Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-01-06

result OF the ballot-boX.
DECLARATION OF THE EMPIRE.-
The votes were counted on the I'd
inst. The following is the speech OF
NJ. BiIlauIt, the President Of the
Legislative Corps, on presenting the
number OF votes:
SIRE: We lay before yoCr Males
ty the solemn expression OF the
national will. In the midst Of the
orations which were decreed TO you
by popular enthusiasm, you showed
no anxiety to assume crown which
was offered to you on all sides; but
desired that France should have
time for reflection; you wished that
the supreme decision, by which a
people, master of itself. disposes
sovereignty Of its destiny, should
only be taken cody and in complete
liberty.
Your wish, sire, is accomplished;
free ballot, secret, and open TO all.
has been honestly examined under
the eyes of all, summing up S,0OO.>
600 of votes. Itgives to the legiti-
macy of your government the
widest basis on which any govern
ment in the world has ever been
established. From the, day when
100000 votes, collected for you by
the government itself, which they
called you TO replace, deposited in
your hands the fate OF the country,
France at each new ballot has
marked, by additional millions Of
votes, the continued increase of her
confidence in you. Without as
within her municipalities, in her
fetes as in her votes, everywhere
her feelings have burst forth from
one end of the country to the other,
flocking in your steps, bursting from
all parts TO salute the man OF their
hopes and of their faith. Our peos
pie have sufficiently made known to
the world that you are their En-
peror-the Emperor chosen by the
people, and that you carry with you
that national spirit which, on the
day marked out by Providence,
crowns new dynasties, and sends
them in the place of those which it
no longer animates.
Taking shelter under an immense
recollection of glory, under what it
holds most precious, its homer
abroad, its security at home, and
those immortal principles of 1889
the firm basis of new French society
so powerfully organized by the En-
peror, your uncle-our nation again
rises up with proud love that dynas-
ty OF the Bonapartes which sprung
from hin, and which was not over
thrown by French hands. But
while preserving proud remem-
brance OF the great events Of war,
it hopes TO find from you the great
things of peace. Having already
seen you at work, it expects from
you a resolute, prompt, and prosper
Gus government. In order to aid
you, it surrounds you with all its
sympathies; it delivers itself wholly
up to you. Take. then, sire-take
| from the hands of France that glori-
Gus Crown which she offers you.-
Never has a royal brow worn one
more legitimate or more popular.
The Emperor then addressed the
Chambers as follows:
Messieurs:
The new reign which you this day
inaugurate derives not its origin as
so manv others recorded in history
have done, from violence, from con-
quest or fraud; it is what you have
just declared 1.-THE legal result OF
! the will of ? whole people, who con-
soIidate in calm that which they had
founded in the midst of agitation. |
am penetrated with gratitude to-
wards the nation which three times
1 in four years sustained me by its
suffrages, and each time has only
augmented its majority to increase
my power; but the more that power
increases in extent and vital power,
the more does it need enlightened
men, such as those who every day
surround me-independent men,
such as those whom / address, TO
guide me by their counsel, to bring
back my authority within proper
limits. if it could ever quit them.
/ take from this day, with the
crown, the name OF Napoleon the
: Third, because the will Of the people