Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-03-18
France and England.

will represent the past Austria the present, Eng
land the future. France has gained all the glory
she requires for the prestige of her Austria
is now reaping her glory as mediator; England
who weak but strong. has her glory
yet to win" From which the French draw the
conclusion that the Times means that the Eng
lish ought not to make peace and that France Is
more the ally of Austria than OF England
That France should be content with occur
rences in the Crmea and therefore ready for
peace is very natural-and that Great Britain
should prefer an opportunity TO illustrate her
proves and exhibit her power, more efectually
than she has yet done, is an impulse Of pride as
common to nations as individuals. With these
variant feelings it would not be strange If the
conference now in session at Paris should de-
yelope want of harmony between England aud
France. which would have to be handled very
tenderly. to prevent its rupturing and annihila-
ting the forced friendship that has subsisted for
the last two years
In addition TO this. the world has not yet be-
come satisfied of the good faith of Louis Napo-
leon, or had satisfactory proof that be has not
been playing deep and comprehensive game,
Of which England is the dupe now and designed
TO be the victim hereafter. a wrong To be
righted, disgrace to be e1pupged--and that
wrong and disgrace Waterloo the chief
plank in the platform IF we may Ameri
canism) on which he was first elevated to power
by the French nation. is by means GER
tain that he has abandoned this Napoeonic mis-
sion. lie is cold, ariful, and profound dissem-
bier. His coup defat was planned with depth
of cunning and executed with force of
purpose, equal to anything of the sort of which
history furnishes an instance. Who can tell
what plans are being revolved in the impenetra-
BILE recesses of that dark, deep mind Who can
tell bat that the proud and hereditary foe Of
France, the conqueror, if not the murderer. of
the first Napoleon. may be the real object of
disguised and long delayed vengeance. Certain
ly. the war with Russia has presented some
very strange features. Almost entirely. il has
been planned and managed by the French En-
peror, aud yet there does not seem TO have been
any fixed purpose on the part of the invaders to
prosecute it to a decisive result 1t was he who
transferred the war from the Danube to the
Crimea, u movement most disastrous 10 England
1t was he who prevented the Allies following up
the victory so dearly gained at Sebastopol, and
thus preserved the Crimea a Russian province
These things may have had hidden purpose.
The originator of the war was he who proclaimed
that ''the Empire is peace'-the planner of the
Crimean campais IN was he who babe the allied
armies halt, when every sirntegist saw that the
Russians might be enoempassed to their destrnc-
ton. VIVA, were the motives which governed the
Emperor of the French He,he inheriior of the
Napoleon crown and the Napoleon wrongs, who,
as has been said by another, "in his dreadest hour
of gloom, whether in dungeon, or beset by pow
erty and vice, never sweryed from his belief that
he was destined to revive the glories of the En-
pire. still pursues as constantly plan tending to
end for after all the Empire is but the means
to.the end. Those who have studied closely the
career of Napoleon, must have marvelled NOR.
at what he has accomplished since he proclaimed
the Empire, than his cool conduct while rising tc
the throne. To attain the throne, he had but tC
periure himself, and use the many base creature,
around him; he Republic in France with
out Republicans he saw a vicious city like Pa
ris ruling large country; he had but to give tn,
Republic master to chastise Paris and banisl
her talking politicians. and the Empire was Sc
cured But to rise from the Emperor on suffer
anoe to the first potentate in Europe required ex
traordinsry skill. The new monarch stood iso
lated; he sought vainly wife among the petit
est German Courts; the English press teemet
with the fercest assaults on his crimes, desgna
ting him midnight assassin and perjured knave
even English statesmen, in their speeches, allu
= ded to him with disgust and loathing. The GA
Nicholas merely acknowledged the fact that h
had become Emperor; but scorned to address
him by any the titles which monarohs, i
friendship or in courtesy, apply to one another
Austria and Prussia. also. coldly distant i
their greetings ard each country kept CAREFUL
aloof from hm as though his touch were contam
nation. At this inopportune hour, the Empero
Nicholas thought abe time was come to carry GU
the hereditary rohey Of the successors of Pete
the Great, and advance against Constantpe. Eng
land loved not Turkey. bat feared for her India
possessions. and protested against the movement
Napoleon saw that this the hour for actor
and conceded with England and thus urged o
the war. Engand's old alliance with the North
teSn Powers was severed, and her only supper
became the man whose name she had sullied wit
every foul epithet, and whose ancestor she ha
tortured to death on the barren rock of st. Hele
ma. As the war spirit each day increased, Ma
poleon rose in the worlds estimation. and Eng
lands reputation diminished. The imperial ca
giles were once more soaring in triumph over Ell
rope; and Paris. which had sunk into city
dissipation, became once again the Capital of Ell
rope, and Napoleon its dictator. And now, whe
England has lost her army, and sulied her al
.cient renown, sand Russia has been compelled
expose the weakness of that navy which Pet,
the Great labored as shipwright to establis
NanOleon falks of peace Have tina defaata