The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-06-10
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Prince Napoleon,s Great speech.

The speech of Prince Napoleon at the
Inauguration of the Bonaparte monu-
ment at Ajaccio, in which he eulogized
American institutions, occasions uniVer-
sal comment One notable passage in
the address was as follows What
great progress has ever been effected
without, also, unhappily, being stained
with blood The establishment of the
Roman world, its fall; Christianity, the
founder OF which voluntarily shed his
blood on the cross, and, in our ewn
times, the establishment of reform, the
emancipation of America, and now the
abolition of slaVery-in the New World,
are all cases in point How could the
French revolution, which was not only
for France but for humanity-which
was the definite end of. the middle ages
and of feudality-be established with
out the confirming sacrifice of human
blood? Let the progress Of wise ideas
render such struggles henceforth inn
possible. With all my heart, and in
common with every friend of human
ity,I ardently desire it. But in the
time of the empire it was not possible.
The problem was to find principle
which might render the wars of peoples
more rare, and, by respecting the
rights of all, establish, 3 Just and true
balance of power. Thence sprang the
idea of nationahties u ,f9.
The Paris correspondent of the Times,
writing May %, says: -
| The readers Of the MoHitstg have re-
marked with some surprise that it has
not given the address delivered BY
Prince Napoleon at the ceremony of
uncovering the monument to the first
Napoleon atAjaccio. The first day the
Monitcsg omitted all notices of those
fsteS; the day following it contained a
short summary of them. Ii mention
ed, indeed; how the Prince, with head
bare, mounted the platform and walk
ed round the statute; hew at that SOL
emn moment" salutes were fired; how
the features of his Imperial Highness
betrayed the deepest emotion; how he
| spoke little on everything but of the
speech itself-Which was the great fea-
ture Of the CeremOny-not word.
The little M0nitsH, indeed, reproduced
the telegram Announcing that an ora.
ton had been pronounced; but it con-
tanned only the first two lines, and did
not notice the following Prince
gave an excellent biography of the Bo-
naparteg. He described the life and
acts Of Napoleon and traced com
plete programme of liberal policy" -
The government journals-the Con
stihstiosnsl and Pgyg-published the
speech after it had been submitted tc
the censorship, from which it issued
mutilated. The. first passage suppressed
related to the marriage Of Napoleon
with Louise, which the Prince severely
condemned, concluding thus: CAR
Austrian alliance shall never be the
policy of France The second passage
: set aside contained eulogy of Amer
can demecracy and the american con
stitution.s After saying that "the foun
dation of great repnbl blican state De
! yond the Atlantic, encouraged by th'
, support Sf France, was glorious legae.
becueathed BY the Government o
! Louis. XVI" his Imperial Highnes
eulogized Monroe, the celebrated
l statesman who gave his name to thl
: doctrine whIch laid down the principle
that the governments of Europe ough
to have no possessions in North Ameri
cs.' The third paragraph efiAced re
} ferred to the Roman question. In thi
, the Prince declared himself favorable
!, to the suppression of the Pcpe's tempo
raj power, and based his opinion on th,
g authority Of the frst Napoleon, thongl
8 il Is probable that, had the Roman Gov
! ernment entered into the Imperia
'sVsteu.n Napoleon would have main
tanned its power The fourth chang
E which the Constitutional and the PlH
e / made in the speech was in that par
: which alluded to the liberty of th'
press, Neither Is there any mention 0
the politicai maxim of the Prince Fela
3 tive 80 those sabaitern agents who ar
3 20 eager TO preserve the Government
) from every species OF sttAekl but Wno
20 their false devotedne@ and theif II
terested exaggsrations, only seek Z
} 1 hide from the sovereign their insui
{ Rciency and their faults" This VA
: doubtless considered personal refec
ton on the government journals. ane
would account for the suppression
Il iscertain that the speech Of hi
D Imperial Highness has caused the Al
3 most displeasure 70 the government
. The Ministers strongly pressed thu
empress to anthorize the insertion Of I
paragraph in the Monitsar disAvowing
7 If not positively censuring the Prince
> bat the Empress, though very wiling
) did not venture 10 doso The o2inioz
/, Nationale has narrowly escaped sup
preston for an article speaking IN higl
terms Of the Primes and the speech.
D A despatch from Yienua Of the zSs
: states
The Neue Ereie Presae Of today ss
serss that the Duke de GrAnont Frencl
Anbassaaos e the Court Of Vienna Il
AZ iutNvleH.Eith Count GsnadoTf, ssi'