Year: 1874

THE FYRM OF BONArARTE And BROGLiR.


Our telegraphic dispatches from Chiselhurst
this morning show how much infancy still
remains in the people who tell us 80 often,
and with much truth, that "France marches
" at the head of Civilization" A great con-
course from every part of the country came
to do homage at Camden House to a private
young gentleman who had completed his
eighteenth year. lie is the son of a son OF
Queen Hortense of Holland, Creole lady,
whose mother married the Emperor Napoleon.
This coincidence was the cause of the visit OF
these thousands of Frenchmen, of the speeches,
the ceremonies, and the demonstration. A
good many of the people there were men who
cannot get Office under the present Govern
ment, and who hope to faro better under the
Empire. But these did not by any means make
uD the whole party. Many believe this young
school-bOy to be their rightful ruler, and are
sure that no good can come to France until he
arrives in Paris to take charge of the Gov.
ernment. This is difficult thing for rational
men to understand. If they want an Empire,
M. Rouher or M. Olivier would make a much
better Emperor than this young gentleman.





Creole and part Dutch and part Spanish. Yet
he is the hope of portion OF the French peo-
pie, and they are his Obedient servants.
Prince Napoleon, who is Italian and German
in blood, has great contempt for his little
cousin, because he is not and so he staid away
from the festivities, and is no longer recog
nized at Chiselhurst. Nobody thinks Of lhim
for Emperor. although he is an orator and
looks like his uncle, Napoleon the Great. The
French people are inclined to laugh when his
name is mentioned


The whole family, true and spurious, would
be ridiculous to-day but for one thing. The
Conservative majority in the French Assembly,
with a stupidity which has no parallel in his
tory have been blindly laboring since the
Gath of last May 10 rehab,litate the Empire,
and destroy not only the existing government
which they are nOminally supporting, but the
possibility of the monarchy to which they are
devoted. The MacMahon Cabinet is cO0perat-
ing with them, with the same sincere stupidity
and Inconsistencies. They have apparently
lost sight of the fact that their own cause is
hopeessly discredited, and that henceforth
every blow struck at the Republic is blow
in favor of the Empire What the Dukes
Decazes and dc Brogle will not, and by the
very structure of their minds cannot admit, is
that France is finally and certainly demo-
cratic that the Revolution of 1889 is
accomplished and can never be annulled
that tho one thing that Frenchmen never will
give up is social equality and universal suf-
frage. NJ. Theirs and his friends were gradu-
ally organizing and establishing the Conserva-
tive Republic upon these bases. In the hope
of restoring the COmte de ChambOrd, the ma
jority Of the Assembly dismissed NJ. Theirs
from the Government and the hacMahon Cab
met, in concert with the majority, have. been
engaged ever since in the hopeless effort to
steal from the citizens of France their votes
and their just influence in the Government,
without letting them know it, They are not
the men for comp d'6tat, for any prompt and
brutal rascality like that by which Morny and
st. Arnaud destroyed the Republic of 1S48 for
their own profit and that of Louis Bonaparte
The Orleanist and Legitimist Dukes of the pres
ent are too well bred to be perjurers and cut
throats. They arc wasting month after month
in trying to invent some system of electoral
reform by which the Republicans shall not
vote, and In the meanwhile their nerveless
administration Of the Republic is beginning to
discredit it In the eyes of the hasty and the
ignorant. The partisans of the Empire are
INSCRIPTIONS and untiring. They do not
trouble themselves to attack Orleanism or
Legitimsm. They know that would be
waste of ammunition. They call the MacMa-
hon Government the Republic, and attack that
for its inefllciency, for its meddling tyranny
and for its sinister designs upon popular rights
and liberties. 1t would really seem that
experience is worth nothing to the com
mon run of public men Nearly every
member of MacMahon's Cabinet was more or
less in public Life at the time of the coup
d6tat. They cannot have forgotten that the
Presidents treason was only made possible by
the action of tho Assembly in restricting the