Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-21

discuss their wrongs when they are forbidden
to meet publicly. In countries where the gov
ernment emanates from the people, changes of
government are brought about by legal and
constitutional means but when the people
have no political existence, where the right of
speech is denied them, and the press is shack
led, such association necessarily takes form
which menaces the existence Of government
ITSELF and one too often inimical to social or
der.
Moreau was too scrnpulous for his situation
in the confederacy. He was hostile to Bona
parte, but his private feelings were kept under
by public considerations. Of Cadondal, who
proposed assassination to him, he said, don't
bring that man again to me-" and when his
officers and former associates in arms as he
passed to trial through piles of soIdiery, laid
their hands upon their swords and whispered
General, do you want us p he replied, "No
do not like blood"
At later period, after suffering several
years of exile, and when the persecution or
expatriation of himself had been extended to
principal member OF his family by the refusal
of Bonaparte to permit Madame Moreau to
land upon the French Coast on a visit to her
mother, be felt sense of the injury and the
injustice. which he freely expressed, and which
may have had an influence in determining him
to take the ungracious, if not disloyal, part of
uniting with the allies OF Dresden He had
the misfortune also, not long previous to lose
his house at Morrsville by fire, and with his
house, what he considered to be of more i'm
portance, papers which he greatly valued and
could not replace. These calsmities, if not in
consequence of his exile, were yet not of d sort
to reconcile him the better to its continuance.
But his motives for going abroad, as he did
not live to carry out his plans, can never be
accurately known. 1t is easy to suppose that
he would make distinction between taking
part against France and taking part against
his personal enemy, whom he considered also
to be the tyrant of his native land, and in this
estimate Of the French ruler he had not only
all Europe, other than France, to agree with
him, but, as is most probable, large party in
France itself also. He may have supposed
too that he could make better terms for France
at the head of the allied armies, than France.
in case Of her reverse, could make without
him.
The foregoing paragraphs, with some chan
ges and some additions, have been taken from
an interesting article upon secret societies of
Modern Europe, Since preparing them,
have seen what purports to have been a con-
versation between Moreau and Sir Robert
Wilson the evening before the battle of Dres-
den. The conversation seems very probable,
and corroborates some of the conjectures whic b
have been hszarded above
Wilson" said Moreau, "you and are
foreigners, and l can talk with you freely.
feel badly about the battle of tomorrow. |
fear it will be disastrous I have been here
but little while, and have not become we'll
acquainted with this large army from different
nations. have not got hold of il. Then
am embarrassed by the presence of these mou-
archs. think that know how to command,
but do not feel free to act without consult
ing them, and they are not military men. In
the next place. / have the appearance of fight
ing against France, which no Frenchman likes.
God knows. am not fighting against France
but against the tyrant that rules that coun-
try But most of all am troubled, because
| know that to morrow shall have to CON-
maud against a man who will anticipate every
movement which shall make can not make
movement with this army which Bouaparte
will not know Us well as do that am going
to make, unless it be a movement ought not
to make, and which, therefore as a military
man will not make"
This was a compliment surely to the militia
ry genius of Napoleon, expressed in few words
by capable judge and, together with what
precedes it, is akin to q remark made also by
Moreau, and related BY Mr. Rush in his memo
randa of q residence at the Court ofSt James.
The remark Of Mr.. Rush is this that he once
heard General Moreau say that " the fault of
most commanders, however brave, was back
wardness in taking the last step to bring on
battle, especially when armies were large, aris-
ing from deep moral anxiety. and, after all the
uncertainties Of the issue The Duke of Wei
lingtou said it was just remark
The battle of Dresden took place, and the
allies were repulsed, the fall of Moreau during
the action diseoncertiug, perhaps. the plan of
it, aud contributing, probably. to what he fore
saw would be the result The shot struck him
on the left thigh, just above the knee and pas
sing through the horse shattered the right limb
also. In an instant he exclaimed, as the horse