The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-25

ton are suppressed and regular reign Of
terror against intelligence prevails. The dagi-
tious policy Of Secretary Seward in regard to
Spain and South America is beginning TO de-
velop itself in the Spanish islands adjacent to
this continent 1t shows itself in the brutal
bombardment Of defenceless South American
city and now In the edict against printed mat
ter in the Island of Cuba. Why does not some
Chilean or Peruvian iron-clad, with its three hum
dred FOUNDER armament, make its appearance
before the walls Of the MORO Castle prior to the
bombardment Of the city Of Havanas This
would only be tit for tat and convince the
Spanish government that cannon balls are Q
game that more than one Power can play at
The EuroPean war Panie-N.pelson
and the French People.
In the peculiar facts and circumstances Of
the late ominous speech Of Napoleon at
Auxerre, much moro than in the speech itself,
the European Kings and money changers are
justified in their acceptance Of it a. declare
ZION of war.
First, the Mayor of Auxerre, In welcoming
the Emperor, tells him that "fiity-one years
ago the Emperor Napoleon L was received in
this town with such proofs Of devotedness and
joy that he retained vivid recollection Of
them, which he expressed on his deathbed lat
st. Helena) in the most affecting terms" and
that the same devotion Of the town has no
more been found wanting TO the nephew Sin
the days Of trial and adversely than in those Of
prosperity and triumph" Here is good
foundation and the Emperor builds upon 1t.
He says to the Mayor, " Be certain that on
my side have inherited the sentiments of the
head Of my family for the energetic and
patriotic populations who supported the EN-
peror in good and in evil fortune" Hence he
stands as a party leader, rallying his support
ers from the masses of the French people, the
adherents of the Emperor, peace or war,
against Bourbons, commercial conservatives
and intractable republicans. Next he tells his
friends what is coming in telling them that
they elected him to the French Assem-
bly, of the republic of 1s4s because they knew
that his interests were those of France and
that "like the majority of the French nation
dstested those treaties of 1915, which some
parties Of the present day wish to make the
sole basis Of our foreign policy"
This means war-a revival of the "qLoire"
and victoire" of Austerlitz-a revival of the
empire as it stood before its expulsion and
the humiliations inflicted upon France by the
Holy Alliance, and mainly through the perfdy
of Austria.
financial war panic instantly follows. The
shop keepers and stock jobbers of Paris are
thrown into high state of alarm and indigna-
ton. 1t becomes expedient to soften down
their apprehensions. Hence the semi-ofIicial
journals undertake to explain that this dread
ful Auxerre speech was perfectly harmless and
that there was nothing in it that Napoleon had
not often expressed before. But in addition to
the suggestive circumstances detailed it ap-
pears that this speech, after its delivery, was
revised by the Emperor and forwarded by him
to the Moniteur, with instructions for its imme-
date publication, and that it is much stronger
war manifesto as published than 1t was as de-
livered. The conclusion is justified that after
delivering the speech, considering the temper
Of his audience and the Napoleonic France it
the time and the place were
deemed proper for a Napolconic declaration Of
war.
Hence the failure Of the soothing explana.
tons attempted by the semi-ofhcial journals of
the French capital. The Emperor himself,
meantime, having issued his manifesto, has
nothing more to say. A word of peace from
him would suffice, but he does not speak it. In
short, all things being ready, he has given the
signal for war. The Paris correspondent of the
London Times says that the sentiments Of this
Auxerre speech care the revenge taken upon
the commercial and bourgeois classes" the
advocates Of peace; that the Emperor cannot
"preathe freely" among them; but that be goes
"among the working men and the peasants to
find the true genius Of France" In other
words, the France Of the Bonapartes and the
empire is among the producing classes-the
bone and sinew Of the French people. II is
the France inherited by the first Napoleon
from the first republic and by the present Ma
poieon from the second republic. II Is the
empire by the will Of the people. Herein lies
the strength Of Napoleon. II ID the strength Of
the many against the few; of the masses against
tuo oIiosOCroCyS VI AuuIcW SuCkSOu uBuiubt
the old United States Bank and the old wing
party Of this country and Of Abraham Lincoln
against the aristocratic slaveholding Bourbons
Of the South; It Is Caesar against Pompey; 1t is
Napoleon against the Holy Alliance.
The Emperor first proclaims his party and
then he proclaims war, because he knows that
his party will absorb all other parties in
France in the revival of the empire as the
armed dictator Of the Continent
RECKLESS LEoIsIATIoS.-The public are be-
ginning to reap the fruits Of the reckless and
inconsiderate legislation at Albany last winter
In the Court of General Sessions on wednes-
day, before Judge Russell, the District Attor-
ncy stated that among the bills which the
Grand Jury found was one drawn under very
recent act Of the Legislature. 1t was an act
imposing tax upon brokers in merchandise.