Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-05-04
90 1t may be fairly assumed that if there eve


world for saying anything original that the original
observation offered would be untrue, general
thing, if not universally from the simple that
the first minds of all ages have been engaged in re-
searches into the realms of thought and expression to
such extent that every subject has been discussed
in every form, turned to every varying shade of
light and SO to speak, thoroughly exhausted, that
it only remains for to take materials out of the
general fund and use them for own purposes of
application to present circumstances. Aware OF this
fact we content ourselves with repeating the COM
mon remark that this is strange world that we live
in. where people constantly struggling and
jostng each other in the effort rather to than
TO be, and where appearances rather than facts in
great measure, control the world and the worlds
rulers
Now, there is Louis Napoleon, smart man enough
in his way who got into France, into the Presiden-
tial Chair, and finally into the Imperial authority by
a name prestige, trick, not by being great man
hmself-for nobody gave him credit for even COM
mon ability when he commenced his career-he
operated altogether by the outward show-the glare
and glitter of the Napo!eonic 1t was not the
individual Louis Napoleon that was elected-it was
the mere idea of the nephew to the Great Napoleon
kept SO constantly before the French people. was
in fact very pretty piece of humbug almost
worthy of Barnum himself.
But, however he got where he is, the fact Of
his being at present the most influential parsonage
in Western Europe is fully admitted as is also the
certainty that in the present Ango-French alliance
he is the main spoke in the wheel in which the Brit
ish Ministry figures only in a secondary capacity
These are the substantial facts of his position, and he
is as fully conscious of them and their value any
body But them after ALL he only parUenue, and,
like most parUenueS, he feels specially anxious to at
tain position, in act to get into soceyhe feels that,
although mankind recognizes the solid potentially
of him and his government, still the ton-the Kings
and Queens-the upper-ten-the peculiarly efete le-
climates have not recognized him in social way,
and, like as it was with Hannah, who could by no
means feel satisfied while Mordeca sat at the Kings
Gate, all is naught with Louis Napoleon until his
Royal Brethren :" take him into the charmed circle,
and their ladies on visiting terms with Mrs. Louis.
For this he would give god deal more than it is
worth, although in world of humbugs-not to say
a humbug of a world the power of combined cliquery
| is difficult to estimate.
| Sometime since few things were so much discussed
Louis Napoleon's journey 10 the Crimea, where he
was to fulfil his destiny. Whether the design Of
making such journey seriously entertained,
we cannot say hut even if it had been, something
far more important has interviewed to prevent any
such design from being carried into execution. The
momentous event is an invitation to Windsor Castle,
social recognition for the parUenue Emperor, and
his still more pGruenue wife, by the proudest Court
on earth. True, England's Queen is but a little,
dumpy, half crazy and fscrofulous nobody not to
be compared with the younger, more beautiful, and
more spirituele Eugene; true, her arms have been
thwarted, and her policy and administration become
ridiculous, but still, her own stupidity and that of
her ministers to boot, proves their high connec-
TONS" shows that they have nermarried in the most
Royal and arstocratc manner Therefore is Louis
Napoleon the happiest in Europe or elsewhere,
even if Sebas)pol be not taken He has got the en-
tree to Windsor Castle and is hereafter respectable
and licensed to he stupid as he pleases.
! This is one species of funkeyism rendered neces-
Sary by the meanness of mankind. 1t finds coun-
terpart of still grosser character in the of the
people and press of Great Britain, among whom the
now be-praised Emperor " our Royal Brother and
faithful ally" within the memory of the youngest
nhabtan held up or put down as most contempt
BILE nobody, but now he has made fortune, so 10
speak, anu lie Is very HULL vi d StHGeHldlI' 1He
London Times always trucuent and ferocous to the
weak is ready to fawn like spaniel upon the
man whom it formerly rdiculed while it vents lis
low spleen upon the Irish population in the United
States whom with its kno1Un devotion to the interests
of this country it hounds on the Know Nothing,
to prescribe and prosecute, because, first, of the
opposition to the Exeter Hall aboitonism, which
our loving cousins beyond the water look upon
l and truly, their most potent lever to operate
against their most growing and most dangerous
rival and because, in the second place, it wishes tt
excite such feeling in this country as will proven
the heos of British tyranny from escaping from hei
bonds, and swelling the population and increasing
the power of hated rival; and yet the party which
panders to these designs of British nslavery
deli<m assumes for itself the and the merits O
: exclusive Americanism' and men taken by thu
j bait, and humbug again rules the hour Who afte
all this. will dare 10 say word against humbug, thu
r mighty and invincible engine of modern times 2
: Humbug is not TO be sneeZed at. Like Diana th
e Ephesians, great is humbug, and greatly TO be go
: rifed.
e SOur Senior Partner, who rel oces in double bless
p edness, and who is certainly responsible person
: having five responsibilities senior partner
we repeat has reminded US of the fact that this is tn
it first of May, and further remarked that we shout
have something nice for the occasion. Now it is ev
t. dent that the is behind the age. May is oil
Y affair. AS old the hills, old Eden and innc
cence, old those long past days when little Abe
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