The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1821-10-24
DisrriIany.
ErVm fAe Na,tOhgI .IdVJca.e.
VIEW OF rnE CifiL Ap,nNI,rR, ,rIoN
AND POLITICAL CHARACTER Of
NAtoLEuN BONAPAHIE.
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| au he public p iHts, wheinos enemies or
i'ieods, oUl ed N piocls;n,ng Napuisoo a
| note 'hen e"mm"U n,a,tei, hul h Fad have
, qusly ,vrt'pok' Il, IA ,he !crE euu.ne,..io,r
| - hIs avt,, thuss w,tCG best speak his r,aso
! I'D consutu1e a's <u.t,tt ti.>s To lame aDd
lmmottsliy. la judging OF the mo,any of
| otttain m.n add ceos,n actions, it is it,
| cumstonce at ~ small moment, tina, we Gro
| pa, a,.d itom hose men, aud he ,aes of
those events. iy distance OF fifteen hhnuted
lsegues above sii, when hat spsce is cover
I'd by the ocean. L. is matte OF cusi.try 10
~nueos the aslonisnmen, ol an Eu ppesp,
WIN, a.,er smontn', passage, finds hi,n Sc i in
one of our ei,ies,o IN he middle oi Gu. wood,
| sea'chins about for out government a0d QUE
institutions. Before his departure, he may
| have resd, WIN more or less a,te0tion or of
| f'Uh', some OF those nume, ,ous works upon
| 'Le su' ject OF the Unned States They ave-
| all awate, that this countty .rj,ys large
| share Of independence andot hLeuy; 9ud Il
mast be allowed hat in Eu'ope, - hoGlsnG,
4nd even III France, they eihx To ;tc ~o,as
lnos ospeudence snd hbcuy a meanicr o.c,a.
by p'eci,e yet sfe' = i,w mon es,-
derct, the svowal nyolun,aIIy escsl,,. cm,
thsl IN th,s counuy alIre, Is md. y, nds T., q
tudc uud tb.t IN Eu, op. ,hty ne oct f-,p y
conceived and din y uhde's,'or iHsl ree-
dom, which th,,e st'ws IKE all eXolic by
srufi,ial W., nth, he's n"ui,sh.s, ndIg nlou :
sId 40 The open al, the tee 10 all It's a''va
pride snd vlsoi, the tuits with oil theu q .
vor and heir iag'snce and that the Euro
pean, mil he Ias uavorsed the oce Il, "a
never understand The meaning OF ttcsa i'm
| pie ,eIms-h6ern and independence. And
| do believe, that We mus, Il,o make Gu, voy-
| sges before we esn tightly unde, Stud ce'-
| tain things vi moe complicated nntuie. it
seems as n nothing but the sounds of var
can reach &5r ears ACROSS that distance tt
900 miies. We can almost count ihe can.
bou that Napoleon has caused 10 explode Ia
| combating the enemies oi France and, g. ON
'he thunder Of his a',iiiefy, VIC agree that ho
must have been migbly captain bat thcro
we halt. Americas, deaicned Tor -iweD,y,
years by The thousand Il umpc,s OF the Britieh
JIurnaiis's viewing France and all Europe
through the prison of English pr. judlco aud
passion, have not always been able 10 hea' /,
see, o, udge, win perfect impaf,iaiiy, Lf
men or oi even,s b' yoDd the ocean aid ~
en- now that we occupy oui selves wih tho
sub cct OF Napoleon, and the noise winch this
great man mas made throughout the Slobc,
The e. eat majority OF US are frankly oi opin-
ion, that he was the segrcssor in all those
booGy wars which, for five and twenty years,
have desolated Europe and, that Dut Tor
him, and but Tor that rage ior wor by which
he was continually agitated, Europe would
have enjoyed tho most profound usnqoI'ny.
IL was this devou'in ing lion, this proving
wolf, 30 greedy OF carnage snd OF slaughter,
That went 10 trouble the repose oi the disIn-
torested English, the peaseIul Ptussians, tho
gentle Ausirisns, aud those Russians 80 OPP
posed To eveiy sort g conquest Or in'a.
sion ! !!
Thus do my fellow cilizons seem TO for
get, or never 10 have known, that these saDo
powers, who three tunes coalesced 'gaiDst
Napoleon, arc the same who before lheD, bad
three times coslrsccd against The Directory,
during its ephemetSl existence tho ssmo
who Coulesced against that terrible Volcano
the Convention, OF which the boiling lsvb,
spreading on evesy side, made kings to uem'
bic. That IL was these same powers that CO.
slesced against the Legislative Assembly,
the sickly offspring Of that memo' able Con-
sttutionsl Assembly, The Fl st 10 Europe that
placed nations on their thrones
Il is remarkable that in 1892, in 1924, IN
1898, ~ 1902, 10 1871 under the hrst Leg
isisuve Assembly, under the Convehtion, On
der The Directory, under the Consulate, aRd
under the imperial government, each sue
css,ivc coalition, suill composed OF ibe sSmo
elements, still paid by England, sill as they
wasted France with hte aud sword, c'ied out
IN the midst Of havoc and coLhag'suon, "F
"a aot on Me Freneh people we make war' 6a'
on tie goUernmSni, or the Iyranf fhdi ofhres-
ses Mem." From these uncont'o'eiiaSla
facts result the following truths;
st. Since tho coalitions tbst attacked Ma
poleon are the very same that a'tscked all the
governments that preceded him, u can neI.
,ber be he principles, nor the system, nor
the person Of Napoleon, which pi evoked tho
forming Of these coalitions.
2dIy. Since all the governments which
have succe,dcd each other from the Cons,i-
luton Of 1871, ill the Ip perisl reign, so dif-