The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1853-01-07
Declarations OF the Empire.

The following is the speech Of d. Billaull
the Presidens Of The Legislative Corps, o.
presenting the number Of votes:
SIRE: we lay before your Majesty TT
solemn expression Of the national will. Il
/ the midst ofthe orations which were decrect
to you by popular enthusiasm, you showed
no anxiety to assume crown which wa
offered to you on all sides; but desired tha
France should have time for reflection; yor
wished that the supreme decision, by which
a people, master of itself disposes sove
reignty Of its destiny, should only be taker
cody and in complete liberty.
| \ our wish, sire, is accomplished; free
ballot secret, and open to.all, has been hon.
estly examined under the eyes Of all, sum.
ming up 5000, 900, of votes. 1t gives to the
Legitimacy of your government the widest
basis on which any government in the
world has ever been established. From the
day when 6, 600, 900 votes collected for you
by the government itself, which they call
ed 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 os her conf.
dence in you. Without asWithin her munci-
cipalities in her fetes as in her votes. every
where her feelings have burst forth from
one end of the country to the other, nock in
your steps bursting from all parts to salute
the man of their hopes and of their faith.
Our people have sufficiently made known
to the world that you are their Emperor
the Emperor chosen By the people. and
that you carry with yousthat national spirit
which, on the day marked out by ProYi-
dence, crowns new dynasties, and sends
them in the place ofthose which it no long
er animates.
Taking shelter under an immense recol-
lection OF glory, under what it holds most
precious, its honor abroad, security at home,
and those immortal principles of l78O-the
firm basis Of new French society SO power
fully organized by the Emperor. your uncle
our nation again rises up with proud love
hatdynasty ofthe Bonapartes which sprung
from him, and which was not overthrown
by French hands. But while preserving a
proud remembrance of the great events of
war, it hopes to find from you the great
things Of peace. Having already seen you at
work, itexpects from youa resolute prompt
and prosperous government. In order to
aid yon it surrounds you with al its SYM
pathies; it delivers itself wholly up to you.
Take, then sire-take from the hands Of
France that glorions Crown which she off
ers you. Never has royal brow worn one
more legitimate or more popular.
The Emperor then addressed the Cham
bers as follows:
The new reign which you this day inaug-
urate derives motifs origin as SO many others
recorded in history have done, from yio-
lence, from conquest or fraud; it is what you
have Just declared 1.-THE legal result of the
will of whole people, who consolidate in
calm that which they had founded in the
midst of agitation, | am penetrated with
gratitude towards the nation which three
times IN four years sustained me by its suf-
frages, and each time has only augmented
its majority to increase my power; but the
more that power increases in extent and vi
tai power, the more does itneed enlightened
men; such as those who every day surround
men such as those whom
address to guide me by their counsel, to-
bring back my authority within proper lin
its, If it could eyer quit them.-
take from this day, with the crown, the
name Of Napoleon the Third, because the
will Of the people has bestowed it on me in
their acclamations, because the whole nation
has ratified It. Is it then to be inferred, that
ii accepting the title, I fall intothe errorim-
puted fo the prince, who, returning from ex-
he. declared null and void all that had been
done in his absence.
Far from me be such a wild mistake Not
only did recognize the government which
have preceded me; but / inherit il some
manner all that they have accomplished Of
good and Of evil for governments whichsuc-
seed one to anotherare, notWit tanding diff
erent origin, liable for their predecessors;
3utthe more completely that accept all thatl
or fifty wears history transmits to US. With
ler inflexible authority. the lessit hasper
nitted me 10 pass IN silence over the glorious.
eign of the head of my family; and thereg
llar, though phemeral title of bis son, whom
he two Ghambe1s procli IN the last burst
i vanquished patriotism.
Thus then tie title Of Napoleon the Third
J not one of the dasIic superanuated pre-
enfions which seem to be an insul to good
ense ana truth 1t is the homage rendered
government which was Legitimate. and
) which ne owe the brightest pages of our
loaefn history NY reign does not date
som lsI 5; It dates from this very moment.
rhen you have announced the snIfraees of
le nation. Receive, then, raY. than rs,
einen Of the Chamber Of Deputies for the
slat vou have given b tIg manifestation Of
le national viii. by rendering Il more evI 3
enf By vour supervision, and imposing bv|