The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1848-06-23
HIS t o RIG Al.
ADAMS AND B ONAPARTE.
A Contrast.

Mediterranean Sea, Human Spirit, newly
born, endowed with equal genius, without the
regulating qualities of Justice and benevo-
lence, which Adams possessed in such an EN-
inent degree. A like career opened to both =
Born, like Adams, subject to king--the
child of more genia skies, like him, became
in early life patriot and citizen of new
and great Republic. Like Adams, he lent
his service to the State in precocious youth,
and in its hour of need won its confidence
delays of slow, and laborous, but sure ad-
tvancement He sought power by the hasty
4 road that leads through fields of carnage, and
\ he became like Adams, supreme Magistrate
He was not cotent. He thurst them aside,
and was Consul alone. Conselur power was
too short. He fought new battles, and was
Consul for life. But Power, confessedly de-
rived from the People, must be exercised in
obedience to their will, and must be resigned
to them again, at least in death. He was not
content. He desolated Europe afresh, sub
verted the Republic, imprisoned the Patriarch
who presided over Rome's comprehensive See,
and obliged HIM to pour on bis head the sa~
cred oil that made the persons of kings divine,
and their rights to reign indefeasible.
He was an Emperor But he saw around
him mother brothers, and sisters, not enno-
bled, whose humble state reminded him and
the world that he was born Plebian; and he
had no heir to wait impatient for the imperial
crown. He scourged the earth again, and
again. Fortune smiled on him, even in his
wild extravaganza. He bestowed Kingdoms
and Principalites on his kindred-put away
the devoted wife of his youthful days, and
another, daughter of 1apsburg's imperial
house joyfully accepted his proud alliance
Offsprng gladened his anxious sight d.
adem was placed on its infant brow, and it re-
ceived the homage of princes even in is era
die. Now he was indeed Monarch le-
gitimate Monarch-a Monarch by divine ap
pointment-the first of an endless succession
of Monarchs. But there were other Monarchs
who held sway in the earth. He wa s not con
tent. He would reign with his kindred alone.
He gathered new and greater armies from his
own land-from subjugated lands. He called
forth the young and brave; one from every
household - from the Pyrenes to the Zuider
Zee from Jura to the Ocean. He marshaled
them into long and majestic columns, and
went forth to seize that Universal Dominion
which seemed almost within his grasp. But
Ambition had temped Fortune too far. The
nations of the earth resisted, rebeled, pur-
sued surrounded him. The pageant was end
ed. The Crown fell from his presumptious
head. The wife who had welded him in Is
pride, forsook him when fear came upon him
His child was ravished from his sight. His
kinsmen were degraded to their first estate,
and he was no longer Emperor, nor Consul
nor General, nor even a citizen, but an exile
and a prisoner on lonely island in the midst
of the wild Atlantic.
Discomfort attende him there. The way
ward man fretted out few long ears of his
vet unbroken manhood, looking off, at the ear
liest dawn, and in the evenings twilight, to-
ward that distant world that had just eluded
his grasp. His heart corroded. Death came,
not unlocked for, though it came even then
unwelcome lie vas stretched on his bet
within the fort which constituted his prison.
A feN fast and faithful friends stood around,
with the guards who rejoiced that the hour OF
relief from long and "earied watchings were
at hand. AS his strength wasted away, de-
lirium stirred up the brain from its long and in
glorious inactivity. The pageant of Ambition
returned. He was again Lieutenant, a Gen
eral, Consul, an Emperor Of France. lie
lifted again the throne of Charemagne. His
kindred pressed around him, again reinvested
HIM with the pompous pageantry OF Royalt
The daughter of the long line of kings again
stood proudly by his side, and the sunny face,
of his child shone out from beneath the dla-
dem that encrcled his flowing locks. The
Marshals of the Empire awaited his command
The legions of the Old Guard were in the
field, and their scared faces rejuvenated, and
their ranks, thinned in many battles, rePlen-
ished. Russia, Prussia, Austria, Denmark,
and England, gathered their mighty hosts to
give him battle. Once more he mounted his
impatient charger, and rushed forth to combat
He waved his sword aloft, and cried, "Tart
| d'Armee." The feverish vision broke. the
mockery was ended The silver cord was
loosened. and the warriour fell back upon his
bed lifeless corpse. This was the End of
Earth. The Corsican pas not content.
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