Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-09-17
more terrible than the tempests Of the ocean. )

Ahe loreStsi tue ueileS OF rraucOnla, thi
Saale, and the Rlbe, which yhur fathers haC
4. traversed in seven years, you have traverset
in seven days, and in this interval you hay,
: fought four fights and one pitched battle
You have sent the renown of youI victories
= before you to Potsdam and to Berlin. You
have made sixty thousand prisoners, taken
sixty-five standards, six hundred pieces oil
cannon, three fortresses, andmore than twenty
generals; and yet nearly one half of you still
lament not having fired a shot. All the pro-
vinces of the Prussian monarchy, as far as
the banks of the Oder, WILDE in your power.''
1t is true, and it will occur to every mind,
that large part of the force Of this eloquencc
of the camp in the case of Bonaparte, depend
cd ON the astounding character of the facts
which he had the power of repeating. Even
now, after these miracles OF military prowess
have been repeated in as many versions by a
hundred contemporary historians in every
living language, we cannot read these simple
references to them without being overwhelm-
ed with amazement. The narretive of them
borders often on the impossible and forcibly
impresses us with the iustness of the adage,
that truth is often more wonderful than eotion,
and that the historian has often to record that
from which ihe novelist would shrink.
At Eylau, he thus honoied the memory Of
his brave warriors who had fallen =
you have marched against the emmy, and
you have pursued him, your swords in his
reins, over space of eighty leagues. You
have taken from him sixty.flve pieces of cam
non, sixteen standards, and killed, wounded,
or captured, more than forty-flve thousand
men, Our brares who have remained on the
Held of battle have died glorious DEATH
Theirs is the death of true soldiers.'
AT Friedland he again apostrophized his
army.--
" In ten days have you taken one hundred
and twenty pieces of cannon, seven standards,
Killed, wounded, or captured sixty thousand
Russian prisoners taken from the enemy all
its hospitals, all its magazines, all its ambu-
lances, the fortress of Kenigsburg, the three
hundred vessels that were in the port, laden
with every species of munitions, and one hun
drcd and hundred and sixty thousand
muskets that England had sent to arm our
enemies. From the banks of the Vistula
you have passed to those of the Niemen. with
the rapidity of the eagle. You celebrated at
Austerlitz the anniversary of my coronation;
you have this year celebrated here tho vic
tory of Marengo. Soldiers Of the grand ar
my of France, you have been worthy of your
selves and of met
In 1909, when prepared 60 punish Austria
Tor her treachery, he again adopted the bold
and unexpected course of conilding to the ar
my his great designs. He mingled amongst
the soldiers, and made them share the spirit
OF his vengeance he never allowed himself
to tie separated from them, and made his
cause their cause. What military elan there
is in the following speech:
Soldiers was surrounded by you when
the sovereign of Austria came to my bivouac
IN Moravia you heard him implore my Gle
mency and swear eternal friendship for me,
his victor in three campaigns. Austria owed
everything to our generosity three times
has she perjured herself ourpast are surc
guarantee of the victories that await us for
ward, then, and let the enemy acknowledge
Its conqueror in our very aspect
= 1t was with like ardor he animated the
army sent to Naples against the English
Ills speech appeared to move with tho pas do
charge:
soldiers march, throw yourselves up.
OIL them in torrent, if these feeble battal,
lions OF the tyrants of the deep will even
wait for your approach. Do not wait to in
orln mo that the sanctity of treaties has been
and that the names of my brave
'oldlers, murdered in the ports of Sicily, on
.heir return from Egypt, after having escaped
all the perils of the deep, of the deserts, and
Of hundred fights, have at last been ap-
peasedI"
1t was also to beat down the power of his
and eternal enemy, that he har-
anSued the army Of Germany, on its return,
md that he opened before its view the con-
quest of Spain:
soldiers after having triumphed on the
Danube and Vistula, you have traversed Ger
many by forced marches-I order you now
10 traverse France without moments repose
soldiers have need of you. The hideous
presence If the leopard defles the peninsula
Of Spain and Portugal let it fly terrified at
your look. Garry your victorious eagles even
TO the columns of Hercules there, also. Won
have treachery to revenge. Soldiers YOU
have surpassed the renown of modern armies
'ut have you equalled the glories of the le-
sions OF Rome, who in the same campaign
OH the Rhine and OIL the gu-
pirates, in lllyria and on the Tagus y,
Let us now pass to the penultimate act of
this gorgeous drama. Behold the scene is
lie court of Fontainbleau. Listen TO his sol
'inn ddienr to the faithful romans of his ar
ny-to those soldiers who could not bring
themselves voluntarily TO separate from their
general, and who were weeping around him.
Antiquity affords no scepe SO heart-rending
and so solemn
"Soldiers make you my adieux. For
twenty years, that we have fought together.
have beencontent with you! 1have always
found you on the road to glory. All the pow
ars of Europe are armed against me alone
some of my generals have betrayed their duty
and France. France has deserved other des-
linies. With you and tho other braces who
have remained faithful to me could have
a civil war, but France would have
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