The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-12-16

The European nTephlstopheless
TRANSLATED from the Bellisle zeitung. ]

expressed and such manifold compare
sons been made as Of the man who has
run the long and terrible gauntlet from
poverty to the Tuileries. When M.
de Cesana, the editor of In Potrie, ex.
claimed on the morning after the coup
detat Of 1851 "CHsar may sleep
qnitely beneath the dome of the lnva-
liiles, for Augustus holds with strong
hands the rein Of bis empire, he threw
out comparison which the people
quickly took up, and which indeed was
not without foundation. Like that Of
Augustus, who took his popularity on
credit from his uncle, the majesty Of
the little Napoleon stands upon anoth-
er's glory. It is not his own desert ;
it is borrowed splendor And indeed
in character certain similarity cannot
be denied to exist between Augustus
Caesar and Louis Napoleon The sly,
heartless, cold, calculating, intriguing
Augustus, who sacrificed bis friends
to prescription, who had completely,
ruined himself by debaucheries 10 his
youth, and to whom every means Of
attaining an end was acceptable, has
certainly points of similarity with the
hero Of the I'd December. Not until
he was old did Augustus become elem
ent and in this respect Mr.. Napoleon
will probably carry out the plagiarism
to The end On the whole,in Louis Ma
poleon certain Merhistophclean eIo
ment cannot be overlooked.
His very appearance--the dead,
cold face, with the great moustache,
which hides every smile, as did tho
Duke Of Alba's-this face, which is at
most now and then moved by mali
cious compression of the lips, gives Mr.
Bonapart a right to the name Of Me
phistopheles, which be has earned by
bis conduct towards bis enemies, and
his frionds--the English aristoeracv
A man who for years and years has NJ
lowed himself to be treated as a moon
calf, as an imbecIle-who during cabi-
net councils draws figures of horses
and men on the documents, and then
after all carries out his own villa
man who adopts any and every means,
even the most abhorrent, when it leads
him to his object-an actor who plays
his part so tboroughly-may well be
represented as the principle Of evil
When after the comp detot the so
called parliamentary generals were Ia
ken to the prison at Ham, Nlephisto-
pheles Napoleon took care that Bully
Changarnier should be boIted into the
same cell that Louis Napoleon had oc-
cupled years before. His marriage
with SenortJa Montijo, his bitter re
marks in relation to the past connec- .
ton of the French Emperor with
princesses and reigning houses, the
cold bIooded revenge which he took,
on the Orleans family and above ALL
his conduct towards England, show a
purely Mephistophelean nature
The aristoeracy which would not
endure the bankrupt loafer, Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte, in their parIors.
are now too happy to swell the train
Of the fortunate adventurer The vir-
tuous Queen whose aristocratic tastes
are known throughout all Europe, is
compelled to submit to the kisses Of a
roue, who wherever he lived
in exile had the reputation Of being
by no means fastidious in his associa-
tons Surely there is grand retribu-
ton in the late performances, IN which
Louis Napoleon allowed the English
arstocracy, nay even the Queen her
self to figure, as decoration We will
DOT now point out the Mcphistophelean
service which he has done his dear
Allies in the Crimea by exposing
their military weakness, especially the
powcrlessness Of England. 1t must
often appear as though he had the
intention Of reducing them to depen--
lence. Add to that, the cold bloodedi
barbarity which he ever manifests to-
wards all real Republicans, over whom'
ne can in any way bring his power,
o bear, and in Louis Napoleon, one
cannot fail to recognize European,
Louis Napoleon is
he principle which, denying tho past.
its, like mountain upon the freedom
If Europe.