Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-08-24

Lcc1FN Was the brother u lie .:eat Napol,on ard
the cnly one that ever evnced any Of tarA,s o,..,
n's OF tne Epper"r. He was devo's,: rer.,,: c.,
:nd bitterly onposed to his brothers ,u.,,tcs,.
schemes Of conquest and dominion Whsn tn. LIT
rocs !! vas a Dat to cverthspw the republic and
lcss.h to ss:as? the crown Of the Caesars Locien
hat p" interv':w with him, in which ne uybrsided
ALA "t'sr', i"r his amritIon aud tr-achery He
t",l so :t"t ths g"ea. dynasty be was about TO
.t:ra, ~o'd he necessarily upheld by military
.."u. al .aal in the lapse Of years. the great
ia'rc- aoe eve raasrilicen. and enduring, would
tGi' :: and E, crushing bita beneath it ives" said
be, casi:rs flG, the inant. an aisbaster vase aud
st uping he fragments, land grind you to pow
der, ihnsl F5cSe words together with the mar.
fsgc o. L1cisn greatly estranged the brothers.
Ia alter wears they had another interview at Man.
tua. EAropa was Sheli at The feet of Napoleon and
only one power, Great Britain. whose strength Was
upon the SEAS dared oppose him. Napoleon had
tried bis other brethren and found them all utterly
iAcapac ted to WELD either the sceptre of king or
the baton Of a marshal Of the Eupire-save Joseph.
and he was but poor apology-the pale reflex Of
the absent sun. For Lucien's abilities Napoleon
entertained great respect He felt the smiitudr Of
his own genius in that of his brother he knew him 70
possess hrmness GOODNESS and great sagacty With
Lueien seated upon the throne Of Austria or Prussia
he hoped to be able to maintain his own extended
empire intact In the course Of the interview Ma.
PoieoH uquHeu VI tue pTOJecLS OI MS O10ther, but
found him the same, unalterabe republican In
order to tempt him to his support Napoleon then
seized map Of Europe lying on table near, and
raising it before his brother bade him to choose any
kingdom thereon for his own. ~ will give it YOU
and sustain you in it" said he Lucien declined.
Napoleon became exssperated. Lucien then told
him were he to accept kingdom at his hands he
could not serve him as mere military Satrap, but
should govern his own people in his own way; that
he could not trade in the blood Of bis children, and
the subject was but the child Of the king meaning
thereby that he could not support Napoleon in his
wars of ambition and conquest Napoleon became
more cnraged and threatened to force him to obey,
but Lucien calmly reminded him that he was no
subject of his, and once more mentioned their for
mer Interview and the prophesy then expressed by
himself The brothers however separated in kind.
ness. Lucen. met tue Emperor no more until the
day Of his adversely. How the saying'of the stern
republican must have rung in the memory of the
Emperor at that hour. {" 1t will fall upon you, yes,
and grind you to powder, thus"
Lucien must certainly have been q man Of great
sagac;iy. He saw with the calm eye Of rcaso', the
inevitable downfall of the French eu.pre tile utter
humiliation of his brother; his tende: heart no
doubt bitterly dsplored that iisane ambition upon
whose alsar thousands upon thousands We're sacri-
ced and he nooiy re -cted the offer Of kingdom,
which ordinary m.nds would have grasped with
avldlty, and ony proposed to accept it upon such
humane and equitable terms that Napoleon, after
all his solicitations refused give it. Though his
lame IS scarcely mentioned in History, he has left
anrbe raco-d and stands with Washington and Gin
c.Eatus tn. roll of patriots. He was too much
Of republican, to consent 10 the enslavemcnt of
people for his own ACKNOWLEDGMENT and The welfare
Of orotner, whose genius he was forced to admire
as Nell as Gep;uIe