Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-08-14
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The Princes Of Orleans AmesIcan SOitIiers-EShat
midland Ya.lmi1s o. Gh1Ir Service.

England Thinks ghrIr Service.
The two young princes Of the House of Orleans have
abandoned the military service which they had enter
ed under the federal government aud will again quietly
settle down III the peace and privacy Of their home
Why, st people will be Inclined 10 ask did they take
service under the federal government at all what
tives could have prompted them to such step?-what
benef did they hope to derive from it? Whatever
reputation for youthful spirit aud enterprise they might
have xpccted 10 cure by joining in a foreign quarrel
will scarcely cCunerbalaLce The peculiarly uDgraceul
and UnghivulrOus 1Chch they hastily 'etu ned
10 their SheahS the swords which it would have been
wiser never to have drawn.
The part taken by the young Orleans Princess in the
American contest from the very first great mis-
take. We can easily enter into the feeling by which
young bigh.spirted and ambitious youths would be in
ducei TO seize the first opportunity of showing to the
world that personal vaOr in the readiness do and
re in nobe cIuse, they are not unworthy of their
i.ustriyus lineage and to show the whole world that
the blood of Henry ". and Of Conde flowed in their
veins, We can likewise easily imagine some possible
in which had the former United States OF America
found Themselves engaged 10 hOstlltl(s with foreign
power it might have been both polite and graceful in
the French Princes to have ouaht under the flag of the
Union. Win The traditions Of the fl st establishment
Of iHlercI Independence 7HSepdTGdy blended the
part played by mmy djai"galded freedmen, and the
French goUerHnleh Ssif, IN that eUentfm contest. 1t
could therefore have excited surprise it. In the event
of such hypothetical CAS- being realized, the young
Orieans Prince from the natural wish to keep promi-
nent before the whole world their PERSONAL energy and
enterprise, had Voluntarily incurred the risk and tolls o
one or more campaigns But the case is widely differ
when as they have Just done they needessIy ard
most inulicousy sided with one of the comoatants 10
purely civil strife TO take active part IN the civil
contest OF another c2unry TO become entanged IN the
Uis aud factions OF foreign people is at all times and
for almost all classes ot Individuals greatly to
be deprecated II is not without its awh8CkS, even
when mere private gentleman, acuated by all gener
symplthes enlISs uudlr the command OF a Garlhaldi
But Tor Princes OF the House OF Orleans TO have heC
into the thick Of tue American rugg and there hOty
to combat with the Fed rails against The C0niederate2
or with the COniederaS against the Fed rails appears
to US a step deficient in oil tue qualities of common
WORLDLY tact and prGdenCe. 1t gu sht surely to have
been The first object Of the advisers and guardians
these young Primes TO that in thus exposing then
lives they did 50 for great, clearly fl5d and gen
erOus cause that their participation in such
should bring with 1t certain increase ot political,
less than Of moral weight and that whether the side
which they fought should be victorious vanquished
they should always remain the gamers of increased per
sonal reputation and OF augmented political prestige
Ia what way it be said that these results have beer
secured by the part taken by the Orleans Princes in th
civil contest on the other side of the Atlantic? Ha
their presence in the Federal camp given additiOna
strength to the hopes of their partsans or to the inter
est OF their own family? Have they it may be furhe
asked brought any strength to the Federal GoVernmen
IN whose ranks they have served? Have the interest
oil the House Of Bourbon been so inseparably assoca
ted with the political and commercial tendencies of th
Northern as opposed to those OF the Southern States
that the young Princes of that house were justified il
gratutousy provoking the ill will of the Confederate
Government by Joining the ranks of its opponents p
Has it conferred any service On the Government a
Washington May it not on the contrary, rather ia
clitas the recognition of the Southern Confederacv b.
France that two Bourbon Princes have ostentatious
been fighting under the Generals Of President Lincoln
If, however, it exhibited want of political tact an
foresight 10 the young Orleans Prices to have ione
me Federal ranks at ALL still more striking deficiency
taesa qualities ia revealed Ia the conditions under Whic
hey have quilted them. Whether it wise or fool
ian IN them to have taken such may be fair sub
ct OF discussion But, there they certainly woul
lave eVlnced higher spirit Of chVay not TO hGUe dbdn
e he Federal cause at the very moment when forum
WAS HoWnug most sternly its At present the
wnoe conduct appears equally foolish and futile. The
% save engaged in the transatlantic contest With
0's uenne results than mystical French p0tentats