New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-24


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7 1lUs NAPOLEON AND TIE COMING
WAR-PROUDHON AND HIS EOOK.
cerrs,pcrdencs Of ID. y. Y. Trlpne.
LONDON, June 10, '1j-.
You viii ob.eryc BY tie t9Be OF The Lor5oH Times
that the English sre ee,iOg terribly alarmed atLou'
Nap lcoa's proportions FOR war. The cf'ad Il
rcllmg 70 black and Den4ciDg every one sses taa''
Bat speculation is endless Sc - where il VII hfst
Discharge i.selE The Eoglish in Frame, as gen
e-.l hing, have very little doubt, think, hat if
LOUIS Napoleon saw the siigstest chance opsh to
humb'e England, he would seize i. with ynfa.:e
,acrity, in spite of thousand beartess tl,aucss.
Add the English al hoG.s are b3 10 means sure that
such chance does not exist, in the s!endorness OF
Their defensive arrangements. LORD PalneFstoD
behaved 30 badly to the soldiers and saors enlisted
for the Crimes, especially the later, IA cheating
them, under ya:i lus pretenses, Of tber prom sed
bouufy.rnoney, that it is now almost impossible to
man the Channel feet; and grave citizens say here
upon that if Louis Napoleon he tempted to
invade England, Lord Palmerston will richly
deserve to mount Tower Hill. Bot ] can't
believe that Louis, desperate as bis for
tunes unqucstionably are, seriously contem-
plates that step. lie wOuj, no doubt, take y 10Y
fully If he saw reasonable chance of gaining even
Il temporary advantage. But he can't be certain
Of this. In the first place, every movement at
CherbOuTg is inte0tly watched. In the next place,
England is covered with a network OF railroads,
permitting the transfer of force from one point 10
sny other with the greatest expedition. In tne
third place there is an army OF near t1ir,y th0I'
sand men in admirable fighting trim at Aldershot,
II l. not. ali for fVa mo
their own number attempting to l0Dd. But
fcurtby and finally every man and woman
and child in England would enlist IN ths
quarrel with so much stomach that the SIMPLE
pressure of their OverpOWerlDg masses would DE
sure to crush to death any force winch might DC
hurled against them. For these and my otneT ped
sons il seems to very unlikely that the En-
peTOr intends any direct assault upon England
Many persons think that he IL going to seize on
Belgium; many that he is going, in concert with
Sardinia to drive the Austrians from Italy, and at
terwsrd appropriate the glorious prize 70 the needs
Of bis own dynasty. But the only thing ono feels
sure Of IT, that nothing can be satisfactorily guessed
Of a power go essentially brigand in its own nature
ard appendages, and which thrives only by GLIDING
all rational prOgnostic.
You remember that Emile de Girardin's old pa
per, La PresSe, which now belongs 70 NJ. Miilaud,
the banker, and in part, it is said to Prince Napo-
leon, was suspended last Winter for two months, III
consequence of all article emanating from the pen
Of a NJ Peyrat one of the old revolutionary stan
of that paper. When the paper reappearcd, il
bad dropped all these old used-up politicians, and
displayed instead a corps of writer's who talked,
strange TO say the frankest socialism and were not
afraid to pledge the Empire to it, These men have
rot hesitated to say, day by day, that the problem
Of government at present is the elevation Of the
prolefariat, is the elimination of poverty as a ea-
lure of human society is in fact the bringing OF
every man. woman and child into the sunshine OF
an equal social recognition, giving everybody an
field for the display OF his distinctive
or genius. L supposed, OF course,
tina. these pretensions would be instantly disayowed
by the Government, and the paper again sent to
Coventry: but no. it goes on untouched, repeating
the same doctrine and broadly duplicating the Gov
eminent sympathy in it. Certainly this is curl
Gus fact Another is that this paper aud the Steele
we're the only free papers which supported the En-
perOrs raid upon the hospital funds the other day.
proudhon is sentenced to three years imprison-
ment and serious fine for the scandal done toe
Church by the publication OF his recent book,
entitled, De la Justice dams Ia R6r0tatt0a Ct dams
pEgli~. Like all his books, it is wrong headed
TO the last degree, but very often, indeed,
rigbt-healt,d in a way to make
ones soul GLOW with emotion, and ones eyes
overflow with grateful tears. | can scarcely
name a book in which the writer's person
aty comes out so broadly and yet 80 lnofensivciy
Certainly there is nothing very exquisite III Proud
hons personality. He is good deal OF ths martyr
and very little of the saint. He fights so well that
he must stihe in an atmosphere OF peace, and one
NAV call him the soldier OF truth rather thar love.
But short of the highest things, what IA Dorlc
bourgeois breadth and richness hls character "Shio
it's. Such flaukness: such rustic unc0nsclOusIess
of conventional manners-amOuntlng sometimes, il
III true, to certain cOarseness; such pu0 speaking
on topics of vital moment at this day, but too delicate
for our literary man-nilliners ever to glance at;
such manly sympathy with the whole brotherhood
Of want and suffering; such ready relish for what,
soeyer is pure and sweet and decent ia all nat
ura ties; such an unaffected delight in the domestic
institution throughout all the complex OF It's inter-
ests; such ripe respect for man AS man, ana 80
real contempt for him as mere priest or potentate
or politicians, so sharp banter, and WI hal 81 good
humored, delighting to pull the big-wgs awry by
way of showing how intrinscaly harmless they are;
in short, such an eyery.way jolly little man, such
friendly and healthy and happy little mau, seldom
gets voice in book, so that | fee sure in
reading him that all Paris does not contain n more
essentially innocent soul, and that if the Church
feels il necessary TO put him in prison, II can only
be because it has kept such damnable company for
many generations past as to have lost all SAVIOR of
its own richest traditions.
The plDosoplic aim OF the book is entirely praise
worthy. 1t is to prove that Justice aud no: Force
is the foundation Of human society that 10 respect
tne's neiehbOr as ones self aud do nothing to him
hut what one would have done to ones self,
is the distinctive mark of manhood is the sent
mcnt out of which comes all the dignity proper
10 man. This is not merely the drift but the clear
deliberate purpose of the book; and yet, 70 much
does tho existing odiOus eceesaStciSm Obiascate 10
his eyes the yeTltabe Christian doctrine, b. really
cOncciN6s that i'll SAYING these things he il warning
against Christianity His quarrel with Christian