Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-10-02
TyOr. XllI.-NO. aa.

4 hio - tut season 10 rsSAi THESE truths
to your mind. but not for the pur-
pose OF insult or reproach bat for that Of
justtying the pruciples Of liberty. As
long As you fought under her banners, VIC
tory was your inseparable companion, and
the gratitude of millions plSced the laurel
| on your brow. From the moahent that YOU
| associated your nam. with that of kings,
You beg m to sink in the estiaation ct man
kind and whenyou, 4, last, allied yunr.
If with them, mixing even your legions
with theirs, the eye was un bic to follow
| you in the rapidity of your fall. Afforled
a chancs of rev val even from a state cf
| captivity and bsn.shnent, so deeply had
| you mbbsd the inject II, thas The empty
title was resumed. Nay, when the voice of
| fate had apparently pronounced your eter-
nal ssclusion, you must still hand ovsr your
abdscated name to your enid.
! Charge MT liberty, therefore, with The
! injuries, the Insults, the base p,.rohrium,
f! The horFid denunciations, to which, through
| the Englsh press, you have now been ex-
| posed Charge not her with these, the
| natural offspring OF COW rdice in the hour
OF Triumph over the brave Charge them
on your own desire TO rule rs master,
wheit you ought to have aGmiris,e ed as
servant; and espe, ally to vcur more in
excuslLle desire TO take r'nk amongst Sc
the French nation had Commissioned YOU
10 so forth and destroy.
While seated on your thrAle in gorgeous
robes, SURF unded by bowling coronets and
nitr-s. IL President &c America had he
app" r-d IN his simple a'tue, would have
scanned TO YOU being, founded by nature
solely f9r The hu .,blest Offices OF life Let
those vino prize rxternal grandeur let
those who L sire 70 rule as mast rs of
men, INV behold you subtlued by, your
your person actually in the hands Of, and,
as IS asserted, abcutto be imprisoned for
lite by 'hatisame power, which he, having
the hears OF freemen on mis- side, foiled IN
all its hostile attempts, aud drove, 10
manner which history will fearlessly tes-
cribe, from the bl zing capital and deso>
lated shores Of his cou. try.
F%arnp!:s so striki E. and Illustrated By
events so moTnentous w,l not, let MS hope,
be lost II 'or: you if personal free ION BIZ e.
yer again 20 alsddcn your heart, and the
adniratioR of Your great deeds which will
always exist, be destinec-once more to re-
store you to power. Look at the peoDls
OF america. No titles IF Count, Duke,
pIlnce. Emperor, dazz'e Their eyes. No
splendid shows, no objects to gaze at, are
necessary to remind them ef their duties
and OF their past deeds. Contrast this
who, while they stare at the column Of
| Austerlltz, are paying contributions to
p imper the soldiers of Austria, and Hpou
the very bridge of Jena, are tramp
led under foot by the soldiers of Prussia
whle thelr provinces are ovcrrun by those
Bavarians and Wurtembergers, whose so.
| vereigns were elevated to thrones By the
vaIor and the blood of French armies I'M
| der your commend.
H. locking back upon mankind, on the
! interests OF 50 great part of whom
| your actions have had an Influence,
which class do you find to have been
( the most brave, the most sincere, the
| most faithful, the most mag. aninous -
| And winch the most cowar j., the most
hollow, the most perhdious, the most cru
ell !-Ycur fate. as it will excite greater
interes' nan any former event in the his
tory OF nations SC it viii produce greater
AMI m re lasting effect on mems minds. -
| 1t Will be the beacon, the ever existing
warnlcs t. every man, who. having the
c1use II free om consign d 20 his h3nis,
shall, N an evil h ur, be tempted to con-
vert the yalaur sh has inspired to the pro-
nj ting It his private views to vain ambj-
ton. "That Gtwll be s.id,) was the
rock on v h CHI Napclo on spit Napo con.
in whese mare WIS comprised all that
! WdS Shliluis rntTOuS diiu DiHNe.
Were thu friends of freedom rs unfeeI--
ing as their adversAries, they would exult
in your fall, as the triumph Of their prin =
ciples. For who is it that is falllnl Not
the child Hnd the champion of cobinism,'
as you once had the honor to lie styled by
tie child an champi,n Of Corruption mot
the darling hero Of Democracy, with " Lii
berry, Equality, or Dcath" Inscribed On
his banners. No; but an Emperor aud
King A.; the son in~aw of the Hou.e Of Aus
tra the eulogst the associate, the friend ,
the pr server, the restorer, the uphoider,
the creator Of Mobiles and Kings. 1t is not
Napoleon, driving the Icy monks from
Their cells and scattering to the winds the
relics Of Superstition but, Napoleon ,
crowned by the Holy Father, re.estab,s
lis Ing in some degree Bishops < Priests,
and daily Frustrating ini his own person ,
the interests Of truth before the mumme ..
riesSf the Mass 1t is not, that Napoleon.
tn FIRST CONSUL. VINO in the sc Z
1904, formally, and specifca ly, and ofici-
ally. charged the English government r iii
the hiring of bands Of assassins to Ike a.
way his life but Napoleon, the EMPE-
ROR, the son-in-iaw Of the Hors. o. Aus
ira, who, iu 1915, calls that same English
government, the Glost generous" Of his
enemi s.
Sill, the friends q liberty cannot harden
their hearts to fseliuw9 Of xritaticn. whr n
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