New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-05
NAPOLEON III.

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Body, will convert the quondam Republic into
a legitimate Empire and its master into the
anOnted Cesar of that peculiar people whose
boast is to lead the civilization and thought of
the world. 1t is usually supposed that the
proclamation Of this change in names and IT,
ties will take place either on the ID of Deem
Der. the anniversary of the day when the Ma
tional Assembly was overthrow, or on the
10th of that month, the anniversary of Napo-
Icons first election TO the Presidency. But
our we-informed London correspondent states
that the ceremonial will be postponed almost
till New Years This is well. \ day so unique
in history can afford to scOrn all association
with other epochs Let it stand by itself
The parade of journey through the South
ern Provinces and a reception at Paris pre-
ceding this last leap of Napoleonic ambition,
Las certainly revealed deluge of funkeyism
fit to adOrn that glorious period of French his
tory when gentlemen, whose pedigree dated
long before CharlemaGne, could write TO
solicit for their young and lovely daughters
the honor of a place in the seraglio OF
crowned and cOnsecrated debauchee but it has
also had its indications of manly Indignation
and honest popular Indifference and dislike
The pageant, whose enthusiasm rolled through
the pompOus paragraphs of the official jour-
mails, was often but the forced creation of the
Police; the groups of white-robed maidens
that at city gates, with flowers and singing, wei
coined this patent savior of order and society
were compelled to that service rs cOnscripts
are driven into the army and the banners and
decorations Haunting with hypocritical express
sions Of JOY and gratitude, were in many,
though not in all cases but the tribute of fear
cxtorted by the OmuipOtent cOmnissaires Of
the Government. For the expenses Of the
Paris show We learn that tax was imposed
even on poor huckster women in the markets,
who sadly paid their twenty or forty cents un-
der pain ofbeing expelled from their stalls
significant augury for the pernancnce Of
the new empire is the fact that it is thus based
On system Ofuniyersal intimidation and terror
Such compression must in time have its counter
spring. The power which dares not face public
opinion must look some day to perish by its
explosion. Hypocrisy, corruption aud violence
may endure for time, but they bear on their
front the date Of their own demise. Reared
upon such foundation, with no purpose and
no inspiration but that Of personal ambition
and base and dishonest selishness, with no
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ontombs the direst disasters and the greatest
downfall of modern times. where is the fresh
made Emperor to lay for his throne and his dy-
nasty foundation solid enough TO resist even
Tor day, the rushing currents Of popular ne
cessity, the whitening blast Unpopular scOn
There is one way in which he may do this, one
way in which he may redeem his name from
the awful clouds Of Shame and of crime that
threaten to bury II in infamy eternal Let him
use the power OF which he has swindled France
for France s benefit. Let him reduce the army
and take off the mountain of taxation that de-
presses the masses into slavish poverty. Let
him abolish she unnatural legislation which
governs the Inheritance and transfer OF land
Let him reform the mortgage system and OBJ
ltorate the thousand mouopOlics, great and
little, like thar of banking for instance, which
fetter the industry and hinder the natural de-
yelopment Of the country. In word let him
emancipate the internal trade ard make the
beginning of natural system of government.
and he may Yet be hailed benelactor of his
country, and establish his successors as the
holders of its Executive Power for lone wears
TO come
But there is not the slightest reason to au-
ticipate from him anything of measures such
as these. His object hereafter, a. it has been
hitherto, will be himself and his family az a
part Of himself -Four years incessant in
trigue and agitation, general massacres aud
Fictitious ovations have made him Emperor.
Aptlful fool after so long pursuing The phan-
tom Of q low and mean.souled ambition II i
impossible that he should now devote himself
10 noble ends. Ills next deusion will be the
settling of his dynasty and the eternizinr of
bis title and his race. In that work he will
perish as his uncle and Louis Philippe persisted
before him. Such men can never learn tbe
lesson Of true greatness.
We presume the majority for The Empire
vii be greater even than either of those which
the French people have already recorded in
favor Of the same individual There is no good
reason To vote against him in defiance of Off.
cial hostility and persecution. The best that
the French democrats can wisely do in the case
would seem 10 be to abstain from voting at all.
aid let the act be done without them. The
change Is after all, of little consequence. The
laws VIII be no more severe, nor the interior.
ference of the authorities in private affairs
more lntolerable' nor personal liberty sr6-