Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-04-27

y so,, mt see. that in attempting to VI
i;f e. this great man, they Seek to Why all
. - heroes whom he conducted to glory!
..os cor not see, in fine, that all these IN
. 80 against Napoleon are against
s,,rseIves. Frenchmen 1! Calumnlators
% thought Louis XVI. to the scaffold ;
80. ."l you--they bring you this day to
..sarness Take heed soon will they
bring You still further.
Non,,eon has never been an usurper,
:. those demoniacs* would wish to per-
snade Us. The place was vacant; the
sra~te.t of men deserved to occupy 1t,
R. merely overturned anarchy.
Al the powers of Europe have also re-
,aga;zed Napoleon as legitimate sove-
rs;s.,, of the French for the truth OF this
Ia:,5eai to those solemn treaties which
,,av have made with him, and all those
,n,6a,sadors who beseiged his court, and
mat august alliance with the great
LAUGHTER of the Caesars, and transports
sail Frenchnen at the birth of the no.
blc infant. Oh whom the hope of the world
seemed to rerose.
Those Senators themselves !; those Sc
,ators whose treason will be celebrted IN
history: these Senators who have deliver
81 TO the vengeance of our enemies
hin to whom they owed their extraordi-
nary- riches. and their great dignities,
n ne midst evenof their infamy and their
crimes. have recognized Napoleon as le-
s;timate sovereign of France.
Nanoeon was, they say, absolute.
Could he be otherwiSe7 Do we not now
gee that he was surrounded BY more than
sas tra;tOrs
he had too much ambition but am
b;t;on has ever been the passion of great
souls.
II was that of Caesar and Alexander;
twas BY it they conquered the world. 1t
brought,forth even the sases fantiquity.
All lofty deeds, all heroic actions, are the
work of ambition. Wo to the man who
IS ;gnorant of the presence of that sublime
passion He cannot but be a vile and
GeSrlcable creature.
Napoleon wished FOR the happiness Of
France; tkas vas his greatest ambition.
He wished torender her the most strong,
tie Msst happy, and the most powerful
o. nations. IF he had been seconded, he
would have succeeded. But how has he
enbetrayed! Let us not deceive our
saves; It is traitors who have destroyed
France. II is not our enemies who have
dethroned Napoleon; no--he, before
WON the adverse trembled, he who held
kings in stupefaction, and nations in adj
miratiou, he has not been, he could not
rave been overturned, unless by the
gronchthemselves.
Napoleon doubtless deserves one great
raproach, that is, of having spoiled US.
He has accustomed US to So much re-
newn!-At each campaign he enriched
France with the treasures and monuments
VtnaSoas. and each campaign pnt him IN
seoniition of making another. In vain
they geek to make us forget him it is no
hr.er possible. Every thing reminds us
SOUR lost he9o--in France, out Of France,
every thing speaks to us Of him. Every
where we see the triumphs of genius, and
theeyploits of his power. Well, then .
he who constitutes our pride and our glo-
rY, he who constitutes The admiration of
even those nations whom he has so often
conquered. we overwhelm him with ca
nmEy! Oh! blush for my cotempo-
raries Of 1905; but die with shame for
those Of 1914. How strangers despise
Us! how profound is their contempt, and
aew just that contempt!
Napoleon has committed faults. Who
is the man, who is the hero, that has not
committed some alsop But on the side
olthe war in Moscow, where he expe-
neeced so much per6dy and treason !;
saere fortune herself, armed against him
al tie elements where he was van
'S'lsted by the malignity of fate, and not
Ov the arm of man; on the side, say,
SS'nose unfortunate wars, we shall see all
s'ose CAMPAIGNS, one of which would suf-
.ssefor the Immortality of more than one
zero. II the child of futurity inquire,
', reo Is the man that renovated ancient
Iafore. and created new ages Histo-
2 will tell hint is Napoleon. If he
Meure, who is he. that beneath the proud
pyramids, overawed the barharians of the
ueseit' and made the borders of the Nile
s ss,. Tie Jordan re-echo with the sound
% u exrloitss History will tell him
y ~, y NaFoieon. 1.-The inquire, who is the
p. an' mat at the same epoch rescued
luce troni the horrors ofanarchy :,who
O's 9 a social order; the religion Of
s' wv da'9 m who raised up our temples,
U'a pulled down all tboso +foI5s which