The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-10-03

oas the English ministry are by this time aware OF the ex
en OF her Jaar pas In this matter and doubtless eager
of snch an any In the work Of einstang British interests
on the continent France can and must be- II Louis Ma
poieon WIN save himself Russia however, Is by means
ae' Inc Emperor Is already doing his best drill his
70 the work Of standing by his purposes unit
h end there have been three congresses inter
views between various yiceroys of Russia Georgeys
surender between the Prince OF Prussia the Archduke
Jonn he head Of the deiunct German Unon and several
"or princes at Frankfort; between the King OF Prussia,
tue emperor OF Austria, and the King of Saxony Toplz
ana subsequently, Plniz ALSO another such
10 soon to come of, where the King of Naples
he crown prince of Tuscany, Radetzk Schwartzenberg
,he emperor OF Austria and his Holiness Pho Nno
ay en heads together, plotting against their subjects
there can be doubt the breach between Pic Nno
ana Louis Napoleon is complete that the former do.
ing ms best to call In other powers rid his domnions
ne french by force of IL need be- All these
happening so close upon each other have given
70 an Impression that France soon be at open war
win Austria and Russia which is likely enough as mat
ers now stand Louis Napoleon Is being charged by the
egtmist journals of Paris with this state of
mhgs, and consequently the republicans OF France are
sotenng towards him.
trust your readers will not misunderstood me as giving
Louis Napoleon the least credit personally for changing
his Roman and Russian policy Il was the resnt of az
consequence only of the certainty that In
iohowng up ms own policy, he must guaranty his own
Pouca destruction In fact his present purposes are the
policy Of France, rather than his We may thank
universal suffrage, the President for the change n
being utterly impossible that an executive tbus
and thus amenabe can long administer a government for
MS own advantage rather than for that the State as that
crowned head may in 1873 labor zealousy the benefit
OF his subjects, without In that manner them
for the eventual attainment OF their liberties
Louis Napoleon has from first last acted out the Bona
Pare 70 the letter that Is he has proved in his every act
that utter seshness is his governing principle The first
great one OF the family bad man as ever ruled did
much for the human race in measures desiyned hoIv
for his own selfish advancement How strange the his
tory Of that selfish family The Corsican lawyer, who
died at Montpelier in 1885, avng about "great sword
he left to his second son. sixteen years old then com
plotting his military education at Paris left a widow
and eight children, whose principal dependence was
on tho able Fasch, Of Ajacco the adys half brother
Her energy, skill, shrewdness, and utter destituton of
principle, laid the foundation OF their future remark
able fortunes. Joseph her eldest child seventeen years
old, was then studying law; Napoleon the second at
military school, before remarked Lucen Eliza Louis
Pauline, Caroline, and Jerome-the eldest eleven years
and the youngest three months odwere with their able
MOTHER thus left fulfil the double duty of both
Her hopes were in this second son. who having
all MS compeers at the schools then about be COM
mlssioned sub-eutenant Drawing veil over the oc-
curences Of the following quarter of century in which
this second step STEP worked his way from the
ranks 10 the proudest throne OF the age by dnt of labor
courage, talent, and by allowing neither principle nor
pledge 70 obstruc his ambitionwe find the geam of his
sword alarming every shore of the British isles while he is
supreme master OF the continent. Then he stood eyerv
whit as much THE dictator of Europe-he king of her
kngs-as Nicholas Is ut this His mother ssMada
Mere, no longer pans-taktng self pnchinR child
drilling widow s the protectress general of all charitable
institutions in France. The poor but really charitable
able is already Cardinal Fesch by means of his nepbe
swords Joseph, the lawyer, King of Holland Louis King
Of Spain and the infant of twenty-five years SINCE Je-
rone Is King Of Wesphaa. Lucien alone of her sons is
uncrowned Being honest republican, he steadily re.
fuses the baube In the pursuit of which the rest OF
their family have passed. their lives 1t were. The
Slrs too are all queens Caroline. of the Two Sices
Pauline Princess Borghese and Duchess of Guasaa and
Eliza Is Grand Dachess Of Tuscany Except one who was
dead, such OF the daughtersnlaw were not originally
to the imperial spendor which the family
had been elevated, had been ignominiously
These the fascinating Creole and Ez beth
Patterson, the daughter of Baltimore merchant the first
wife of Jerome, who put aside make room for the
Princess Katherine, OF Wirtembug. Yet nothwithstand
Ing the children OF Madam Mere thus standing on tile
op OF the worlds "ple the shrewd and provid.nt old
woman carefully saved her penn les saying Who knows
but may have to keep all these kings and queens one
dayr'
The Emperor having treted himself to death in petty
lusrres rock with the jaor, bully and spy Sir Hud
son Love- his son, reared amid The scky influences Aus
TRAN palaces, sinks into early grave, having uttered in
the course OF his life bat one single memorable sentence
know no one in Paris to salute for column in the
Place Vendome."
Louis, the second son Of Louis of Holland, becoming
heir his uncle the Emperor heads hair-braned at
lemps at Strasbourg and Bouogne make himself
Emperor He thus and by other means. renders himself
The laughing stock Of Europe. He publishes trashy books
and social" pamphlets, escapes from fortress OF Ham
disguised as lsboring bearing plank on his royal
shoulders and now suddenly behold him aised by the
suages OF six millions of be President of the re-
public Of France! At this much depends on
The characteristics Of this strange family any
time The lawyers widow, and all the half starved chill.
dren over whom she wept in 1885, Jerome have pass
ed from the lace OF the earth He the babe Of Of
that day. the patriarch of the family In si9 The eide
son Of Lucien, his honest fathers faith but
day presided oves the Roman popular Assembly. Three
Of Madam Mere's grandchildren in the
French Chamber, Pierre, Lucien's second son. dstin.
guished by having recently struck old man In the As
semby; Napoleon Bonapare, JeTomes son j; and Napo-
leon Murat, Carone's son. President Louis Napoleon
through his mothers brother, Eugene Beauharnais has
cousin, Queen OF Sweden another, Empress Of Brazil
another who the husband Of the Queen OF Portugal
another is tho husband Of the daughter Of the Gar Maria
Nicoajewna while still another cousin, the Russian Count
sss Dsmdoh Jeromes daughter by the Wrtemburg prin
cess pesdes at this time in the saloon Of the Eysee Ma
Ional
OF all the living Bonapartes Louis Napoleon has given
evidence that he Is most up by the family passion
ambition As the Emperor In Egypt protested Mabom.t
'nsm for political end Louis Napoleon since proessed
epublicansm for like purpose. or his own will he
wond be the tool OF the Gar, Charles III was that OF
Louis XIV Though he possesses something of the
ness and featherhead audacity of uncs the Emperor
ais ambition s far reckless and unscru puous Ina
how family In Europe have more influence pon IL,
iesniesj and the Of desposm require, tbs, 1,
hould be than ever identified with IT, The French
ration at length begin understand the tendencies of the
Hood Of the Bonapares rightly and the recent
ions compelling Louis Napoleon dread their
he would venture sell his to Russia for hi. own
'gghandzemen show that their eyes becoming opened
N tha uttRF fail If