The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-02
EUROPE.
ONE DAY LATER BY THE BA VARIA
NAPOIEoN,S ANNESr

ing Imperial decree:
"A full and entire amnesty is granted to all per-
sons for politics, crimes and offences, those who
have been the objects of any measures taken for
public security. (Une amnstie peine ct entere est
accordee tous les individus qui ont etc condamnes
pour crimes ct defts politiques, qui ont etc
ro9Iet L3E, de measures de surete generalel.
"The MOuiteur further contains the following list
of nominations to the Senate:
'Generas Renault, Forey, Thiry, the Prince de
la Moskowa, Admiral Trebouart, Cont de Labedo-
yere, Baron Paul de Richemont and Baron de Vim
cent"
NJ. Louis Blanc has addressed the following to
the editor of the London Ne,Ds
I'm reference to the general amnesty. announced
IN the evening papers, beg you will be kind
enough to allow space in your columns for the fol-
lowing remarks:
81 will not stop here to inquire whether it be fit
that the offender should be the forgiven; that
crimes should be remitted which never were COM
mltted; that those should be pardoned who were so
Jruehy Wronged, having been, although guiltless,
driven out OF their country, torn from their fami
lies and friends, cons gned to absolute ruin and in
iact berett OF all they held dear on earth Speak
ing IN my own name alone, and Judging from a
more practical point of view, | own candidly that
situated as he is, Louis Bonaparte could hardly 90
more for us than he has just DONE But it is not the
less true that those whose hearts have been for
years made to bleed from innumerable wounds,
have claim to something better than a contemptu-
Gus and perhaps unsafe favor. What was due to
them in the shape of justice, cannot be paid in the
shape of pardon.
''But enough of this. Considerations of higher
significance and more general import are involved
in the question.
"Let freedom be wholly and sincerely restored to
France; |, for one, am prepared to applaud. Our
wrongs we might forget; may we be indifferent to
the wrongs of our cOuntry2
owe are permitted to return to France. So lonp
as she is kept in bondage why should we 90? To
complete the victory of might over right-to render
Imperial despotism still more absolutely unopposed
to extlnguish the few last beacons which, fed by
French hands, yet loom in the distance before the
eyes OF our unhappy country-in one word, to be
slaves among slaves? Better stay in the land of
unfettered thought and free speech; better live
where to be an exile is to remain man.
at is reported that in the Revolution of 1889. at
the first celebrated fete du Champ de Mars, some
fifty Englishmen were seen wearing on their chest
medal, on which these words were inscribed
: O6! Libertas, iJi Patria. Without presuming
to sit In judgment upon such of nv countrymen as
may take a different view of the case | venture to
say that this should be the motto of every man feel
ing alive to the dignity of his own nature
MOT that consider my beloved country less en-
Titled to claim your devotion, because temporarily
shackled. No. The very state OF intellectual de-
baseness and moral agony in which France is now
plunged endears her the more to u.s. as we know it
originates in fatal combination of uncomfortable
circumstances, and is maintained by brute force
alone That France will, sooner or later be warmed
lntds life and be herself again, is creed which |
londly cherish, and to which | cling with unshake-
able convictions. But so long as she is forced into
silence and darkness, take it to be necessary that
some at least of her most faithful should, by
living abroad, retain the power of representing
true genius, of making known her sorrows, de-
nouncing her wrongs, invoking her most glorious
recollections, vindicating her stiled aspirations
after freedom, and championing in her name the
eVerh principles OF justice and the rights otreason.
l am, &C., LOUIS BLANC"
London, Aug. II.
THE LONDON TIMES ON THE PARIS FETES,
One of the noteworthy peculiarities of the tri-
umph al entry Of the Army of Italy into Paris is the
great economy OF fine phrases throughout the whole
affair If it were possible that the same ceremonial
had happened in London, should have had an
amount OF speechifying that would have fallen
heavier and damper than the showers of Sunday
last upon the spirits both of actors and spectators
At each possible point-at the railway terminus at
the first tlowery arch, at the lire of frontier of
every parish, and at tie great centre where the
army was to pass in procession and yield up its tro-
phles to the Imperial leader, should have little
Knots OF prosy personages, mayors and select vestrv
men, and supervisors of pavements, bursting with
loyal and congratulatory addresses; and we should
have had appropriate replies dozen times repeat
ed IN an assiduously varied phraseology. In France
Lhey have come to manage these things better
so far as the accounts have vet reached u.s. the
great pageant passed in dumb show except for the
general shouting. 1t was purely military specta-
2le and the action was all pantomimic. When the
Emperor wished to express his approbation of n
The desired expression made; when the wound
ed rtrdndiers was carried past he nodded a kindly
nod and the spectators understood that her pension
was granted; when he desired to attract the sym
pathies of the crowd towards the Imperial family
ne took his little son upon his saddle and kissed
him, and the gaily appareed occupants of the Am
understood and were, for the moment
at least, propitiated We have not seen even an
order OF the Day telling us how many centuries
looked down upon that column which was destined
Tor Charlcmagne, and, after a long interval, is sur
mounted again by the First Napoleon.
