armed
and mounted police;7 and the notion Of putting
down" the people has been for some time secuted by
thinking men. Sil, it was feared that the Marshal
might attempt recourse TO something a the KIND
However one or two little facts have IN TINS sense
seemed vastly significant. The other day 1t pleased
that most unscrupulous OF swashbnckleIs' Ueh'
de Gallfet. to 60 in full uniform and with his whole
staff around him., to pay farewell visit to Repub-
Ncan functionary OF his department who was re-
voked bv tbe present Government of moral Order"
and TO protest openly Of his devotion to the eX-
iti, institutions This proceeding is eHpllcable by
the hone of Gen. de Gailiet lmonstrou' though 1t
may appearl of being one day elected President OF
the Republic but it Is not satisfactory to The Mar
shall or the Ministry and all the less 50 that they
dare take 10 notice Of It,
Hut far worse than this is Gen. Wmpfien's
na,nphlet Just published. in which he unrcSeryedly
declares that any notion of armed force to be used
by ~ de MacMahon is nothing else than absurd,
and in which the hero of Sedan" is treated with
cor1ed as an authority fatty asserts the impossible
;tv of com ffai. and tells the Marshal in many
words that he has no prestige wncrewlth To pcFpe-
trot.either an 18th Bumare or I'd of nccem-
her He states quietly tie bare facts, which are
tbc.e Al the Sh I}WmaiIc the most brilliant con-
oueror of modern times scattered to the winds
small beyy Of veteran legislators, about whom there
WAS good deal TO say, ard the people were aOsO-
lutely blinded by the glory Bonaparie had won on
other fields. On the 2d of December, 1871, 1t was
the name alone of Napoleon which made The a9gres-
sion possible Tor til that hour the French army had
retained a sort of dolatry for the man whose lecons
had entered the European capitals; they remem-
bered Jena and Auster IL and forgot Waterloo, and
they chose TO think that the ciylc herd, the mass
of citizens in PLAIN clothes were made to be trampled
upon by soldiers in uniform. But nothing Is lef of
| all this. and so Gen. Wimphen tells the Marshal
plainly and frankly. There TWO points here that
| are well worth studying first, the fact that the
right 10 hector and bully the pesiH" is 10 longer
| uuuuestioned by the soldier as soldier
aud that this is chronicled by general
officer in France; and next that III spite OF all their
! clustering, when man like Gen. Ninlpiien signs
! such truths with his name, neither VI. de BrOglie
| nor NJ de Fourtou takes upon himself to prose-
| eute him. Perhaps fow foreigners render to them
selves an account OF the enormous Importance both
TO France and Europe of the facts am here setting
| forth. If once you prick the balloon of barrack-
room brag France you get rid at once OF the chief
! element Of disorder: and if once you bring II home
TO the sab,r-bearer that there is better work to do
| i'm the world than to butcher your iellow-creatureS
Won have made such a step toward peace and gem
erl disarmament as it is AT first not easy 10 calcu-
| cul1tc These were until now hereses IN this
country, far worse than any religions oncs for do
what you might, the military creed was a far more
! national one in France than that Of any church