New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-27

the strongest child Democracy hal nursed welded
the might where With she end we'd him for the trans
tory ends Of an impous ambition.
BonapaTte was behind his age he was man OF
the past. The value OF the great modern instru-
ments and the modern heart and growth he did not
discern. He wei; CROPPING in the medieval times
to find the lusterless sceptsr Of Chlrlemagne, and
he saw not the paramount potency there nov Is IN
that OF Faust lie was great connoneer, not a
great builder. In the center OF Europe, from amid
the most advanced scientific nation earth, after
nineteen centuries Of Christianity, no, to perceive
that lead IN the form OF type is far more Pulssant
than in the form Of bullets not to feel that for The
head Of the French nation 20 desire an Imperial
crown was IS unmany as /, was diSloyal-that a
rivalry of rotten Austria and baroaric Russia was
despicable vanity no. 10 have yet learned how
much stronger ideas are than principles thln
edicts TO be blind to all this. TO want vision,
insight wisdom. Bonaparte was not the original
genius he has been Wanted he was a Vulgar
copyist, and Alexander Of Maceion and Frederick
Of Prussia were his models. Force was his means,
despotisra his aim war was his occupation. pomp
his relaxation For him the world was divided into
two-his will, and those who opposed it. He
acknowledged no duty, he respected no right ne
houted al integrity, he despised truth. He had no
belief in man. no trust in God. In mis- wants he
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by the lust of isolated, Irresponsible boundless,
heariess power, and he believed that ne could found
it with the sword and bind it with lies and so, ere
| he began to grow old, what he had founded had
already toppled, and what he had bound was cd
He fell and. as if History would register his dis
| grace with more instructive emphasis, he fell
| twice; and exhausted France, beeaguered ~ a
million of armed fees, had to accept the restored
! imbecile BOurbons.
But that could not last generation. For dozen
years the military boot of Napoleon had trotden
! down the crop Of aspirations and thoughts, that
sprang I'D with the Revolution, but had not killed
them. The soldiers heel cannot stamp the life out
Of ideas. They had lived and made roots in silence
andgsecrecy under the CHASTITY saturnaia of bloody,
fruitess conquests and imperial tyrannies and osten
| tatiors With the old men had come back the old
egoiisms, the old arrogances, the old inhumanties,
| the old feudal desires. But the old narrow forms
had been shattered the old growths Gu. up BY the
| roots, and in their place were new wants and new
| hopes new connections. The Old men brought
back BY the enemies of France, stood isolated around
| the old throne The nation was against them, and
more than the nation, new truths were against them.
| Now was manifest the virtue of the great bloody
Revolution. |, had engendered new mind
broader, deeper, more earnest, higher, stronger,
richer than the old one and the young generation
that entered the arena at the downfall of Napoleon
enlightened by its fire, exalted by It's vigor, the
eager heir of the principles, without being c0ntam
mated by the errors of the Revolution The propped
throne was again upset, and the kngly brother of
Louis XVI. was, not like him, brought to the block
but driven from France. In the three days Of july
$780, the patchwork of the Holy Alliance was by the
indignant people torn to shreds.
But bulky old State, deeply diseased in order
to be purged and righed, needs several crises. Its
huge load of malady it only be rid of through
successive throes. France had yet to carry her
breast for some years the imposthume Of Royalty
The "Reign Of Terror" was sd in the memory OF
many, and its bloody image still rose up minatory
whenever men directed their thoughts toward prac-
teal republicanism. The sins of that lurid epoch
were not vet expiated. "Vive lie Roi" no longer a
cordial cry was still for season to be the only one
legal Many even Of the Republicans accepted the
project of "a throne surrounded by republican IN
stitutions" This absurdy had to be tried in order
to be known. One would suppose that the shape
lessness of such political monster would have been
apparent to mems minds, without the shock OF prac
teal evidence. Louis Philippe, the head Of the
younger branch of the Bourbons, was declared King
This mans life previously to his gaming the throne,
was one long promise his life the throne was one
long lie. The bond for Republican Institutions
kept by restricting the right OF voting at all to
the election of the lower Chamber, and limiting the
number of voters to the two hundred thousand richest
men of France by the creation of House of Peers
appointed by the King by the most rigid centraliza.
ton of all legislative and administrative power by
obstructipg and gagsing the press, and Withholding
the right of meeting by unfolding, in so far as he
could, the Despotisms of Europe. Like all men who
merely calculate, Louis Philippe miscalculated. In
hos hah ad nou0ht uhprpysith
the moral force of mankind. Sordid and unscrupu-
lous himself he believed that all men could be
bought and that by buying half million he could |
control the Nation and consolidate the throne for |
himself and his family Himself and his family, |
this was his absorbing thought selfaggrandizement
was the end France and Frenchmen were but his |
means. He was endured for eighteen long years,
when France, betrayed and corrupted, wrathll at !
his want of faith disguised with his oaseness thrust
him ienomiRiousy from his perJured throne, giving
him the remnant OF his contemplate lie 70 wear IL
ON, in ENGLAND. where he died as he had lived his
mind ,eemins 10 the last with intIigues and hypoc-
risies.
Now swelled the popular heart. 10 claim then
lopg.seouestered rights, the millions came ioI'h'
strong in hope, strong IN justice, strong Win ne"
intelligence, strong in their iofoearance' tAeh ior-
eiyeness The Republic declared, and With u
y msnv.sided freedom But the goal OF stable
liberty was not yet attained. The Royalists were
,or,ed not annjhiated Too weak for open war,
they had strength for secret mischief. The Repuo-
Iicors themselves were not united fresh conYul-
sous ensaneuined the streets of Paris, and em'lt-
tered the public mind. Moreover France had yet
another expiation 10 make. She had to expia'e the
ain Of pride in Napoleon and Of the vanity OF mill
,arv glory His spirit to give her one more
scourping Athe call he came back in the emaciased
share of his nephew, elected through universal
suffrage BY an immense majority, the first President
Of the Republic.
Louis Bonaparte is cunning, resolute and unscru-