New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-05
IMPERIAL CLEMRNCY.


the RI publican exiles back to France if they will
only take the necessary Oaths Of loyalty. The
birth of the imperial heir is made the reason of
this benign swinde. Landlord" wrote an old
TOPPER as he was running away without pay ing
huge score, " Landlord | forgive you the debt
owe you" The forgiveness of Louis Bona
parte bestowed OF the men to whose good nature
be was indebted for the Presidency-of the men
whom, having perjured himself, he betrayed and
drove by thousands into exile, while he murdered
by thousands their friends and brothers He runs
IL their debt deeper than his neck in the hangmsns
moose could pay for, and he forgives them
Tie lessons of the Nemesis of democracy were
never more necessary Of remembrance than at this
| moment, when the murderer and perjurer plays the
doye-eyed apostle, and adds vllainous cant to his
former vices and crimes. The most beggary aud
mslign deceit Of his whole programme is making
the common order Of maternity-the mystery BY
which the feminine character is perfected and her
destiny achieved in giving birth to humanity, and
herce all manhood and w0manhOOd even among
savsees and barbarians sympathiziDg with her
making this political speciality, gorgeous means
for privileged sen illustration, grant exhibition
Of pbanthropic burcombism. heavy curse on
such betrsyas of man with kiss 1t is the old
game Teeming women is humbuggtd into seeing
herself represented in Queen. She is fattered,
because the antique law of CESSATION and parturi-
ton is not modified or abolished to suit the higher
orders, and that Sevres clay has to be exhumed and
nodded like common pOtter's material. The birth
of prince-of the head-bOy of the national
scbool-of the sovereign in Posse-is SUPERB nj
nenty the occasion when monarchcal charatans
demand and receive their usurious interest from
the open-handed people.
But we cannot forget that this child is the SYM
Dol of perjury, robbery and murder. We should
not then be blinded with any disper-sentimental-
isns. We have the same sympathy with the En-
press Eugene that we have with a woman who
marries successful, red-handed, back-hearted
criminal. None Of the poetcal eternities which
halo the birth of a newborn babe-none of the
chapters from the feast of innOcence-none of the
wOmanly ectaees of travail consummated and the
glory of new life evolved, can wash out the
damned spot. Blood is there: the blood of French
Warrens, and WashiDgtons, and Marions and
Schuylers of the men not alone of France-not of
Europc-not of this century, but of the world and
ofall time. For if the national heart of this coun-
try did not leap upwhen it beheld the new rainbow
Of French liberty in the sky, and did not sink when
the night of her despotism came, then are we unfit
for freedom.
We cannot, therefore, as a nation holding morals
above those of pirates, allow the rock-a-bye-
isms of any woman to erase the claims Of higher
humanity-ofa humanity expressed in the Declare
ton of Independence, and sanctioned by the tears
and blood of our revolutionary struggle. 1t is
indeed, cause for shame that the sucking fetish
of royalty yet insults the common sense and COM
mon honor of mankind. We must stand abashed
when we contemplate that the sublime arch with
which the genius of the American Fulton spanned
the ocean, now carries to this latitude of new and
fragrant thoughts such repetition OF musty folles,
to extiDguish which, the guotne's knife cleaved
the neck of privilege. We feel ashamed that this
age which produces new things, which, under the
laws Of positive science, is reversing the old creeds
of slavery and poverty, should so repeat the Yer
sailles farce
All the tendencies to peace which, we aver exist
in France equally with any other nation-all the
prOcliyities to unchecked industry which the people
Ofthat land invariably exhibit, whenever permitted
to do so by the equestrian mountebanks of the
Tuieries-all the marvels of labor saving ma
chipery which penetrate whatever country of
Europe as surely as the rivers tide will ebb and
lOw-all the bounding of the nations to fraternity
and liberty-these all now are COMPOUNDED by i'm
perial parasites and their echoes in England and
even herewith the police of Louis NspoeOn;-it
is he who has vivifed trade, opened mines, whrred
shuttles, built whole faubourgs perfected economi
col schemes and Gained society-and now, too, the
political Emmanuel is born-ap pledge of sacredlove,
link in the golden chain of civic security, har.
binger of Gallo glory greater than prophecy has
dared to suggest
The old, old story, this. The King can do no
wrong. The King builds the cities and enlarges
and enriches the State; and the people, where are
they Even their brains are knocked out when
they are mentioned at ALL Heads they have not;
they are only "hands." Nothing for the masses
nothing for an idea; ever symbolism incarnation
"a kiDg-an emperor Such is the philosophy of
those who can see aught in Louis Napoleon but
criminal adventurer, riding on the topmost wave of
the Capitalization which the armed rabbe of kings
forced on France during her great Revolution as
means of defense, ard which custom has held her
to since. Such is the philosophy of those who can
look with patience at the so-called imperial Glenn
ency on the birth of an heir to the throne; and
who can see in the relations Of the Empress Eugene
shy other than those of woman, who bought emi-
nence at the price of union with heartless poiti-