New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-17
HosETT LOCIs NAPOLEON.

Of these two men respectively. and ,rly we
| admire the former and detest she latter.
In our view, LOUIS kossUrH has devoted
his life, sacrificing home. property. comfort.
and Drawing death, for the abasement of the
naughty and upraising of the lowly, the
benighted, the oppressed, the wronged;
while Louis Napoleon has richly earned the
execration and loathing Of mankind by the
most fragrant perjury, the most wanton
butchery, and the most ruthless, treacher-
Gus warfare on Liberty, Justice and HUI
mainly. If villain can deserve death at
a ropes end, we think Louis Napoleon has
deserved it; and yet we should not like to
see him suddenly swung off if there were
any other way to keep him out of mischief.
Far sooner would we see him chained to
some lonely ocean rock, like the grander,
nobler villain in whose footsteps he strains
himself to tread, there to waste away
slowly, living until those he had betrayed
had almost forgotten even to hate him.
That would be the more impressive, endur-
ing spectacle, bodying forth a more salu-
tary moral.
The difference between the two men
named seems to us to consist in this, that
Louis Napoleon has tired for himself, Kos
suth for his country and mankind. The
life of the former is one long, shameful lie;
that of the latter beautiful and inspiring
truth. For already the peuured, lecherous
beast who has stolen the liberties of France
is an object of compassion: his vices are
torturing him with disease; his conscience
must be gnawing like vulture; and no
knows that his life is not worth a weeks
purchase if he should venture among the
people of his own enslaved metropolis as
freely as Cavaignac, Carnot or any other
Republican whom he permits to remain
there may do. He is a prisoner in his
Stolen Palaces, surrounded by liveried
menials whom he exposes to ridicule under
the title of legislators, and hedged about by
Half Million Of bayonets. Just fancy
him once more an exile as Kossuth is, and
where could he hide himself from the exc
Grafton of the Human Race! Far happier
and more to be envied is Kossuth in exile
and humiliation than Louis Napoleon with
France under his feet, and his lacquey Lee
gislature and drunken Pretorians just ready
to proclaim him Emperor.
Such is our view of the character, DO
Such is our view Of the character po.
sitiorp and conduct respectively OF Louis
Kossu,h and Louis Napoleon, in which we
sec not how a man, especially protested
Republican, should fail to concur. Anu
vet there Is a very different view OF them
which, because it Is different, we will lay
before our readers, trusting it may incite to
comparison and reflection. We find II set
forth in Brormson's Quarterly Rev'ew for
April, in an essay ON The Two Worlds,
Catholic and GENTLE IA follows:
Mot unfrrqucntIy this never ending anagonism BE-.
tween the Catholic and the Protestant view o men ana
az hing. excires the marked attention In every
uusrser and Is when the thing In question occupies
large space in The public eye ko-suth and t.ous Na
po,esn are prominent examples In point IL u p,ctv
generally agreed that Catholics oppose kossuh ami up
hold Louis cn,oleop while Pr,Rrrtanss uphold kossun
snd o,a,o,e the French President And this f"cs -
toni-hes many persons rs II wero new tmng.
nn< new or rurprsng IN Catholics inasnlon ~ tncir
Judgment concerning these two individuals u mere
application to new cases ut principles with whcn ncy
arc familiar and which they are called upon an.y W
s,ply to men aud to things. The magnitude ot ue M
trr.ts nj stake do not FOR their own sake. move the
Catholic, ha~trn his judgment or rctsrd t. hh easy
Ia iuiyc great q srusll matter, for the Cathonc
dogma applicable 10 one a. it 10 to the other ana
moreover In it, presence great and small Affairs Vi shs
with reference to Louis Napoleon. the question be-
fore the Catholic IL, what bearing the recent events "
France have upon tho Kingdom Vi God upon esrth
Whatever Ambitious projects the President may cherish.
Whatever his motives may have been whatever may De
his perunal standing In the sight ut God are quessons
foreign ~ the which 10 " be aJu'icaie,i rsore
shc two worlds Graniin; his motives to be good his
enemies will not take them into account or ~ls thr'
% I'm excuse whrt he hes done. We have nothing
to do with them; have simply ~ weigh the srts
which have bern done In thc presence Of the world,
leaving all adjudication Of motives 10 Him who alone can
iudyr them II the heart Of the President he night In
the sight oil Cod Il will be well Tor minseh; u n",
God will accept what hc has done, pre-s 10 into
the Accomplishment of his de.igus, and cause
the Pr c-ens ~ go the way OF human instruments
OF his will Yet wh.n the act good u but tar Ia
infer that the motive also good IN the sbsence Ut any
that Iou. Nmpoleon was nx sincere. Meanwhile the
wvrk done by him bas becn gOoi lie preserved me IN
dependence Of the Holy Scr the center OF Csfo'e
unity What IL called the temporal power Ut she fope
may NOT be essential 10 his Office bat the history Ut she
lns thousnnd years gives evidence enough that 10 the
viii u (;od thas the Pope should retain thss trmpors'
power lie has Lost s several riDes and has always
been restored ~ him In wonderful way The last res
osrtion IN lss9 which has to this day cxcr'
ri-eu the wits OF tenfics, who esnnot comprchcnd
brrsu.e the providence Of God IL in their world an
empty sound And God has manifested his providence.
only BY always restoring the Pope In some strange
ouf-ofthe-way manner. which no one, no Grnte GER
have Lint
en-. mics of tc Holy See. History has YET to say thss
Roman Rspubhcan came to good end. The enc.
mice OF the Psps crown were always the enemies d
tie Paal nitre Lou. knpo.eon in driving them frusn
Rome rsve the anti rtholc world blow which shook