The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-08-10


Prince Napoleon having safely 81.
rived ct Bristol, Eng, in his own ystch,
he may now be fairly considered An ex-
lie from France So far ~ the people Of
the United States ere CONCERNED they
feel far more interest in the Prince
than Ia the Emperor. What Was said
and done BY the former at the uncov.
ering Of the Bonaparta etatuse at Ajac-
clio, va have allread long ago. So, TOO,
what the Empress said In the council
Of her Ministers Whist answer shemade
the Prince when he reported himselfte
her with such sang froid and inquired of
the details Of his inevitable decapita-
ton; what the Emperor wrote to his
cousin from AlgierB and how the press
afterwards acted about the cese, and
the Corps Legislatif Hkewise;-aa this
has been duly Laid before us. with and
without foreign commentary. II is 8
family quarrel, and yet it may some
time take on national proportions
Time viii tel that, But the reason
why Americans naturally feel more
INTEREST," in this emnte than in ordinary
differences between the members Of
reigning families, Il because the speech
from which the offence to imperialism
proceeded entertained not merely
friendly illusions TO the principles and
policy Of the United States, but what
may fairly be INTERPRETERS . 3 generous
eulogy IN the same.
Considering what the Emperor is at
il Mexico, of course q speech like that,
from the lips OF 3 member Of his family.
would be extremely distAssefuL And
so he said in his letter Of censrra. Yet
he did not proceed 10 specify 4 par
ticular n which the Prince had given
offences the charge and the reprimand
wa as general a possible. The EN-
peror only wished to say that he is
himself the Head Of the family; that
whether ne would do this thing or that.
be must not seem before France to dot
BY dictation that while he Is by no
mean indisposed 70 liberal measures.
he must be allowed to choose his own
time and methods. Whoever may
have thought all along that the Prince
had baen permitted By the Emperor to
enunciate democratic opinions with a
view to aid himself in disgusting still
more ambitious designs, has not failed
70 be u~ndeceived BY this full termina.
ton OF their political copartnership.
Napoleon is simply resolved TO be his
own mouthpiece, and the exposition of
his own policy. His shreWdness, or
statesmanship, consists in not much
more than establishing a familiar ac-
quejntance with the affairs of France.
and then in shaping his policy BIS events
give him the hint As for his follow
ing an unbending rule in his govern
ment OF the Empire, we put no faith in
anything Of the kind; he would have
gone out Of sight long ago if he had at
tempted it
Had he, therefore, permitted the
AjaccIo speech to 60 without contras
diction or disavoWal, the nation would
naturally have held him to the fulfill
ment Of its declarations But that
could never be, 50 long as the speech
was q bold and un6inching criticism or
his present policy. 1t was declaring
open war upon him, and nothing less
than that The subsequent conduct Of
the Prince betrayed the fact that he 80
considered it himself. The unqualified
censure of the Emperor was but an ac-
ceptance of the challenge. Thence
forth there could be no accord between
them We de not apprehend that the
Prince o has any political influence,
whether for himself or his opinions,
separate from that which his position
near the throne gave him, and it Is not
20 be expected, therefore, that any
thing like a political revolution will be
at once wrought through his instru-
mentality. What may spring from the
future, he knows no better than many
smother public man in France; nor is i
TO be thought Of that he possesses any
greater power 20 revoke revolution
from that future than some others
whom il would be easy TO name.-Bos-
toa Post