New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-13

minister such truths
One word as 10 " the searching comments OF his
4" fees" Hazitt aud Napier were Engshmen, but
both ardent admirers Of Napoleon. the former his equal
IN srGshness and Lis ihickand-thn partisan through
ont though we think our Reverend euloglst has con-
,,,ved 10 rather exceed him Both were deadly enc
lies Of the Tory ascendancy in Great Britain which
fought against Napoleon reentessly, aud have doae
their best to cover it with odium. Quoting them In
ypdication of Napoleon as his en,ies is exactly Ike
quoting the elder Pitt or Col Barre on the justice OF
our Revolutionary struggle as the testimony OF our
enemies or quoting Federal snti-war speeches OF
lsl2-I4 as the testimony of enemies of Great Britain.
Vet this is fair specimen Of the candor evinced
throughout By Mr. Abbott.
Spaip in lsl2 was in good part overrnn by French
armies. which had crushed the undisciPned Hippo
yised uiseraby led Spanish forces in number OF baE
Ties Cadiz still held out; some OF the southern prov
iuces or ancient kingdoms were wholly or partially
free from the invaders presence and Wellington GOV
eriug Portugal with small but effective British ARM!
had lust taken the important fortress Of Bad,oz But
the fact that the Spanish nation was intensely all but
unanimously antiFrepch and snti-Bonaparte' was as
Notorious az the opening of 1912 IS ever aterward In
thi, crisis in full prospect of deadly conflict WITH
Russia Napoleon made osentatiOus Overures OF peace
70 Great Britain He was willing to fix the map OF
Europe as his sword had carved it, only he insisted
that all Spain must be given up and guaranteed to his
brother Joseph, who had not one hundred thousand
partisaus among the Ten Millions OF Spaniards Tie
British Cabinet refused to treat this basis indeed
they were bound in good faith TO do To have a0an'
doned Spain TO NapOeons tender mercies would have
been al act of treacley aud perady as base as ever
stained great nations annals Yet because England
could not and would thus prove false TO her most
solemn euQsgemeHts and surrender her sole remaining
ally 70 a foreign lespOtSm she abhOred' Abbott visits
her with clerical tLuuders as follows;
7Is 6sirc fer pacs must been aseir05ly strong
~ t 10 ON Of NeDo0a - have rendered it possible for
him thus perseveIngly 10 plead with his arrogant toes
Ueuas rttulsed nsuted treated with unbushing psr1dy
reuowedy asailed without warning SHi ytJor "e SAG
a svfrtng hafNaHg he Hercr ceaset 10 p0Te peace ne
wa, huay crushed by the onset Of million of oayoaets
His great art yielded 10 the agony OF ST Helena ana
en lie TIL mThsE foes piled upon the tomb OF theT VIC
tim The gull of their own deeds of aggression and blood
In consequence the noble OF Napoleon now IN the
mouths OF Thousands bat by word and mocNery-0ut
the ynOnNm tor blood fsrsness and EsQftaoe sm1toa
An act more ungeuerous than this earth has never wit
messed But God is just lie will yet lay Judgment to
'the line and righteousness to the plummet
One more extract mus; conclude this exposure. Alb
bot has repeatedly euogzed Napoleon as the great
2eiaoeratie chief" the king OF the commons the
champion of equality against privilege and
,peered at the Spanish HsrgeHi, = but, as the case
grows more desperate be lets out lick, and on page
IGl speaks of his IDOLS Russian campaign as the
" struggle OF Liberty against Despotsm, and IN the
same paragraph enumerates among his enemies the
"infurgents OF Spain and POrtHgat As Portugal had
by this time seen the back of the last French soldier
that ever tIod her SOIL and as there was not even
preteDte shadow of rule over her but that OF her
ancient kings, aud not French partisan among her
people We submit that our Reverend friend 10 here
cutting it rather 100 fat aud that the present French
despot onah to transfer his documents and his prom
ises to some pettOgger not entirely devoid of dis
cretion
One little year later saw NapoleOns colossal fabric
of power fatally undermined and lettering to its in
evitable fall-his veteran legions lying grim and
CHASTITY in the aises of those dreary Russian forests
where the frost bad transfixed and the SHOWS had
covered thern-hs allies deserted or wavering-and,
most formidable Of all. the nations he had hum
bled il bis pride now arOusing and mastering for his
incl overthrow. Let it never be forgotten that the
Kings were mpotent against the Man of Destiny until
the people rallied to bis Oyerthrow-until German
and SpauaTd went with Russ and Hun to compass his
downfall The mOnarchs afterward betrayed the
ssses and natched most of the fruits OF the
quest; for which let them be held to the sernest
reckoning; but let not this obscure the great truth
that Napoleon fell because he betrayed the sacred
cause of the nalienable Rights of Man, and eagued
himself with the Peoples hereditary oppressOrs, d.
vsrcing bis noble and faithful wife to inermarry with
aem lsboriDg personally to eradicate from the mind
of Alexander his Liberal impulses, reducing France to
a state of Asiatc despotism and the surrounding ma
tions to that of her conquests protesting an intense
horror of Jacobins," by which term he designated
oil earnest Republican,, though he had himself been
professor not merely of Republicansm but Of Jacobin
ism in bis obscure and powerless youth. When Napo
leon true character shall be inscribed his tomb
the awed Millions shall gather before i. and read
Here lies the thunderbolt the idol, the spoiled
81 child OF Democracy, who betrayed her to make him
self an Emperor, and died fettered aud heart
broken exile Let all who may hereafter be tempted
tc betray the cause of Human Liberty be waned by
his example,
CANAL ENLARGEMENT.
We have already pointed out the singular audacity