New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-20

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I --r.sys 20 uttcd justice IRON Napoleon c0ailnnei
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/ vrith I'd ty The rcvns Which wc2d lave iarScaei
-s INN tom the saloons Of VERSAILLES, s. Clo01 AMI
~ T1iferi-. All the Cespl=ts Of Europe hav, been
e1usv Interested 70 rnisrep-Cseut the career o. Nspo-
Len ~ as to ora; sdroe6s Of ~ rghis q ne p,sps
css, 10, rrreFanf 7ti9as q ASagty Eaosss az
~ 3sl ksFs Ry their coTnhiHcd power they crushed
! fheir Zoe. Nov they trsduce him
30 po-et hsve fheso Influences or unsrsre'ea'atlJa
Z heen tbs, on can hardly end in the Uarct Stites
,.n who hss passed CO years Of age, ta0 dos H1 Li7s
7 tief Ns,glsrs ugs dEoS dCE0r. Toe pubic mind mas
been 20 eectusy perverted ~ the misrnpre o.
vesrs that any impartial statement Of tue rea character
cite Emperor Is by nauy re ;araed A. blind ealoSy.
We have placed in ksiies some of Mr.. Alb
I bolts sentences to which We would draw par
,icular attention. and We proceed TO make the
! comments they ,eem TO desire.
/ It's not true that " Americans have de-
rived their views of Napoleon mainly from the
7 Tory historians of Esgland." The writings Of
Hazlitt. O-MeaTa Bourienne. Theirs, and msny
4 others who Eese by no means British Tories
have been extensively read among us. tn,
+ Edinburgh Re-isr has at all times enjoyed
/ vide circulation snd commanding influence
among the leading minds of our country. And
/ WuL1as ELIERY CHASSNG-na British To
~ but IN American Republiean-has done
more than any other man TO fix the opinions
respecting Napoleon of the purest and most IN
tellgent minds Of our country.
3 NapoeOn's clam to the title Of rsPsS!'eas
Emperor Was exactly as good as that Of his
I dubious nephew, the present head burglar Of
France Like his villain, be found France
a Republic, and by perfdy, craft and brute
force transformed her into . DespOtism. He
Was lifted on the shoulders of his grateful, ai-
miring cOuptrymen, and he trampled them uu
der his iron heel If Napoleon Bonaparte was
republican then Benedict Arnold was fer
sid patriot and Judas Iscariot saint.
g. The rights of the People were never
more ignored and secuted in any Oriental
Kingdom than under Napoleon's Imperial
sway. Even w0manhOoi was not safe from
Punishment if it dared TO think and speak.
/ The Press was absolutely muzzled. All the
safeguards Of Popular Liberty we're broken
down, and throughout his realm no voice was
heard on public affairs that did not echo or
/ prolong the accents Of the despOt.
/ T. This trick of playing of one despot or
villain against another, or four Of them against
one, is an old one, but It won't do Suppose
+ England Russia, Austria and Prussia should
now combine TO dethrone Napoleon III, would
that justify the villanies by which he has made
himself Emperor Abuse Pitt and Meter
mich, Frederick William and Alexander, to
! your hearts content but do not let their evil
/ deeds excuse those of Napoleon. The merits
Of their quarrel with him were by no means
one-sided but whatever their crimes, they
cannot excuse the overthrow Of the Republic,
The murder Of the Due d'Enghien, the incarce-
ration of Touissant l. 0uverture, the divorce
Of Josephine, and the perfdiOus, execrable vii
lany Of which Ferdinand VII was lured out of
Spain by Napoleon as an ally, friend and guest.
10 be immured as State prisoner. If the
other despOts of Europe had been ten times the
miscreants Mr. Abbott represents them, their
crimes might obscure but could no wise justify
those of Napoleon BOnsparte.
5. So far from Napoeon's being universally
regarded By our elders as almost demon"
We believe he is and always has been TO 4 great
extent popular idol among US. He certainly
enjoyed the active sympathy through bis Im-
peria career and in his exile Of that party
which constituted majority Of our people.
He has far oftener been eulogized than repro
bated in our Orations, Speeches, Journals, &c
A msjority Of American compends of European
History will be found 10 speak faVOrably Of
him, though we trust not quite so extravaganty
as Mr.. Abbott does. But that our readers
may see how the great Military Despot is
spoken of by IA American who was no apollo
gist of any tyranny whatever, We give the fol-
lowing extract from CHAx-NGs essay on Ma
poleOn, viz
The next great event in B9napar-s history the
uFufpatou q he supreme power " the STATE ard me
es,sbhssment Of military desPotism over France On
The particulars Of this criminal act We have deaife %
enlarge nor anxious ~ ascertain whether our
hs.o or thu occasion lost BIZ courage and sfposIes-
s.op, g. be !. reported 70 have done. We are more
this outrage Liberty and justice For this crime bu.
one apology can be offered Napoleon Il u ssd seized
he rcins hen had be et them alp they would have
fallen into other hands He enslsved France az mo-
mcut when had he spared her she would have found
another yraHt Admitting the truth Of the plea what
ut tie reasoning Of Tie higtwaymsn who roos and
murders the traveller because the booty sbou be
'eed By another hand becapse another dagger was
ready % 30 the bloody deed We aware thar ,he
indi. naon viLh which regard thus crime III NaDo-
leon vii fnd response ~ few breasts Tor 70 he ul.
tifude throne Z temptation which virtue can be
evrectcd 20 Withstand But moral truth Il rnrn0vabe
sEads tn sophlsy dcuie, and ab eet Eeas0nlnxs Vi
meu, and The time ~ coms when l. Wl and meet
Ycice y give Iutrerznce OF al crnes against society
gsuTpal0n i the blackest he who Ets parricidsi |
hand sysihst his cOuntrys right and freedOu VINO
plants BIS ieos necks Of thirty mions OF his fel
low creatures VINO concentrates Ia hs angle hand tne
powers Of mighty empire and who wieljS "a powers
sgu-ndess IL treasures and pO,Is fortn H. blood ike
water 20 make other nations slAves the world hs
prey;sis man be mites al crimes IN his sanylius