Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-12-15

but MS genius was not confined to war:
ne possessed large capacity also for civil
affairs. lie saw as clearly, and as quick
y determined on his course, in govern
ment as in the field. His public works,
and his political reformations. especially
MS Code oil Laws, are monuments of his
wisdom and his vigor, more imperishable,
as time has already proved, and as himself
proudly lorefold, than all his Victories
his CIVIL courage was more brilliant than
his own, or most other mems valor in the
neio' How ordinary bravery it was that
Oiazed forth at Lodi, when lie headed his
"aVenng columns across the bridge swept
by the field of Austrian artillery, compared
with the undauned and sublime courage
that carried him from Cannes TO Paris with
handful of men, and fred his bosom with
the desire, and sustained it with the conf
dence, OF overthrowing dynysty, and
overwhelming an empire, by the terror Of
his name!
Nor were his endowments merely those
OF statesman and warrior. If he was not
like Caesar, a consumate orator. he vet
knew men so thoroughly, and especially
ieHCHlilen, "hOtn ne hau most nearly
studied, that he possessed the faculty of
addressing them in strains Of singular elo-
quence-an eloquence peculiar 10 himself.
1t is not more certain that he is the great
est solder that France ever produced, than
II IS certain that his place is high amongst
her greatest writer's, as far as composition
or dictlon is concerned. Some of his bull
letins are models for the purpose which
they were intended 10 serve; his address 10
the soldiers Of his Old Gaurd al Fontaine-
beau is masterpiece of dignIfcd and pa
thetic composition; his speech during the
Hundred Days at the Champ de Mars be-
ginning, General, Consul, Emperor, lie
ITEMS tout du Peuple," is to be placed
among the most perfect peices Of simple
and majestic eloquence. These things are
not The less true for being seldom or never
remarked.
But with these great qualities Of the will
the highest courage, the most easy for
nation of his resolutions, the most stead
fast adherence to his purpose, the entire
devotion Of all his energies to his object
and with the equally shining faculties of
the understanding by which the firm will
worked-the clearest and quickest appre-
henslon, the power of intense application,
the capacity of complete abstraction from
ali !nterruptlng ideas, the complete and in.
Simultaneous circumspecton of ALL diff
cultieS, whether on one side, or even pro-
vldentiaily seen in prospect, the intuitive
knowledge of men, and tho power of mind
and of tongue TO mould their will 10 his
purpose with these qualities which form
the character held greatest by va gar minds
the Pancgyric of Napoleon must close -
lie tcaS q C0nquerer;-He 1cds a TvranL
To crafty his ambiton--to Stake his thirst
of power-to weary u lust Of dominion
which no conquest could satate-he tram
pied on Liberty when his hand might have
raised her to a secure place; and he rapt
the world in flames. which the blood of
millions alone could quench. By those
passions, mind not originally unkindIy,
was perverted and deformed till human mi
sery ceased to move it, and honesty, and
truth and pity, all sense OF the duties we
owe TO God and TO man, had departed from
one thus given up to a single and selfish
pursuit " Tantas animi virtues ingentia
vita RQuabant; inhumana credulitas: peril
da plusquam Punica; nihil veri, nihi sane
ii. nuIIus Deum metus, nullum iusuran-
dunn, nulla religio." The death of Eng
hem, the cruel suferings Of Wright, the
mysterious end Of Pichegru, the punish
ment Of Palm, the tortures of Toussaint.
have all been dwelt upon as the spots on
his fame, because the fortunes Of individu
ais presenting more definite object TO the
mind, strike our imaginations. and rouse
our feelings more than Indebtedness in lar
ger masses, less distinctly perceived. But
TO the eye of calm reflection, the decara-
ton Of an unjustiiable war, or the persist
ing in it a day longer than is necessary,
presents more greivous object Of contem-
plation, implies disposition more PERM
cious 10 the world, and calls down repro
baton far more severe.