The banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1844-1847, 1846-11-04
NAPOLEON'S RETURN FROM
EIRA

TLlIDA.
The attempt has been made to fix TIN.
charge OF cruelty and oppression upon
Napo con, from the JOY manifested in
France at his overthrow, and the cursino
obloquy that followed his exile. But
the first cxultation that follows IL new
peace, is not 10 be considered the sober
feeling the people. His return from
Elba Is overwhelming evidence against
such accusations. Without any plot
ting before hand, any conspiracy to
make Il division in his favor, he boldly
cast himself upon the affections of the
people. An established throne, a strong
government, and powerful army were
on one sidc-thc love of the people on
the other, and yet, soldier as hc was,
nc believed the latter stronger than tho
former put together. What a sublime
trust In the strength Of affection does his
stepping ashore with his handful of fol-
lowers exhibit. Where is the Bourbon.
or European monarch, that would have
dared % do this; or felt he had by his
efforts Tor the common welfare, laid the
people under sufficient obligation, to OK
| pcct universal rush to arms? Il was
not the soldiers but the common pcoplc
who first surrounded him. AS he pitch
cd his tent without Cannes, the inhabi.
tants flockcd 10 him with their complaints
and gathered around him as the redress
CT OF their wrongs AS he advanced to-
wards Grcnoblc the fields were alive
with peasants, as they came lcuping like
deer from every hill crying "rirc nE;m-
pcreu,' Thronged around him, they fol-
lowed him with shouts to the very gates
of the town. The commandant refused
him admittancc, yet the soldiers within
stretched their arms thro' the wickets
and shook hands with his followers with
out. At length confused murmur arose
over the walls, and Napoleon did not
know but 1t was the gathering for Il
fierce assault upon his little band. The
tumult grew wilder every moment; six
thousand inhabitants from one of the
fauxbourgs had risen en- masse, and with
tlmbers and beams, came pouring against
the gates. They trembled before the
resistless shock, reel and fall with a
crash TO the ground and the excited null
titude stream forth, rushing on Napolc-
on, to drag him from his horse, kiss his
hands and garments, and bear him with
deafcnlng shouts on their shoulders to
the town He next advanced on Lyons,
the gates of which are also closed against
him, and bayonets grim along the walls.
Trusting 10 the power of affection. rather
than 10 arms, he gallops boldly up to the
city. The soldiers instead Of firing on
him, breaking over all discipline, burs,
open the gates, and rush in frantic ioy
round him, shouting" Viycp Empereuv."
He is not compelled to plant his cannon
against a singl town; power returns to
him not through terror but through love.
He is not received with the cringing of
slaves, but with open arms of friends,
and thus his course towards the capital
becomes one triumphant march. The
power of the Bourbons disappears before
the returning tide of affection, like towers
OF SAND before the waves and without fl
ring gun, Napoleon again sets down
on his recovered throne, amid the accla-
nations of the people. Whoever saw
tyrant and an oppressor received thusl
Where is the monarch in Europe that
dare fling himself in such faith on the
affection of his subjects? Where was
ever the Bourbons that could show such
title to the throne he occupied? All!
the people do not thus receive the man
who forges fetters for their limbs; and
Napoleon at.his day, holds irmer place
in the affections of the inhabitants of
France, than any monarch that ever fill
ed lis throne
From the N. O. Bulletin.
BY the steamer Galveston, which ar