The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-11-17
p.r,. Correspondence OF the Republ,,.
PARIS, November /, 1856.


{ large Its effect upon the army was perhaps less
ccurately ascertained. lie Moniteuy de P.Arnnes,
n official sheet far as the army is concerned,
las found IL necessary to expound the speech in
'oint of view ineligible to the soldier. The fol-
owing passage holds out the hope that perhaps, |
Iiter all, L'Empire, c'est la Pair s only another
node Of expressing the idea, DEmpire, c'ea la |
guerrs. ..... |
"Fuli of confidence in Louis Napoleon, the army |
will prepare in the leisure of peace, as II has done
or long time past, for the eventuAlities Of war
Always possible for who can answer for human
weakness and the want of foresight OF the pas.
sionsf' .....
Does this mean, who can answer for the human
weakness of Louis Napoleon Docs it mean that
the man who had the human weakness to break
his oath; to say the 10Th of March, Conseruons la
when he meant RetaJlissons Empire,
may very we'll have the human weakness to come
out for war, after having declared his desire for
the preservation of peace? II is skilfully said, at
any rate. Again, the army ia encouraged to hope
for another opportunity to massacre its fellow
citizens, ne in December last: H,a
There ia besides a species Of in which the
of the army has already been crowned
with triumph--that Of the genius Of good against
the genius of evil, OF order against anarchy"
Again, there may be other republics to crush,
like the republic Ut Rome:
as to require efforts from our brave soldiers,
,oo wiH a,ooys be found to enter upon IL ,oi ador"
Thus does the Monitesr of the army enumerate
the various kinds of war upon which the soldiers
may confidently reckon, notwithstanding the Pre-
sident'sexclaInution, Empire c'sst la Pai1. They
will cbersh those hints tenderIy, and roll them as
sweet morses under their tongue. 49,.
If the object Of this article ia not 10 encourage
the army to hope for war; then it has object. II
wasvcry natural that an open declaration in favor
of peace, while it satisfied and pleased the civil
lians, should discomfort that branch Of the public
service which depends upon war for prize money
and promotion. The 5O,OO0 men ofthe garrison Of
Paris are dissatisfied and take no great pains to
conceal their feelings The article refer to is not
without its significance, and has been the subject
of much comment. II would be certainly difficult
to account for the paragraph in which civil war ia
mentioned as hopeful possibility, did we not re-
member that, by late decree in the Monitsur,
any regiment assisting to repress internal troubles
is entitled to consider il as q campaign against
foreign enemy, and receive pay and promotion &C
cordingly.
Those who believe the President sincere, ina
CINE that his efforts will be mainly directed to-
wards preserving peace in Europe, and that If it
become necessary to amuse and interest the PEG.
pie and occupy the army, it will be done by means
of distant enterprises. He may push It's Algerian
dominions southw ward, may perhaps get into Egypt,
even into Syria. Immense efforts are being
made to strengthen and increase the steam navy,
probably with eide view to increase the CO.
lonial dependencies Of France, and TO establish
military posts upon such islands unoccnpied
corners of continents may invite possession
or capture. The London Times, whenever the
peace of the world seems likely to be troubled,
always pokes France forward party to the
affair, on side or the other, and now strongly
suggests the probability that Louis Napoleon
would like to have q hand in the Cuba Crescent
City affair, in the interest Of Spain. l may add
that many Americans entertain opinions identical
with those Of the London Times
The rumors Of the marriage of the President
have of late lost great deal of their presidency.
In fact, Of the principal features of the Senatus
Consitum will be tho naming OF successor in case
Louis Napoleon should not marry. This successor
will be Napoleon Bonaparto, his cousin, and son
of Jerome Of Wcstphalia, who would be alao heir
presumptive, without any mention in the Senatus
Consultum. A circumstance which may pcrhaps
cause a renewal Of The late nuptial rumors is the
fact that the Princess Wasa 10 about to abjure Pro-
testantism and embrace the Catholic religion.
certain political interest will certainly be attached
to this conversion for it is palpabe that Louis Ma
poleon, after his numerous professions Of faith in
the south would never marry q lady who, once
having been a Protestant, should not subsequently,
apostacize.
The Federal Council OF Switzerland has just Dc
cided upon q measure for which the fraternity of
Roots, PIumbes, and Bradys will be very much
oeholden to it. 1t has ordered the Department of
Justice and Police to have all men arrested as
thieves and vagabonds daguerreotyped-me
written descriptions being insufficient to prove
their identity.
You may have seen in the journals sent out by the
last steamer the lines written upon the death of
the republic, and sent bordered in black, and with
and cypress, to the principal political person.
ages in Paris. One allusion, and pcrhaps only QUE
was good:
'L'indivsible cheyenne
Qui nc devait annals perIr,
Ma pu supporter sans MOURN,
Loperatiun cesarienne.'
As this has been published by the imperial jour
nails, we may suppose that they pleased with
it, But l should hardly have imagined that
Bonapartist would acknowledge that the Empe-
owes his birth to the performance Of that bloody
and slashing operation which saves the child but
generally kills the mother. 1 did not expecs to
hear the massacre of the Boulevard Poissonniere
treated with so much historic truth in Napoleonic
sense.
The Depart nent Of the Dordogne is celebrated
for the longevity of it's inhabitants. A dying
priest, aged IS, was helped out OF the world some
weeks ago by the self same nurse who assisted him
in, now la years old! She walked a mile every
day from her house to his. She has successively
lived under the following governments: that of
Louis XIV, Louis XVI, the Republic of SO, Napo,
leon, Louis XVIII, the Hundred Days, the Res
toraton, Charcs x, Louis Philippe, and the
Republic of Is45. She expects to survive long
enough to sec the Empire OF 1852, and perhaps TO
be still alive when the next revolution shall take
place.
We have had t~ very curious trials here within
the week. Jean Marie Farina, son of the original
cologne water celebrity of that name, has been
judicially forbidden to sell cologne in Paris under
his own name, because his father had como years
ago sold his branch establishment in this city to a
NJ Coilas. He argued that it would be very hard
il he could not use his own name. But NJ. Collas
maintained that the presence of real Jean Marie
Farina in Paris would be very detrimental to him,
and to the sale OF the ''od original cologne"
Judgment was given in his favor.