The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-01-31
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From The Columbia Telegraph.
CAvAlGNAC AND LOUIS BONAPARTE.

CAVAlGNAC AND LOUIS BONAPARIE.
Louis Napoleon Bonapar,e has received
five and a half millions of votes, out of seven
millions aud half. cast in France for the
presidency. Cavaignac has received one
million and half. Luis Napoleon Bona
partc has lived abroad. has even strong
70 cien accent, and is admitted on all hands
10 be an ordinary man. lfn could he doubt
ed his Bnulogne eagle alone would prove
il. Cava;gnac, on tho other hand, is admit
tel by all, even the Bnnararlists, To be a
sterling man. He is man, taken all in all.
such as France had never yet turned up in
all her political aud social vicissiludes.-
What then docs this fac, mean? Bonaparlc
seven and half millions of votes Cavaig-
nae who saved France, one and halfm
lions. ], means among other things this:
Louis Bpnaparie was elected solely be-
cause he is lhe nephew of his uncle" and
that that mcIe's name has 10 this day an
enormous hold TN the whole French nation;
and ,ha, this name has this hold, this grip
on the French mind, proves that the French
never conceived. and do not conceive TO
this day, what liberty is. For Napoleon did
not only destroy the 50 called Republic, (it
was but king less state Of things, but little
of rcpubIic,) but he drained France ofcve-
ry vesl;ge of liberty. Liberty is protected
individuality and freedom ofaction Napo-
leon centralized and blrvauoratized all
France, to a ghaSly degree. lie trod out
The las, spark of individuality, and organized
the whole OF Franc to the hidden corner OF
the hunblcst hearth. All France was gov
ernment, ard government was police. AT
the same time his iron sceplre led to glory,
as the French call il, 10 victory as we call II.
Iron sceptres are occasionally necessary;
such iron sccptres as Napnleon's was not, for
it took away even the elementary conditions
out of which freedom might arise at g period
when the necessity Of the iron sceptre exist
ing for the time. should have vanished, and
when civil liberty should have her turn af-
ter the stringent mardarn'sn. But granted
that all Napoleon did was necessary there
is a vast difference bclweeu holding in honor
The destroyer or preven:er of liberty, on the
one hand, aud electing his nephew 10 be pre-
si'lenl. now, when they proclaim that they
want lib :rty, upon the sole and absolutely
exclusive strength of his being the nephew
orthe crusher of free om. An Englishman
might hold Go nwe in high honor, but
W. uId rather die than tic f,r his descendant
as Chief Magistrate, when the question is OF
establishing liberty.
But Napoleon boastch even to the last
hour of his life; that he had given equality 10
France. 1t is true that in considerable
degree (hough not s. much as ne vaunted)
he had preserved equality, establilhed by the
Convention. He established new nobility.
Still equality was preserved by HIM in
high degree, and this equality the French
mistake for liberty. Equality must enter as
an element IN all liberty, so far as it goes,
but ii alone is far from being liberty. The
despot wants Quality too. There is more
equality in Turkey. where the Sntan's bar
ber may become grand vizer at any time,
than in England. with her hereditary peer
age. Is there more liberty in Turkey
Variety is the law Of all liberty, all essential
rfe-and liberty is life. The only absolute
equality reigns in the church yard. Now,
Napoleon being mixed up with the relninis-
cences of equality, and the French confound.
ing equality without the necessary adjuncts.
with liberty, they confound Napoleon with
liberty, at least many of them-and again
confounding the nephew with his uncle,
MANY confound Louis Bonaparte with free
dom. 1t is logical but the logic of confused
bare association of ideas, one reminding OF
the other, bu, not nccessi,ating it.
The unhappy confusion does not stop
here. The quality Of ofNapocon was but the