New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-29
MACMAHON'S SUBMISSION.


THE ANTI-REPUBuCANs ROUTED-TnE NEW
MINISTRY.
PROM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TR1BUNE.l
LONDON. Dec I5.-If had been writing lately
on French matters, | should have said without any
hesitation that the solution of the crisis would be
found in the resignation Of the Marshal. In saying
that, | should merely have echoed the opinion OF
every French Republican know-Of everybody, IN
fact, French or English, who was accurately IN
formed of what was going on in France. To that
end all the efforts of the Republicans have lately
been directed. They had made the situation i'm
possible for the Marshal they thought.
They had come to the conclusion that the
Marshal was an impossible President, simply be-
cause he not the real President. So long as he
held Office the Due de Broglie held power The
reign of the Marshal was a government of priests
and France in hourly danger of being made the i'll
strument Of a clerical conspiracy against the peace
Of Europe. So, though the Republicans moved and
spoke with irreproachable moderation, and though
every demand they made was kept strictly within
parliamentary limits, the minds of their leaders
we're made up. Moderates and Radicals agreed
the one reluctantly, the other jOyfully-that
the Marshal must go. When the first attempt
at a Dufaure Ministry made, but week ago,
the chiefs looked on TRANQUILITY, ana Just little
scornfully We watch without displeaSure re-
marked NJ Gambetta's paper, the experiments OF NJ
Dufaure: adding that if the influences about MN
could be definitely got rid Of. and sufficient guar
antees given against another 10th Of May, the Mar
shall would still make very good tenant OF the
EIys6e. Long before that-it was just month ago,
while the de Broglie- Fourtou Ministry was still in
Office, and on the very day which closed the great
debate on the Committee Of Inquiry into the election
fraud asked leading Republican, NV hat, in three
words will be he end Of the business VIII IL he
comp d6tat p Certainly not answered he The
Marshars resignation, thenp Yes, beyond
doubt but how and when. r0iG Ia question: The
how if not the when, was substantially agreed upon
not long after as they thought NJ. Gambetta aad
his allies had already resolved not to vote the budget
for any but Parliamentary Ministry They had
resolved also that such a Ministry must he protected
by guarantees. They knew the Duc de Broglie to be
perfectly capable of advising the Marshal 10 accept
another Republican Ministry, as be had accepted
the jules SIMON Ministry under the same
advice, and having thus got supplies voted for next
year, turn them ont IS he had turl.ed out Jules
Simon. Dcli0eratiDG on the guarantees. the COM
-nlttee had further resolved that a constitutional
lewiston would most efectually secure the country
against another crisis and fresh instruction OF
tie Eys6e against the viii of the Nation And they
saw plainly as they thought, that submission 10
that or any other form Of efficient guarantee, would
seem to the Narh bal an intolcrable humiliation and
fhat when all expedients had failed he would resign.
"IIe might take a Ministry with Louis Blanc at the
bead of IT, said one Republican; but without
guarantees it would mean nothing and solve moth
mg.7
All these calculations were sound but for one
thing They left cut Of view the possibility that the
President OF the Republic, Duke of Magenta Mar
sinai OF France, might, after ALL rather than resign
Office, endure a humiliation which ms friends and
his enemies alike had agreed in considering into!-
cradle and impossible lie has done that Brought
face to face at last with NJ. Gambettas alternative,
he has found tho more shameful choice the
less bitter, and prefers SUBMISSION to res
ignation lie has swallowed more Of his
own words than, perhaps, any public man now
living, unless Lord Beac0nsield DO an exception.
He stood pledged by public manifesto signed with
his name and placarded on every wall in France,
not to yield 10 the opinion OF the country, not to be-
come the instrument of what he called Radcalism
not to dismiss his Ministers, and not to abandon the
fuu,tiouarics who carried ont his orders. lie has
broken every one Of those pledges and taken fresh
ones directly contrary to them. The first sentence
Of the message sent yesterday by him to the Senate
and Chamber Of Deputies, announces his sur
render to the opinion Of the country. The Sec
oud announces himas the instrument of Radicalism;
the two chambers, in obedience TO Parliamentary
rules. A. for the projects and other functiOnaies
who trusted to Marshals woodland more than one
Of whom is said to have his written promise 20 re-
main TIL 1SsO-thcy are at the mercy Of a ministry
committed not merely to remove them, but 10 prose
cute them for their acts of electoral corruption and
intimidation. There IS indeed, hardly one sentence
in this message which does not contain full re-
traction of some pledge some profession TO which
the Marshal was engaged. And is registers, in the
most solemn way, not only the Marsbals repentance
for the past, but his Of good behavior for the
future. 1t ties his hands against another dissou-
ton. 1t sanctions the princpleOf the responsibility
of his Ministers to Parliament, and 70 Parliament
only. The President cannot dissolve the Chamber
till it has completed its term and its work, and he
cannot dismiss his Ministers long as they have
Parliamentary majority.
No doubt it may be said that these obligations
may be broken, as the Others were broken by the
mere giving of these. 1t is difficult to feel quite
safe with man who has done what tne Marshal
has done. But NJ Gambetta is said to be satisfied
and he knows better than anybody else the real
facts of the situation. Moreover, the Marshal has
distinctly shrunk from the use Of force, and has
abandoned ms attempt at personal government
when the chances Of success greater than they
can ever be again. Most of his supporters wished
him to resign. believing that his resignation would
accelerate the exccesses0fradcalism, on which they
count rs means Of producing reaction. They
are disguised and angry at his remaining they
have ceased to reckon him useful tool and they
know well enough that such an adventure as the
10th of MAY caunot be attempted again without the
state of siege, the suppression of the press, and
other arbitrary measures which the Marshal could
not be brought to enter upon this time, and against
which the Republican minority in power Will soon