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fortunes to make,s be pronounces
NAPOLEON the representative Of the
democratic, or the poor, struggling
class /" the class of business men in
America, in England, in France, and
throughout Europe-the class Of
industry and skill" " The instinct
of active, brave, able men, throughout
the middle classes everywhere, has
pointed ont Napoleon as the incarnate
democrat. He had their virtues and
their vices; above all, he had their
spirit or aim. That tendency Is ma
terial, pointing at sensual success,
and employing the richest and most
various means to that end conversant
with mechanical powers, highly intel
lectual, widely and accurately learned
and skillfal, but subordinating all
intellectual and spirital forces into
means to a material aid. To be the
rich man, is the end. God has
granted says the Koran, to every
people prophet in its own tongue
Paris, and London, and New York,
the spirit of commerce, of money and
material power, were also to have
their prophet; and Bonaparte was
qualified and sent. Every one Of the
million readers of anecdotes, or MEM
cries, or lives of Napoleon, delights
in the page, because he studies in it
his own history. Napoleon is thor
oughly modern, and, at the highest
point of his fortunes, has the very
spirit of the newspapers. He was
the agitator, the destroyer Of pre-
scription, the internal improver, the
liberal, the radical, the inyentor Of
means, the opener of doors and mar
kets, the subyerter of monopoly and
abuse" Emerson does full justice
to the gigantic ability of Napoleon,
to his versatility, his wisdom and his
courage but also paints his vices
with terrible hand. The admirers
of Abbot's Napoleon will hardly take
the following to be portrait of their
hero:
ssBonaparte was singularly destitute of
generous sentiments. The highest-placed
individual in the most cultivated age and
population of the world-he has not the merit
of common truth and honesty He is unjust
to his generals; egotistic, and monopolizing
NJ fba Of hair
tions from Kellermann, from Bernadotte
intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in
hopeless bankruptcy, in order to drive him
to a distance from Paris, because the famil-
iarity of his manners offends the new pride
of his throne. He is boundless liar. The
official paper, his 'Moniteurs,' and ali his
bulletins, are proverbs for saying what he
wished to be believed and worse-he sat;
in his premature old age, in his lonely island,
coldly classifying facts, and dates, and char.
acters, and giving to history theatrical
eclat. Like all Frenchmen, he has passion
for stage effect. Every action that breathes
of generosity is poisoned by this calculation.
His star. his love of glory, his doctrine of the
Immortality of the soul, are all French. l
must dazzle and astonish. If l were to give
the liberty of the press, my power could not
last three days To make great noise is
his favorite design. A great reputation is
a great noise: the more there is made, the
farther off it is heard. Laws, institutions,
monuments, nations, all fall; but the noise
continues, and resounds in after ages His
doctrine of Immortality is simply fame: His
theory of influence is not fattering. There
are two levers for moving men interest and
fear. Love is silly infatuation, depend
upon it. Friendship is but name love
nobody. do not even love my brothers:
perhaps Joseph, a little, from habit, and be-
cause he is my elder; and Duroc, love him
too; but why ?-because his character pleas
es me: he is stern and resolute, and believe
the fellow never shed a tear. For my part,
know very we'll that have no true friends.
AS long as continue to be what l am, may
have as many pretended friends as please;
Leave sensibility to women: but men snould
be firm in heart and purpose, or they should
have nothing to do with war and government.
He was thoroughly interruptions He would
steal, SANDER, assassinate drown, and poison,
as his interest dictated. He had no generos-
ity; but mere vulgar hatred: he was in
tensely selfish he was perfdious: he cheat
ed at cards he was q prodigious gossip; and
opened letters; and delighted in his infamous
police; and rubbed his haEds with JOY when
he had intercepted some morsel of intelligence
concerning the men and women about him,
boasting that 'he knew everything; and
1nterIeTeu With Tie CuttluS INC uiOSo0o "a ~
women; and listened after the hurrahs and
the compliments of the street, incognito.
His manners were coarse. He treated women
with low familiarity. H. had the habit of
pulling their ears, and pinching their cheeks,
when he was in good hunior, and of pulling
the ears and whiskers of men, and Of striking
and horse-play with them to his last days.
1t does not appear that he listened at key
holes, or, at least, that he was caught at it..
In short, when you have penetrated through
all the circles of power and splendor, you
we're not dealing with gentleman. at last
but with an imposter and rogue: and he
fully deserves the epthet of Jupiter Scdpn''
or a sort of Scamp Jupiter"
AN eastern paper thinks Cyrus W.
Field ought to be rewarded BY beng
elected to the Presidency of the Y.