Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-01-27
The Third of tlic Imperial Pamphlets.

The thraldom Of the press in France has
given wings to this pamphlet. Only poor
substitute, but necessary one. SafrtyvalreS
form nowadays an important appendase TO all
wel.devised steam machinery; and although
the imperial regime be not tolerant to an excess,
yet it allows TO the parnphletecr some square
inches Of paper to sport upon, which the En-
peror carefully withholds from the editors. lie
himself takes, from time to time, part in the
game; and he has actually published the third
of his notorious pamphlets, since his accession
to the throne NJ De Girardin, who seems to COM
bine in himself the characteristics of the stormy
petrol and the raven, either heraldns the ad-
vance or nuttering in the wake Of some impe-
rial pamphlet, had no sooner been allowed to
issue his recent production, "rEmpercur Ma
poleon ILL., ct rEurope," than N. Arthur de la
Guerronnierc, who drives the quill tand not
insloriously rs n writcr) for his imperial MAJ
icsty, took the field with sixty-poundcr pam
phlet, "Le Pape ct lie Congres." which attracts
and deserves too, no little attention, as far rs
European politics are concerned. On that ac-
count we will say little Of the first pamphlet
whose interest is now superseded by that Of its
Younger companions; it will be sufficient to
state that the author propounds the idea that
France never had, and that the Emperor Napo-
leon I'LL. himself has not, an external policy.
Externally England has policy-to find mar"
kets for her produce; Austria has onc-to
draw closer together and augment her bundle
of States: Prussia has one--to counterbalance
Austria; Russia has one-to execute the tcsta-
ment of Peter the Great; bat France has not
and ought to have one-that OF destroying
the maritime feudalitv (which England has
spread over the seas and neutralizlnS and
freeing all the straits and seas till there shall
not be single one barred by cannon.
Without waiting for the millennium oiA. dc
Girardin we now turn to the question urged by
the pamphlet "le paps ct 1c co"gres," viz: The
secession of the Romagna from the Papal
States. The step adhered to in this recent
publication is not an isolated phenomenon in
the history of French politics. Hence arises
its Importance and gravity. The h'nGs Of
France who have always borne with pride thclr
title of Eldest sons Of the Church" have often
been, to say the least very unruly childre;.--
Their anti-papal policy has assumed In some
critical circumstances. in ancient and modern
times. all the acrimony Of hostility, all the
bo,dness of revolt. Where is the wonder then
if the French rulers have long ago sQuandered
whatever Of patcrual love was in store for them
at the Vatican, and if the Pope, now Hs in tho
times of the G,.clphs and Ghibbelines, leans on
the Catholic part Of Germany, looking Tor an
auxiliary in the person Of the Enpero" Of
Austria and scouting the would-be friendly all
vices Of Napoleon, an onlinor's name Tor a
Pope, as he would those Of I'm hcretIc:
That protractcd struggle, for nearly six cen
turics. has furnished the history Of Europe with
some Of its most interesting pages, and VIII no
doubt continue to do so, as there is no sign Ill
the present position OF affairs Of any probah.
ty of satisfactory and delini,ire solution oil the
crisis. The character oIthat crisis has not always
becn the same. Some remarkable alterations
have taken place, which are worth while not-
cino to illustrate the work Of time and the mod
fled requirements Of the age also 10
find out where is The weakest part
and where the strongest in the farorlte
weapon Of either opponent. On tina! ground
| we find ourselves free and easy. We have oeire
| us a wide road which is that Of the march Of
events, paved with solid stones, accomplish
ed facts, and leading safely across broad ana
common 6eld. that of history, disconnected
from all sectarian or onc-sided views. The
Huguenot and the Ultramontane trod III they
have Increased the dust thereof with their own
dust, and their time-honored memory we will
never disturb in dircspccllul manner.
In the beginning, the rulers Of France strove
for the maintenance of the integrity OF their
own temporal power, even for curtailment OF
the sniritual power of the Pope, and the Pope
was himself the assaling party and at a later
date, and especially from the beginning oil TINS
century, a thoroug n change took place. 1t is
the tem poral power Of the Pope that the worldly
rulers Of Europe, headed by the ruler oil France,
are eager to diminish, whilst they are more
willing than ever to acknowledge his spiritual
supremacy. Those kings Of France who most