The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-07-14
Louis Napoleon and the Car
bOnari.


The hesecreti patriotic societies., known by
the name of Carb0nari (charcoal burners
(which have existed for many years in Italy;
have had great influence on the character
and the career ofLouis Napoleon 1t may
not be generally known that when he was a
young man andianexile from France, full Of
aspirations for the restoration ofthe house of
JBonaparte, either by meansof resolution or
by military distinction, he 'joihed the Carbo4
mari Of italy, andttook the oathprescribed by
the lodge ~hichth he joined He did more |;
he took up arms with the Italian patriots in
1881, and distinguished, himself on the field
of battle against the Austrians on more ocs
1casions1 than one. His elder brother partici-
'patad in HIS dangers, but lessofortunate than
himself died. it is alleged, of measles, opthe
9th March The struggle ended, asit Is
well known, in the suppression Of the insure
gents, and the fight of Louis Napoleon from
Italy, accomplished under circumstances Of
great difficulty, and mainly through the pres
encc of mind of his mother, the ex-queen
Hortense We'recur to the subject at this
time, ibeeaaseit has been. brought forward
inan interesting manner in a work now
publishing IN England, )iby d. BsHWehs, on
the polticaliife of Louis Napoleon ;and some
light appears to have been thrown on the
which inpelled HIM toioin the ETtal-
ian patrols in 1881 and asp opthe causes OF
those mysterious attempts to assassinate him
which haye been from time to time made by
the Italians go i'.-' | W.. '7''''3 : rs
The author givesa graphic sketch Of the
dangers to which the surviving members Of
the Bonaparte family were exposed in France
after the restoration of the. .Boprbons, in 1851.
The hostility IF the partisans Of the latter to
the family and adherents of the great En-
peror manifested itself in variety Of ways
and gradually assumed SO 'virulent a shape
that the most extreme measures (even assas-
sinatior) were openly spoken Of as jastifable
TO rid the reigning family Of danger from
that quarter. Every movement ofthe Bona
parties was: watched; their most private af:
fairs were reported by spies; their partisans
were insulteil, attacked, and, in the south of
France, assassinated in the streets. Hor-
tense Beauharnais, with her two sons, Maps
leon and Louis, was then residing at AK, on
the Swiss frontier, and, Of course, Shared
in those anhoyances and perils Early one
morning she received an intimation from,
General Rocheinan, the officer commanding
at Lyons, that some misereants hadleft Paris
with the intention of numbering her children,
and that she was in hourly danger Of attack.
She Immediately Quilted AK, and travelled
about Edropef for while, not taking up her
abode permanently at any one place, and
thus escaping the danger The year 1880
found her at Naples, and at this time the
Italian peninsula was convulsed with polti-
cal excitement The elder branch of the
Bourbons, the sworn enemies of the Bona
parte family had been expelled from the
throne-never, it is 10 be hoped, to re.ascend
it !; the younger, Or Orleans branch, under
Louis Philippe, had been installed in its
place. Hortense's inveteratc foes were, there-
fore, destroyed, but her sons were no nearer
to the throne Of their uncle than they had
been before the three days of July, 1880. .fii
! This was not u satisfactory state Of things
for them. The Bonaparte family, therefore.
assembled In Rome, where they held frequent
conclaves, to whichtheir friends, connections
and secret agents from various countries
were invited, and wherein their future plan
was discussed pnItwas resolved
at lengtf 20 endeavor to turn to account the
impending struggle in Italy, and to throw
themselves boldly into the 'cadse of the pa
.triots. in hopes that by the free outlay 6f
money, by intrigns, by services in The fieid
arfdthe ccuncir' itmight epossible 70 achieve
an Itaiiati kingdoms for one Iof the young
princess dtailnusts not BE forgotten that.
Napoleon L. had dccreeds that his brother
i Loais and his sons should be heirs to theIm-
perial throne of France on failure Of his own
issaes and that these princes, therefore, had
a prestige ahda claim, above any other meme
Der Of the family, in the support Of the Bo-
inapartist faction. In accordance with the
above resolution, Louis,fwho appears to have
entered more daringly and hopefully into the
scheme than his elderly brother, Napoleon,
went Rome, where he placed himself I'M
derlhe protection and tuition Of his uncle,
Cardinal Resch9 Here he avowed himscifa
Republican, land publicly denounced the
wrongs of the Italian people. He rode DIP
and ddown the streets, stentstioasiyi,iis iisplayI
ing the tri.coior on his coat, and used every
effort toiidentify the TBonaparte name with
that of liberty. The Pope bore this insult
ing conduct as long as he could, but at last
ordered dHdetachmcn Of cayeiry to arrest him
and convey him across the frontiers.aii aos
Louis, advertised In time, fied from Rome
and joined the insurectionary army. He
had previously joined the Carbonari, and
taken the oaths of fidelity to that association
and to the cause Of Italian freedom and Re.
p,ibticanism How he could reconcile the
taking ofan oathto die in support Of the
latter with his scarcely concealed design Of