The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-23
TIiE nUMrUs Is FRANCE,
Tho LeEitimist Revival and the Sort {
People who are Running IL.

THE RUMPUs ~ FRANCE,
The LeEitimist Revival and the Sort o
People who are Running II.
N. y. Post
There has been no other piece OF new!
from France since Sedan than the discovery
OF plan OF armed instruction on the par
Of the Legitimists, by organizing "thirty
two legions Of 1000 men EACH" with 9
cavalry nucleus" OF 600 horses (the troop
ers, apparently, not being yet ready, and
SS,O00,0O0 in bank in London as sinews OIL
war. tits almost more ridiculous than the
Duchess de Berri's rising at La Vendee III
1882, which ended in her Concealing her.
self from the gendarmes in chimney,
After that period the Legitimists Of the
extreme divine right school may be
said to have wholly disappeared from
politics until 1870. They lived in
their country houses and iarmed, made
little pigrimages 10 Germany TO pay their
respects to the Comte dc Chambord on
his birthday, heard the Mass OF the Holy
Chest in little chapels on the anniversary
Of Louis Sixteenih's death. Those who
were rich enough passed the winter in
Paris in social coterie which neither for
eigners nor Republicans ever entered, and
In which even Orleanists were i'll at ease, or
else came up for few weeks to little hotels
on the left bank OF the Seine, in which the
landlord was plous, and "the King" was
talked OF familiarly at the table d'hote.
A few, but very few-one oil the LaroChe.
jacyuelins was among them-gave in their
adhesion TO the Empire, took service under
it, but they suffered for it socially. Many
enlisted In the curious body called "the
Pontitcal Zouaves," and served as the
Ropes contribution TO the garrison Of Rome
during the French occupation, and were
supposed, on account OF their piety, to be
worth three times the number Of wicked
Frencbmen or Italians. At one time they
had the famous Lamoriciere at their head,
and under him actually tried to stop the
entrance OF the Piedmontese into the States
OF the Church, in 1850, by the use OF car.
nal weapons, but were badly beaten at
Castelfidardo, and had to break up and go
home, the Pope being after this unable to
support them.
For the next ten years tho Legitimist
world was very dull world. There was
nothing going on in it. After Sedan, how
ever, there came what appeared TO be the
dawning OF a new day. The French army
was almost annihilated, and all men in OF.
fee were thoroughly discredited and dis.
heartened. When the Assembly was
elected which was to make peace, and erect
a new framework OF government on the
bloody ruins with which France was
covered, the voters, for want OF anything
better, dug out all the Legitimist country
gentlemen they could lay hands on, most
OF whom had never been heard OF in poll.
tics by any OF the existing generation, and
were probably amazed by the call on them,
and sent them to the Assembly. This ap.
parently gave the legitimate monarchy q
chance Of restoration which no man
II France ever expected to SEQ
again. The majority, led by dukes and
marquises, were satisfied that their first
duty was 10 bring back the King. When
they found NJ. THEIRS opposed to it they
got rid Of him, and put Marshal MacMahon
in his place. At this juncture they might
possible have brought Henry V. back and
proclaimed him II be had been the right
sort OF man. They are said to have had the
carriages prepared for the royal entry to
Paris, and the acquiescence OF the military
chiefs were certain, and judges and func-
tionaries would have been willing enough,
when the Kings obstinacy ruined the
whole scheme. He resolutely refused to
hoist the tricolor, and his most ardent sup
porters confessed sorrowfully that he could
not come back TO France under the white
flag. So they had to postpone everything
to that unknown period when, to use their
own phrase, Goods hour will strike"
Since then they have been gradually ex-
PEELED from both Houses OF the Legislature,
until they have only small minority.
They have been also, to very large extent,
removed or have retised from the judicial
and administrative offices which they
managed to get hold Of during the five or
six years following the fall OF the Empire.
They lately tried to crafty their newly-ac.
auired taste for movement and activity,
and procure the means OF power in the
modern world which they so much despise,
by stock speculation, and for this purpose
got up the Union Generate, with the
Pope's blessing as part OF the capital. The
disastrous result Is well known. It's.
managers have gone to Jail, or are to go, II
they can be caught, and many owners OF
the finest names in France have had to
undergo the humiliation OF not being able
to pay their differences" just like any
uniucky American speculator, who never
goes to church, and lets his daughters run
about alone. Probably the horrible quiet
which followed on the "Krach" Of last year
has proved hell to thequick bosoms otthe
party, and they have begun their little mill:
tary preparations as sort OF distraction, and
Itloubtless with that belief which ardent
desire so often generates, that everything
was on their side-that the army is ready
to join them, and that the people. are tired
Of the goddess Republic. They will hardly
be undeceiyed within the present century.
There Is nothing more enduring in the
land OF dreams than the ianaticism Of 10y
atty, especially when, as in the case Of the
French Legitimists, the cause Of the King
and that OF the Church seem so closely
united by all the circumstances Of the age,