The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-04-25

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closely the Beauharnais are allied to the roy
al families Of Europe than are the Bona
p.rtes. A few, probably, might prove asin-
credulous, in the presence Of proof. as would
have been the viscount Beauharnais had any
one revealed to him the fate Of his children
and grandchildren. when. in 1894, he laid
his head under Rsbespiere's relentless gull
lotne, and left widow behind him destin.
ed to iascinate and marry the rising Gener-
al Of the republic. Equally surprised, too,
would the respectable planter Of Martin
ique. Teacher de Ia Pagerie, have been had
he been told. while attending TO his negroes
on his fsr-aNay plantation. that from his
lons was to spring race Of emperars and
expresses. queens and yiceroys, as powerful
as any the world had ever known and that to
this END two little islands, colonies OF France
-Corsica And Msrtinique--weee to contrib
ute.
After the treaty of Tiisit, Napoleon occu-
| pied the latest position in the civilized
world. Entarpned amid the splendor'of the
most magnificent court Of Europe, he was
virtually master Of an empire stretching over
the entire face of the continent, with the ex-
ception oil Russia and Turkey. and with
those two powers he was on terms OF cordial
alliance. To himself. as every school boy
knows, he reserved the imperial throne Of
France, comprising the France Of the pres
ent day, Belgium. Savoy, Piedmont, and at
one time the whole Of northern Italy, and
part Of Germany. On his brothers and sis
tiers he conferred respectively the diadems
Of Holland, Naples, Spain. Westphslia and
Tuscany whilst his step-son, Eugene Beau.
harnsi., he appointed vicerey Of Italy. Yet,
with this unrlyaled dominion. he was discon-
tented. A. long as he had no issue to transmit
his name 10 posterity he tancied his power
i'll secured. To consolidate his throne, then,
and to crafty the ambitious yearning Of his
heart, he formed the project Of on alliance
! with the imperial family 81 Austria. And
TO accomplish this he discarded Josephine
} his long devoted aud faithful wife. She re.
tired TO Malmaison. a powerless, weeping
woman, cast of iayorlte, without political
friends or influence. And he continued 70
rule, the very emblem Of power. all Europe
at his feet. millions Of men ready to carry
out his lightest caprice, and his throne appa.
rently 6rmer than Gibraltar. Who then
would have dreamed of the reiriba.ion that
tine he'd IN reserve
A few shnr, wears mnre, and Napoleon lay
chained To ST. lieleua's rock, and Josephine
: Law sleeping peacefully beneath the sol. The
rule Of the Bonapsrtes wa. over. the sceptre
; Of France. Belgium. Holland, Spain. Italy
and Westphaa had been transferred to hos
tile hands. The onIy scion ct the great
man fallen. the Duke de Retchstad. CT derani
King of Rome. roamed. virtual prisoner 10
This srandfather's palsce AT Vienna. bearing in
him the seeds Of a malady 10 which he was
early doomed to fall victim. The family
$ name of the ambitious Napoleon figured il
5 none of the courts Of Europe.
!, The children OF the discharged Josephine
!. on the other hand. were rising into power
, aud forming alliances with the proudest bluot
4 in Europe. Her son, Eugene. already ALI
I ed to the royal hOuse OF Bavaria BY his mar
riage with Amelia. daughter Of the king. wa'
living with his father-in-law, under the q
: tie Of the Duke Of Leuchtenberg. His eldes
q son, Augustus, married Donna Maria, Queer
Of Portugal, IN 1855. His younger son. Prince
Maximilian. married in 1889 the daughter o
d the Emperor Nieh"iss. Of Russia. The eldes
daughter Of Eugene Beauharnais, Josephine
u married Oscar, afterwards King Of Sweden
/; son of Marshal Bernadotte, and successor 4
/; his father in 1874. The second daus hitter
j. Eugenie, married the Prince OF HohenzOl
!. Tern Hechngen = the Hohenzullerns, it vii
II be remembered. are the reigning house q
v Prussia only the Prussian monarchs are de
II scended irum a younger son Of Rodolphu
H., whilst the HohenzOllern. Ilechingen
j boast Of descending from the eldest son
e The third daughter. Amelie. married DO
: Pedro. III. Emperor Of Brazil. And the onl
surviving son 1f Hortpnse. Louis Napoleon
e Is now seated more firmly than his incl,
!, ever was. on the imperial throne " France
Thus AZ The present day, the descendant
| nf Josephine are allied 20 the thrones o
4 three empires France, Russia and Brazil
i aud three kingdoms--Bayaria, Portugal an
. sweden. without mentioning the connection
= with the InhenEollerns, and the reminiscent
| ces &c Eugene's ,icernyalty IN italy, an
inrtens-', cl0uded reign in Holland.
d What brtter evidenre could be ahdnced O
the vanity at even imperial ambitlon: Ma
j poleon. The most powerful VI morials. Sc,
/. III whnlr heart on the hope Of perpetpatin,
his family, and sacrifices eyerything-prin
4 ciple and pupularity-to attain his object
j. vet himself, and I'll Of name IN exile. h
!. leaves behind him but one siekly son, VII
Z tiickers swhlle anil then dies out ingloriou.
!. ". leaving 10 issue. Whilst Josephine. II
% woman lie discarded. aces her children sea,
- ed in the palaces Of half dozen kingdom
2 and empires! And even when the inJirec
i line Of the Napolenns il restored 10 powsr
!, il is reinssted only in the person &c ~
whose descent from, Josephine j. both NOR
:. direct aHd undi.putel than from her smbi
e tious aud r.pudia,ipg lord. The only roya
y alliance which the 5pnapartes can Offset a
d gsinst the Beauhsrnais is the recent marriag
: Of Prince Napoleon Il the Daughter - Veto
j Emanuel, and even this vas obtained solel
e through the Intervention Of q grandson o
d Josephine Such il the Semes6s Of history
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