New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-15

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were all Of purity and peace; Of One who eshOrtcd
his followers 10 90 justice, love mercy and waiA
hunby before GOd-to love, hkewise, thesr
neighbors as themselves; Of One who said, Blessed
are the peacemakers. There ia periodical
called HGrpers Magazine made up partly OF original
contributions and partly Of matter taken without
credit from English journals Among the leading
original contributors to this motley monthly, Is
this Reverend John S. c. Abbott.
BY the fathomess edict OF the Eternal. the world
was seourged with Napoleon Bonaparte. To him
essential justice, mercy. humility love of his neigh
Dor and love of peace were unknown In bis idea.
the products OF peace were but given for tho re-
sources of war; and his Code and his industrial and
commercial policy were simply ministrsnt to his
central idea-gory-s nation OF soldiers cont
pent of men observation-disclosures and duty meas
ured by the harsh burr of the drum-and he Elm
ueror of emperors and King of kings. Through
force and fraud he achieved dominion over his feb
low.men At the point OF the bayonet he drove his
country's legal representatives from their Legisia-
tive hall. and then, in the midst OF the disorder
aud anarchy caused by the destruction of tho gov
erument, be ascended 10 power-caiming to incar-
nate France in hmself-and necessarily wrecking
Ler in poverty and defeat by his illogical and
cruel selfshness. To him, even a short period OF
peace was tresOme, and as his own Minister, the
Able de Pradt, relates, he said This repose Ia
"wearsome Lennuyantl; must make war upon
"somebody: | will make it on Prussia. -Four
millions OF men stood between him and tho con-
Inuance Of his dynasty. Their lie-treasure WA
to him as dust; their death-pshaw Down they
we're hewed; and all the empires became common
cemetery of soldiers. He was Great-all head
and no heart. Then, too, he had good luck; above
all was this shown in his passing through multitu-
dnous dangers unframed. This element, luck.
was, perhaps, the choicest in compromising Napo-
Icons greatness" other such monsters have
lived and attempted their appointed work. mono
lived so long.
The mission of this Christian minister-she
Reverend John 3. &. Abbott-appears to have
been the authorship Of a History Of Napoieo~.
which was brought before the public in the pages
| OF the aforesaid magazine. The aim Of tho row
erend gentleman was to paint Napoleon Bonaparte
| as model of genus, talents, patriotism and all
the yirtues-tO hold him up for the admiration and
imitation Of American youth; and this, though
any reader of authentic Napoleonic history Snows
that in tho The Memoirs Of Lusies BOnoparte, his
own brother states that the Government sent him
on the bloody insane, numbering poisoning expc-
dition to Egypt simply and exclusively to avoid
| his ambition at home, and he rewarded them, on
escaping from gnomnious defeat abroad, by usurp-
ing power at home through the aid Of his vetcr-
| ans models of mechanical obedience. This inia-
nous literary hash Of falsehood on Napoleon 10
nut forth, though in the st. Helena Conversations
| Napoleon, HIMSELF acknowledges that he lost his
"moral character " BY the invasion Of Spain--an
invasion, be it remembered, followed up stimuli
! taneOusly with that Of Russia-the greatest mas
tragedy that the national slaugbter-house litera-
ture Of all epochs recites-an INVASION too. undsr-
taken in defiance of the opinion OF bis ablest states,
man. Talleyrand, and of his most trenchant sabresr.
| New. This attempt to debauch the American
youthful mind was properly exposed from time 10
time in our columns as it went on. The subject
would not have been deemed worth recurring ~,
but for the extraordinary correspondence, In con-
nection with the presentation, through the Amer-
Gun VI a giit CVpy VI this Noih W tno
reverend author to the usurper who now rules
France, and the reception of gold medal in return.
to which, with passing comment, we gave place
in our columns few days since.
In that correspondence we have tho humiliating
spectacle OF an American clergyman, q technical
republican, while occupied with the literary labor
OF bedaubing and beqldiDg the memory Of one Im-
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man to selfgovernment, and aimed 10 make the
face of the earth one slave plantation at the same
time yoyaging to France to pay court to another
Imperial criminal, different only in degree and not
in kind; and, like any court toady, crawling in
slime up TO the imperial fOotstool. Next we have
an American Minister Plenipotentiary aiding the
clergyman in hs dirty work; presenting the Life
of Napoleon l., with puff of the subject and the
author, to Napoleon Ill, and receiving the reply,
not from him. but from his lacquey's lacquey
But this will not excite surprise. American Min
listers having nothing else to do at foreign courts
are too apt to employ their time in degrading and
disgracng the republican name.
Napoleon Bonaparte, the model set up by this
reverend historian, found an imtator in bis real or
pseudo nephew Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, who
doubtless is eqay the object of this pious clergy
mans generation. Having, as the correspondence
shows, been youchsafed the priceless honor" Of
an "audienee partieulitre" by that incarnation Of
virtue snd received probably from those truthful
imperial lips authentic scraps Of personal history,
the scrupulous Abbott will perhaps soon favor ths
world and the rest Of mankind with Life Of tho
f,lI truth nd AZ If tha
uncle for which he has received the golden token Of