This was all right and appropriate, even although
perhaps not In accordance with historic precedent
tioquence Is the art of persuasion-but what need
lad the.master of the potent army to persuade? a?
seek to persuade our equals or our superiors;
out what superior or what equal has Napoleon Ill
n France? They who surround an absolute mon
lrch seek only to know his commands that they
nay obey them; his sympathy, that they may re-
oice; his appreciation, that they NAV reap the
coming reward; his displeasure, that they may bow
'r n.y. a gesture is sufficient for this purpose and
dliiuse piece of rhetoric can only weaken the pres
lge OF power Moreover, if he should desire to ex-
'laln, or should wish to create an impression more
expanded than can be fixed bv the mere notification
u the ihperlor VIII, is not NJ. Graner de Cassag-
lac at hand to perorate through all the Press of
'aris, aud to write Imperial speeches by which NO
me is committed, although every one may be
puzzled?
The single exception to the restraint put upon
ne eloquence OF all France is of the most moderate
md brief character. In the evening when the tri-
lmph had gone off so well-nothing happening TO
mar the glores of the day except little cold water
rom the contumacious heavens-the Emperor en-
ertained the Chiefs of his Army at an ImperiaI
banquet. Hospitality here required short address
Ind 1T was delivered in phrases which occupy scarce
wenty lines of the faithful Jfoniteur. It is the
model OF an Imperial speech 1t is not an harangue
,r an grafton, but naked thought sculptured in
anguage. There is just enough of sentiment, lust
'nough of modesty, just enough of approval
lie expresses natural reluctance to dissolve the
elements OF that strength which has made itself so
notably felt, but he frankly accepts the necessity,
lnd that he may promptly reassure Europe he dis
misses the chiefs that surround him to the peaceful
occupations of civil life. He reminds them of what
hey have accomplished together, and modestly at
rioutes the success which he, untried general
las achieved, to the confidence and obedience rem
Tered to him by his elders in arms He hopes that
he words written upon the medal which commemo-
ates the campaign of Italy will often recall the
memory of their comrades and commander-and
ms Is all, This was all that preceded the toast of
The Army in Italy" Whether any means were
lsed 10 molify the disappointment which some of
he Colonels may have felt at such sensible and iu-
iicious phrases we do not know, and ought not.
perhaps, to care. The fact remains that this little
peech is model of good taste, and so far as il re-
ers to things past, of TRUTH modestly told
Undoubtedly the Emperor, civiian-for by civil |
lrts he first rose to power-has led large army,
ind manoeuvered that army upon the plains of Sol
erino with the skill of a consummate peneral. and
deserves the credit of curbing the ostentatious ex
preston of that pride. When be reminds his gene
as OF the disadvantage with which he had to con-
end in the want of early training upon the field
lie obliquely compliments HIMSELF but the inference
neatly concealed that it does not obtrude and
arises only when the first impression o. the speech
S past. We must confess, however, that we can
lot see in the Emperors inexperence of actual SER
vice any grave disadvantage in leading an army.
History, If her teaching is worth ANYTHING teach
that civilian of intelligence and the requisite
moral courage, after some study of strategy is
quite as likely to make good general as one who
had passed his life upon the manual and platoon
that mere alphabet of the art of war; upon which
The British officer generally spends his whole life
Great commanders have in all time been persons
who were able to break away from the meshes of
pedantries and to invent for themselves
some new art of strategy. 1t has ALWAYS been by A
bold divergence from old rules that great victories
have been won, and man who has read and Ia
bored, and meditated outside the professional cir
Gle is better educated for general than man who
has to unswathe himself from the bands that have
sustained him during the past portion of his life.
and to accustOm to independent exercise a mind
which has hitherto known virtue but obedience.
We could wish that it the time of need should eyer
come we may have many who have educated Them
selves for command as well Louis NAPOLEON has
But it is our ungracious duty, in default of some
other monitor nearer and as free to perform tbe
part OF chorus in this great drama, and to inform
and warn while the actors playing out their
1estlnles. 1t is our duty once again to remind the
:, mperor Napoleon that even now men are askino
each other, with what purpose and with what adj
vantage these victories have been won and the
blood at which they were bought has been split.
That will be repeated by the present and by future
generations. How will it be answered? Has ha