New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-29
CANADA AND NAPOLEON.


cannot get lid Of good for. nothing President
under four years, therefore We should have him for
life, hereditary honor and imsecility included,
has further distinguished himself by sending TO
Louis Napoleon the Address of the Legislative
Council and Assembly Of Canada to the Queen Of
England, soliciting permission to contribute to
the Patriotic Fund for tho rolief of tho wounded
of both the Allied armies, and has received, In
reply. an imperial note of ttsnts aud compli-
ments to the good people Of Canada. Nov, con
tributipg to the Patriotic FsLd Of England 10 one
thing, but undergoing tho thanks of L0ois Napo-
leon 10 another, and more, we take it, than our
Canadian friends b,rgained for.
There Is certainly such thing in this world ~
fidelity to promises, and out of it grow all the
realities of life. n the promises of nature, man
forms all his plans; he so~s, kno wing th,t the
promised sun will ripen bis crops; be provides
against heat and cold and hunger and danger, By
the promises of the laws of the universe. There
10 something sublime in the mere contemplation
of these unievistipg rules. and all history is
msnIy varied by the greater or less perception of
the ne COSTLY of initiating the law eternal which
deceive not So absolutely dependent is society
for its existeace on the dominance Of truth, tbs
all known codes punish severely its infraction,
when 1t takes the form Of perjury. Among the
ancient Eeytiars perjury was punished with
deAth the earliest kno IN ofcivilizei people thus
having arrived ct the conclusion that word
passed, and hedged In with the solemoites and
saBctites of legal provisions, or In other words,
having taken serious public form, could not be
violated without rendering the viOlstor danger
row prevails, but still the blood of the public
heart thickens with horror al Q clear case Of
perjury.
There 10 In perjury. properly spsaking, NJ de-
gree, one kind being bad a. another; but % far
a. finite perceptions can reach, there 10 some
perjury moro sccursed from the power it coufers
on the perjurer. OF this Kind, certainly beyond
parallel in this generation IL the perjury of Louis
Napoleon. II 10 too base for characterize lion 10
plain phraseology To blast 1t TO ts fitting deep,
requires the vast tragic feeling dsplayed 10 az
Escbylss. when curses came leapins hot from the
Furies. Letus consider.
A vag sbond-a thing not allowed, on virtue Of
his blood, to enter France-Louis Napoleon bat
tered about Europe and America One bright
morning in le4s, the republicans Of Paris, wish
much bloodshed-e.even thousand corpses were
hesped around the Kings palsee-drove out roy
alty ard established . republic in name, aud ca
psble Of being rendered one In fact. The
instant this was extraordinarily had the Pro-
visional Government met 10 the Hotel de Vile,
before Louis Napoleon wrote letter, published
in the French newspapers, congrstulating the
people on their success, and expressing his en-
tire devotion to the principles of liberty and
equality. There were at that time none Of the
imperial or royal brood admitted to France, and
the question came before the Assembly on their
meeting, whether any Of them, under suy pre-.
tense, should be admitted to France whether
seitators and scoundrels By profession-sho
be suffered to come into the bosom Of the family
of newborn frseioa-whether the serpent
should be placed in tao cradle with the babe, or
the wolf let into the fold with the lamb.
To the credit of the heart and the discredit
of the head Of tho French nation, they
have In their Wild times Of revolution, before
tiey were hshsa 10 frsuy By the maehinatsns Of