The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1847-04-30
A SKETCH OF NAPOLEON BUO.
NAPARTE. ra '..4h

'H'"fs "".Oh VI iuS "oiiu, OFer euplIiB uil Dhl-
| rieis and cevemonials, that he acquired his
successes. Il was because the world had
/ need of a man, in tho highest and truesi
sense, direct, straightforward, ksenly sepera-
/ ling things from the shows Of things, that he
4 was received and acknowledged.
Necessity It was that placed ihso
: In this high office; ii was she that gave thee
Thy letters patent Of Inauguration.
For TO the utmost moment that they can,
This race still help themselves at CHEAPEST rate
With savish souls.with puppets! At the approach
or extreme peril, when ahollow image t
10 tornd hollow image and no mors, ,ee
Then falls the power into the mighty haads
ofnalurs, of the spirit glant-born. a
Who listens only 10 himself, knows nothing
or stipulation, duties. rsveroncss,
And, like the emanoipatsd force of FIRE,
Unmastered, sc0rckes, ere tt reaches them,
Their fine spun webs, their artificial policy"
Tho tenor Of his whole life demonstrates
lhai while he relied on his original, native
impulses, which were most noble and geneg-
Gus, he carried the hearts of men with him,
AZ in his hand; departing from these hs los,
power. and became, like the kings he de-
lhfoned, iapesty figure, faint sketch Of
his former grandeur, in faint water colors.
Throughout these volumes Testimony is horn
to the two qualities which has always SEEM
ed to us the most marked properties Of the
genius Of Napoleon, as tboy are, in truth, of
every man Of the highes, faculty. BY one
Of these, almost akin 10 inspiration, il is, that
the master spirit discerns things in their es-
scnces, and thoir remote consequences; secs
in its humblest germs "ihe baby-fgure ofths
giant mass Of things TO come at large" strips
off all coverings aud impediments, and gets
at the heart Of the thing, works out ,ha prob
lens of the future in shorthand, and knows
business in all its bearings and results in ad-
vance.-Thess are the men who, foin as
distant survey discover the approach of
great changes, who anticipate revolutions in
,heiI own bosoms; who are indifferent 10 ii,
uproar aud opposition about them, because
they are set forward on a journey, which
they will not allow small distractions and
bindrances 10 Interrupt, to meet great con-
sequences which they have long foresesn.
Theirs is the. .''large discourse ofreason look
ing before aud a(Ier.
BY this faculty Napoleon was alwayf, in
his best period. stages in advance of his nd
versaries, had arranged many plans beyond IA
baltl', while his antagonists were arranging
for The battle itself. Closely connected with
this, a neghbor and fellow worker with il
was The power of commanding vast horizon
Of details, and controlling them as one.
This was his great military faculty, by which
he welded hundred ihonsaad as ono SOL
dier. This WAS his great civil facnl'y, by !
wh ch h. reduced thousand scatttr'd laws
tn one code. THIS il was thar gave tone
and purpose to his whole life, fred his ambi
tion, and drove him on in his unparalleled
career without rest, to govern France with
all its dependencies, III all its relations Of ar,
and arms, society, its finance, its commerce.
in its monuments, its highways, in its public
entertainments, all massed and symmetrlzcd
by his mighty genins, as great historical
and domestic picture, in perfect keeping in
all lis parts; toned BY an atmosphere whicl
gave common color (he color Of his vast
nalienalzng mn,l) and uniform direction to
every incden, and every figure,
Ranging through THIS lfo by HaElni,
through every life We rend, we find this mas
Ter power, this master purpose ever present.
1t explains his career f'om tho beginning 10
the end; and seems to justify the assumption
Of the imperial power as enabling him with
sterner and severcr grasp, to mould the
desinies of the French paople to one grand
result. In his eagerness fr obedience to
this controlling purpose OF his life, he ofien
struck down objects he should have left stand
allowed TOO little for the silent working oi
the spirit of events, and like a hursenaa
has,y in travel, overrede the very prospect he
might in few hours command, by pausing
and allowing the landscape, tree, river,
homestead, 10 clear itself and conc into
li.ht as the sun gets power.
Napoleon is, therefore. too often the man of
expediency. He has moi faith enough in the
terminating and vital power of good prin-
ciple and good cause. He often iogs na-
lure and pushes her forward at such pice,
us to deprive her of the power Of moving
at all, superseding her, and supplaniing her
silent slow, self developing forces by mere
mechanica' and temporary agencies, which,
in the end, having no self
sustaining quality, surely come 10 nanght.
His effects therefore, are frequently melo-
dramatic, producing a startling memeniary
impression. but coming to an end in them
selves. They have the motion ofthe cannon
ball, soon spent, brute and imperative the
moment the propeling force is Withdrawn,
aud are not like greater action, planetary in
their sphere, for ever moving ON, shedding
down upon US a new light morning and eve
nng, and singing TO us, f we listen closely,
a song offaiih and continuance in we'll doing
ed nond rhpar On nIir rnnrlnI ,n.u :. .l--.- "