| Show arrance AND THE REPUBLIC the death of napoleon has brought franco to a new and clear ion tile the empire dead for coa is the empire and the republic looms up as the france of tho the future this is of vital moment to tho the french people for it was the uncertainty lif of what france should be in tho the future fat we that has kept back the perfect and absolute lion ot of the republic which I 1 las has made thiers thien government provisional in its character the standing stan question wao I 1 is it to be the empire again a restored bourbon monarchy or a republic r modeled after that of tho the united states but it was the napoleon living that gave the significance cc to the th 0 question in the minds of the french people p lop 0 I 1 napoleon L N a dead and france answers promptly but with quiet resolution the republic ahall be act setup up io dinits ita full lesii toa the very quietude with which the announcement of the cx emperors death wait wai received receive rece ivea il by the people the army and the A ks of prance fra ace lad had in reality an emphasized significance it signified tho the ass amlice of the nation that the republic Ile public would stand eland and be perpetuated as the legitimate offspring of a series of revolution the horizon of france then i clearing and unless some fatal mi stalo should be made by those who now hold her destiny giving causo cause for another revolution a great and strong republic I 1 to di da the napoleonic empire |
