Irbe 6pertator," Etecember 13t1j, 1851
THE usurpation in France looks baser and bracker the more closely it is examined. It has been carried into effect with wanton massacre, and is supported by fraud and lies.
The fiction, that Louis Napoleon was compelled to this foul course in order to defeat a plot hatched against himself by the National Assembly or some of its members, is not believed by the veriest gobemouche in Paris. . . .
The suppression of evidence is systematic. Neither the provincial journals of France nor the English and Belgian newspapers are allowed to circulate in Paris ; the Parisian papers, with the exception of a few devoted to-Louis Napoleon, are either suspended or gagged ; and false or garbled accounts of the state of opinion in the provinces and in foreign countries are published, by the Government. No pains are spared to distract Public attention from the crimes of the usurping power, by throwing open the theatres and other places of public resort, and by receptions at the Elysee. The British Minister is said•to have been present at the latter.
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