The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-10-05


would have united in himself all that
we now admire in Hannibal and
Washington. But at the close of his
astounding career, mankind felt that
they had Lccn deceived. Tie warm
hearted soldier, who saw nothing
beautiful over tic field of Marenso,
but the glory of France, AM his
peerless Josephine, had grown selfish
and lron-hcartel. Generous and
nobIe feelings had been burned out
Of his soul by the wasting fires Of
ambition. Every energy Of his ma
ture had been concentrated in a
deathless effort at selI:agg,andize.
ment. Those mighty assions that
had heavcd his stormy soul OH hun
dred battle.iields, dritted in single
direction and when lie repudiatcd
Josephine, he repudiated Europe.
Ills eye was fixed OH still higher
point Of glory, but his steps were
leading him to ruin. lie sued for
the hand Of princess Of the House Of
llapsburgh, aud by the act, deliber-
ately gave the lie to all that he had
ever said and done. ii, married the
fresh, the genial, the immortal, the
glorious, the newly-born future, which
all coming ages will claim, to the COR
rupt and cifctc and putrid corpse Of
the Dark Ages. He abandoned the
principles lie had prvicssed, and be.
lrayed the hopes he had cxcitcd.--
lie was slibducd himself by the very
principle against which he had al
ways been contrnding, and he placed
himself in antagonisu with the s,,iri,
Of his age"
We have but one Objection to this,
aud that is the Jlame is put on the
wrong shoulders. Napoleon did not
fall because he struggled to reach Il
higher point Of glory. H. s,rugsled
for existence and fell iii the attempt
to preserve it. Al he asked was u
afa,i;;..!----4'ue. y at arui.l ,I@ g =.
drsI'TTtjsms of Euronn Iii E,,u.,,,,,,
to win more glry. The conquest OF
him: h. fell s;m,Iy hccouso no m.,;,
can stand f,revsr o,,;,,S, E',"''r,
consolidated ,~,;, Ct : !, nN :, ,,i
he abandoned the principles he had
nrufcSScu, but If he had not Fro,cr
would h,v. r,l,on L,,,. 49,, "'' ,t
hands Of RI, r uur,,,,s l,r, h,r,., :,
;l;l D,sn,,;sm G,rrcd H., 49, -
c,uh.ot, lis ,,y.r - frr 1,,n,, ~"
com,rlIcl t,a ,,,.r,,,,;ra pa'.li li'N
or Bouuroyt, I'M, yrr, ,.,n,T.s
ho f,r,n,.,, b,,r.l :, lo,.I, ;.
thc cm,;r, &c so ,I",, "a l'I1 I1
lave h.cn sw,II,wc mn ~, 0 ,O", y
u,wcrfu, states
The no lnn,,st o,,;.,, :. lo,o,o1
70 Jns.n,,;no o'7I , h,.,,,;r,, o,..;
Is 4 avn E Ills fas,.;u,.;n,, ro,.'n,
The E,ll,w,,,y L,.srr;,,;,n nf w.. G,.,
mcc,iur viii Hou,nor,n ,t,ar i; -,
turn f-on Eyyrt - ,I,,;",,J, 40 ,IJ
Rnnors had rrnrLrd tln ynmv,, nn,'
erals ears Of hi, VITA wh;ci7, Inl
filed his heart viii ;.,,,uslr ,',o 49,
ger Jusephipe no sooner hr,rd #
her husbands land;nr n Ero inc
than she started to meet Iii, !
rivins at l,vous shr fnunI ho LaI
deuar,ed for Paris W;,Lou, stnn
,,iur to rest snc ;nmcl;,,.lr or',,r,. nr
ed horse. and sized back to ,l,c c,,';
tai. She arrived near n;lu;nLt AID
pale and cyb onstcd immcI;,,ni, :,
souobt her husbands ,'rnsnmro rLn
interview and after rcro,r;I,t;,r
are thus described
"Eugenc. who had been Mana
Icons constant comuapion rushed -
the the courtyard, rs the corr;a ,,c
drove in, and held his mother (w1o
had had been eighteen months scnaratrd
f. or hiIh.) once more on h;s Loson
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