The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-02-02
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS As THEY AF-
Feet THE UNITED STATES


An cAemplihcaton OF what denominated In the
hb' Oh 'hss series OF letters he NArolEoNso policy en-
grated on the Evolutionary policy OF France has come
since 10 be known this side OF the Atlantic aIude
To the contempt offered ON the occason of his New Years
gaia by the Emperor of the French TO the Ambassador of
Austria The Time, the occasion, and the manner were
so marked 10 have made the matter not only notice
BILE but TO have affected the value Of public securities In
all Europe.
Whatever latent purposes and many have been at
trbuted) the Emperor may have had ia that emonstra
ton, the open tho treatment with deliberate
oontumey, In the face Of assembled Europe America
aud ASIA OF dynasty that had been one of the parties
TO the overthrow of Napoleon the dwaring and early
death OF Napeoon H. and the triparte convention Of
1892 against Napoleon Ill Whether in the contempa-
ton OF Che delbertve and tenacious will that present
governs France and alarms Europe the time offers or
does not for continental war the further fact is patent
that revenge lies for Austria and Prussia which
is not intended 10 be exhausted in scorns and court in
sciences
Another occurrence, less striking but ia lis apparent
ntendments even more significant and impressive
the removal OF the remains of Napoleon from Les In
ris to the ancient Abbey of ST Denys Those remains
inferred in the bosom Of the Hospital of Invaded
Soldiers when at the solicitation of Louis Philippe they
recovered from st. Helena and with funeral pa
geant that has hardly any other occasion been seen
1t there that the old Marshal SOUR in the stiffness
of the night knclt by the pail OF his great commander
and allowed the memories of the Consulate and the En-
pire to overflow In tears Those remains are now re-
moved to the mausoeum where, for twelve hundred
years inferred the successive races of Gallo Kings
1t is the Inauguration of the Church bearing the name Of
the Patron Saint of the Kingdoms and the burial place of
successive generations of Kings the burial place of de-
cedsnts of the Empire The initiative of this idea does
I.-l... Al
fifty years ago. aspired to be the second CuAnLExAcSR
The purpose is plain not only that the Bonapartc ly-
nasty mantaps the political traditions of the old regimes
but and incorporates into itself their family e
gcnds customs, habtudes, and ideas in fact cut off
the Legitimacy by assuming to be it, and taking its
prestige and its maxims
In this assumption Of the prestige and of the robes as
it werc of the Kingy dynascs aud of the absolutists of
past centuries the Empire necessarily connects itself with
the doctrines of the dynastcs aud absouss of the pres
ent century. The Empire may bcstow sneer or a con-
tempt upon the authorities of other European States and
(even at cost to sel0 pitch them into sIaugh
ter for its purposes either of retaliation or ambi-
ton, meanwhile amusement of its subjects but with
respect to the antagontc ideas of the Republican and
the Dynastc organization of States the house of the Bo
napares is necessarily part and parcel the hafdozen
houses that in apotca may be said to constitute
Europe This is in the nature of things II is not pos
sibe that Congress of sovcrcgns shall look with com
pacency the spread of democratic aspirations nor
otherwise than with apprehension and distrust not
to speak of intenscr feeling, toward the chief
cxempar OF republican institutions this expanding Con-
federation of Republican States 1t is not more posi-
bic than it in 1922, when the Holy Alliance de-
clarcd its sentiments Human nature has not changed
in the time and in the time the development
of the democratic element in European society.
aged by the exhibition of successful progress here
repeatedly required the strong and bloody hand to sup
press it. in the time, also the American Confetera
cy has grown to vastly larger proportions and developed
capabty in its system to bring with safety contnu
ousiy States into it, and its example consequently
become more infectious and seductive Moreover whilst
the continent of Europe absolutely gov
erned, strictly by dynasty than now, yet
by precarious tenure. Without, them the palpabc
and dsdanul demonstrations that have multiplied us
in the last twenty years, the deduction would be
able that the dynastic sentiments of 1922 would intensity
rather than abate With those demonstrations it not
much to say that the United States have to look
closely their inherent strength and resources and
their own courage and resolution and any external
courtesy love- for the maintenance of responsibility
and the lulmcnt Of their traditional policy Courage and
resolution avert danger and preserve honor Tmdity
invites The and forfeits the other
In 1922 the government OF Great Britain refused to
be party to the declarations of the Holy Alliance and
by her nstrumcntality combined with the determined
spirit of The cabinet Of Mr.. Monroe, critical question
then avcrted Great Britain at that time 10 the
zenith OF triumph PRIDE and cxultation her
handing share in the late European wars. She could
boast at home Of the conqucring hero her son fresh
Iy lacled and in distant stronghold of her own the
imprisonment of the great Monarch and Soldier whom
she had deposed aud captured and she could and did
consider and treat the continent with degree of hauteu
and contempt, and especially the equity mbccic in
whose person she hal restored Legitimacy to France
Times change; with tbem affairs of nations and men
Louis XVIT to enthrone whom cost the world so much
blood and travail is gone his deposed and
also gone the I. Democratic King-of the same race
though not in the line of likewise deposed
and gone, and all branches of the unhappy family become
exes and wanderers The "Tdrrnu sits in their place
The ashes Of the great Prisoner returned from the
prison where he died the prison itself is coded to his
TO be converted into standing rcbuke and hu
initiation to the imprisoners; his statue aurccrowncd
Is installed in defiance to face their domnions his race
INTERESTINGLY acknowledged of the throne that
he driven from; his great enemy become his postum
nous admrcr and the special friend and ally of his
house The position of Great Britain in the politics Of
Europe and the politics of the world is changed Per
Jas nes the fortunes of the mixed royalty and oil
garchy which make her government bound to those
of the rcigning houses of the continent
VIM. CAREY JONES.
WARRINGTON, January 81, 1859
At Bellows Falls, VT, Harrison Saunders, and bis