Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-01-18
The President Of France,

Napoleon Louis Bonaparte, elected Pres
ldent of the French Republic, December
10th, lS4S, was born in Paris, April Goth,
1918. He is now therefore in the forty-hrst
year of his age.
He is the third son of Louis Bonaparte
ia younger Brother of Napoleon, and of
Hortense de Beauharnos.
HIS birth was announced by the roar Of
cannon from one end of the Empire to the
other; for as the Emperor had no legit"
mate offspring at that time, the young prince
was born heir apparent to the throne Of
France.
His LIES dawn was thus surrounded with
the brightest halo of temporal fame. The
Emperor, his uncle, held in his hands, it
was supposed, the destinies of all Europe.
But at the age Of seven years, on the day
after the battle of Waterloo, young Napole-
on had to fly from his native city; he was
conveyed by his mother to AugsbuigII, and
his grief at parting with the Emperor is said
to have made deep and lasting impression
on the mind Of TIE great Captain.
Having received thorough education,
he published at an early age, an elaborate
work on the science Of Artillery, which he
had studied under Col. Defour He has
since published essays on society, govern
men, &c.
The revolution of July, 1880, inspired
in him the hope of again seeing his native
city. In this he was disappointed, Louis
PhIlippe's government refusing to with.
draw the edict of prescription against the
Bonaparte family.
In 1896, the friends of Napoleon, emf
boldened by the unpopularity of Louis Phil
lippe, conceived the idea Of getting up an
instruction; young Napoleon was landed
at Strasbourg, but his partzans were over,
powered by the military, and he himself
taken prisoner, alter brief and spirited re-
J sistance
In the following year he was pardoned
, by the French Government, on condition oil
his emlgratng to some other country. lie
accepted this condition and set sail for A
merica, arriving at New York in 1887, lie
took an early opportunity to speak fayora.
bly, Of America and the Americans In 4
letter to the President of the United States
he said: I" wished to study the custom:
and institutions of a people who have
c achieved more lasting triumphs by com
' merce and enterprise than we in Europe
have gained by arms. hoped to hav,
travelled through a country which excite
$ my sympathy from the fact that its histor
and prosperity are closely connected wit
the remembrance Of that which is glory t
Frcnchmen." This letter was an apolog
:, for his sudden return to Europe whittier h
" was summoned to attend the death bed
81 hi. r-Do+hev. s5hU 1tUd October 3, 1857.
ID In that year he took up his residence
l" Switzerland and resumed his efforts ft
re permission TO return to France as a Frenc
- citizen. These efforts were resisted by til
1t French Government until 1910, when h
ot made another attempt at Instruction, wit
e the aid of Gen, NTonthoIon, at Bolougnt
o Again he failed, and again he fell into tn
lie hands OF Louis Phlllippes government
. This time he was tried and sentenced t
- Imprisonment for life in the fortress {
: Ham, whence. he escaped, with the comm,
ancc Of officials, in 1915, and fed to En-
land. The revolution of February last r.
!, storel him to the privileges Of Frerc
d citizen, and he was elected to the Nation;
d Assembly by no less than four separate di,
d, tIIcts. One Of these districts being his n;
N tive city, and being able to accept only one
is he OF course chose the return from Paris
at He was among the first to declare in fl
yor of the Revolution of February, and a
:. though somewhat reserved in the expresso
l. of his views, he has preserved great con
sist0ncy in his course as friend of the re
public. TO this course may be attribute
the Overwhelming majority he received il
l. the late Presidential election. Nearly al
e the English Journals speak of him as
ID monarchist, and many Of them predict tina
st he will overthrow the Republic, or rende
x, it imperative at an early day. Some of til
n French Journals betray similar want c
confidence in the honesty of his profession:
n Whatever his Interior designs may be, he Gel
4 t2inly possesses the unbounded con6denc
10 of the French people, and terrible indee
must be the consequences to himself, shout
he betray any disposition to violate til,
. confidence. We are disposed to give hit
credit for purity of motive His writing
At show an honesty ofpnrpose, combined wit
III great natural talents. The next arrival wi
r probably bring his first message to the A.
ID sembly.