New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-01
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LETTER FROM PARIS.
Special 70 tho Now orleans Crescent.

greatest unanlmly has hitherto eXisted III AearthJ
cursing the Bonapartes both uncle and nephew,
from the days of Alexander and George the Third
down to the fall of Bomba I. and the perp!extes
of Pic Nno. Indeed, these Corsicans have never
been loved by any body except those whose trade
it has been to handle the musket and the sword
And yet both have signalized themselves by put
ting down revolutions and republics and having |
themselves elected emperors. One would think
that this would have conciliated the old dynastic
tyrants and made them fast friends for ever. But
no, they felt insulted by the presence of the par
venue and never could forgive the lmpudence OF |
him who, through sheer force of genius and skill,
had made himself their equal, and then invited the
world to draw an ingidious and dsparaging dis
| tnction between " born kiDgsh and kings by the
| grace of the people. We gee how they combined |
| against the first Bonaparte and by the mere weight
/ of numbers, overthrow him. And we see how,
| after this had been accomplished, they tore up the
constitutions all Europe, brought back the
old Bourbons and Bragauras, and Lonaines and
! numberless other Hessians, Bavarans and pig |
| headed and beer drinking imbecies; so that the |
last end of the peoples was worse than the first:
So everybody agreed that the first Bonaparte had
had all his trouble and fighting for nothing. That
was the conclusion of shortsghted politicians who,
like your Slack Republicans, can never rise high
| enough in sagacity to see over and beyond the
great pile of loaves and fishes that is to be dis
tributed at Washington on this blessed 4th day of
March, in the year Of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one.
But the first Bonaparte did great work after
ALL He made the third and the prestige. OF his
name called him up exactly at the right time and
now his spirit is working in him to perfect the
grand schemes which are to reform every kingdom
in Europe. Nobody--or at least very few-can see
how this is to be done, and we often think, when
in fact we are the ere of a great event, that
everything is going backward, and wars and rnmors
of wars make US shudder with expectation Hence
this third Bonaparte surprises everybody. Ma
poleon lie petit shows himself to be more president
; and comprehensive in his views than Napoleon lie
rayad He it is who is going to liberalize the ideas
| Of kinoc nd pmaDcjnate the De0DlpS, How lS he
going to do it? Not as any other monarch, states
man or politician would do it; but by series of
means the most opposite and the most unpromlslng.
Let me give you one fact by way of illustration.
Austria is remodelng her Government. From
the foundation stone of hereditary rule to the pin
nacle of Constitutional liberty, she is busy in the
| work Of subversion and reconstruction. Not from
any love of freedom, | grant you, but from sheer
necessity. And this began at the battle of Soife-
rno. Not that Francis Joseph dreamt of any such
thing there. The idea, itself, would have been as
fatal to his sanity as ball from rife cannon to
- his life. For be went into Italy to put down lib
y erty. The invasion justified in his procama-
ton upon the ground that the free institutions of
IF Sardinia disturbed the repose of kings and awak
ened the discomfort Of their people, He was de-
termined to extinguish the heresy; and he fought
b in the interest of all legitimate government and
order But we see what the end was. He lost
I.ombardy, and his friends lost Parma, Modena,
Tuscany, the two Scilies and the Holy Father was
DO despoiled OF half his patrmony He came out Of
the contest crippled and shorn
- But, I do not suppose that he then felt any more
- amiable upon the questions of revolution repre-
sentative government and universal suffrage, than
ID he did when he first crossed the Mincio But he
p had seen, face to face, the man whose uncle had
ar | once paid very unwelcome visit to his uncle in
q the imperial city of VIENNA and in that short in
terview at VilIafranca, we have good reasons for
believing that Francis Joseph received some very
,r. respectful yet very pressing and friendly advice
on the subject of war and State craft, embodyine
lessons which his misforunes and embarrassments
have frequently recalled to mind No doubt be has
ie long, and with great obstinacy, struggled against
=, them. But circumstances are sometimes even
- greater than Kasers. Hence, Notwithstanding he
