Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-10-19
The French revolution lea the nation the option Of

The French revolution lcft the nation the option OF
several forms OF government and persons to manage it,
republic might be established by the will OF the
people, lawfully expressed.
2. The Duke of Orleans, enioying neither what is
called the divine right, nor national desire may derive
title from public grant.
s. Divine right is supposed to favor the Duke of Bor
deaux. But, excepting few considerable persons who
are in very small minority. seriously be-
leves in such right In their eyes the Duke OF Bor-
deaux innocent of the crimes imputed to his ioreathers
need not be called upon by the nation, whose fitness to
choose chief they do not acknow ledge. lie became
king by the abdcaon of his grandfather aud uncle
Such is their doctrine.
1. The Young Napoleon is called to rule not hv di-
vine right, but by the right which the nation had of
choosing hereditary chief in the family of his father
who the man of its choice. In 1901 nearly four
millions OF votes, his popular aud national restoration in
1915, attest this to the most incrcdulous. His alb
dcaon in favor OF his accepted by the Repre-
senatives OF the nation who proclaim Napoleon the
Second and protested against the violence of the foreign
armies, which DIES royed all national authority in France
by imposing on il anew the Bourbon family. Napoleon
the Second needs new grant or title TO be placed at
the head of the government. According TO the law
oil the nation, understood by all enlightened me n,
he is the only legitimate monarch
No doubt the French people have the unoue sona bic
right 10 make any other choice; to them belongs
maturey to weigh what best COMFORTS with their
rity, which is the supreme law of nations.
Copy of Letter from the Count of Survillicrs TO
-, an officer formerly serving in the republican
imperial armies of France:
POINT BREEZE, 18th Sept, 1880.
SUI received the letter by which offer TO
company TO Europe, should circumstances call me
there. Duty alone induce to quit this country.
My device like that of my brother Napoleon is all for
the French people, therefore do not consider myself
bound by any thing but duty to,odrds the nation.
have right TO exercise either in my name or that
OF my nephew. Government is want OF the people;
TO be- created destroyed by them according
funcss:-And am resigned TO conform 10 the national
will lawfully expressed You know that three millions
hve hundred thousand sufrages called my family the
Empire at time when foreigners had no influence in
France. You may well suppose that cannot without
pusanmity fail to rccoec that my nephew, the son
of my BROTHER proclaimed by the Deputies in 1915:
that my brother the Emperor, abdcated that condi-
ton alone; that nothing but foreign bayonets two
occasions, restored the Bourbons and prste the
execution OF many ilustrious defenders Of their
Try.
should have set OF already il did not sec among
the national OF the members Of the provisional
government, that OF prince with which mine
can have thing in common; being satisfied that
Bourbon, whatever may be the branch 10 which he be-
longs, cannot suit my country. have often told you
that the only family in France, which the nation will
not choose and like is that of the Bourbons Ii
that family loved France and of the internal
divorce between them it would have long ago
cd the throne. That divorce had been sealed by blood
enough both French and foreign, during twent five
years, without necessity of exposing tho family TO
be the cause of shedding the blood of the citizens Of
Paris under the mercenary steel of tho Swiss.
The great trial OF the revolution is yet determn
ed. The Emperor Napoleon thought that blood enough
had been split in the interior of France wished to
close every wound. He threw the country open 10 all
those whom he deemed tired of Civil as he was;
acournng the complete freedom OF the nation till &c
neral peace, when he should no ger need immense
dictaoral power with which TO make head ainst the
united forces of Europe, necessarily excited by the ri
vary OF England, and the olgarchv of its ministry He
wished to put end TO the revolution and offered him
self as mediator in France, moderator in Europe
England constrained him by the she perpetually
raised TO those conquess which she denounced ex-
cesses, though she alone answerabe for them: and
concluded by crushing in France all the fruit of thirty
years OF herosm and victory, by imposing the family
the good old times on regenerated nation.
As long as there is any question in France Of branch
OF that family, will stay where am. My family
desired civil war, and does not now. Should the
nation declare Tor Republic, you know my sentiments
They are OF long standing. Happy the people among
b whom might make this application without danger
You remember what often said TO the Spanards.-
You will never have much liberty | should like
TO give But you must be able to bearit; time is
necessary element in every thing.
Assurances are given that youth have made great
progress towards republican opinions. Doubtless go
vernment is a remedy for an evil Happy The country
wise enough TO 10 without it. We perceive scarcely
any traces oft in tl~ L~tr, oo''n'v ,rhoro have
h1'S resided But Is that state suitable France2 Is
IT not the irritation caused by the absurd petensons of
the government that has weighed it down for fifteen
years, which has reused that generous youth beyond
perhaps what will suit the rest of their Fellow citizens
at present. and the tranquility of France and Europc
third hypothesis remains; that of my being called
upon by honor, by duty by what owe TO France
emancipated and Napoleon the Second TO the son of
brother whom ought GLOVE and respect more than
any other person Whatever, because | knew him from
infancy better than any else, and of the
sincerity of his feelings and opinions. When diving on
the rock of ST. Helena, he charged me through Gen
Pertrands pen to let his govern himselfby my adj.
vice; never above ALL to let him forget that he is
Frenchman, 10 let him give France as much liberty
his father gave her equaty and let him adopt for his de-
vice, all TOR the French pe0ple.
have positive assurances that Napoleon the Second
in spite OF fortune, is good Frenchman as yCl or
and will be worthy of his father and of France.
am your aiecionate,
JOSEPH NAPOLEON BONAPARTF,
Count of Survilliers)