Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-01-18
HERALD OF Thu TIMES.
NEW PORT.
Thursday Morning JAM Is, lS49.

President BoY YtPARTE.-Since the time
when the nation OF frog. Irbell-a against log,
their King, and unanimously accepted the
substitution of King Stork, Us moro spirited,
though somewhat less safe monarch,--a ruler
who, though little addicted to dovouring his
subjects, had yet wings upon which to soar
into the clouds, greatly to the admiration and
glory of his whole realmn, the world has
never been more heartily surprised than by the
realization ofhc fable in the late election of
Louis Napoleon TO the Presidency Of the
French Republic. Cavasnac was not alto
gether frog he proved that, in the terrible
events of June, by his storm Of the Barrlcadesl
and conque Of a Revolution ; bat he chose
to be one to curb himself and fetter France
to disarm her, and prevent that outward
precipitation Of her military order on the SUR
rounding world Of Europc, which, if indulged
and guided by him, mi hl have both gratlfcdI
and enslaved France, and placed hlmscIfl
among the founders of royal Gynas,ios. lleI
preferred to be a patriot, rather than prince,
to initiate Washington, rather than attempt
the role of Napoleon. The Consequence has
been the abandonment of him by the people he
sacrificed himself to serys,-his entire and ut
ter prostra,ion with the sudden election over
his head ofa young man, whose name,
whose origin, whose character and pub
lie acts, point to that natural denouement OF
tyranny which the people seem, by the man
ncr of the election, TO have invited him to
bring about as speedily AS possible.
Do the pcople OF France really refuse the
Republic! Have they not voted the restora-
ton of the Empire Certainly, they seem to
have turned, with the most deliberate rejection
and disgust from Cavagnac, the stern repub-
lean who offered them plain democratic
chief magistrate, mere executive officer, de-
sirious simply to perform the part Of pubic
scrvant,-to him whose namo-and there was
nothing but that to recommend hm-present-
ed them the glory and the seryiudo Of the i'm
pcral eagles. The impulse was, unscru'able
the act marvellous, and the result is sudden
change of affairs having the appearance OF
stroke of enchantment. On the 18th of June,
1915, the Empire Of Napoleon fell at Water
loo. Has France slept Tor thrty-thrcc and q
half years Were the Restoration, the
Trois .Jours of 1880 the rise and the fall o.
the King of the Barricadcs, and the Provs
iona Government only so miny dreams, from
which France awakes to continue the reign o.
NAPOLEON 1t is was wild superstition o
some of of the prosecuted sectaries at Constan
,inople in the age of Jus'lnian, that this mon
arch, so mighty yet SO dreaded, was mere
phantasm-an airy appearance, not real man
and that they who approached the sanctlt.
Of the purple chamber at midnight, might be'
hold a spectre sitting revealed upon the throne
"A face without features, a body without
head. We may without being super
,,itous, revive the same fancy, and apply it tt
the person of President Louis Napoleon will
regard to whom all the world seems to be sur
that he, though in the flesh, is but the illuslo
that conccals the real ruler,-ihe phantom
spirit or the Man Of Destiny, that fills tn
throne he seems 10 occupy
The attachment to the memory of NapoIeo
wac undoubtedly the principal cause OF tn
elect on of his nephew but it is not to b
doubted that that event was strongly aided b
other feelings, among which, we fear, an
sorry we arc to say it, were fear and hatred
the republic. 1t is impossible to reconcile tn
= f,rf
the other democratic candidates with any otl
or supposition than that of hostility to the re
publican state they wished TO found. An
This hostiity--it could moi have been an nh'
rent Geeng-uust be attributed to the frani
ultraism Of the dcmagogucs who transform tn
republic, even at It's origin, into nondescriI
monstrosiiy, hippoccntaur-bkc compound
Socialism and the Red Republic. 1t was M
enough for the Iedru Rollins and Raspa
the Blanqus and Caussdicrcs of La Jeur
France. that Frcnchmcn should be free ; the
mus, be miserable also society was to be di
rup,ed, property seized, morality and rolgic
abolishcd and individuals were, in realli.
ali IN bccomc the slaves Of the stato--iren'
and brothers, bound to each other by law
the bonds of compelled iratcrnly-ihat Is
say. tho fear, jealousy, hypocrisy, and hatr'
Of condemned spirits. The dcmagogucs
france have ruined and lost the rcpubllc.-
Thousands Of good wis, aud moderate me
Lave clnbbcd against them aud against 1t, pr
l.rrup monarchy despoisn even, prom
,.iu. .,curty Of life Al plopcr'y-'o Il
m,.,,ry IT iicc state which proposed noiI