New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-30
a CuRIsTIAN sTANDARD-HhA"H

Th. worst of men has his friends. Sacred n'
;,ds.d do.s not tell us that when Juuas
-, ,.r, ont and hanged himself, Piou' h'no'
cpt down the body and gave 10 IL decent o"'"'''
but we learn from profane history 'na' "'"e''
usrs found upon the tomb of Nero, and "eepi's
,,or,.nw VA. sseu TO kneel upon the grave oi hooe
.,,;s-rs So a more modern tyrant has MS a's'
;n,srss.sd admirers. Dszzled ny certsln s'riA'us
but meretricious qualities and torg-t'u' OF n's sr
o.n,c crimes. Louis Napoleon iuds aduisto's
anon peop,e whom We can only acqu't OF loving
ronS from, a perverted moral sense at the expense
Of their Judgment. If not absolutely "icke'' )"
or ly because they are absolutely weak.
Among those men, more, perhaps, TO oe P..'eu
than blamed are the conductors OF The Nt"- 0'"
Obserrer. That eminenty pious sheet Recognizes
in the French usurper the Man OF the Age. lie
hss made four great conquests. First h'mseii tneh
Franco rext Russia. ard now Austria. How or
when his first great victory was oot'ineo' We arc
NOT told. 1or does The Obstrrer seem to know. But
France he conquered " not by arms, but oY the
{. mower of his name and WILL La the struggle
with Russia. it is rather reluctantly admitted th1t
be had the aid of England. But Austria has been
subdued by his single hand and head. Our devout
contemporary, in an ePigrammatic style "ort'! vi
Bombastes furioso when spostrophizlng MS Doots'
describes the Man at the head OF two mignV
armies. planning the whole campaign OF Italy
keeping his own counsel marching to meet an over
whelming foe, giving them battle, ana colnPe'nns
them to flight Then she pauses. Again oy
some mastery stroke of strategy which Is not eA-
nl,ined he meets the enemy who bad He'd before
him but whom he did not deign to pursue and
AGAIN that enemy is defeated. And yet third time
ia this brilliant feat of arms repeated The soldiers
Ale naught. Generals are uaueht. Msrshals
ars nsupht. There is nobody but Napoleon
and the Austrians fly before his terrible
face and his all-conquering arm. Napoleon
is in the fercest Of the fray. He does not heais'
ate to expose bis own life. In the consciousness
" Of its value to France, to Europe and to liberty
:. he rides into the storm and is unhurt." Napoleon
topiours Napoleon The Man of the Age -
We like an honest enthusiasm; we do not object
occasionally to an epigrsmmatic, eau sometimes
even forgive a highfautin" style. But We SUBJ
NIT whether for minister of the Gospel OF the
Prince of Peace, for the columns OF journal
eminent for its evangelical piety this is not, so to
say, putting little too fine point uponi IL. our
piety. like DIR. JohusonA is nothing to speak of'
We DO not pretend to possess either nerves or
moral sensibilities that easily shocked. But we
cannot help entertaining the reflector whether
this extrayagant laudation this enthusiastic ad-
miration of a cruel and unscrupulous butcher Oh
his fellow creatures are exac.ly in accordance Win
the Gospelof ST. John.
The causes and the consequences of this war, we
take il, nay be told in very few words. Six
months ago. Louis Napoleon, having made some
necessary preparatory arrangements with Russia,
| determined to pay off an old Nspoleocic debt by
Illuminating Austria ard aQgrandzlng himself The
national feeling of the Italians, ripe olmost for
revolution, offered him the ready means. He put
bmself ard his army, which was literally "spoll-
| 81 ing for fight at the head Of the threatened
revolution, to turn it away from its proposed pur
pose and to compel it to serve his own. He has sue
| ceeded. 1t is not the Austrans, it is not the
French it is not the Pope it is not the Princes OF
Tuscany and Modena, but it is the Italian people
who are put hers du combat by the war in Italy.
The Emperor of France returns to Paris and TO bis
Empress after pleasant Summer campaign, plan
90 ned by himself" aud in which he kept his own
! "counie.," covered with such glory as war briggs,
leaving behind him three new vassals, the King of
Sardinia and the Princes OF Tuscany aud Modena;
the Emperor of Austria returns TO Vienna, sOn'e
what humbled it NAV be, but not much shorn Of
his power; the Head of the Church of lone hun
dred ard thirty nine millions of individuals, with
"out counting little Mortsrs," sings 1e Denm in
st Peters for his great deliverance; but on the
plains Of Italy are Sixty Thodsand dead men,
black With the smoke of guDpowd der, and gofy with
blood. done TO death that this Man Of the Age
nigh. sit more safely upon stolen throne. And
among these eha,tv forms of murdered men sits
the Genius of italian Liberty weeping over her
chains new ryeted AID her opportunity lost.
| Pah the stencil from such battle fields rises not
more ranky to Heaven ihan the smell of that piety
which anything to pfaise in such gigantic vil'
| laDy, goes up tO tine nOstrils Of God.
The spirit of such an srtice 10 religious Journal
is simply atrocious Eut it would not be complete IN
! The O6srrer unless rcdnded of with cant. Before
Napoleon conquered countries, before even he con-
| Guered France, We are told be subdaed himself.
| Bot The Obserrer remembers to remember that the
man bad anteccdelts-a past which I" no Re-
publican will defend" Was it thinking of that
triumphant march over the bodies of forty thousand
murdered Frencpmen to tce throne Of France IL
Is not worth While 10 stop to inquire the date of
that greatest work" Of sefsubUgation which
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