The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-11-24

BY the extract from the Moniteur, in the
dispatches, it appears that the Duke de
Broglie fears that Marshal MacMahon "lacks
resolution" Ever since May the Duke has
endeavored to drive, wheedle or inveigle the
Marshal into using the armed force at his
command to stamp out the Republic and
establish monarchy with De Brogie as the
master spirit and an Orleans prince as the
crowned puppet Of the occasion. But,
though the Marshal was induced to prac-
tise some droll antics for tho elected Execu-
tive Of constitutional country, the at
tempt to push him to the last extremity was
not successful and if it could be said tor
the Duke that this was because the Presi-
dent lacked resolution to 60 the Dukes
way it could as we'll be said on the
other hand that it indicated equally
an obstinate resolution on the part of the
President to 60 his own way, or not to
abandon the line of his constitutional duty
in its one great ultimate essential. Ii to
the rogue it seems that every tolerably
honest man "lacks resolution" to STEAL at
least the honest man may hold that this i'm
plies the other resolution to keep his hands
from other mems property.s But, strangely
enough, the reproach now made by De
Broglie to MacMahon is not that he lacks
resolution to become a kingmaker, but that
he is without the particular variety OF this
quality that might enable him to frankly
recognize the victory of the republicans at
the polls and end the crisis by a oapitula-
ton. For De Broglie to sheer at Mac
Mahon on this text is not so illog-
ical as it may seem. De Broglie is
n nimble -wittod politician, always in in
trigue up to his eyes, and without any lum-
Der in the nature Of convictions or scruples.
He has played rash, almost desperate
game, md has lost, and does not see the
value of assuming an attitude of defiance
and playing Ajax such rifle, in
fact, ridiculous-while MacMahon, slow to
follow De Broglie in the inception Of his
scheme, is slower still to reconcile himself
with result that to his serious way Of think
ing is one of unqualified humiliation. His
destiny is, it seems, to be some ones dupe,
and any ono who holds out to him that there
is still chance for success on his present
line finds in him not only On easy buta
grateful victim. Hence De Broglie away, he
falls innocentiy into the hands of men
of meaner intrigues, who delude him into
the fancy that he has got them into trouble
and must not abandon them. Executives
who .'stick to their friends" are not new in
the world but it is odd. after oil, that few
coarse scoundrels in Office should have the
impudence to plead that Presidents obi
cations to them stand before his obligations
Of honor and duty to the whole country.
An important feature in to-day's news is the
intimation from the Orleanist organ, which
says eff the government did not mean to
abide by the decision of universal suffrage
it should not have consulted it." This is
one of several indications Of the fate in
store for MacMahon with his present Cabi-
net. He has lost with De Broglie the mod
crate Right in the Senate that gave him
there slender but sufficient majority, and
from present appearances he will have in
the future not one house only against him,
but both.