Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-09-17

images OF war .noated continually before
is imagination during the maladies which
receded his death.
go, my friends, he used to say, Sand re-
isit your families as for me, Ishall see
gain my brave companions in the elysium of
nturity. Yes Kleber, Dessaix, Bessieres,
)uroc, Ney, Murat Massena, Berhier, all
will come to meet me. When they see me
hey will be wild with enthusiasm and glory;
We shall talk of our wars with the Scipios, the
the Caesars, the Fredericks, un-
ess," added he, with smile, ''the people
there below should be afraid to see so many
warriors togethers."
In an excess of delirium, which occurred
during his illness, he imagined that he was at
the head of the army of Italy, and that he
heard the drums beating. He exclaimed,
''steingel, Dessaix, Massena, away, away,
run--to the charge they are ours -
Pondering on his melancholy situation on
the rock of st. Helena, he used to soliloquize
as follows
"Another Promethus, am nailed to rock
where vulture devours me. Yes l had
robbed fire from Heaven to France the fire
has returned to its source, and behold me
here The love of glory is like that bridge
which Satan threw over chaos to pass from
hell to paradise: glory joins the past to the
future, from which it is separated by an i'm
mense chasm. Nothing remains for my son
save my name"
The concluding words of his testament were
marked by his usual eloquence.
~ desire,' said he, ssthat my ashes may
repose on the banks of the Leine, in the midst
of the people whom have so much loved"
But let us now endeavor to dspel the illu-
sions created by the sublimity of his genius,
and to look at Napoleon as he will be viewed
by the wisdom of posterity.
AS statesman, he had at once too much
genius and too much ambition to lay down
the supreme power, and to reign under any
master, whatever, be il parliament, people, or
king.
As warrior, he fell from the throne, not
| for having refused to re-establish legitimacy,
not for having smothered liberty, but as a
consequence of conquest. He was not, and
he could not be- either Monk or Washing
| ton, for the simplest of all reasons, that he
was Napoleon.
He reigned as reign all the powers of this
world, by the force of his principle, lie per-
ished, as perish all powers of this world, by
the violence and the abuse of his principle.
Greater than Alexander. Charlemagne. Pc
ter. or Frederick, he, like them. has imprinted
his name on an age like them lie was leg
islator; like them, he established an empire /;
and his memory. which is universal. lives I'M
der the tent of the Arab. and crosses with
the canoes of the Indian. the far waters of
the Oceauica. The peonle of France. who
forget so soon, have retained nothing of that
revolntiop which d;sturhed tho world excent
his name. The soldiers. in their diseourses
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