Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-03-19

habit of pulling their ears, and Plnching
their cheeks, when he was in good hu'
NOR, and of pulling the ears and whiskers
of men, and of striking ana horse-Play
with them, TO his last days. 1t does moi
appear that he listened at key.holes, or at
least, that he was caught at il. In short,
when you have penetrated through all the
circles of power and sPlendor, you were
not dealing with gentleman, at last; but
with an impostor and rogue: and he
fully deserves the epithet of Jupiter Sea-
pin, or a sort Of Scamp Jupiter,
In describing the two parties into which
modern society divides itself-the Dem
ocrat and the Conservative--I said, Bo-
naparte represents the Democrat, or the
party of the men of business against the
stationary or conservative party. omit
ted then TO say, what is material to the
statement, namely that these two parties
differ only as young and old. The Dem
ocrat is young Conservative the Con-
servative is an old Democrat. The Aris-
tocrat is the Democrat ripe, and gone TO
seed--because both parties stand on the
one ground of the supreme value of prop
erty, which one endeavorS TO get, and the
other to keep. Bonaparte may be said to
represent the whole history Of this party,
its yonth and its age /; yes, and with poet
ic Justice, its fate, in his own. The
counter-revolution, the counter. party, still
waits for its organ and representative, IN
a lover and a man of truly public and uni
versal aims.
Here was an experiment, under the
most favorable conditions, of the powers
of intellect without conscience. Never
was such leader so endowed and so
weaponed; never leader found such aids
and followers. And what was the result
of this vast talent and power, of these inn
mense armies, burned cities, squandered
treasures, inundated millions of men, of
this demorallzed Europe! 1t came TO no
result. All passed away, like the smoke
of his artillery, and left no trace. He
left France smaller, poorer, ieebler, than
he found it; the whole contest for free
dom was TO be begun again. The attempt
was, in principle, suicidal. France ser
we'd him with life, and limb, and estate, as
long as it could identify its interests with
him but when men saw that after victory
was another war; after the destruction OF
armies. new conscri Ptlons: and they who
had tOied so desperately were never near
er to their reward--they could not spend
what they had earned, nor repose on their
iown-h beds nor strut in their chateauX-
they deserted him. Men found that his
egotism was deadly to all 9th
ar men. 1t resembled the torpedo, which |
InhiclS a succession of shocks on any one
who takes hold of it, producing spasms
which contract thd muscles of the hand,
so that the man cannot open his fingers
and the animal inhcts new and more vio-
ent shocks, until he paral yses and kills
his victim. So this exorbitant egOtIst mar
-owed, impoverished, and absorbed the
power and existence of those who served
lim; and the universal cry of France, and
If Europe, in 1914, was, enough OF
lim : assez de BOnaparte.'
1t was not Bonaparte's faults. lie did
Ill that in him lay to live and thrive with |
,ut moral principle 1t was in the ma
ure of things, the eternal law of man and
IF the world, which baulked and ruined
lim and the result, in million expert
nents. will be the same. Every expert
nenr, by mulritudes or by individuals,
hat has a sensual and selfish aim, will
;al. The pacific Fourier will be as the
oernicious Napoleon. AS long as Our
,iviI zalion is essentially one of property, I
IF fences, of excusiveness, it will be
nocked by delusions. Our riches will
cave MS sick there will be bitterness in
,ur laughter and our wine will burn our
mouth. Only that good profits which we
IAN taste with all doors open, and which
serves all men.