Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-04-15

The Phiiadelphia Bulletin seeking Of the Sickles
trsdeey thinks II for innate, perhaps, that ihere Is
not more atinate knoVledge among the people Of
the private life Of cur public men, for what little Of
popular respect they still retain would be sti fur
Their diuinished bat si is something 10 be proud
Of that amid the general depraviy that has prevails
ed ct Washington, T Presid nis have neaVer ere
sted scandal by private lives; and it may be
alss said with some pride that 70 msn, however su-
perior he might be in intellect, could be elected
President Of the United States il he notoriousy
loose in his morals. The Bulletin, however, draws
contrast with he heals Of government in Europe,
VIC it ssys are rsrely Of purity Of character.
The kings o. Eng and, with very rare exceptions,
hAvs beer zrossiy imm raj sUd Victoria is almost
the ouly British sovereign whose virtue has never
beer su pee ed Her husband, too has never created
any scandal; but her cousin the Duke Of Cambridge
now head f The army, is no oriOusly Proaigate.
The Rus ia EmperOrs and Emtresssss have been
celebrates s much fOr.tbeir immortality as for any
other ahahti,s hough he present Gar seems TO be
dec sea Improvement, IN this respect on his pre-
de- essors The German tmperOis, itgs and petty
priocrs have also been famed for icentiousOess,
As for the French, Spanish and Itslisn mOnarchs,
they seem TO have regarded hbertnism as enc Of tie
saersd prerOga'Ivss o. tn crown
OF ,iYIrg Commercial sOvereigus there are very
few VINO nave escaped scandal The reigning Queen
Of Spain AID the e1 Queen Clristina, if they were
not roysl ladies', would not be received in any de-
cent society The King SardiDis, whose public
life has bee so much commended, is and always has
been ar IS sensushzi, aud the tales Of his secret
nd III Nckiu1 he
oy Of the Bavsrisn royal FANNY, and especially Of
the sx>King Louis, is well known. The reiguing
family il France emulstps in immortality the BOur-
bon and Orleans families. The Emperor mas not es-
capped scandal, even since his marriage His uncle
khe old Prince jerome, has for some years had his
mistress living in the Pslais Roysl and there she
would have remsined u disturbed butthat the young
Princess Clotilde on hearing Of it, insisted
fully on having her bsnshed to0distAnt apartments
in the palace. Jerome's daughter, the Princess
Mathilde who is separated from her Russian hus
band, Prince Demidof, has often given good reason
for doubts as to her purity. Her brother, Prince
Napoleon. has led sesbdslous life among the To-
fettes of Paris well among the ladies of the court
who have not stood highest as models of virtue His
marriage to the Sandman princess is not regarded
IS having destroyed his for his former mode of
life.
There are but lew courts on the eontinet Of Eu>
rope where the sovereigus and their families set
example Of virtue to their people, and the secret
memoirs Of tn Sc times, that may appear fifty CT
hundred years hence, viii tell shameful stories
the memoirs OF the French, English and German
courts of the last century tits something for Ameri
cans 70 congratulate themselves on that, with all
the degeneracy observed in our leading public men,
We have not got low as to tolerate in them such
gross immortality as prevails so generally in the
Ieigning families and the courts o. Europe.