The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-25
War I'm Europe Revival of the Imperial
Game OF Napoleon the Great.

War I'm Europe Revival of the Imperial
Game OF Napoleon the Great.
From the Herald.
The little speech of Napoleon at Auxerre has
startled the listening nations OF Europe. They
will accept 1t as the signal of another imperial
crusade of the armies of France. He has played
his part as the champion of peace, and now, as
the living embodiment of war,
Red battle stamps his foot and nations feel the shock
History repeats itself. The restoration of the
empire In France under Napoleon the Third
means the revival of the imperial game of Napo.
leon the First As the Julius Caesar of the nine
teentb century Louis Napoleon, may be c)ntem.
plating the empire of Augustus; but it is more
probable that with Russia he meditates another
division of Europe between an Eastern and
Western empire. Since the 9th century of the
Christian era, when the Western empire of
Rome came to an end and the monarchy of
France was founded, theIe have been several
attempts to re establish an Empire OF the West
In the year 800 such an empire was proclaimed
by Charlemagne who was crowned at Rome by
the Pope, as King of Italy, Germany, and
France. But six years later this empire OF the
great Charles disappeared Win It's division
between his three sons. In any event Its main
tenance in that day was impossible from the
bar aTbarous and turbulent condition OF the various
warlike divisions, tribes and races of the cont-
nent.
In the latter half of the eleventh centHry the
Pope himself-AleXander II-claimed supreme
temporal and spiritual dominion over all the
Christian States; but few years later, in an
attempt TO exercise this authority his successor
Gregory VII was expelled by Henry ", OF Ger
many, and died In exile. Charles V, of Spain
and Germany, for time established dominant
Western empire, but was finally driven to a
cloister by Luther and the Reformation. Napo.
leon the First after his subugation of the conti-
nent west OF Russia and Turkey, fell at last
under the coalitions bought by the gold of Eng
lana; but in exchange Tor ST. Helena he lett to
England his legacy of her present national debt;
thus binding her hand and loot under Napoleon
the Third.
within fifty years." said the Napoleon of
st. Helena, 'all Europe will be republican or
Cossack." He doubtless meant that the cont.
nent would be governed by the DEGREES issued
from Paris or st. Petersburg. But the
Cossack of that day has since been brought
within the pale of modern civilization, and the
power of Russia may probably to France be
now diverted to the eastward. Russia and
Turkey are both arming for war; but ineither
appears to be in any way connected with the
complications of the Western Powers. 1t is
thus apparent that the game for dominion III
this impending conflict will be Tor division of
Europe between France and Russia. While
thus relieved OF one of the two most powerful
enemies OF the uncle, the nephew will be
relieved of the other by the national debt OF
England, In all other respects the situation of
things IS in favor o Napoleon and mis- emphatic
declaration against the treaties OF 1916. Holland
and Belgium and the smaller German States,
are within his grasp, Prussia is committed
against Austria, and Italy is dependent upon
and devoted to france.
The grand drama, therefore, will probably be
opened by movement of Italy upon Venetia.
Prussia, then seizing her opportunity, will ad
vance against Austria on the other side and then
the six hundred thousand available troops of
France will be put in motion for the Rhine and
the Danube, and the treaties and boundaries of
1915 will be blotted out.
Such, we conjecture, will be the western Sec
ton of the coming European war. The eastern
division, by concert with Napoleon, may be LETT
to Russia. Against either of those two powers,
thus cooperating for the division of Europe be-
tween them, England cannot interfere. Nor
will she long be able to survive the general
wreck of kingdoms aud dynasties without a close
alliance with the United States. In any event.
the financial revulsion which Europe will suffer
will be the building up OF the credit, power, and
prosperity of the great republic.