New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-29

The calo,! ui II. DUiaurc ~,INc> t. Ilu' trhtc
tie NaIyiug fortune, of dyna-tics and govern
mcnt, the collapse Of one rcactiunary scheme
after another and the survival ut a genuine
conservation. Born about the time when
Napoleon overthrow the yacillItMg govern
mcnt of the Directory. he lived To- see the whole
Bonapartc family bani,hr'l after Waterloo, tie
elder Bourbon house cXp,llcd after 1880 the
OIlcanisi. Bourbon and Bouaplrtc princes
prescribed alike in l - - and Napoleon ILL., de
posed and Prince Napoleon escorted to the
frontier after sedan. He wtnc>-cd the dow IL
fall of u POl.nac Cabinet the succession of
| Cabinets under constitutional hing. the
| lapse into CTsarism after Cavaignac's defeat,
nineteen years of gldcd Imperialism, the ,,tab-
| li,hmcnt of tho RcpUblic, the plots of the r,ac-
tionary factions, and the overthrow Of Il second
Polignac Cabinet after the 18th of May. Ii
| was his fortune To be connected with the GOV
crumcnts of Louis Philippe, Cayaignac. Louis
| Napoleon before the Coup dEtat ard the three
| PIesidcnts Of the Third Republic, yet his
| career discloscs no flaw of Inconsistency, no
| faint of disloyalty, 40 lack of continuity in
| patriotic service. a trIe Conservative, be
| could serve IL constitutional King or a consti-
| tutional President, but he could not condune
imperial usurpation nor join in the conspiracies
| of mOnarchical factions
| Contrast his s.lgacious craftsmanship with the
| incapacity to adapt themselves to new cond-
| tons and tendencies which the Oilcanist
| princes have shown. Half n century has
passed since those Three Glorious Days" when
Louis Phiippc's reign opened Yet his grand
son has completely separated himself from the
4. nf lao 1nc 1
of the Constitutional Monarchy. The Comtc
de Paris, having made his peace with the Comtc
de Chambord. has come to look upon the Rcyo-
luton of 1880 as a blundcr and n crime like
the Revolution of ISIS. compromise which
carried him into the ranks OF the Legtimist
party has deprived him and the Orleanist
princes of their prestige rs heirs prcsumptiNe to
the Republican President A decade OF in
trigues and vacillation has frittcrcd away all
the advantages Of their position, No that they
stand to-day before France i'll an att tndc rs
decidedly reactionary rs that of the Bonapart-
lists. They have slipped back into the eigh-
teenth century. They have lacked disccrnmcnt
| and courage when great opportunities were
| within their reach, and now their reputation
| for steadiness political talent and patriotism
| has been exhausted Conservatism with them
| implies Royalst pretcnsiOns and retrograde
| tendencies. Ii is not Conservatism that per-
ceives what is inevitable, accepts what is useful
and necessary, and avoids what is impossible.
| 1t is fortunate for France that Conservatism
can now be associated with some thing besides
| the desperate hopes Of mOnarchical factions.
| Republicauism las grown 40 strong and secure
that it can set up it, own standards Of what is
safe and what is yenturcsonie in public policy,
| and thus draw the dividing line within its own
| ranks between Conservatism anu Radicaism.
The group OF Conservative Republicans in
the Senate, over whom in his later days M.
Dufa,lre exerted commanding influence, have
recently demonstrated their courage and indie