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Show The i-'itKNt-ii Hki'Lui.i':. M. Thiers, according to a dispatch in another an-other column, ha.s abandoned the hope of maintaining a ropublii'un government govern-ment in France. Thiers never wxs a republican at heart. lie belongs to a ilaxs that still believes, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the f'.ito of no many of the descendants descend-ants of St. f.ouis, that there is "a divinity that doth hedge about a king." In what he says of the impossibility im-possibility of establishing a republic in France, he may bo right, but this impossibility is caused by the class to which ho belongs. Tho same pride ol birth and descent that nerved the members of the old aristocracy to suffer suf-fer hardship and penury rather than rccognizo the rule of tho lirst Napoleon, Napo-leon, still exists and hates not only what thoy term illegitimacy, but republicanism. repub-licanism. The word "parvenu" which they apply to tho Bona par Us ta, expresses ex-presses at once their lovo for legitimacy 1 and their utter detestation of democracy, democ-racy, for a republican government to them a parvenu government. |