In a speech at Belleville on Sunday, M. Gambetta expressed
his belief that if the Assembly pursued a wise and moderate policy, the Senate would not oppose the Assembly, but would capitulate to it. Perhaps it might not acknowledge the sur- render,—there were those who liked to capitulate without saying anything about it,—yet even if they did acknowledge their surrender, they would gain nothing but honour, for to sur- render your will to the country's is honourable to him who gives it up, as well as to the nation who require the sacri- flee. A Member of the Senate who spoke after M. Gambetta, M. Herold, urged his party to give all the support they could to the Ministry, at all events till the Senatorial elections of next year,— which ought to give the Liberals a gain of twenty-four votes,— had passed. Indeed all the counsels even of the Belleville Radicals were moderate. Partly, no doubt, this is policy. But the habit of self-restraint, even for politic purposes, grows on a party, and survives long after the particular motive for strategical moderation is gone.
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