The New York herald., 1879-07-01
DYING IMPERIALISM.
Views Of LIE Figaro on the Politi-
cal Situation in France.
MONARCHY OR REPUBLIC.
Journalistic Quarrel Between
Cassagnac and Girardin.
PERSONAL VITUPERATION.
Girardin Characterizes the Princes
Death as an Expiation.
CASSAGNAC'S REPLY.
Has Bonapartism Received
It's Death Blow?
MEETING OF THE LEADERS
Prince JnPOmp Naid tn Re AhOut In prO-
Prince Jerome Said To Be About to Pro-
claim for the Republic.
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PARIS, June 80, 1879.
The Figaro of Saturday contained o
leader. signed by Francis Maynard, review
ing the present political situation in
France. The article closes as follows -
VIEWS OF THE FIGARO.
'sNous persistons croire que le role
actif du Bonapartisme est interrompu, ct
qu'une partie de son personnel va Sc desa-
greer. On salt notre opinion, ct nous
ravons dit lie soir meme du jour OH on a
appris la mort du Prince Louis Napoleon.
II ny que deux principles possible CONNIE
gouvernement-ou le droit monarchique
hereditaire. produit du sol, de la race, du
temperament national qui existe en- dehors
des volontes du peuple ct de leurs chan
geants caprices, sur le principe duquel on ne
le consulte pas plus que sur lie principe
du Placement de Iimpot, du service militaire,
ETC., etc., ou le suffrage universal applique
D toutes les manifestations dp voeu de la
nation. Dams cette derniere hypothese le
fait legal appartient la Republique. Celia
nest pas douteux. Et les elections de 1877
equivalent sans CONVERSATIONS un plebis-
cite. II y q de grandes probabilities pour
que la masse electorate raisonne ainsi. Mais
jusqua present la mort du prince imperial
ma amene aucune modification dams l'as-
siette nj dams le classement oficiel des par
tis. II serait pueril de ne pas voir ct de ne
pas dire les chooses CONNIE elles sont."
lTRANsLATIoN.l
["We persist in believing that the role of
Bonapartism in its active manifestation has
been interrupted, and that one section Of the
party is on the point of disagreeing. Our
opinion is well known. We stated it on the
very evening of the day on which we learned
the news of the death of Prince Louis Napo-
leon. There are only two possible prin-
ciples of government-(D, either the
hereditary monarchical right the prod
uct OF the soil, Of the race, of the
national temperament which exists iu-
dependent of the will of the people and
their changing caprices, concerning which
they are no more consulted than about the
&c, (2), or universal suffrage applica-
BILE to oil the manifestations of the
wishes of the nation. In the latter
hypothesis the legal fact belongs to the
Republic OF this there is no doubt;
and the elections of 1877 are certainly
equivalent to plebiscite. There are great
probabilities that the electoral masses
reason in this way But up to the present
the death of the Prince Imperial has
caused no modification in the situation nor
in the official classification of parties 1t
would be puerile not to see and not to state
things just as they are."]
CAssAGNAo AND oIRARpIN
Bitter personal controversy has been
aroused between Paul de Cassaenac and
Emile de Girardin. In an article announc-
ing the Prince Imperial's death. Girardin
wrote over his own initials an article en-
titled "Expiation of the I'd of December"
in which he made the following severe COM
ments:-
''Cette triste fin du jeune heritier de lau-
teur de Pattentat du decembre en- est pex-
piation CONNIE la triste fin du jeune heri-
tier dc l'auteur de pattentat du IL brumaire
en- fut aussi le clatiment."
TRANSLATION
[''This sad end of the young heir of the
author of the attempt of the I'd Of De-
cember lis an expation, just as the sad
end of the young heir OF the author of the
attempt of the 18th Brumaire was chas-
tisement." (1his latter remark refers to the
unfortunate end of the Duke of Reichstadt,
heir of the First Napoleon by Marie
Louise).1
cAssAGNAc's REPLY.
To this Cassagnac replied in the Pays Of
the 22d of June in an article headed "Ques-
tions of the Day" in which he alluded
personally to Girardin, reminding him
that he should not speak thus of the i'm
perial family, which had created him
Senator, and reminding him further that
the Empress had once risked her life at the
bedside of his daughter, who died at Biar-
ritz in 1863 in the arms of the Empress
Eugenie, her godmother The article con-
cludes as iollows:--
'Quand on est CONNIE vous, 81 pres de la
mort, Monsieur de Girardin; quand on men
est sspars que par quelQuss ingratitudss