Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. VVarious
History
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. V
Various
American literature -- Periodicals; Civilization -- Periodicals; Culture -- Periodicals
The month has not been marked by any event of special importance in
France. The government has continued in its usual course, though
indications are apparent of impending difficulties in the near
future. The number of prominent men who refuse to take the oath of
allegiance is daily increasing, and many who have hitherto filled
places in the councils of the Departments and of the Municipalities,
have resigned them to avoid the oath. General Bedeau has sent a tart
letter to the Minister of War, conveying his refusal; and a public
subscription has been set on foot, with success, in Paris, for the
relief of General Changarnier, who has been reduced to poverty by
his firm refusal to yield to the usurpation.----The President
continues relentlessly his restriction of the press, and has
involved himself in considerable embarrassment by the extent to
which he carries it. The organs of the Legitimist party in all the
great towns have received the warnings which empower the President,
as the next step, to suppress them entirely. The Paris _Débats_ has
lately received a warning for its silence upon political subjects.
But a very singular quarrel has arisen between the President and the
_Constitutionnel_, which has been from the beginning the least
scrupulous of all his defenders. That paper contained an article
intended to influence the Belgian elections then pending, and
distinctly menacing that country with a retaliatory tariff, if its
hostility to Louis Napoleon were not abandoned, or at least
modified. The effect of the publication of this article was such,
that the Belgian Minister demanded an explanation, and was assured
that the article did not meet the approbation of the Government.
This _quasi_ disavowal was published by the Belgian press, and in
reply M. Granier de Cassagnac, the writer of the article, declared
that he had not spoken in his own name, but at the direct instance
and with the full approval of the President. The Paris _Moniteur_
then contained an official announcement, disavowing M. de
Cassagnac's articles, and stating that "no organ can engage the
responsibility of the Government but the _Moniteur_." The
_Constitutionnel_ replied by a declaration signed by its owner, Dr.
Veron, that he still believed the original article to have been
sanctioned by the President. This brought down upon it an official
warning. Dr. Veron rejoined by expressing his regret, but adding
that the Cabinet had ordered several hundred copies of the paper
containing the articles disavowed; and this he considered _prima
facie_ evidence that they met with the approbation of the
Government. This brought upon the paper a second warning: the next
step, of course, is suppression.----The Paris Correspondents of
three of the London papers have been summoned to the department of
Police, and assured by the Director that they are hereafter to be
held personally responsible, not only for the contents of their own
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