The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-06-20
THE DAILY DISPATCH
S-.--s.v NIovrius. June 20, 1897.
Louis NapoleOn.

Saturday Nlerntue, June go, aoos.
Leuis Napoleon.
"Iroeasv sits the head that wears crown" IL
Ior,s NAPOLEON is an exception to this truth us
because bis impsrturbable and impressive ns'"r.,
and hs. firm faith in fataism have 'rhrice armed
him in . coat Of mail against the suseeS'on' "
fear and anxiety, which the signs OF ".
around him would arouse In any ord'na's
His stately and seemir gly impresnao,e ''e
of pcwer is built upon volcanic sfo""'' 49,.
and anon the subterrauesn fires. tn'"en '.ey w
not shake the foundations of bis THRONE S'"u 'o'
dismal meanings and start up suf'' h~hies' s's"'"
cant Of . coming eruption ~" "oy 81
years since the renarkaoie re'o'u',VA
brought Louis Napoleon into po"e'' anu 70.
10 the usual length Of q French fe'su' iu 'Ae
aor of h,s rr,e In the grand administrative quaii'
ties he has so Unexpectedly displayed Ah' ',o
.,.r,, >, xbich he has exalted France, the world
Al large has forgotten the deliberate PERJURY Apo
hIoodv violence by which he attained his sceptre
But there are memories In France which treasurer up
his auciest deeds treachery and massaeres req
publicans who thirst for vengeance and TOT power
Iegitimists who never cease their intirigues 70
reinstate q line of hereditary biockheads; I'M
quiet spirits who long only for change, and ansr-
chsts and mobocrats who are eager to wreck the
ship of state so that they may carouse in the liquor
hold and plumber the cargo There Is said to De
At least organized society In France, the mem"
bers of which have to take the life OF Louis
Napoleon whenever an opportunity presents. Ae'
cording TO the Paris correspondent OF the LONDON
Morning Post, the police upon the constant
lookout for these would be regicides. The menu
bers Of the society are TO be found 10 LONDON
Paris, Vienna, and one or two other European
cities, and their vows of assassination are said to
extend to other crowned heads besides the Empe-
Tor of the French. According to an account be-
fore US, they pledged to strike at the first op.
portunity and without communicating their plans
even to their associates. The failure of one is
not to interfere with the determination Of another
Pianori, who was some time siace executed, ad.
mitted this condition of affairs and iguominiousy
persisted, without revealing the name of single
confederate A late letter says:
within the last few days the police of Paris dis
covered a ripened plot TO kill the Emperor, and
thirty one persons were arrested accordingly
From the interrogatories which have taken place,
1t appears some of these persons held commurica-
lions with the foreign secret society III London -
They are mostly men in humble positions, and the
chief actor of the plot In question is = dyer from
Lyons / am not able to give you the precise
crime. but is not true that they had nearly sue
ceeded in their object. No doubt other attempts
will follow until this faction have one by one
fallen into the hands of the police Every day re-
du ces their M mbers Nevertheless, no one can
help calculating on possibilities"
The members of this society are probably ia
na:ics, but they not on that account the less
dangerous, There are Others however, more ra-
tional and respectable, who owe Napoleon a
CrUdpo which aojca IN feod fat IF NOT
in his assassination, In his ignominious expulsion
rom France. The feTocious Ledru Rollins at one
extreme and the adherents of the absurd Bour
bons at the other, would alike delight il bis over
throw. There are three parties in France, tie
Bourbonists, the Red Repub 'icans and the Mode
rate Republicans, all OF whom look upon the i'm
perisl head of the Napoleonists with an evil eye
Probably none of these factions would be more
grasifed by his downfall than the legitimsts, moi
only France but throughout all Europe. The
overthrow Of q Napoleon would be In Itself 8
sweet morsel, but that which would contribute n
once to their delight and to their substantial bene
fit, would be the expulsion from the throne of q
ruler who has, formally at least, been chosen by
the people, who announces himself as the repre-
sentative of the democratic principle, and avows
that bis government is = government of the PEG
Pio IuliuB IN DIS person. IAe 2ssasSln&HOn, Of
the reinforcement of such a ruler, one who has
proved himself wiser, stronger and more success
full prince than all the hereditary monarchs of Eu-
rope together, and the consequent commissions and
anarchy which would easue in France, bringing
eternal discredit and ruin on the liberal cause in
the Old World, would be boon to absolutism,
which, unless 1t has much improved in morals and
character, it would pay the ransom of a hundred
kings to see accomplished. We hope these mali.
cious desires and plots may be signally frustrated
Napoleon Is strong in he affections of the French
people his rule is wise, liberal and benefcent
and there Is his government an outward show Of
recognition of the sovereignty of the people which
is pleasing to republican eyes His death would
inv olive France in confusion and carnage dire, and
all Europe in uproar. France Is not wise enough
for Republic; she ia too wise for abeolutism she
has just the government that suits her character
and wants, a master, and, at the same time, one
whom she has at least gone through the form Of
choosing. There fore we say, Vive Napoleon