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II ll1h ians. he wns almost whUlly
invisible q lhe popular eye, except
on sn,r great md chosen SECESSION,
when he emerged ltan lhis living
cloud. prepared 10 dnsyIe end perples
lnll minor eufleslly lHy lis fslll splrndots,
Lille private lie was shFouded 10 mysl
lttfy. lie puhln hlo consisted III
those overwhelming bursts and pro.
found dissertations which heightened
each Others effect, and alike Devil.
ldcrcd the general mind. One great
purpose " his conduct was evidently
to make the feeling universal. that he
was not man like other men, that
he was gifted With other aud loiiief
! faculties, and made TO accomplish
boldcr and more extended dcsignsi
, that he was less statesman than n
, governing mindless general than
|, la genius Of war--lcss Il man than q
!. destiny. Ills ideu Of Napolcon's'star,
!. even il it originated in charlatanisn,
! may have grown upon such n mind,
c and shaped such destiny. There Is
' no stimulant of human powers so vivid
!. as the belief that some high achieve.
s. ment Is vet to be wrought 10y those
q powers. The mind which thinks IL
I, self made only To creep on the ground
n. will never start upon his feet. All
n men of capacious intellects instantly
10 love to think that those lntcllects are
m given for more than the common ca
rs reer Of life. They delight TO believe
Q. themselves urged on by some resist
ofless hand to the labors and triumphi
A. of greatness; TO rank themselves, II
is some sense, with those high agencies
x which, invisible in their nature, ye
70 pnlpabIy mould and urge the course
10 of human things TO have some NSso
dictate nature and kindred impulse will
nd those resistless beings who 'rlde oil
ne tho whirlwmd and direct the storm,
&C. Napoleon's mind was less European
nv than Oriental. His singular subtlcty
20. his remorseloSs vindictVeness, his dl.
,aI regard of human life, were as Orler
to tai ashis passion for pomp, his haught
nv abstraction, and his rage OF absolut
IRE power. lie always had the vaStne'
he of Oriental conquest before his ey'
The The triumphs Of European war WEI
the trivial to him; his genius of battle
or was Colossus, with one foot o
dis. Europe and one on Asia. Tamerlah
ace and Jerghiz Khan, sweeping hall u
red world with their tempest OF eavalr.
M, lwere his models; and at the momel
the lin which he found himself at the he'
ce. of an independent army, in the inv
law sion Of Egypt, he sketched a plan
ent conquest stretching from Africa oy
no. Asia Minor on the one hand, and III
nal dostan on the other. His banner "
the to concentrate the horsemen OF I
nal. South and North, and then, with
, af. trumpet sounding at once to the \
eve. Ibian and Tartar chivalry, he was
lists march his unnumbered columns
,ilar Europe, and unite Paris with Calcu
. by and Pekin."
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,ors. The Houston, Texas, Telegraph
yer, February 8, states, that since the
tops, gagcment on the head waters OF
for Trinity, the hostile indians have k
d. AT n respectful distance from the II