New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-15

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Mr.. Abbott commenced his history with tie un-
Truth tia. such work WIS necessary in order TO dis
abuse tie public mind of errors arising from the uni
yorssl currency among US Of British Tory portraitures
Of Napoleon snd bis acts; but whenever he feels in
want Of an authority hacker he has no difficulty
II finding ore among American British writers.
Hszlitt. Napier &c serve bis turn when he wishes
British ipooet for any of his herOs crimes against
/ Hun ariry; and now we have an American work, more
widely diEused and generally consulted than any other
introduced 10 justify the original act of usurpation
/ Let consider its material ayerMents:
J. That a Republic in France was imPractica5le.'
Who or what gave Napoleon a right 10 aijudge this
question at all He, child and creation of the Re
Tubiic-Iow dare he sit thus in Judgment on his
mother But if the judgment here implied were
spirit Of France for there was no object which it
could justly be employed. II France we're unit for
Republic then the Allied Kings were right. and NapO-
eon instead Of SC zng the reins should have sent
Messenger 20 Louis XVIII asking his pardon for past
errors and entreatng him in triumph to his
native land and ascend tie throne of his ancestors
Only On the assumption tha; Republic in France was
practicable end legitimate lad Napoleon any rightul
thority in France st all.
9 Now as to tic non-existance OF Republican Lib
EFT! in France Just prior TO NapOleons original usur
patton If Liberty did not exist then and there, it
never car exist among people unprepared for it by
years OF lis enjoyment. either in France anywhere
else The Revolution had thoroughly done its work.
Tie factions had exhausted their frantic energies AMI
deyoured each other fair Republican Constitution,
amended in accordance with the dictates Of experience
had been established Legislature constituted under
il was in session and the supremacy Of the laws was
very generally and thoroughly established And the
Only serious disturbance OF Public Order effected
by Bonaparte and his fellow conspiraors in driving the
Peoples Representatives from their Legislative halls
and crushing the National Sovereignty
3 But il is insisted" SAYS the apoo,ist for Lber-
tcide that he should have beaten foreign enemies.
"quCed civil dissension7, put stop to anarchy. &c
reesablshed tie Church. yet left perfect liberty to
"all +" No Sir you know better What IS insisted
j. flat he should have either upheld the Public Lber-
ties or let them alone Instead of reestabsLng any
Church, he should have favored the complete impair
TALLY of tie Government al questions Of creed
or faith. lie had previously beaten foreign enemies
under les efficient Republican system, and when he
had no prestige as a commander. Ii unable TO do it
now be had only to leave the tasA to those who would
Civil dssousons had died ont. or were nothing now
70 what they had been few years before In fine all
these apo, gics for usuTaton but the salest pre-
texts Of ulprincpled lust Of power.
We cannot mistake the purpose with which they are
now renamed and redifused through the most widely
circulated periodical in America. A nephew and as
sumcd heir OF the great soldier regns over France
as Napoleon Ill" He, too, consolidated his power
BY fearful crime against Human Liberty. He, too,
affects TO believe Republic in France impracticablc
at least during his life He too, claims to have re-
PEELED foreign INVASION precluded frghtiu civil con-
vulson stifel anarchy, established justice and public
confidence upheld the Church, &c, by means of his
perfdiou and bloody usurpation. Crushed Italy pal
sled Germany, tortured shackled Hungary, desparng
Poland among the steps BY which he vauted to his
Imperial throne, and the OF betrayed Nations
may well drive sleep from his guilty soul. But all the
varnsh that can be spread the crimes Of the great
despot serves to bewider the public mind with regard
to the ylaines of the little one To Vory Napoleon
l. is to prop the tottering throne Of Napoleon III
Herein we doubt not is the secret impulse to the
ries Of atrccicus fsehocds respecting the first Napo
leon which have for months polluted tie pages OF Har-
pas Magazine
We have said that Mr.. Abbott must be perfectly
aware that he is beying and foully saldering the
American ccn.emners Of his idol in representing them
as defenders If the course OF those banded Kings
As to which of these gangs Of despots tie baser
and more criminal, We say nothing, because we care
nothing Ii seems TO Us very paltry N the PICTURED
TAILOR Of Toussaint Overture and the assassin Of the
Due dEuehein to be whining and making faces oyerhis
coufueu emit at St Helena; but tie only question con-
ce ming him wherein We take serious interest has no
bearing oil hc character and conduct Of the Allied Kings
our quarrel is with the relentless, tTeacherous, I'M
grateful foe Of Human ghts and in order that our
readers nay freshly perceive how grossly Abbott bellies
the American writers he stgmatizes partsans Of the
Holy Alliance We make tie following citations from .
tie well known essay Of Dr. CaA;NiSG, whereof Ar. .
Abbott cannot Affect to BE ignorant:
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