New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-27

Tie manifesto of the Comte de Paris consti-
tues the strongest justification of the expulsion
OF the Orleans Princes that has yet appeared
In it lie throws of all disguise and poses as the
representative of monarchy and the ice of the
republic. In recognizing the fact that the
French Government pursues the monarchical
principle in him." moreover, he furnishes the
Government with a complete answer TO Grill
csm. If that is true it cannot be doubted
save by the legitimiss themselves that the
republic is entirely within its rights in decree
ing the expulsion. But the Conte de Paris, in
his eagerness to make political capital out Of
his Punishment, manufactures plenty of other
formidable arguments for his opponents. So
far from appearing as a simple citizen, wronged
by an unwarranted suspicion, he figures IN this
pOmpDus protest as professional intriguer and
sworn adversary of free government Students
of history must smlle at the faulty which
prompted him to " point with pride to the
recoId of his ancestors and TO claim that to
them was due whatever prosperity France now
possesses.
The Revolution is not so far away that either
the French people or the world have forgotten
Whit kind of regime it was a revolt against.
Neither have forgotten the condition to which,
under the alleged beneticcnt rule of the Louis
the French masses were reduced. The feuda
system, which the Louis sustained, and which
went down with them, inv Olved, as every one
now knows the most brutal and brutalizing
oppression humanity ever groaned under To
recall the old times during which the life of a
french peasant was OF less consequence than
that of "a pheasant when the seignory looked
down on the poor, abject, starved, dehu,nanized
populace with contempt which the Terror
amply avenged when the so-called agoryr of
France consisted in draining her soil of its
flower of manhood and expanding it IN war,
for the most part rs wanton as they were costly:
when the con cuDines of the prohyate KINGS
ruled the cabinet and camp alike. and vices
nonrlshed at the court, and murder staked
about the banquet tables of princes: to recall all
this can hardly strengthen the boom which
the Orleans Princes evidently think it timely TO
start upon the strength of the expulsion.
III there were any serious danger of the rcsto-
ration of the BourbOns and the Monarchy. the
measure just resOrted to would indeed be only
too lenient. Bnt it cannot be believed that
France, after. ~ hat she has passed through, has
any very tender feelings for the House which
cost her so dearly for centuries. The republic
may be AS yet weak. 1t may be menaced by
the radicals. There may be INDIGESTION or con-
fusion IN It's councils. But with all its frailties
1t is the one rational hope of France, and if il
falls the country can only look for reversion
to despotsm. Reyoutions it has been said,
never 60 backward. Ii certainly looked, in
1852, ~ though this rule had its exceptions
For the sake of peace FRANCE then submitted To
a gross usurpation. 1t WIS dangerous prece
dent, and it has made the best friends of
democracy more or less uncertain about the ont
come ever since. Excuses such as those of the
Commune in 1871 afford no guarantee for the
growth OF the free spirit. The republic
has several times shown tendency to
abuse the people in the name of the
people. The apprehension of the demo-