lo' lad resolved upon war; upon the sword as alone
fit to cut the gprdian knot, and had augmented biz
, army and material to this end-grave political and
'' financial difficulties up before him, menacnl
M him with bankruptcy and internal disorder--Hun
nv gary Venetia, Croatia Bohemia. and all his outly
ang provinces, which go to make up that pache
and many colored thing, the German Empirical
threatened, advised, supplicated. What could h
do? Put into practice the wise counsels and ad
monona, to which he had so apgry and impa
tiently listened in his tetea-tete with the ''nepheT
of his uncle " at Vilatranca And so, when h
could no longer help himself, he set about it. H
reflected upon the fate of his brother of Naples
He and saw with fearful eyes, how power stealing
m, away from the few to the many,
Austria, we now told is to be remOdelel
A representative government is to be set up at vi
emma, at which all parts of the Empire viii be pre-
"a, sent through its deputies elected by the peopl
~ through their diets This Government, like that O
- | England, is to consist OF a House Of Lords and
t5r House of Commons that is, the upper house vii
ans be composed Of members of the imperial family
J ecclesiastical military and civil dignares nomn
L AZ ated by the Emperor. The lower house. of til
a., members elected by the people. This house vii
.a vote the supplies lay taxes, and have genera
n supervision and control Of the finances Freedom
of debate is to be unrestrained by any special lesa
, definition; and the discussions are TO be open t
co the public as well as reported in the press tn
an Emperor like the monarch Of England, retains III
a' veto power. Hungary, are also informed wi
'' have all her claims satisfied for the Emperor pre-
misses to respect her franchises, and shortly to
crowned as King of Hungary, taking the custom
Il ary oath imposed upon the Austrian crown by til
convention of their union.
All this is promised and are fan to thin
promised in good faith. For it is too late in tn
Use day to make such promises with intention
rnt forfeit them. They must be kept at least unit
c Garibadi, Klapka, Ture, Kossuth, Louis Napt
lob leon and Victor Emanuel are out of the way: 81
'e the intention is singers Stern necessity is n
will be coded to the italian Government-tor
consderation-the Scave provinces pacifed an
70, secured the eziles return to their native countr
the and revolutions cease. F-and here lies the pc
sis adventure-Russia, Prussia Spain and the Germa
on rotentates, great and small-do not learn wisdo
itx by example. For although some of these al
quasi representative states, they are nevertheless
- in their working, grinding despotisns We cam,
m have the charity to suppose they will look on tn
, movement by the hitherto most intractabe king
E. s. without grimace and contortion and many q
a ,"s anathema. For it is to them the blast of
law, prophetic trumpet, long and loud They will hay
NAV to answer its summons or fare worse.
Now, all this is due to the third Napoleon. +
View introduced universal suffrage broke up the syste
; o. of passports, proclaimed himself the champion
rug abused natonates and prescribed bounds
foreign intervention, save in the interests of bert
And now having set the ball in motion. he leav,
it to roll and do its own work; willie he turns
the church, and proposes to release religion fro
the tyranny of medieval hierarchy. Some thir
that he has here entered upon the most laborio
mes and most dangerous of his enterprises. But
al, knows his strength and that of his adversare
all The church has never been strong in France
in other Catholic countries. When the first Nap
had leon restored it, after the revolution he made hil
,ti6 self popular by many restrictions which are st
preserved: such as that no papal bull should be
,a force without consent of the Government
III, bishops except Frenehmen and they the nonine
of the Emperor, should be promoted to di0cese
tb no nuncio or legate should exercise his function
,n ETC., without like permission, and much NOR
to- which makes the church in France nearly ind
I, pendent in secular matters of the church of Rom
Nv Hence we see that the legitimists and Romans
saw are called atlramontdniss, because they adyoca
m the supremacy Of the Pope in all matters temper
t and spiritual relating to the church These are Il
M, most formidable opponents the Emperor has
deal with. Aud already they have gun the wa
=ou and with no small degree of determination al
audacity. The bishop of Poicters has launched b
mandenaentiu which he styles his imperial mojes
Po1hisss Plate. "a This man. he says sis Pon