The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-06-15
THE aATE CITY.
THURsDAY, J5Ns Is.


Prines Napssssn's Ors.s sReseA'
The Paris correspondent Of the LendoD
don Times, under date Of Nay ED, gives
the following:
The readers Of the Moniteur have re- |
marked with some surprise that 1t has NOT
Given the address delivered by Prince
Napoleon at the ceremony Of uncoverlng
II . monument to the FIRST Napoleon at
Aiaccio. The first day the Aoniteur
omitted oil notice Of these fetes; the day
following it contained . short summary
of them. It mentioned, indeed, how the
Prince, with head bare, mounted the plat.
form and walked round the statue; how ct
that "solemn 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 feature
Of the ceremony, not word.
The little Moniteur, indeed, repro
duced the telegram announcing that an
GRAFTON had been pronounced, but con-
tanned only the first two lines, and did
not notice the following:
"The Prince gave an excellent biogra-
ply of the Bonapartes. He described the
life and acts of Napoleon /, and traced .
complete programme of liberal policy"
The government journals, the Consttu-
tionDel and Pays, published the speech
after it had been submitted to the censor
ship, from which it issued mutilated. The
first passage suppressed related TO the
marriage of Napoleon with Maria Louisa
which the Prince severely condemned,
concluding thus: Gan Austrian alliance
shall never be the policy of France. -
The second passage set aside contained an
eulogy of American Democracy and the
American Constitution. After saying that
s'the foundation of great republican state
beyond the Atlantic, encouraged by the
support of France, was glorious legacy
bequeathed by the government OF Louis
XVI.," his imperial highness eulogised
Monroe, "the celebrated statesman who
gave his name to the doctrine which laid
down the principle that the governments
of Europe ought to have no possessions 10
North America" The third paragraph
effaced referred to the Roman question.
II this the Prince declared himself favor
able to the suppression of the Pope's tenn
poral power, and based his opinions on
the authority of the first Napoleon, though
it is probable that, had the Roman Gov
eminent entered into the imperial "sys-
tenn" Napoleon would have maintained
its power.
The fourth change which the Coustitu.
tionuei and the Pays made in the speech
was in that part, which alluded to the
liberty of the press. Neither is there
any mention of the political maxim of the
Prince relative ''to those subaltern agents
who are so eager to preserve the govern
ment from every species of attack, blu,
who, in their false devotedness and their
interested exaggerations, only to seek te
hide from the sovereign, their insufficient.
cy and sir faults" This was doubtless
considered a personal reflection on the
Government journals, and would accoun,
for the suppression. 1t is certain that
the speech of his imperial highness has
caused the utmost displeasure to the gov.
eminent. The minister strongly pressed
the Empress to authorize the insertion oil
a paragraph in the '.Moniteur" disavow-
ing, if not positively censuring thePrince;
but the Empress, though very willing,
did not venture to do SO. The "Opinion
Rationale" has narrowly escaped suppress.
sion for an article speaking 10 high terms
of the Prince and the speech. One or
two ministers have spoken of their de.
termination TO resign if the French troops
are not all recalled from Mexico within
two months.
Paris Cor. London Times.)
Prince Napoleon has been lavish of
panegyric on the citizens of the Northern
States of America, who, he thinks, alone
understand and practice the true doctrines
of democracy and he is not spsring of
invectives on what he denou -es as the
aristocracy of the southern division of the
great Republic. If he could know the es-
innate formed Of his uncle by some of the
ablest and most eloquent defenders of
liberty among those he most admires, he
would find that between him and them
there is wide difference
After speaking of the uncle one is
tempted to ask on what ground, or by
what title does Prince Napoleon come
forward as the champion of ultra democra-
cy. While be was sitting on the pin.
nacles of the ssmountan" in the republ
can assembly, as citizen Bonaparte, as yet
untitled unandowed and undecoratad-