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Show POOR FRANCE ! IUflUHnluli.-i, ilut.i, C'Jli.-).irai:l:.t t lireateix-d rvulutijiH unl jiro.-in-i.tivi' civil war to I'urtluT i-iinn-t Iitit!j-l-lcd enurtfie, are llie ilh itli vlii'-h Frantic m now allliri-'tl. Ai jiirin iioui(ipriifiii'i -ei:k to oxjirrLiiiriit wit ii tlm wiM:.-t uml mod. unpracticaLl--llu;iiriu at tin! exiuiiae til' the pcoj -It .i le.it iulcrcnt.H ami tlio eoiiiilry'.H jjuoil, that they may win pruininrnt nuiorti'iy ami liavt; thuir ovt'i Wi'i'iiiiif vaiiiiy li J. Vol no one can jtutly nuy tli Kivm-Ii am not iiidrn -.oty alrioli. Th'-y carried car-ried on a ten ih!y Moody uihl ditruii-tivc ditruii-tivc war to erji-;l invasion, long after all hope oi'Mljc's.i hail loft their friend In olhi-r conntrien;)anil wln'ii uuinpcHi'd o uivipt tin) liUiniIialir.il dl' undi.'-H'ii-id and irretricvahlo def'rat, and middled with a war indemnity ol' enormous enor-mous liiuniliidp, tln-y accepted the situation and have made almost in-credible in-credible exertion to Tree theiii.nelvc.H ol' their conquerors by endeavoring to pay the indemnity before thrlime liirpay-, merit liaH expired. Hut their government is only a tuako-shil't, continuing after the wort for which it was called inlo: exi.Hteuco has been airouiplisheJ. Calling ildelC repuhliean it practically denies tho first principle of republican institutions, and ignores the people from who alone a truly republican government can derive its powers. Afraid to submit to the vote of tho peoplo the ipiention of gnv-ornmunt, gnv-ornmunt, tho assembly assumes the; liinetions ol" a constitutional body j which lias no written constitution. Klectcd to decide on the question of pcaeoor war, ita inentliors bavo usurped continuous legislative i'unetions. And tlto executive, TUicrn, id as much afraid of tho freedom of speech and of tho piCM, as the assembly and the min-istry min-istry arc of appealing (o the, people. Having conquered the LYmuuune, his government has neither had the magnanimity mag-nanimity to exercise clemency, nor the courage to meet a popular expression of opinion on its net. And o (he ('"nstidttioiirlnnA (joi'lo!, two of the mo.it influential and oul-poLen of Paris journals, were suppre.-scd because they had dared to criticize the policy ol Thiers. This nme little, lut advocate, is so dictatorial, so ab.-oluL' in his vanity, van-ity, that if the assembly but give a vote contrary to his wish ho threatens them with resignation; and they humble hum-ble themselves before him an I carry out the little .yreat man's will. Can such n government stand'.' The Mippo.-ition is almost an absurdity. If Thiers is tho only man in Franco that can save the country from a monarchy or an empire, Thiers will not live for ever, while the monarch i.-ts and impo-1 rtalists live in dynasties. A dispatch from l'aris tellsof a republican revolution revolu-tion having been planned in the south of .Franco, Revolution is as sure to come as that the government is unstable unsta-ble and does not represent the people. France mut pass through more horrors, hor-rors, sec more bloodshed, have more burthens placed upon it, and be made to sull'er nm?Ii more mi.-cry at tho hands of ambitious aspirants, before it again enjoys a government that will bo able to give peace and prosperity (o the nation! |