Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-09-24
Victoria at Napoleon,s Tomb.

Could Waterloo's dead rlse from their warrior
graves, aud see the Queen OF Great Britain a
mourner at the tomb of Eng.ands most dreaded
foe, well might each of these Slaughtered thous-
ands eAcInm
''This is as strange thing as e'er looked On.''
In speaking of Victoria's visit to the tomb oil
Napoleon, on the occasion of her late tour 10 Pa
ris, correspondent of the New York Commit rciaI
says
This, from the Queen of England. is the most
remarkable Circumstance OF her visit. jerome
Bonaparte, guardian of his bIotberS ashes, had by
an excess, almost by an atfectation Of deicacy,
been sent away from Paris, that it might not be
imagined, from his presence, that the Emperor in
any way expected the Queen would visit the mau-
Soleum of the enemy and the victim of England.
The 'MOnteur' this morning has very ConSpicu-
GUS paragraph upon the moral significance oil this
visit. RumOr has it that the two Soyereigns, on
arriving at the crypt, threw themselves Iuto each
others arms!
The reader, in looking back upon European
history for the last half century, cannot but be
struck by what, to mental vision, looks like USE
less sacrifice Of blood and treasure. What may
be the reflections of the oppressed masses of Eng
lands sons, whose native lunL lies in the impen-
TABLE shadow OF huge National Debt created by
the enormous expenditure OF money in fighting
Napoleon |, we do not know. Twenty years age
England by Etrick the stain OF which is not vel
washed out, sent Napoleon as prisoner to the Is
land OF St. Helena; there the chained Emperor
died and was buried. On the prison ship which
conveyed the royal prisoner to living tomb. Eng
lands naval officers, in obedience 10 their Kings
command, would not award Napoleon his title oil
Emperor. Trea:ed like all usuTper, hunted dow Il
ike beast, confined like brute, cheated like a
blackleg. that great warrior was imprisoned or
the ocean washed rock, and not until England
supposed the memory Of the man was well Nigh
forgotten, did she even grant the poor privilege OIL
burial in the soil Of his loved France.
Now the Queen of England invests the present
French Emperor, who under monlrchaI law is the
veriest usurper alive, with royal order; visits in
state the French capital; aud, stranger than all,
weePS over the ashes Of England's great foe. Such
things ale passing strange. Napoleon l asked un
alliance with England against Europe, aud in par
tlcuar against Russia. II was not only refused,
but the bIoolest war on record resulted in The
overthrow, through English power and influence,
OF the so Illed preteuder to the French Throne.
Napoleon Ill, however receives the royal kiss, is
hal.ed as Emperor, aud the very allianca refused
the CucIe is granted 10 the Nephew. All this is
forced upon the British cTowr, but II is tempor-
ny expedient to uphold what there is Jeff Of mon
aEchy. Thinking men must see that the arts Of
the demagogue could DIT Scend no lower than do S
the Queen Of England in this recognition Of Ma
poleon Ill. as EmperUre, aud that the crowned
head IS US easily turned by uTce Of public opinion,
as is that OF any nan whose place lies i'll the gift
of the masses. The English people feel then
power, and hereafter woe to their crowned head
which uare reuse their demands.