Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-10-12

PCCttu IfCll me. lEfIl my UcbOle0DoSS 10 m
: country. Your retirement" was answered
t Sand if retire." aked, "will all be finished?
"All was the reply "the national guards viii
n themselves remove lie barricades." "And m
- grandson, and their aother, will not incur any
danger; you will guaantee me that?" "None
then quilted, too happy to thus prevent the eff
fusion of French blod. That, sir. is bow anc
why left; that is WIFI abandoned the field. as
you call it. As to thse who attr b tie other mo-
lives to my departure, | do not comprehend
them; and what other motives, ask you coulc
| have had? Some pmpletecrs, some simple
; tons, have spoken of ny fear. No; there is nc
one in;France, no one Europe, not even among
my most bitter enemies, who can believe, for &
moment, that | felt any fear on the oath of Feb
ruary. And of whom should | have been
afraid! Where was the danger for my person!
1t any existed, declare TO you that | saw none
and il had seen it, it would not have made me
drawn back. DangGr.,-bGt | am accustomed
to 1t. | have faced it near. Every one in
France knows how face III
After some further conversation the Elk
King proceeds to say thai his greatest misfor-
tune had not been in the loss of a throne, not
even in exile, but the inconceivable silence OBJ
served by those who could have said much in
his defense. He felt that he had right to be as
tonshed and accuse his friends, if among SO
many French and foreign journals, which, when
ne was King, proclaimed him the Napoleon OF
peace; not one was found, after his fall, to pro-
claim that the tail was unmcrited. They saw
| him fall and remained Indifferent. The reason
was, that for eighteen years they had been taught
to detest the ptrsonihcation of authority-that
safeguard of the people y &c. &c.
When | was in power was told" Sire YOU
are the keystone to European peace. If you
were No % ger here, what would become of the
tranquility Of the wor!d!" When such words
were addressed to me, gave smile ofincredu-
lily, thinking that | had not shoulders strong
enough TO bear up such heavy load as the
tranquility Of the world and | said TO myself
Those are iatterers or friends who exaggprate
the part which could have in the maintenance
OF the general peace. Well, then, on the dav
when that fattery bore some resemblance to
truth, the day when, my throne crumbled into
dust, the revolutionary flame suddenly broke ont
rom one end OF Europe to another in Lombardy,
in Sicily, at Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, and
IN Hungary, there was not single voice, not one
to ask: ''And that man whom we are about to
condemn to die in exile, was he not instrumental
in that universal prosperity which has given
place to an immense ruin Just at the moment
when that man fell? Was there due to him
neither word of adiew, nor regret, nor
souvenir
In pronouneing these last words, the King
who had allowed himself to be carried away by
the warmth OF his feelings, rose from his chair,
and paced up and down the library, appearing to
forget that there was any one present to witness
this outpourlng, as it were. of his whole soul
ALLOW me, Sire, TO recall to your Majesty,
that IN many cases, his friends, his minister's de-
fenced him in the journals, the tribune
They defend me, say you?-Yes, some
times Pro to7'naa, ca YsSosaRt, occasionally x X
But thoroughly, seriously, never! Ny Minis
ters thought only of saving the portfolios conf
dad to them; bat, they had never time to defend
the popularity, the dignity, the honor of the
hlng. From the very commencement of my
Ttisn certain accusations were made against me
winch with word might have been r4futed; but
they have remained unanswered, and thus ha re
become de$J fats accompliS.
lie spoke ofthe opposition he had met with
from his ministers in various matters Of public
policy, and being in the minority he was forced
to yl9d, and this always happened on questions
which concerned himself alone. lie was also
thwarted by them when he attempted to make
his opinions known to the people who were con-
saquently kept in ignorance of them. He also
stated privately, that he always had been scru-
pulonsly and reiigiousy constituted King, hav-
my been such from August 18th, $50. to Febru-
AIRY 2lth, without interval, interruption, or re-
gret. The King then continued
You remember the violent discussions which
took place, IN winch my cupidity, (the vice winch
even my friends did not attempt to deny the OK
istence OF, Tor the cupidity of King Louis Phil
lPpe Is now sort OF proverb) was attacked. and
when 1t was declared that the King owed TO the
state four million of francs. NJ. de Montaiivet
appealed against this decision to the Council of
Stat, and no more was heard oft; and do Won
know why! Because the Council of State de-
clared that, instead OF my owing the State four
millions, the State owed me fiftv thousand francs
When the Minister of Finance communicated this
to me, l asked when he intended to have the
decision OF the Council of State ratified by the
Chamber-"Never," he replied, ''for if were to
bring the subject forward agan-if | were to
dare to state TO the Chamber that the State owed
htty thousand francs to your Majesty, the Min
istry, to which have the honor to belong. would
be Immediately overhrown."
But, Sire, 10 hesitate at performing such duty
was a base weakness
"-Iion Dieu! o'cea la politiQue-miniSterieL
The misfortune of all this is that by leaving me
exposed, and without defense, against the most
odlous and unfounded attacks, the ministers
were preparing without suspccting it, the ruin
not OF a monarch, but of a monarchy, and OPEN
ing tor the torrent of February-you have seen
with what prodigious facility this incredible con-
vulsion was effected
You have seen how little account was taken
OF the moderation patriotism shown by me and
my family on this occasion. You have seen that
calumny instead of being silent when was no
longer present, has acquired fresh energy in nv
misfortune. left, deprived of everything, and
at that very time it was said that foreseeing the
blow that would one day fall on me, | had or
gained for myself beforehand a golden exile
They talked of millions RENTED on nv account
to America and to England. My bankers in those
countries were even named. The name of
street was given of Which was the proprietor
at New York, and the number of squares men,
toned which possessed in London the whole
purchased out of the immense savings | had
realized ont of my civil list. As man who pos
sessed so many millions as was said TO do could
not want anything my property was sequestra-
ted! What should never have authorised N.Y.
self against the most obscure citizen of France.
was unscrupulously allowed against me. A
hand was laid on the patrimony of my family.
on the revenues which were my personal prop
erly, property sacred to my children. Poor chill
dren. Poor children! what had they done7
Could there exist in France a single citizen.
either high or low, who had loved his country