New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-03


THE HEIR OF THE NEPHEW.
II has long since been noted that the most ex-
trayagant fanacism is not in the slightest degree
incompatible with the utmost shrewdness and cool
medicines in the practical management of affairs.
The history of England during the period of the
grand Rebellion and the Commonwealth presents
mapy instances of that Sort Oliver Cromwell and
Sir Harry Vane were examples which will occur
TO every body of this strange and apparently incOm
patible mixture Of willy wisdom creeping cautiously
on the ground, and availing tself with instructive
insinuation of even the smallest possible creyces
through which to find way to its objects, with
perfectly empyrean fancy soaring far above the nth
heaven, and seeming utterly to set at de.
fance all mere terrestrial considerations.
This combination, however, of gaseous and earthly
elements is by no means so uncommon that it is
necessary to go back two hundred years to find
specimens of it. 1t is exhibited to-day in the full
est perfection, by two very noted and well-knOwn
indiyiduals--One the apostle of new faith, the
other the founder of new empire-by Brigham
Young at Salt Lake City, by Louis Napoleon at
Paris.
The fanatacism Of Louis Napoleon seems to have
two great obects-frstly, his uncle, and secondly,
hipself-hs uncle as the "guide, philosopher and
friend" ray, more; as the genius, the deity, the
household god, the Inspiring Demon who is to be
the sole dictator of the nephe whole life and con-
duet. and the model after which he is to shape him.
self and all his actons-himself as being as it were
the fated complement of that deifed uncle designed
to reproduce him, and to make complete aud I'M
ending, by another half circle precisely similar to
that which the uncle described the destioy OF France
and the fortunes and glory of the Bonaparte family.
Hence that spirit Of servile imitation carried out
in all the Court arrangements of the new Emperor,
and especially exhibited in the details, of which the
papers are just now fall, of the ceremonies attend
ing the birth Of his sOn-ceremOnies which he bOr-
rows from those made use of at the time of the
birth of the sO-called King of the Romans and
which the first Napoleon borrowed from the usages
of the Bourbons and other ancient Royal families
of Europe.
But while Louis Napoleon mystifeS himself and
the French peOple-amOng whom the idolatrous
fanaticism of which he is the grea. highpriest is
so widely diffused-with this extreme Difference to
and imitation Of the frst Napoleon as to external
forms and outside shews, it is also to be noted
aud herein consists the display of his worldly wis
dom and the secret Of his success-that as to the
subs lance of his administration he pursues policy
totally different from, andn most respects diametri-
caly opposite to that of the uncle, of whom be puts
himself forth as the imitator and the reproduction
To the first Napoleon, France was nothing but
a place to stand upon from which TO move the
world. His whole imperial life from its beginning
TO its cod, was spent in efforts to overthrow the
power and PROSTATE the independence OF Great Brit
ain. Thepresent Napoleon does not look beyond
France. His whole foreign policy is adopted not so
much with view to its results abroad as TO its
reaction at home; while in seeking above all things
the alliance and good will of England it would
seem as though the new Emperor however anxious
to reproduce his uncle as he appeared at christen
ings and on such like occasions has not the least
inclination TO complete the copy by ending his ca
reer in the prison of st. Helena.
So much the better for the peace and happiness
of the world. We do not profess to be great ad-
mirers of the present Napoleon any more than of
the former one; but as TO these matters, the Em-
peror that is, appears to us very decided improve
ment upon the Emperor that was-an improvement
due in part, perhaps to the different temper of the
man, but much more 10 the different temper of the
times. And so as to the domestic administration
Of France the hrst Napoleon governed his Empire
precisely upon the principles upon which South
Carolina cOttonplanter manages his plantation. II
was his wishes interests or supposed interests and
ideas that were alone consulted, not in the least
thOsc of his subjects-or at least they were consult
ed only so far as by cosxing and managing them, he
might get The most out of them for bis own pur-
poses. The wishes and idess Of the industrious
and productive classes of France were especially
those which the first Napoleon treated With the
most total aud contemptuous disregard. He never
concealed bis opinion that shopkeepers were 8
sort of folks who had no business 10 presume TO
NEEDLE in any way with politics.
On the other hand, it cannot be denied that even
in large part Of bis most tyraRaical actions the